Three games. Four teams, with two in each conference. The remaining two in the NFC are the NFC South wild-card Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the NFC North division winning and conference leading Green Bay Packers. Both teams have potent offenses, Hall of Fame quarterbacks, solid defenses, and brilliant coaches. Time to determine who will advance to the Super Bowl.
#5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers v. #1 Green Bay Packers
It’s fitting the NFC title comes down to Tom Brady v. Aaron Rodgers. These two never played against each other in the playoffs, so viewers are in for a great game. Nose tackle Vita Vea finally returns to Tampa Bay’s starting lineup. Vea is a player who gave Green Bay’s interior offensive line problems in the regular season matchup.
The Packers held a ten point lead before the Buccaneers scored 38 unanswered. An unexpected outcome, that shouldn’t happen again since the Packers spent a lot of time watching the film and working more on offense.Green Bay’s offensive line got better and fixed their issues the following weeks. Tampa Bay’s offensive line on the opposite should be able to control the pace if they run the ball early with Ronald Jones II and Leonard Fournette.
Green Bay has multiple advantages including playing at home, better control of personnel and no trash-talking. Teams are winless trash-talking opponents heading into games, and some of Tampa’s defensive players such as Devin White haven’t held back on their views of the Packers from last time. Coach Matt LaFleur and quarterback Aaron Rodgers have more motivation to win this matchup since the meltdown in October. Although it could be a shootout, the Packers have enough to pull out the win.
Prediction: Packers win the Conference Championship 38-35
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