NFL Pro Bowler Explains What the Buccaneers Must Do to Stop Patrick Mahomes and Co.

Published 02/03/2021, 5:21 PM EST

Andy Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs are back in the Super Bowl after a year. They will go up against NFC South franchise Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Raymond James Stadium on February 7th, 2020.

The odds are all in favor of the visiting team who have lost just 2 games all season. But can Patrick Mahomes and Co. penetrate a defense that pulled off major turnovers in the NFC Championship win over Green Bay Packers?

The Bucs defense managed to restrict the likes of Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, Allen Lazard, and Aaron Jones a couple of weeks ago. But the Chiefs are a whole different ballgame.

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On their day, Andy Reid and Eric Bieniemy’s offense is just unplayable. What does the home team need to do in order to silence Mahomes? Read further to see what a former NFL player has to say.

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Former Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers RB Brian Westbrook appeared alongside Nick Wright on a recent installment of ESPN’s First Things First.

Westbrook heaped praise on the Buccaneers defense but also made an interesting prediction. He claimed that the home team can pull off a shock win if they put in a similar defensive display that helped them beat the Packers two weeks ago.

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“They absolutely can go into this game with that game plan they had against Green Bay because…That’s exactly how to get it done. Those four guys up front. Don’t let these guys get behind.

“You can’t have Travis Kelce have 13 catches, you can’t have Tyreek doing the same over route that we keep talking about week in and week out and be in you for 40 yards. 30 yards,” Westbrook said on the show.

The likes of Ndamukong Suh, Shaquil Barrett, Jean Pierre-Paul, and others know that they have a mountain of a task ahead of them on the weekend.

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It’s not going to be an easy task to stop the deadly trio of Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, and Travis Kelce. But the Bucs have shown, if anyone can do that, it’s them.

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Daniel Arambur is an NFL writer and content strategist for EssentiallySports.With more than 1,000 articles, he is one of the senior writers in the NFL cohort at ES. A mass media graduate from the University of Mumbai, Daniel has found the perfect blend of vocation and passion in the sports content niche.

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