Tampa, Fla. – Even on home turf – The bright lights of prime-time TV, Tom Brady and Tampa proved too much for the two Buccaneers, who did not flop on national television for the third time this time. Season – they got Throttle.
After escaping last week’s 25-23 win over the New York Giants on Monday night’s football on Monday – a game they enter as a 12.5-point favorite – the Bucs were dissected by the 38-3 New Orleans Saints on “Sunday Night Football Football Law” “Dropped 6-3.
The Bucks entered at night, which N.F.C. The South were seen adding cushions to their 1-game lead, but the NFC will cement themselves as favorites to win. They had a chance to beat the Seattle Seahawks, who lost to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, for first place in the NFC. Instead, they finished second in the division (Saints are also -3-but but have a better division record and tiebreaker) just over half a point in a season, with only the top conference teams securing first-round bays.
Brady completed 22 of 38 passes for 209 passing yards, no touchdowns and three interceptions for a QB rating of 40.4. There was heavy pressure from three sacks on him, he could not get into the rhythm and the saints snatched his deep ball.
The Bucks ’offense – the league’s third-best scoring unit, averaging 29.75 points in 9 weeks of play – did not take first place until its fifth offensive possession. But, in the same way, Marcus Davenport batted a Brady screen pass for the purpose of Ronald Jones II, which was blocked by David Onimata.
There were questions of conversation in many parts of the night with Brad and his receivers. He tried to hit Scott Miller on the left and on the left in the first half, but Miller blocked the way, the same thing that happened to Antonio Brown before halftime on a sideline pass blocked by Marcus Williams. Not only did Rob Gronkowski miss the tight end on a deep deep post route working against Demario Davis in Brady IV-6, but he also failed to account for the huge open brown running with him.
In the third quarter, after Mike Edwards recovered a foul on Drew Bryce, pushed by linebacker Schwick Barrett, Brad D lost Gronkowski in the back of the end zone, which would have given the Bucks their first point of the night. He also lost Mike Evans on two Fed routes working against Marcon Lettimore – a play Brady and Evans were 7-of-7 in the red zone in Sunday’s game.
Brad D’s third hurdle came in the third quarter, fourth on a pass made for Gronkowski.
In his first game since the start of his much-anticipated Buccaneers and the second week of the 2019 season, Brown caught three passes on five goals from 31 yards, his longest catch coming on the slant route for a 15-yard advantage. Brown Bucks ’loan was also responsible for the third-down conversion, which was in backfield motion and went flat for a 6-yard completion.
On defense, Bucks struggled to put pressure on the bridge and had multiple coverage buses and missed trafficking, surrendering 20 tu-high 420 yards of total offense. Bryce threw for 222 yards and four touchdowns.
The only bright spots of the night were uplifting and Ryan Sukap was kicking hard. In addition to Edwards’ vague recovery, Jordan Whitehead knocked the ball with a tight end to Jared Cook, while Lavante David got it back. In the fourth quarter, Sutcopp scored a 48-yard field goal to avoid a shutout.
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