(EDITOR’S NOTE: To access the Booger McFarland interview click on the audio attached here: Ep 18: Conference Championship Weekend w/ Booger McFarland | The Eye Test for Two | Spreaker)
Booger McFarland played for the Tampa Bay Bucs and is a Tom Brady believer. So it’s no surprise that he favors the Bucs in Sunday’s conference championship game at Green Bay.
But the former defensive lineman-turned-ESPN-host disagrees with those who say the Bucs have nothing to lose and everything to gain vs. the NFC’s top seed. Tampa Bay hasn’t been this far since 2002, for crying out loud, and few believed they’d get here. But they are, one game from Super Bowl LV.
So quarterback Tom Brady & Co. must be playing with ”house money” at this point … right?
“I disagree,” McFarland said on the latest “Eye Test for Two” podcast “Because when you say they’re playing with ‘house money,’ (you’re) meaning the expectation was to get this far. When you get Tom Brady, and you couple him with ‘Gronk’ (tight end Rob Gronkowski) and ‘AB’ (wide receiver Antonio Brown) and Mike Evans and (Chris) Godwin and everybody that they got, you’re not making those moves to say, ‘Let’s get close.’ You’re making those moves to see if we can win it all.
“So, nah, it’s not icing on the cake. To me, if they don’t win Sunday it’s going to be a failure. And they will treat it like that.”
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Ep 114: Aaron Rodgers, OBJ, and The New York Jets
by Full Press Coverage on March 25, 2023 at 12:09 am
The Packers are three-and-a-half-point favorites to advance to their first Super Bowl since the 2010 season when they won Super Bowl XLV. And they’re favored because they have Aaron Rodgers … they’re on a seven-game game tear … they won nine of their last 10 … they’re at Lambeau … and the weather will be sub-freezing.
Forget that Green Bay lost 38-10 to the Bucs earlier this year to the Bucs. That was three months ago, and it was in Tampa. Different time. Different place. Different stakes.
Nevertheless, McFarland is sticking with the Bucs.
“Of course, I’m a little biased,” he said. “I’m going with Tampa. I think Tom Brady is the key to a team that was talented enough last year to go deep into the postseason. But they didn’t get that opportunity. But now you have a defense that’s a year older, that’s starting to play its best football (and has) the weapons on the outside.
“You know, a lot of people made a stink about ‘Gronk’ and ‘AB.’ It’s amazing when you go back to the game the other day (the 30-20 defeat of New Orleans last Sunday), it was ol’ faithful: It was Scotty Miller. It was the new draft pick in (Tyler) Johnson. It was Mike Evans. It was the guys that have been here a long time making the plays last Sunday.
“Now, that doesn’t mean you’re not going to need something from ‘Gronk’ and ‘AB’ this week. But I just think that Tom Brady has been the decisive factor for a team that’s been talented enough to get to this point. He puts them over the hump this year.”
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