Have you made a decision yet, Patriots fans?

For those lucky enough to have a ticket to Sunday’s monumental Tom Brady return, there is a legitimate choice to be made. Cheer for Brady like he still plays for your home team, or boo the hell out of him and hope Matt Judon, Christian Barmore and Dont’a Hightower knock him on his ass.

There are very few (like myself) who will be happy no matter what happens. Now, in fairness, I rooted for him to win the Super Bowl as if the Patriots were playing a year ago, but only because by Week 5 New England’s season was obviously over.

On Sunday, if Brady wins, it’s a fitting end to his career in the stadium he helped turn into a house of horrors for opposing teams. Let’s be honest, he’s probably not going to play another game under the lighthouse unless he does play until he’s 50 and the schedule works out. If the Patriots win, then the season is back on track and Bill Belichick will have shown he can still get his guys motivated for big games. It will also mean that Mac Jones handled his first ridiculously hard test well.

It feels like people in my group are few and far between. Seemingly, everyone has chosen a side and there’s no convincing them otherwise. Either Brady is a traitor who turned his back on the fans, or he’s always going to be to be treated like a god and needs to hang 50 on Bill and the Pats to prove once and for all it was all about him.

As the game draws near, the former may just be the ultimate difference maker on Sunday night.

On Thursday, Brady spoke to the media in Tampa and sounded like a man who had either been screaming at his teammates in practice for four days or a man that’s very, very sick. If Gillette Stadium can have one of those rare nights where it sounds and feels like the old Foxborough Stadium and Brady can’t communicate as well as he normally does, it could be an X factor for a defense that should get smoked by the Bucs offense on paper.

“I don’t know, I’ve had a few of these days, I don’t know what the deal is,” Brady basically whispered when asked about his voice on Thursday. “I’ve got to try and figure this out. My throat’s more tired than my arm, imagine that?”

A reporter then reminded him he had dealt with a similar issue during training camp. “I know, it came back,” he said. “Very strange…I can’t explain it.”

Through three games this season, the Patriots defense has shown an inability to stop the run and have clearly missed having Stephon Gilmore on the field in almost any passing situation. The book on Brady for years has been to get pressure in his face face and make him uncomfortable. The only problem with that is, the Pats (aside from Uche and Judon in the preseason) haven’t really shown an ability to get pressure on QB’s, or at least not enough to earn sacks or better yet, strip sacks. If this secondary has to cover Antonio Brown, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin for long periods of time it’s going to be one hell of a long night.

Noise may be the only other thing that can help them, especially if Brady’s voice is still shot or he’s not at 100% by game time.

“They’re really well coached and obviously have a lot of smart players,” Brady said of the Patriots defense he went up against daily for 20 years. “They’re going to be in the right spots, they prepare really well. Obviously, being there for a long time I know how well they prepare and I think when you put great preparation with great players you get a great defense and they’re one of the best defenses in the league. Dont’a, Kyle (Van Noy), Matt Judon’s a great player…obviously the guys up front, Lawrence, Deatrich…Jon Jones, Devin (McCourty), Kyle Dugger, Adrian, JC’s a great player, Jalen Mills I’ve played against, so I’m pretty familiar with who they are and what they do.

“Just got to go do a great job against it, but they’re going to make it challenging. It’s going to be a very, very, very tough game.”

Tough, emotional, surreal. It’s going to be a little bit of everything.

It’s going to be one of the most memorable nights in Boston sports history and the Gillette Stadium crowd has a chance to be a big part of how the final chapter in this epic story is written.