Tom Brady’s fiery magic leads Buccaneers to last-minute win over Saints

The last-place Saints missed out on a chance to drag right into a tie for second with the Falcons. Not one of the 4 groups within the NFC South has a profitable document.

“I’ve obtained to enter a bye week understanding that we must always have beat this group,” Saints defensive finish Cameron Jordan stated. “The primary time we must always have beat this group. This time we must always have. … We must always have beat plenty of different groups. We didn’t.”

Brady, who earlier than the sport exchanged greetings with the most important prize on this winter’s baseball free agent market AL MVP Aaron Choose, completed 36 of 54 for 281 yards and two touchdowns.

The Bucs quarterback led an extended discipline aim drive on the opening possession of the sport, however solely had sporadic success after that till lastly get the Bucs in the long run zone with assist from a 44-yard cross interference on Saints cornerback Paulson Adebo.

Tom Brady threw for 2 touchdowns within the fourth quarter — together with a game-tying strike with three second left.

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Otton scored on the following play.

“Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was meticulous in staying to the plan of his dink and dunk,” Jordan stated. “He had the one prayer that he despatched on the market and obtained bailed out with the flag.”

Per week after being shutout for the primary time in 332 video games, the Saints constructed a 10-3 halftime lead on Dalton’s 30-yard scoring cross to Taysom Hill and a 38-yard discipline aim arrange by simply the third interception Brady has thrown all season.

Demario Davis’ choose was additionally solely the eighth takeaway New Orleans protection — by far a league-low — in 13 video games. Defensive finish Cameron Jordan later compelled a fumble that the Saints was a 12-play, 7-minute, 20-second drive that Lutz completed with a 21-yard discipline aim, making it 13-3 late within the third quarter.

“We didn’t make the performs after they had been there on the finish of the sport they usually did. That’s what it got here all the way down to,” Dalton stated. “We had alternatives for that recreation to be very totally different than what it was, and I really feel like I’m a damaged document saying the identical factor. We simply missed alternatives.”