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Winston Throws For 358 Yards, Bucs Beat Cardinals 30-27
The Ravens Are Letting Lamar Jackson Loose, And The NFL Can't Catch Up
LAMAR JACKSON
Jameis Winston stood at the podium, a winner for the first time in six weeks.
The fifth-year pro threw two more interceptions, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were able to overcome them and beat the Arizona Cardi- nals 30-27 to end a four- game skid that was the worst part of a seven-week stretch between true “home” games.
“It was an ugly win,” Winston said. “But we found a way to do it.”
Peyton Barber scored on a 1-yard run with 1:43 re- maining, and Winston threw for 358 yards and one touchdown for the Bucs (3- 6), who drove 92 yards for the winning TD after corner- back Jamel Dean redeemed himself from a poor perform- ance the previous week by ending Kyler Murray’s NFL rookie record streak of 211 consecutive pass at- tempts with a pick that de- nied the Cardinals an opportunity to add to a 27-23 lead.
Barber’s TD came two plays after a booth review de- termined Cardinals safety Jalen Thompson commit- ted pass interference against Mike Evans in the end zone, giving Tampa Bay a first down at the Arizona 1.
“We made plays to win
JAMEIS WINSTON
the game,” Bucs coach Bruce Arians said. “Defen- sively, we’re still a work in progress, but I like the fact that we’re in here celebrat- ing. Can’t be happier for any- body more than Jamel Dean. He wins the game. Last week, he’s the goat. He’s going to be a hell of a player.”
Murray threw for 324 yards and three TDs to Christian Kirk, whose 15- yard scoring reception put the Cardinals up by four mid- way through the fourth quar- ter. Kirk also scored on receptions of 33 and 69 yards and finished with six catches for 138 yards.
Murray, the first overall pick in this year’s draft, set the rookie record for most pass attempts without an in- terception on an 11-yard completion to Larry Fitzgerald, moving ahead of Derek Carr (2014) and
Dak Prescott (2016) who both had streaks of 176 con- secutive passes without an interception in their first sea- sons.
The 2018 Heisman Tro- phy winner hadn’t thrown an interception since Sept. 29, a span of six games in which the Cardinals (3-6-1) have gone 3-3.
Bucs Bench CB Vernon Hargreaves For Lack Of Effort
VERNON HARGREAVES
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians benched former first-round draft pick Vernon Hargreaves in the third quarter of the Bucs' 30-27 win over the Arizona Cardinals Sunday because he didn't be- lieve Hargreaves showed enough effort at the beginning of the third quarter, when the defense surrendered a 55-yard catch on a slant route by Andy Isabella.
"He didn't look like he was hustling to go in for a tackle," said Arians, who had called out the secondary earlier this week for giving up a fourth- quarter lead to the Seattle Sea- hawks.
"If that's what Coach saw, that's what he saw," said Har- greaves, the Bucs' most expe- rienced corner with 34 career starts under his belt. "There's no arguing it. I need to hustle, point-blank, end of discus- sion."
Vernon Hargreaves was also benched during the first practice of OTAs, but there were no further incidents, and Hargreaves had a strong camp.
Hargreaves did return late in the game when second- year nickelback M. J. Stewart suffered a right knee injury and did not return.
You will hear about this play if you already haven't. You will see it. Then you will wipe your eyes a few hundred times because it looks impos- sible.
But then again, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jack- son is impossible. He can't be explained by the normal laws of time and space. Ein- stein might call Jackson the Theory of Lamartivity. The way he runs. The way he throws. It all seems like this is some spectacular dream. He is an agent from The Ma- trix, the child of Steve Young and Mike Vick and an obvious practitioner of the football dark arts.
The play occurred in the first half of the Ravens' 49-13 obliteration of the hapless Bengals on Sunday. Jack- son took the snap, faked a handoff to running back Mark Ingram, III and then took off left. The Bengals' Carlos Dunlap had the first shot and missed. Dunlap shouldn't feel too bad. Lots of players miss on the first try.
Then Jackson acceler- ated up the field. The next guy to get a shot was safety Jessie Bates, III. Jackson left him in the dust. But his best move was when line- backer Nick Vigil tried to tackle him. Jackson spun, and Vigil grabbed air.
The play went for a 47- yard touchdown. It was so spectacular, so jaw-dropping, that it's easy to forget he's going against NFL players.
Yes, the Bengals are NFL players, too.
Bengals DB Shawn Williams Backs Lamar Jackson For MVP
Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens ran all over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, leaving at least one opponent quite im- pressed.
Many Ravens fans made the trip to Cincinnati to root on the Ravens, and there were audible MVP chants for Jackson during the game. Those chants were under- standable: Jackson threw for 223 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 65 more yards and an- other score. He did all of that without playing the fourth quarter due to Baltimore’s big lead.
When Bengals safety Shawn Williams was asked about those chants, he didn’t bother hiding his ad- miration, and essentially said the fans weren’t wrong.
Bengals fans may not like Williams being that honest in his appreciation of Jack- son, but he’s definitely not alone. Jackson has a few other votes as well. When you watch some of the stuff he managed to do on Sunday, it’s easy to understand why. Not bad for a guy that some teams weren’t convinced would stick at quarterback.
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