Actually beat Tom Brady in this Bucks team?

What e mean?

Should I go to Max first?

I think I should go to Max first on this one.

I want to change course.

Just a living.

Max, Can I get your answer first, please, because, I mean, I got way.

You do that for me, Max.

The the answer is no.

Of course they don't have a shot.

They shouldn't.

I mean, this would be a monumental upset and a terrible stain for Tom Brady in the Bucks.

The Bucks have been playing their best football.

As the season wound down, they were ramping up.

Does that have a lot to do with Tom Brady's leadership and experience?

Absolutely.

I believe it does.

My hat's off to him.

He had a remarkable season, and they are peaking at just the right time.

It's an 11 win team.

They stopped the Packers early in this season.

They beat the brakes off the Lions.

I mean, you know, like when you put a good team in front of him, they could win.

When you put a bad team in front of them, they could stop him out.

Meantime, they're playing a Washington team, a Washington team that is some 500 guys, the only reason they have seven wins instead of six wins.

Because Peterson didn't kick a field goal and then took Jalen Hurts out of the game.

Otherwise, they probably been playing the Giants.

Right now, the Washington football team is lucky to have seven wins Now.

Alex Smith has been a great story.

I guess it will be a big story if he plays.

This is a team without a true quarterback who you'd want leading a team on a Super Bowl run.

No offense to Alex Smith, who's had a remarkable comeback.

But come on, guys given age, injury, the whole thing.

And it's not like Alex Smith was ever Tom Brady.

And you don't have your young quarterback who you drafted to be your franchise guy because you got rid of him.

This is a team that sure they can play some defense, and yes, they laughably get a home game.

But there's a season where home field doesn't mean much.

For the most part.

No, the Bucks are big favorites here, and they absolutely will win.

And if they don't win that is a monumental upset.

Well, listen, when we talk about whether or not they have a chance to answer that question directly, I'm going to say yes for one reason and one reason only at front for their ability to get to the quarterback.

Tom Brady has been sacked 21 times this season in 16 games.

The Washington football team has 47 sacks on the season.

Chase Young, your captain on the defensive side of ball.

Even as a rookie.

He's got 7.5 sacks contests where he's got about nine sacks.

Carrigan.

He's got about 5.5 sacks.

We know that this team can get to the quarterback.

What is the Achilles heel?

Molly and Max.

You should know this better than anybody, because the only reason you all were able to beat Tom Brady and the two Super Bowls you face them when you had Tom Coughlin is your coach because you had a front four that got to Tom Brady.

That's the only reason.

And so what we've recognized throughout the years watching Tom Brady, regardless of his greatness is six Super Bowl rings is non trip to the Super Bowl, etcetera, etcetera.

The one thing that hasn't tap dancing in the pocket like the late, great Gregory Hans got rest his soul is the fact that you've got a front four that can get to him.

It's the only thing that seems to really neutralize in the gate of you can have an elite secondary.

You can have a big time offense.

You could have linebackers that could drop back into the secondary or could even get to the quarterback or whatever.

But when you have a front four that doesn't necessarily need to Blitch in order to make you considerably nervous, that has been a problem and an Achilles heel for Tom Brady.

And we've witnessed it because we saw him lose two Super Bowls because of it.

That's the Onley chance the Washington football team is gonna have.

Do I think it's going to be good enough?

No, I would bet my money on it.

But to answer a question as to whether or not they have a chance, considering their strength, is the ability to get to the quarterback to make him tap dance.

To make him nervous toe put his behind on the ground to put a hat on them.

This is what they dio.

That's the Achilles heel for Tom Brady.

I believe, based on that reality, you can't definitively sit up there and say the Washington football team doesn't have a chance when they've got, ah, front four like they have.

Yeah, you heard Bruce area and say, Bruce Arian says, this championship or bust, If we don't get the ring, you bring Tom Brady to Tampa Bay to get the ring.

This is not a let's build for the future of Tom Brady.

What, are you trying to win it when he's 50?

No, they're trying to get it right now.

And when you ask, Okay, do the Does the Washington football team have an opportunity to win this game?

Yes, they do.

But that's just the puncher's chance.

And Max knows when you have a puncher's chance, sometimes you gotta put yourself in harm's way.

They're gonna have to bring pressure.

They're gonna have to show physicality.

They're gonna have to be all out and headed and going to get Tom Brady.

But that's it, right?

It's gonna take about you think 27 points normally to beat Tom Brady in a playoff games or to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in this playoff game.

If it gets to that, if that's what it takes from the Washington football team, they can't compete in that arena.

They can't go win a shootout against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

So it's gonna take.

Pain is gonna take.

Sweat is gonna take.

Young is going to take Carrigan.

All of these people are gonna have to be in Tom Brady's face.

But most importantly, Allen and Pain have toe rush up the middle.

What is Tom Brady?

Tom Brady is a guy that likes to step up into the pocket, move sideways, create lanes to throw and push the ball down the field to these wide receivers.

Whether it's Godwin, Gronk, Antonio Brown, they can't allow that.

They have to get the ball out of his hand quickly, and they have to hit Tom Brady every single opportunity that they have.

That's the only chance that this team has to win.

They have to turn the ball over, maybe score themselves and more than anything, not give up big plays.

That's how you let Alex Smith given opportunity to score enough points to win this game.

Every football team has the strength and the and the football team.

You know, the Washington football team has guys up front, especially Chase Young.

You could get after the quarterback.

Well, of course.

I mean, like, you can't win even seven games if you don't have any strength.

By the way, what is that strength?

Playing into it is the old line of weakness for the Bucks.

No, the old line is one of the Bucks.

Many strengths.

They do a very good job protecting Tom Brady.

Does Tom Brady get rid of the ball fast?

Yes, he does.

Has Tom Brady been much more accurate this year than it was last year?

Yes, he has been.

Does Tom Brady have weapons on Lee?

Everywhere you look, it's an embarrassment of riches on offense.

You also the head coach and Bruce Arians, who seems to push all the right buttons with Brady and this team throughout the year, every time the media played it up into a controversy.

In fact, if you look closely, Arians new went to push Tom Brady's buttons and get the team motivated and Brady motivated by with public criticism.

He know when he knew when to back him up.

He knew it just kind of make the offense more what Tom Brady wanted.

This team is in addition to protecting the quarterback and doing all the things I just said, peaking right now against the Washington football team.

That, as I said, was lucky to beat the Eagles, who weren't even trying to win on the last game of the season.

The Washington football team can't win this game.

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