The Return

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By: Matt Ferreira



 638 days. That is how long it has been since Tom Brady has played in Gillette Stadium. It is the longest stretch of his professional career in which he has not played in Gillette Stadium, and will all come to an end tonight in his return with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 



 The return of Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers creates a much wanted matchup in Bill Belichick vs. Tom Brady. The two had worked side by side for twenty years with only recent headlines showing that the “perfect duo” relationship had deteriorated over their last few seasons together, making this not only homecoming, but a revenge game for Brady. 


 Lots of history is going to be made this Sunday night, Tom Brady looks to pass Drew Brees to be the all time passing yards leader, needing to get only sixty-eight more passing yards against his former team to break the record. Tom Brady at forty-four years of age and Mac Jones at the age of twenty-three are the biggest age gap between starting quarterbacks in NFL history. Even off the field record will be shattered, ticket prices for the Sunday Night Football game are the highest priced regular season game ever.   


 Tom Brady and the Buccaneers are the heavy favorites with a -7 spread, but do not count out Mac Jones and the New England Patriots. The Patriots defense did well against the New Orleans Saints in week three, and if Mac can exploit the Bucs weak secondary there could be a huge upset on our hands in Foxboro. The safe pick, and what I believe, is that the Buccaneers will come out of New England with a victory. Even with tight end Rob Gronkowski out due to injury, Brady still has plenty of receiver depth in Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Antonio Brown, and Scotty Miller to complement Leonard Fournette and Ronald Jones Jr’s run game. 


Location: Boston, MA, USA

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