The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking to become the first team to play and win a Super Bowl at their own stadium, as Super Bowl LV will be played at Raymond James Stadium next year.
The script seems almost too Perfect for the Bucs: A franchise with a decade-long postseason drought signs the best quarterback of all time on their roster and leads them in a championship run that ends in their own stadium.
But the road to Super Bowl LV will not be easy for Tom Brady and his Buccaneers. Not only will they have to compete with tough teams in the NFC South like the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints, but they’ll take on other Super Bowl contenders in 2020, like the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Chiefs will visit Brady and the Bucs at Raymond James, hopefully offering us another memorable Brady-Mahomes matchup. And while Adam Schein of NFL.com is a fan of the new Bucs, he has the Kansas City Chiefs repeating themselves as Super Bowl champions this season.
Here is part of Schein’s reasoning:
Still just 24 years old, Mahomes has been an NFL starter for two seasons. In Year 1, he escaped with league MVP honors after becoming the second quarterback to reach 50 touchdowns and 5,000 passing yards, joining Peyton Manning. In Year 2, he was named Super Bowl MVP after leading the Chiefs on three touchdowns in the fourth quarter against the 49ers defense. And there’s still plenty of room for growth, which is amazing, considering all he’s accomplished in just 36 NFL starts. (BTW, if Dee Ford hadn’t lined up outside of the 2018 AFC title game, Mahomes would already be a consecutive champion).
Schein also likes what he sees of the defense, especially after the team struck a new deal with Chris Jones.
There is no doubt that Mahomes and the Chiefs will be the repeat favorites in 2020. But as we have learned over the past two decades, Tom Brady can never be ruled out.
Never.
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