Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Green Bay Packers prediction, NFL Playoff NFC Championship game preview.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Green Bay Packers Broadcast
Date: Sunday, January 24
Game Time: 3:05 ET
Venue: Lambeau Field, Green Bay WI
Network: FOX
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Why Tampa Bay Will Win The NFC Championship
The Buccaneers got here, and now it’s time for the formula to work.
Get the greatest quarterback of all-time into a position where he needs to win just one game, help him out with a killer defense, and keep applying the pressure on both sides all game long.
Yeah, it’s going to be around 18 in Green Bay, and yeah. Tom Brady has already talked about his blood thinning out living in Florida, and yeah, players from Tampa Bay don’t really dig being cold, and …
Yeah, whatever. This is the NFC Championship with a team loaded with veterans rolling into town. The weather won’t matter, the moment won’t be too big for this group, and that No. 1 seed on the other side won’t faze Brady and company in the least.
The Bucs got the Packers 38-10 back in Week 6 after spotting the visiting team the first ten. The Tampa Bay defense generated five sacks and came up with 13 hits on Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay defense didn’t get close enough to Brady to know what brand of gum he was chewing, and it turned into a blowout.
Can the Green Bay offensive front handle what’s coming? The running game came up with its second-worst performance of the season in the loss in Tampa, and now it has to go against the No. 1 run D in the NFL that’s allowed over 100 yards just five times.
Don’t turn the ball over, let Brady keep the chains moving, keep him upright to let him do that, expect the D to take care of the rest, go enjoy the home game in that Super Bowl thing in Tampa in early February.
Easy peasy. However …
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Why Green Bay Will Win The NFC Championship
The Los Angeles Rams came into last weeks’s game against Green Bay with the best defense in the NFL and a line that stopped Seattle cold.
Aaron Rodgers threw for almost 300 yards, the running game was fine, and then they all moved on.
Yeah, Tampa Bay had the Packers’ number in the first meeting, but that was way back in mid-October and the team has improved into even more of a killer offensive machine this late in the year.
Rodgers has been on an otherworldly tear since losing to Indianapolis in Week 11, throwing 17 touchdown passes and just one pick on the seven-game winning streak.
It’s not just Davante Adams, either, with all of his weapons getting more and more work, the running game helping out, and the defense playing its best ball of the season at just the right time.
The Packer D hasn’t allowed more than 365 yards of total offense or more than 250 passing yards since that loss to the Colts, and it’s all being helped by the biggest key of all.
Rodgers and the offense don’t turn the ball over.
They gave it up four times against Indianapolis and twice in the loss to Tampa Bay. They also turned it over twice in the win over Jacksonville, but that’s been it for the multiple giveaways.
How air tight as the O been? It gave up a total of three turnovers in the other 14 games. Tampa Bay doesn’t necessarily need takeaways to win, but they sure do help, coming up with four against New Orleans last week.
Green Bay isn’t going to turn it over four times.
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What’s Going To Happen, Who’s Going To Win The NFC Championship
Are we lucky enough as a nation to get a phenomenal Aaron Rodgers vs. Tom Brady shootout with both of the legends trading haymakers all game long?
Nah.
The defenses will keep this from getting out of hand, neither side will take a whole slew of chances, and ball security will be at a premium.
That doesn’t mean the two No. 12s aren’t going to have their big moments.
Both quarterbacks will be sharp, they’ll each hit on enough deep plays to open the game up, and they’ll each be under siege from the other side’s defensive front.
Both defenses will rise up and be great as the game goes on.
It’ll be a tight battle through the third quarter, and then the MVP-to-be will come through.
Rodgers will connect on a few key third down plays, the offense will be balanced, and the Packers will get a breakthrough scoring drive to take the lead for good.
Brady will get close, but a late drive will stall, the Packers will grind out one more score on a field goal to go up four, the D will hold, and it’ll be off to the Super Bowl as Rodgers gets his shot at a second ring.
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NFC Championship: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Green Bay Packers Prediction, Line
Green Bay 27, Tampa Bay 23
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