Tom Brady spoke during the week about the difficulty of spending his first Christmas after his divorce from Brazilian top model Gisele Büdchen without the company of his three children, however, if he cannot focus and lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to victory next Sunday, December 25 against the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium in Week 16, we could be in for the worst ridicule in the legendary quarterback’s glorious career.
Bengals defenders have words for Tom Brady after beating Bucs
When the NFL scheduled this Buccaneers-Cardinals game in primetime on Christmas, the idea was to see the stellar quarterback duel between the seven-time Super Bowl winner and Kyler Murray, who while he had failed to live up to the sky-high expectations of him after being the first overall pick in the 2019 Draft, was one of the league’s young stars.
Who will be the Cardinals’ starting quarterback?
But two weeks ago, on Monday Night Football in Week 14, Murray went out horribly injured on the first offensive series of the loss to the New England Patriots and after it was confirmed that he will not return for the rest of the season, the Cardinals put in his place Colt McCoy, who started the Week 15 game they lost to the Denver Broncos and who also went out injured.
Tom Brady, on Buccs OT loss to Browns: “We just didn’t make the plays and they did”
Therefore, and after McCoy was ruled out for the Christmas game, it will be the unknown Trace McSorley who will have his debut as a starter in the NFL after who was chosen 197 picks later in the sixth round of the same Draft as Murray by the Baltimore Ravens and in his fourth season in the NFL will have his first opportunity to open a game.
Tom Brady, accustomed to facing rookie quarterbacks
It will be the second time in the last three games that Brady will face a rookie starting QB, since in week 14 he was humiliated by Brock Purdy’s San Francisco 49ers, the difference is that the team from the Californian Bay is the leader of the NFC West, while the Cardinals are already mathematically eliminated from the NFL playoffs.