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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady brought 2 decades of touchdown passes, victories and championships to New England.
He returned Sunday nighttime and reminded his erstwhile squad what they’re missing.
Brady rallied the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 19-17 triumph implicit the Patriots connected a rainy Sunday night, with Ryan Succop hitting the winning 48-yard tract extremity precocious successful the 4th quarter.
Brady was 22 of 43 for 269 yards with nary touchdowns, but engineered the fourth-quarter thrust to bushed his erstwhile team. Ronald Jones added an 8-yard scoring tally for defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay (3-1).
“So galore large guys that person been friends for a agelong time. What a large game,” Brady said. “They got a truly bully shot team. They made america gain it.”
Brady broke Drew Brees’ NFL vocation passing yardage grounds and became the 4th backmost with victories against each 32 NFL teams, joining Brees, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning.
“In crunch clip erstwhile we needed a tract goal, helium got america down the field,” Bucs manager Bruce Arians said. “He wasn’t going to marque immoderate mistakes that outgo america the game.”
New England had a accidental to win, but Nick Folk’s 56-yard field-goal effort deed the near upright with with little than a infinitesimal to play. The Patriots are 1-3 for the archetypal clip since 2001. Bill Belichick is present 8-12 since Brady near New England.
“The Bucs won this game,” Arians said. “Everyone wanted to marque this Brady vs Belichick. I don’t deliberation Bill took a snap.”
Belichick said thing Brady did amazed them.
“We went against Tom Brady each day, each time successful signifier defensively,” Belichick said. “So it’s not similar we’ve ever seen Tom Brady before.”
Patriots rookie Mac Jones finished 31 of 40 for 275 yards and 2 touchdowns.
The Buccaneers were wounded by aggregate mistakes connected defence arsenic good arsenic spotty peculiar teams play — marked by mediocre punts, a missed aboriginal tract extremity and costly penalties.
But Tampa was capable to travel up with timely plays to enactment successful the game, including Antoine Winfield Jr. forcing a fumble by J.J. Taylor that was recovered by Richard Sherman to thwart a promising thrust aboriginal successful the 3rd quarter.
With Tampa Bay down 17-16, Brady and the Buccaneers took implicit connected their ain 25 and needed conscionable 7 plays thrust to the Patriots 30. After Antonio Brown failed to bent onto a walk successful the extremity portion Succop calmly connected connected a 48-yarder with 2:02 left.
Leading 7-6, the Patriots punted and Matt Slater appeared to retrieve a fumble by Jaydon Mickens. But an unsportsmanlike behaviour punishment connected Slater negated the play.
The Bucs took implicit and finished an eight-play, 52-yard thrust with an 8-yard scoring tally by Ronald Jones.
The Patriots responded connected their adjacent possession, utilizing six consecutive completions by Jones to thrust to the Bucs 1. Jones past recovered Jonnu Smith successful backmost of the extremity portion for to enactment the Patriots backmost successful beforehand 14-13.
Tampa marched each the mode to the Patriots 8 connected their ensuing thrust earlier being forced to settee for Ryan Succop’s 3rd tract extremity of the crippled to marque it 16-14.
New England took backmost implicit with 7:58 near successful the crippled and rapidly moved down the field, getting into the reddish portion connected a instrumentality play that ended with receiver Jakobi Meyers throwing a 30-yard walk to Nelson Agholor. The thrust stalled determination and the Patriots nudged backmost successful beforehand 17-16 connected Nick Folk’s 27-yard tract goal.
Brady was welcomed with cheers during the pregame earlier taking the tract to a watercourse of boos connected the Buccaneers’ archetypal thrust of the night.
Some cheers returned connected their 2nd violative bid of the nighttime erstwhile helium completed a 28-yard walk to Mike Evans to surpass Brees’s people of 80,358 yards to go the NFL’s vocation passing person successful the regular season.
The walk helped acceptable up a 29-yard tract extremity to enactment the Bucs successful beforehand 3-0.
Tampa Bay’s defence dialed up the unit connected Jones connected the Patriots’ adjacent drive. Linebacker Devin White got a escaped tally astatine Jones up the middle, forcing him to hurry a walk that was tipped by Ross Cockrell and intercepted by Winfield.
The Patriots made the mistake moot, stopping the Buccaneers connected 3rd down conscionable wrong the reddish zone. The Buccaneers attempted different tract goal, but this clip Succop was wide close from 36 yards.
INJURIES
Buccaneers: Davis III was helped disconnected the tract successful the 2nd 4th with a quad wounded and did not return. … Winfield went into the locker country successful the 4th fourth to beryllium evaluated for a concussion.
Patriots: DE Henry Anderson near the crippled successful the 2nd 4th with a thorax wounded and did not return. … RB Damien Harris was shaken up aft a deed successful the 2nd 4th but was capable to return. … DB Cody Davis near the crippled successful the 3rd 4th with a genu injury. … Jonathan Jones near the crippled precocious successful the 4th quarter.
UP NEXT
Buccaneers: Host Dolphins connected Sunday.
Patriots: At Texans connected Sunday.
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