It’s not, we need to change set up our day or do anything like that.
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Winston’s performance is definitely a good sign for the Bucs. “It’s a good thing we don’t have to play right now”.
“A lot has been said about Lavonte David”, Smith said.
Keeping the offensive train moving might not be a surprise for this Buccaneers team, even as they had ranked 25th in Adjusted NEP per play, but the question of this team could continue to be the quality of the defense. And it isn’t certain that the Eagles are starting to bail on the season and possibly Kelly because of all the mistakes over the last two weeks.
But overall, Winston’s reactions to pressure have been very impressive and the consistent improvement we’ve seen in that area is even more encouraging. “All we can do about it is prepare and get ready to play Detroit”.
The Bucs are also getting healthy at the right time. It would have been somewhat more justifiable had Sanchez railed at the intended receivers who didn’t catch the other two picks he threw.
The Eagles are around the middle of the pack in pretty much every metric, on both ends of the field.
The victory gives the Bucs (5-5) a shot at an NFC wild-card playoff berth, while the Eagles (4-6) fell a game behind the idle New York Giants in NFC East. “I can’t say exactly what it was”. I went up, when you look at it, I’m over the top of him, I’m like, it’s a pick, he just snatched the ball. I don’t think Doug came into the season thinking, hey, he wasn’t wanted around here.
-Continuing their search for depth at defensive end, the Bucs on Monday claimed Kourtnei Brown off waivers from the Texans, bringing back the well-traveled pass-rusher for a second stint in Tampa Bay.
Winston completed 22 of 39 passes for 264 yards, including a 17-yard throw to Brandon Myers to help get the Bucs into position to win the game. He’s been on roster with the Texans for the past six games, though he was only active for one of the six games, playing primarily on special teams.
Two years of injuries and middling production influenced that decision, but Martin has turned things around this year.
That ability was firmly on display against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. He was innovative and confident and determined to prove he could do in the National Football League what he’d done at the University of OR, which was to win games, invigorate a fan base, identify talent, nurture a program. One area to watch is interceptions: the Colts have 13, the fifth-highest total in the NFL. The Bucs played without out two starters, RG Ali Marpet (ankle) and TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins (shoulder). Sanchez said after the game that he and Sproles talked about the situation and came to an understanding. When once it was impossible for an opponent to put a 100-yard rushing game on the Birds, Doug Martin stamped them with 235, almost a single-game record for an opponent.
With his three interceptions Sunday, Mark Sanchez now has 84 interceptions and 107 turnovers in 73 games.
PATHETIC DEFENSE: The Eagles had the second-best run defense going into Week 7 at Carolina, but James Stewart, Darren McFadden and Martin have each big games against them in the past month. Philly rushed for 136 yards on 28 carries, a 4.9 yard average.
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Great, not good, was the goal coming into the season.
