![]() He’s been in the Saints offense 15 years with head coach and play-caller Sean Payton, while Brady is just getting his feet wet with Bruce Arians and Leftwich. The one advantage Brees might have in Round 8, is the same one he had in the previous meetings during 2020 - continuity. Brees might have earned that distinction if he wasn’t a year younger than his counterpart. I think there’s just a lot of mutual respect.”īrady stands as the oldest player to throw a touchdown pass in a playoff game. “I know what it takes to do what he’s doing, and he knows what it takes to do what I’m doing. I just think so much of him as a person, as a player. “I always kept up with him, and have gotten to know him somewhat well over the years. Always had a great amount of respect for him, going back to his Purdue days,” Brady said. On Thursday, Brady steered clear of cracking any age jokes during his Zoom call, even though he tweeted a meme, depicting the all-time greats as older quarterbacks set for battle on The History Channel.Īfter all, their combined age of 85 will make Brady and Brees the oldest starting quarterbacks playing against each other in NFL history.īrady offered kind words with respect to his counterpart. So Brady got an earful of Brees stories early on from Nugent, as well as Light, another Purdue alum who arrived a year later.Ĭracked Light: “Nugent was Tommy’s roommate when Tommy was driving a yellow jeep.” His first roommate in Foxboro, defensive lineman David Nugent, went to Purdue and played with Brees. “What was that, nine months ago? Eight months ago? I envisioned this game happening, because I knew our aspirations as a team, to be in the playoffs and beyond, and I certainly knew what he was bringing to the Bucs and that talented roster.”Įven though the Saints have owned the Bucs recently, winning both meetings in the regular season, this promises to be a great tilt, especially the way Brady and the Bucs offense has come on lately.įew if any quarterbacks are playing better than 43-year-old Brady right now.īut as Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich said Thursday during a Zoom call: “This is a whole new ballgame Sunday evening.”īrady has known Brees for quite some time. “When Tom signed with the Bucs, I knew that he was coming to our division, I envisioned this game,” Brees said Wednesday of the upcoming matchup. Once Brady left the Patriots, and joined the Buccaneers, even with their long history of losing, they were destined to clash in the postseason. “What really surprises me, with all of the different people they’ve done it with, they haven’t lost any edge … I mean, these two ancient quarterbacks not only perform at a very high level, but they have a way they can relate their work to the guys around them.”īrees, who turns 42 Friday, said Wednesday the matchup was inevitable. “It’s one thing to talk about these two, and to understand that they take care of themselves, that they work physically and mentally day in and day out, and they have for their entire careers. “You’re talking about two guys that are 42 and up, and they’re playing at the highest level that the game has ever seen,” Light went on. ![]() But, I think this game will override that sentiment. “It’s just not fair to put this year in the record books as one that’s on par, or comparable to anything else. championship.“I think this will probably be the highlight of the year for a lot of people that love the game of football,” said Light, when reached Thursday. A quarterback like Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers, who had nine playoff wins in 10 appearances, played part of his career when there was just one postseason game, the N.F.L. (There were fewer playoff games in earlier generations. ![]() Will another quarterback surpass Brady’s mark of 35? If anyone in the newest generation of passers has a chance, it may be Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, who has eight playoff wins in four years as a starter. Peyton Manning and Drew Brees have fewer postseason wins combined (23) than Brady.Īmong Brady’s playoff wins are seven Super Bowl titles, more than any team has ever won. Brady has 19 more wins than the quarterback with the second-most playoff victories, Joe Montana, the former San Francisco 49er, who retired before Brady was drafted. No other quarterback has even played in 35 postseason games, let alone won that many. That’s what makes Brady’s 35 playoff wins one of his most impressive statistics. Wins don’t come easily in the N.F.L., especially in the postseason. ![]()
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