{"id":564,"date":"2021-02-06T01:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/?p=564"},"modified":"2021-02-06T01:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T01:46:53","slug":"super-bowl-lv-preview-will-brady-or-mahomes-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/2021\/02\/06\/super-bowl-lv-preview-will-brady-or-mahomes-prevail\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl LV Preview &#8211; Will Brady or Mahomes prevail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/960x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/960x0.jpg 960w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/960x0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2021\/02\/960x0-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady congratulates Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick\u00a0Mahomes after their NFL football game Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo\/Jason Behnken)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest game with the biggest stakes have brought together two of the biggest quarterbacks in a rematch. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will take on Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Sunday in the Super Bowl.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time these two faced off in a high-stakes situation was the 2019 AFC Championship game, where Brady and the New England Patriots beat Mahomes and the Chiefs in overtime to win their sixth Super Bowl, tying them with the Pittsburgh Steelers for most all time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brady spent one more season in New England where they lost in the divisional round to the Tennessee Titans before leaving the team he called his own for two decades for the warm weather and star receivers in Tampa Bay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During that same season where the Patriots lost the Chiefs won it all, their first Super Bowl victory in a half-century over a team who haven\u2019t been strangers to the big game, the San Francisco 49ers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-bar-chart-race\" data-src=\"visualisation\/5201736\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chiefs beat the Buccaneers 27-24 on Nov. 29 in Tampa Bay earlier this season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1357800585282678787?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adam Schefter<\/a>, the Chiefs will not depart Kansas City until Saturday. They will stay at the same hotel in Tampa Bay, and will follow the same itinerary as they did when they played them earlier this season.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However they will be without outside linebackers coach Britt Reid, the son of head coach Andy Reid. He was involved in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/30842264\/kansas-city-chiefs-assistant-coach-britt-reid-involved-multi-car-crash-life-threatening-injuries\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/30842264\/kansas-city-chiefs-assistant-coach-britt-reid-involved-multi-car-crash-life-threatening-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multi car accident<\/a> Thursday night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key matchup of this game will be Mahomes&#8217; health versus the Buccaneers defence. He\u2019s had a concussion during this postseason run and is suffering from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-suffering-from-turf-toe-not-100-percent\" target=\"_blank\">turf toe<\/a>, a sprain in the main joint of the big toe. If he\u2019s healthy, Mahomes can figure out the Buccaneer\u2019s defence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Buccaneers defence has played with more dedication and less mistakes this postseason but still have had slip ups in important moments. They allowed 13 third quarter points during the NFC Championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest game with the biggest stakes have brought together two of the biggest quarterbacks in a rematch. Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will take on Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this Sunday in the Super Bowl.\u00a0 The last time these two faced off in a high-stakes situation was the 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,82,73,80,81],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-super-bowl","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}