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Tom Brady And The Bucs Face Aaron Rodgers, Packers Sunday
Anthony Davis, Lakers
Honor Kobe Bryant After
NBA Finals Win: 'I Know
The Tampa Bay Bucca- neers will have a little extra time to get over their Week Five loss in Chicago (20-19) and hopefully get some of their key contributors back to full health, but they'll face a stiff challenge when they get back to work.
The 3-2 Buccaneers en- joyed their "mini-bye" follow- ing a Thursday night game and then prepare to face the Green Bay Packers Sunday on FOX at 4:25 p.m., who ap- pear to be one of the NFC's top Super Bowl contenders. The Packers are enjoying a bye week after a 4-0 start and will come out of their break with an offense that currently leads the league with 38 points per game.
Green Bay is led by a resurgent Aaron Rodgers,
formance from running back Aaron Jones, who already had 509 yards from scrim- mage and six touchdowns.
The Buccaneers will be looking to get back on track after a disappointing out- come in Chicago in which the offense struggled in red zone and the team was flagged 11 times for 109 yards. The Buc- caneers have held three straight opponents below 50 rushing yards for the first time in team history, which sets up an intriguing matchup against Jones.
Tampa Bay's offense is hoping to be closer to full strength after playing the last two games without Chris Godwin and Leonard Fournette, and with Mike Evans and Scotty Miller at less than 100 percent.
He’s Looking Down On Us'
Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers had one person on their mind after a dominant Game 6 win over the Miami Heat to claim the NBA title on Sunday night.
The win, of course, was for Kobe Bryant.
Davis and the Lakers honored Bryant — who, along with his daughter Gi- anna and seven others, was killed in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles in Jan- uary — after their 106-93 win over the Heat to finish off the NBA Finals.
“Ever since the tragedy, all wewantedtodoisdoitfor him, and we didn’t let him down,” Davis said on the court. “It would have been great to do it last game in his
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jerseys, but it made us come down even more aggressive, even more powerful on both ends of the floor, to make sure we close it down tonight. I know he’s looking down on us proud of us. I know Vanessa [Bryant is] proud of us, the organization’s proud of us. It means a lot to us.”
TOM BRADY AND AARON RODGERS
who has thrown for 13 touch- downs and no interceptions through his four-game start, with an otherworldly passer rating of 128.4. Rodgers has piled up these numbers de- spite a receiving corps beset by injuries, including one that has kept Davante Adams out of the last two games.
Rodgers has been helped by an MVP-type per-
Dak Prescott Out Of Surgery For Compound Fracture, Dislocation Of Right Ankle
Dak Prescott with his brother after the surgery.
The emotions of a last-sec- ond win against the New York Giants could not overcome the disappointment the Dallas Cowboys felt Sunday after los- ing quarterback Dak Prescott for the season.
Prescott suffered a com- pound fracture and disloca- tion of his right ankle that required surgery Sunday night. The injury occurred on a 9-yard run while being tack- led by Giants defensive back Logan Ryan with 6 minutes, 33 seconds to play in the third quarter, and it quickly brought a hush to the AT&T Stadium crowd, teammates
and opponents alike. Prescott left the field, his
right leg in an air cast, on a cart and in tears. He was taken to a local hospital for surgery to clean out the wound and repair the frac- ture, a procedure that went "very well," a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Cowboys head team orthope- dist Dan Cooper brought in noted foot and ankle doctor Gene Curry to do the repair Sunday night, the source said.
A source told ESPN's Todd Archer that Prescott faces a recovery timetable of four to six months.
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