NEW ORLEANS -- Tom Brady and Drew Brees will actually do something next week that they have never accomplished in their storied NFL careers: Face each other in a playoff game.
The second-seeded New Orleans Saints will host the fifth-seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the grand finale of next weekend's divisional-round matchups on Sunday afternoon.
"I guess it was inevitable," said Brees, who said he knew the Buccaneers would be a significant rival once Brady decided to migrate to the NFC South this offseason. "Listen, the minute that he signed with the Bucs and came in the division, you felt like that was gonna be a team to contend with.