This Week 3 Sunday afternoon matchup between the North | Green Bay Packers and South | Tampa Bay Buccaneer's divisions of the American Conference had all the makings of a great game, and fans enjoyed what could be one of the last games between these two legends, hypothetically speaking if Tom Brady retires at the end of the season or that both teams do not advance to the postseason.
Another ingredient that makes this game special has to do with records, since it is the 1st time in more than 100 years of NFL history that two quarterbacks who together have at least 3 MVP awards face each other, in the case of Aaron Rodgers has won it 4 times in a regular season and the last 2 consecutively (2020 - 2021), while Tom Brady has 3 of these trophies.
A continuación dejamos a nuestros lectores las estadísticas más relevantes de la temporada 2020 - 2021 de esta dos leyendas, así como también las históricas más importantes en cuanto a desempeño, luego pasaremos a describir las acciones de cada cuarto. Destacamos que estas dos franquicias, Green Bay Packers | Tampa Bay Buccaneers, se han enfrentado en 58 ocasiones, la serie particular la lidera Green Bay con 33 ganados, 23 perdidos y 2 empates, por su parte Tom Brady y Aaron Rodgers durante sus brillantes carreras se han debatido en duelo en 4 oportunidades, la serie personal la lidera con 4 triunfos el señor de los 7 anillos.
Below we provide our readers with the most relevant statistics for the 2020 - 2021 season of these two legends, as well as the most important historical statistics in terms of performance, then we will describe the actions of each quarter. We highlight that these two franchises, Green Bay Packers | and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, have faced each other 58 times, the particular series is led by Green Bay with 33 wins, 23 losses, and 2 ties, while Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers during their brilliant careers have dueled on 4 occasions, the personal series is led by the lord of the 7 rings with 4 wins.
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Super Bowls ganados - Super Bowls won |
As can be seen in the table above, the statistics of both players have similarities, except in age, seasons played, and pass interceptions, but the biggest difference is in the 7 super bowl rings held by Tom Brady, also known by the nickname G.O.A.T., which stands for Greatest of All Time | Greatest of All Time.
These two teams met at the home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Raymond James Stadium, which has a capacity of 65,000 spectators. We highlight that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing at home have a negative balance of 2 wins and 3 losses. In the following lines, we will comment on the most relevant aspects of each quarter, at the end of the post, we will comment on the key factors of the victory.
The kickoff was taken by Green Bay through the kicker (K), Mason Crosby, so the first offensive series was initiated by Tampa Bay, Tom Brady in this quarter did very little of what we are used to in terms of long passes, this time he based his offense on short passes, this due to the excellent defensive marking zone 4 -3 of Green Bay, who did not give him time to throw bombs, after 10 offensive Tampa Bay could only score a field goal to open the scoreboard with 3 points.
On the other hand, we saw Green Bay better positioned on the field, defensively they did not let Brady show off, as soon as it was his turn to go on offense, Green Bay also took 10 offensive plays for Aaron Rodgers to throw several short passes in connection with rookie Romeo Doubs, who in the end would receive a pass from Rodgers and score the 1st touchdown of the game. The Tampa Bay defense did not do its best job, Tom Brady suffered in this quarter the 1st catch (Sack) of the game by Green Bay defensive tackle Kenny Clark. The 1st quarter ended with a score of 7 to 3 in favor of the Green Bay Packers.
In the 2nd quarter the Green Bay defense nullified all the possibilities that Tampa Bay could score, the 4 - 3 defense (4 linemen and 3 linebackers) pressured Brady throughout this quarter, in our opinion the lord of the rings had his hands tied, Tampa Bay before the impossibility of scoring had to clear the ball 2 times, instead, Green Bay only did it once, this shows how the Green Bay defense was a retaining wall against Tom Brady, after the 1st. After the 1st clearance came the 2nd Green Bay touchdown, thanks to the amount of short and medium-range passes by Aaron Rodgers, which pierced the opposing defense, the Green Bay touchdown came precisely from one of these short passes in connection with the rookie wide receiver (WR), Allen Lazard.
It is noteworthy that in this quarter everything happened to Tampa Bay, the defense was adrift and Brady continued with the straitjacket with a padlock that the Green Bay defense put on him since the 1st quarter, they lost a ball with which we are sure they could have scored a touchdown and brought the score closer, also for the 2nd time in the game Brady was caught by the Green Bay defense, we emphasize that Green Bay in this quarter lost a ball, but it was not materialized by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We highlight the lethality of the ground game of Green Bay's running backs and receivers in this quarter, together with the speed of Aaron Rodgers' passes, which were timed at 1.5 seconds to get rid of the ball.
In the 3rd quarter, we saw a slight improvement in Tampa Bay's defense. In the 3rd quarter we saw a slight improvement in Tampa Bay's defense, we could see that they put a lot of pressure on quarterback Aaron Rodgers by marking zone 4 - 3, and we could also see that Tampa worked the Blitz-type blocking for the quarterback chasers, players of the defensive line who play in the defensive wing position, their specialty is to go all out against the quarterback and prevent him from throwing or knocking him down one of these defensive formations paid off when they intercepted a pass from Aaron Rodgers that Tampa Bay would materialize in its 2nd field goal of the game. The second field goal of the game.
Tampa Bay in this quarter lost a fumble and Green Bay could not score a touchdown, we could see that Tampa Bay's defense in this quarter took their fangs out and intercepted a pass to the 4 times MVP Aaron Rodgers, which only allowed them to score a 45-yard field goal to bring the score 14 to 6 in favor of Green Bay. We were pleased to see how Tampa Bay's defense shut down Green Bay in this quarter by not allowing them a touchdown, we think that if Tampa Bay had tightened up on offense they probably could have scored more points.
We are sure that if Tampa had used the offense and defense that they used in the 3rd and 4th quarters, the score would have been different, and probably would have favored them in the result, perhaps even winning the game. In the middle of this quarter, Brady was finally able to take off the straitjacket that the Green Bay defense had tailor-made for him, we saw him looser in short and medium-range passes, but we also saw a weakness in Brady that is not very frequent in him, the control of the time of possession that is one of his secret weapons in this opportunity he could not manage it to his advantage, during the whole game Green Bay dominated the clock of the game and this has become a maxim in this sport that says: Whoever dominates with the offense and controls the time of possession of the ball wins the game.
This quarter also happened everything, there were quarterback catches (Sacks) on each side, and Brady's long passes positioned Tampa Bay closer to the red zone (an imaginary zone that includes the last 20 yards of the field), which allowed Brady to throw a pass to wide receiver, Russell Gage to score a touchdown, but due to Tampa Bay's mishandling of the possession clock, with 1:01 minutes left, Brady opted to try a 2-point conversion and if it was successful it would tie the score and go to overtime: 01 minutes left, Brady opted to attempt a 2-point conversion and if successful, tie the score and go to overtime, but the stars were not aligned with Tampa, and the conversion attempt was masterfully blocked by the Green Bay defense, which allowed them to win the duel of legends.
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Before mentioning the keys to Green Bay's victory, and to be faithful to the truth, this game had a lot of tension on the part of both protagonists, the game was not easy, we would say that it was somewhat complex, the goddess of victory wanted Green Bay to have the laurels of victory. In our opinion, the main factor of the victory was the control of the time of possession of the ball of the Packers with 33:25 vs. 26:35 of Green Bay, another factor we saw in the total yards 315 for Green Bay vs. 285 for Tampa Bay, we believe that the nails that buried the coffin of the defeat of Tom Brady and his boys, were the 3 catches (Sacks) that were given to him, these catches broke plays that could have resulted in touchdowns and better positioning on the field, to finish the icing on the cake were the 3 lost balls of Tampa Bay of which Green Bay later converted into touchdowns.
Finally, we want to highlight the most outstanding performances of the legendary players, their statistics were very similar. Aaron Rodgers threw 255 yards | 27 passes completed in 35 attempts | 2 touchdowns and 1 interception | Pass Efficiency Rating (QBR) 98.00. Tom Brady threw 271 yards | 31 pass completions in 42 attempts | 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions | Pass Efficiency Rating (QBR) 89.20. The player of the game was Green Bay's rookie wide receiver (WR), Romeo Doubs who had a dream afternoon with 1 touchdown and 8 receptions for 73 yards. With this win, Green Bay gets its 2nd consecutive victory in the regular season.
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