The Seahawks were only 1-of-9 on third down.īut there were Bucs mistakes, too. It was Bucs’ first forced turnover in six weeks. The Bucs defense bottled up Seahawks rookie running back Kenneth Walker III, limiting him to 17 yards on 10 carries.īucs linebacker Devin White, playing with a heavy heart after learning his 45-year-old father had died suddenly Thursday, had two sacks and forced a fumble when he stripped Smith of the ball. Seattle (6-4) entered the game as the leader in the NFC West and the feel-good story of the year with quarterback Geno Smith, who spent the last eight years as a vagabond backup. I think everyone who was a part of that experience got to have a pretty amazing memory for their life.” “At the end of the game with them singing ‘Sweet Caroline’ and ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads,’ that was pretty epic. It felt very electric from the time we took the field. “Yeah, that was one of the great football experiences I’ve ever had,” Brady said, “so that says a lot for 23 years in the league, and for a regular-season game, I think the fan turnout was incredible. They cheered the loudest when Brady took the field for warmups, and he rewarded them with his “LFG” scream and fist pump.ĭuring the game, they serenaded both teams with raucous renditions of songs from the 1970s and 1980s John Denver was a favorite in the second half. Thousands of fans arrived more than three hours before the game. He raved about the energy of the fans in Allianz Arena. Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes, to Julio Jones and to Chris Godwin for the wide receiver’s first of the season.īut when the Seahawks closed a 21-3 deficit to within a score late in the fourth quarter, White made them burn their final two timeouts with runs of 12 and 18 yards, enabling the Bucs to run out the clock.īrady was ebullient after the game. The Seahawks had as much trouble stopping him as German customs, allowing Fournette to rush 14 times for 57 yards and a score. In the end, he helped the Bucs run their way to a second straight victory and a 5-5 record heading into their bye week.įournette’s new passport arrived a couple of hours before the Bucs’ flight to Munich on Thursday. He spun, he juked and he grounded out one tough yard at a time. White finished with 105 yards on 22 carries. “Playing running back, you’ve got to react a lot, so I was stutter-stepping, setting him up for something, and he just bit, and he did a good job of just staying there and not letting me break the big run. “I was setting (Diggs) up for something, and the stiff-arm just happened. All the 69,811 fans at Allianz Arena may not have understood everything about American football, but they let out a loud “Oooh!” in unison at the end of White’s 29-yard run.
0 kommentar(er)
