 Moving on to the NFC Championship, the Battle of the Bays. Two quarterback at the tail end of the career is fighting for another Lombardi. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Green Bay Packers. The Packers have won three of the last four match-ups against the Bucs, with the only loss being earlier this season, where the Bucs dominated in a 38-10 victory. Very impressive victory over the New Orleans Saints this past week. We talked about last week how the Bucs failed to have all these impressive victories over these great teams. They would always lose when it came down to it, with the only impressive victory that they had was that 38-10 victory that they had against the Green Bay Packers. But then when they fixed the Saints earlier this season, twice, they lost by more than two possessions. They proved everybody wrong, and they finally had an impressive victory outside of that Green Bay game against the New Orleans Saints, even though this was an impressive victory. I have to preface this. I'm a big Tom Brady fan, okay? So, greatest of all time, I believe. And if you don't believe that statistically, I don't know what to tell you. You're just emotionally just clouded with your own judgment. You just don't want to see Brady win, and you just hate him for some reason, because he just wins a lot. So, just say it how it is. He's the greatest of all time and a very good player, given his age at the age of 43. 40 touchdowns this season, fantastic. Still can get it done. But if you watch this game against the New Orleans Saints, some of his throws, even though I am a big Tom Brady fan, I have to say, some of these throws were not the best. And that's not at fault of them facing a tough New Orleans Saints defense, but even when the pressure wasn't on him and he had a man open, he did not make the greatest throws. And I'm not sure if that's just a tiny bit of regression, given his age, but an example would be that Marcus Williams interception that ended up not being an interception. Because if you look at his stat lines, no interceptions, no turnovers, great job by Tom Brady. But if you look at that game and that interception that was called back when Marcus Williams intercepted it, he only got one foot in, barely missed and didn't get two feet in. Brady threw a pass towards Chris Godwin on the sideline in double coverage, which was not the best decision, number one. And number two, overthrew Chris Godwin as well, which led to what could have been an interception. That wasn't tough defense. That was just an overthrow by Tom Brady. And we all make mistakes. I understand. Maybe that was just one of the few mistakes that he made, but he made several mistakes when watching that game. So, you know, I love Tom Brady and he's been the main reason why this Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense has been great. This pass offense has been one of the best in the league, but watching that game last week and analyzing every throw that he made, it looked like Tom Brady could be beat. Let's transition now into the Packers. They might be the best looking team in the playoffs so far. That's just my opinion. Out of the final four, the Packers look like they've made the least amount of mistakes. All the other teams, they've made some mistakes that look like that could be exposed and the other team, their opponent, could beat them. For the Packers, not so much. They look solid in the run game. They look solid in the pass game. They look solid on defense. And the Packers might be the most well-rounded team in the playoffs and probably, in my opinion, has the best chance of making the Super Bowl just because of how well-rounded they are and how little mistakes they make. But let's just break down this matchup between the Bucks and the Packers. Starting off with the pass offense for the Buccaneers, second in the NFL, great offense with Tom Brady and the great set of receivers that they have. For the Packers, 11th in the NFL, but don't be mistaken by those numbers. Aaron Rodgers has been looking fantastic with this connection with Devonte Adams. Rush offense. This word's kind of lopsided in the team comparison. Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucks are such a pass-heavy offense that Ronald Jones and Leonard Fournette don't really get too much love in the run game. 28th in the NFL as far as the Rush offense. Compare that to Green Bay, top 10 in the league led by Aaron Jones, Jamal Williams, and now AJ Dillon in that three-headed monster running back by committee approach that they have. Points per game, second in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and first in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers. As a matter of fact, all four teams that are in the NFL playoffs are ranked first, second. The Buffalo Bills are ranked third, and the Chiefs are ranked fifth. So top five, all four teams. Pass defense. Everyone talk about defense now. Lopsided as well. We all know about the Buccaneers secondary. The last half of the season has not been looking the greatest. 21st in the NFL, compare that to the Packers, 7th in the NFL. Rush defense. The Bucks, first in the NFL, the Packers are 13th even though they have given up some big plays in that run game. Let's talk about the quarterbacks. The comparison between these two elite quarterbacks Hall of Fame worthy signal callers with Tom Brady. Passing yards. 4,600 compared to Aaron Rodgers, almost 4,300. Pretty similar in that category. Pass touchdowns. Tom Brady, 40. Aaron Rodgers led the league with 48. Interceptions. Tom Brady is more prone to turnovers as compared to Aaron Rodgers as we all know. Throughout his whole entire career, Aaron Rodgers has been careful with the ball. 12 interceptions for Tom Brady, 5 for Aaron Rodgers. 65.7% of passes completed for Tom Brady. As for Aaron Rodgers, a stellar 70.7% which has helped the quarterback rating for each of these guys. 102.2 rating for Tom Brady which is great but even better for Aaron Rodgers, 121.5. Quarterback rating which is tied for second of all time with Peyton Manning who he passed in 2011 with 122.5 Aaron Rodgers did to set the NFL record so he didn't break his own record. But that's a comparison between each of these two quarterbacks. How can each team pick up a victory this weekend? Let's start off with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Let's look at their keys to victory. For the Bucks, you have to get Ronald Jones and Leonard Fornette involved. We talked about the run defense of the Packers. They're ranked 13th in the NFL but they've given up some big plays to the running back position all season long. That's when you can get Ronald Jones and Leonard Fornette to expose that run defense of the Green Bay Packers and Tom Brady and that offense can stay on the field much longer if you involve the running backs. Number two, play Devonte Adams tight. Okay, it's hard to cover Devonte Adams. We've learned this. We even learned this last week with Jalen Ramsey that touchdown was not Jalen Ramsey's fault. The other defensive back should have shifted and guarded Devonte Adams. That wasn't his fault. Ramsey did a very good job but where Ramsey kind of messed up and that Rams defense kind of messed up is that they kind of played back from Devonte Adams. I understand you don't want him to break free. You don't want him to burn you. You don't want him to get that long touchdown reception. But if you play him tight, you prevent the Packers and the Aaron Rodgers from dumping the ball off quickly to Adams. Get that yards after the catch which he did so often last week against the Rams. Don't play five, 10 yards off of them and say kind of play more so two or three yards close to him and you can kind of prevent that from happening. For the Packers, what are their keys to victory? Attack that vulnerable secondary. Talking about the last half of the season for the Bucks has not been great. That secondary pretty much the only bright spot is Antoine Winfield Jr. who's been the rookie. They're solid rookie in that secondary but they've been exposed. And Aaron Rodgers is the guy to do it. If you want to talk about any quarterback that can put up big numbers against the Bucks secondary, it's Aaron Rodgers, the MVP favorite. So attack that vulnerable secondary just pass the ball all the time. But if you want to run with the ball, you're going to have to take the running back by committee approach against the first ranked rush defense. You have to utilize different running styles and you have the most diverse running back crew in the NFL. Aaron Jones, he's more of the shifty back. Jamal Williams is more of the power back. Utilize him on third and one, fourth and one, fourth and goal. And then AJ Dillon is kind of a mix of both, a power back and shifty. Hasn't really developed into the best running back in the NFL just because he's still a rookie. But if you want to talk about his size and his athleticism, he's kind of a mix of Aaron Jones and Jamal Williams. Can't be a power back but can also be shifty when you need him to be shifty. So I would utilize all three of those running backs and their different running styles and that running back by committee approach. But those are your keys to victory for every single one of these teams playing in the NFC championship. Should be a good game. So who is going to win this matchup? Listen, I don't make predictions. I really don't because I don't want to say, oh, I believe this team is going to win and then the next week, if they lose people come at me and just say some mean stuff. But instead of me playing favorites, I decided why don't I let you guys play some favorites? I just operated and generated an Instagram poll between the Bucks and the Packers and let you guys decide the time to football fans, the time to fans, the time to followers, time to faithful. Who do you guys believe is going to win between the Bucks and the Packers and here are the results. Oh boy, 65% of fans believe that the Packers are going to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is kind of lopsided as well. We looked at the Chiefs and the Bills poll and it was 72% the Buffalo Bills. This is also lopsided. I don't know whether this is because people believe that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to lose or they want the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to lose because they don't want to see Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. I have no idea. I believe that it could be anybody's game and it's more 50-50 but you guys think otherwise the Packers 65% of fans believe that they're going to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ending their hopes of hosting a Super Bowl in their home stadium. But if you guys are watching this podcast and listening as well, leave your comments down below. Let us know who your picks are of winning the NFC Championship. I mean, if these predictions and these polls are correct then we're going to have the Green Bay Packers versus the Buffalo Bills and Super Bowl 55. Pretty solid matchup.