Brady in England over the Bucs

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Squibster here, reporting from Wembley England where my fine blogging company sent me to see the game live in order to bring you this fine post.

There is talk of a team in the future being stationed in England, but that seems a long way off. It would not be practical with the 6 hours travel time to the east coast, so maybe you would have to have an entire NFL Conference in Europe and maybe the winner would play the winner of the Super Bowl. Who knows?

Ok, delusional thinking, bloggers do not get any travel allowance. Besides the game was on the Hi-Def Big Screen in my basement and they serve pretty good food there.

Tom Brady is hot in Wembley

Brady was good enough in this game to get pulled for Brian Hoyer, not because they were struggling, but because the Bucs were so inept. At that point it became more important to take my son to McDonalds, because the score was 35 – 7. Somehow Hoyer does not have a stat line? Wonder what that is about?

(full disclosure: Tom Brady is on my Fantasy Football team, Naruto, and is about the only thing that went right with my team this week.)

Brady played most of the game out of the shotgun formation with Lawrence Maroney back next to him. You did not want to be Tampa Bay’s defense when he was in this mode.

Brady threw three touchdown passes and had more than 300 yards as the Patriots (5-2) beat the Buccaneers 35-7 at Wembley Stadium on Sunday in the NFL’s third regular-season game at the iconic London venue.

The Bucs, who gave up a home game to play in London, fell to 0-7 and saw their losing streak extended to 11 games overall.
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The Patriots are more than just Tom Brady throwing touchdown passes all the time. Their defense is superb as well. Bucs QB Josh Johnson pretty much found receivers only after having been chased out of the pocket. In the fourth quarter, Tampa Bay brought in the other Josh at quarterback, Josh Freeman. He couldn’t do anything either.

It has to be nice to be the Patriots, because games against weak opponents like the Bucs are almost a given. They have now outscored their opponents 94 – 7 in the last two weeks. Too bad they have a bye week next week.

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