Week 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and new quarterback Tom Brady, open up their 2020 season on the road against the New Orleans Saints in a matchup of two of the teams that will be vying for the NFC South division crown in the season ahead. It also gives us the first of many intriguing matchups between veteran quarterbacks that we will have in 2020, thanks to Brady moving to the NFC and specifically the NFC South.
This game gives us Brady versus Drew Brees for the first time since 2017. Brees actually holds a slight edge in the lifetime record between these two quarterbacks, having won three of the five meetings between these passers. Two of those victories, however, came when Brees was the quarterback for the then-San Diego Chargers. His only victory against Brady while with the Saints came on a memorable Monday night affair when the Saints blew Brady and the Patriots out during the 2009 season, which led to a memorable exchange between Brady and Bill Belichick on the sideline.
This is not the only meeting between Brady and Brees on the schedule, as the two teams are slated to square off again in Week 9, but it will certainly be a memorable affair as Brady takes the field for the first time in a new uniform against one of his true peers.