The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 31-27 win over the Falcons in Atlanta on Sunday not only improved their record to 9-5, securing their first winning season of 2010, but took them one step closer to the first. their 2007 playoff bar.
And the game that finally brought them came from a player that many of the league’s circles asked really deserved to be on the team.
With 6:25 left in the fourth quarter, quarterback Tom Brady sent a 46-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Brown – his first TD catch as a Buccaneer – to make it 31-27 and seal a comeback for the Bucs. , who were once down 17-0.
Brady now has seven career returns when he’s 17 or more points, tying him to Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers for most of NFL history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Bucs had been on the wrong side of history when it came to breakouts in recent seasons. From 2015 to ’19, they were 7-36 when they watched the break. But this season, Brady led them to three comebacks in the second half.
After collecting only 60 meters of offense in the first half, Brady calmly drove four drives and a goal in the field in the second half. The first was a 1-yard touchdown run from Leonard Fournette, which was set by a 32-yard pass over the middle to Mike Evans, followed by a 4-yard touchdown catch by Chris Godwin.
Then at the end of the third quarter, after an interference penalty from the defensive pass on Edmond Robinson, Fournette pushed his way to a second score before Brady connected with Brown.
Brady is now 7-0 in his career against the Falcons, including Super Bowl LI, where he led the Patriots from a 28-3 deficit to a 34-28 win in overtime.