2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers discussion
Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 6:23 pm
No, not 2002, but 2020! Yes, easy for the eyes to play tricks on you.
Seems the greater this current Mahomes/Chiefs legacy grows - especially with a three-peat this coming February - the greater and with more appreciation this particular team will be looked back upon Historically. They simply dismantled KC in that very Super Bowl albeit, yes, 2020 Chiefs a less-balanced version as to who they've become these last couple years (Rings). But I'm thinking that 2020 TB (once the playoffs began, that is) is better than these last two Lombardi winners as well. What do you all think?
I previously opined they being better than the 2002 Bucs (with enough of you disagreeing)...
https://www.profootballresearchers.org/ ... 40&p=41327
Yes, Brady along with others join TB during Covid. Not a spectacular regular season. They start off 7-5 getting swept by the Saints in Brees/Payton's final year together; the former's final season-period. And as the playoffs began...
https://www.profootballresearchers.com/ ... e21d259db9
...I remember "something" "telling" me that Brady & Co would "catch fire" and, at least, make the SB which they did. Did think KC would win, though, going in having NO IDEA that it'd be the Bucs not just winning it, but by way of Raiders-over-Redskins SBXVIII (which also was...in Tampa Bay)!
And I went into the '21 campaign predicting that TB would repeat. Only, this time, it'd be by way of they having the best-record and doing it more dominantly throughout the regular season this time....
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I was right about Brady's former team making the playoffs. Though I actually had them go as far as winning the division (but still had Buffalo eliminate them - just that it'd be in the divisonal round instead; and, of course at NE). I also predicted that TB@NE in Wk#4 would live up to the hype which it, indeed, did; and also had Rams being the first team that'd beat the Bucs one week prior.
I felt the Rams matched up well against them though I still thought, going into their playoff meeting, that TB would win it this time though still being close.
Not just Brady and weapons, but a great run-game along with a D - a D which, again, dismantled Mahomes! And you can't leave out Bruce Arians. Do you feel this is one of the best teams this century thus far? Their legacy to grow more-and-more with KC making their current, ongoing, Historic mark?
If they complete that ultra-weird miracle comeback vs the Rams in the divisonal round, do they get by Kyle's Forty Niners and Burrow's no-OL Bengals to complete the repeat? I think they do.
Seems the greater this current Mahomes/Chiefs legacy grows - especially with a three-peat this coming February - the greater and with more appreciation this particular team will be looked back upon Historically. They simply dismantled KC in that very Super Bowl albeit, yes, 2020 Chiefs a less-balanced version as to who they've become these last couple years (Rings). But I'm thinking that 2020 TB (once the playoffs began, that is) is better than these last two Lombardi winners as well. What do you all think?
I previously opined they being better than the 2002 Bucs (with enough of you disagreeing)...
https://www.profootballresearchers.org/ ... 40&p=41327
Yes, Brady along with others join TB during Covid. Not a spectacular regular season. They start off 7-5 getting swept by the Saints in Brees/Payton's final year together; the former's final season-period. And as the playoffs began...
https://www.profootballresearchers.com/ ... e21d259db9
...I remember "something" "telling" me that Brady & Co would "catch fire" and, at least, make the SB which they did. Did think KC would win, though, going in having NO IDEA that it'd be the Bucs not just winning it, but by way of Raiders-over-Redskins SBXVIII (which also was...in Tampa Bay)!
And I went into the '21 campaign predicting that TB would repeat. Only, this time, it'd be by way of they having the best-record and doing it more dominantly throughout the regular season this time....
viewtopic.php?t=6218
I was right about Brady's former team making the playoffs. Though I actually had them go as far as winning the division (but still had Buffalo eliminate them - just that it'd be in the divisonal round instead; and, of course at NE). I also predicted that TB@NE in Wk#4 would live up to the hype which it, indeed, did; and also had Rams being the first team that'd beat the Bucs one week prior.
I felt the Rams matched up well against them though I still thought, going into their playoff meeting, that TB would win it this time though still being close.
Yes, that was me just after the Rams eliminated TB, also from the '21 predictions thread which is the third link I offer here (yeah, SO MUCH for Buf/KC being..."normal"). You'd think that TB would have repeated especially considering that '21 seemed quite stronger than 2020! Guess McVay's troops, simply, had...their #! That and they, simply, ending up the last-team-standing!74_75_78_79_ wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:45 pm Really? I'm not at all an "it's fixed" kind of fan (and, no, I still don't think it is), but man that Rams/Bucs was was simply not believable! Rams really fold like that down the stretch?? It would have been even worse had Bucs actually pulled it off! Staubach comebacks? Montana comebacks? Both amazing yet still believable. But this, coupled with NE over Atl/SBLI, pretty "you can't make this up"-ridiculous.
Anyways, hopefully this Buf/KC game is more "normal".
If Bills win, next week offers up an '88 AFCCG reverse parallel while the NFCCG will be likewise for '89! Both games will be at Buffalo and LA respectively instead of Cincy and San Fran.
Not just Brady and weapons, but a great run-game along with a D - a D which, again, dismantled Mahomes! And you can't leave out Bruce Arians. Do you feel this is one of the best teams this century thus far? Their legacy to grow more-and-more with KC making their current, ongoing, Historic mark?
If they complete that ultra-weird miracle comeback vs the Rams in the divisonal round, do they get by Kyle's Forty Niners and Burrow's no-OL Bengals to complete the repeat? I think they do.