Throughout his career, Tom Brady has basically owned the NFL, but there is one team that has given him fits since joining the Tampa Buccaneers and that’s the New Orleans Saints.
Brady is 4-5 in his career against the Saints, including being 0-4 against them with the Bucs. So far, he can’t put his finger on exactly why he struggles against them, but he has some ideas.
“That’s probably the thing that jumps out the most, turnovers,” Brady said to reporters Thursday. “They’re a very physical team, I think they beat us up, physically. It’s just a tough, hard-nosed team. They’re well-coached, they’ve got a lot of good players. They’ve kind of had a winning organization for a long time. They know how to get the job done. They’ve got a lot of great core players on both sides of the ball that have been there a long time. It’s a tough environment to play but you’ve got to go play . . . you play good teams on the road, you’ve got to go play well. The last couple times we’ve played them, we haven’t done a great job of that.”
Brady is right. Last year, the Saints swept the Bucs and he didn’t play well in either game. He threw for four touchdowns in one game but also had two interceptions, while he had zero touchdowns and one interception in another game. He is hoping to change that Sunday but it won’t be easy.
“It’s a lot of things that lead to winning and losing and obviously we haven’t done a good job of that in the regular season. We’re going to have to play a lot better if we expect to win.”
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Stacey is a 1995 graduate of the University of Alabama who has previously worked for other publications such as Sportskeeda and Saturday Down South.