Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Twitter was absolutely ruthless towards both the Arizona Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in this Sunday Night Football barn burner.

Watt is an impending free agent following the conclusion of the 2022 season, which will end for the Cardinals in just two more weeks. But at the end of the day, watching Cardinals vs Buccaneers has most of us looking like clowns. At the end of the game, cameras caught J.J. The game looked more like this: Hence, a glorious clip to explain how the offense worked: However, tossing the Buccaneers into this game only made things more hectic, and honestly?

It wasn't pretty, but the Tampa Buccaneers dug deep to beat the Arizona Cardinals 19-16 in Week 16.

0 5 7 4 6 2 1 He dropped a pass and managed just three yards after the catch. Watt](https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/jj-watt/6163) recorded two hits on [Tom Brady](https://www.pff.com/nfl/players/tom-brady/698) and came away with four pass-rush wins. He was targeted seven times — but only three were charted as catchable — and he came down with just two catches for 12 yards. He forced four missed tackles and racked up 65 receiving yards after contact in a gutsy performance. He also added a mammoth six defensive stops against the run to end the game with an 86.3 run-defense grade.

After defensive lineman William Gholston recovered an Arizona fumble, Brady threw for 26 more yards to set up Ryan Succop's game tying 42-yard field goal with 2 ...

Outside linebacker Anthony Nelson stepped up, and had a great game, with 4 total tackles, and forced the first turnover of the game on a strip sack on Arizona’s opening drive. Defensive tackle William Gholston also elevated his play, and contributed with three total tackles, and recovered a fumble that set up the Buccaneers game tying field goal. For the game, Tampa Bay allowed only 325 yards of total offense, and limited Arizona to 5 of 19 (26.3%) on third down attempts. Brady went 6 for 7, for 67 yards, and hit Rachaad White for a three-yard touchdown, on the drive that pulled the Bucs within three points. The Buccaneer defense, as it has the majority of this year, kept the team in the game by limiting Arizona to just 16 points, and forcing three turnovers. His 44-yard reception on the first play of the Buccaneers touchdown scoring drive, gave the Bucs the jolt of energy they were missing for the first 50 minutes of this game. Coach Bowles deserves credit for coming up with unique pressure packages that confused the Cardinals all night. Down 10 points with 10:47 left to play, the Bucs scored the last 13 points in regulation, and overtime, to win 19-16 on a memorable Christmas evening. For the evening, Brady went 32 for 48, for 281 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions. Safeties Logan Ryan (8 total tackles), Mike Edwards (7 total tackles), and Antoine Winfield Jr. Tom Brady was playing as poor as he as ever played in any of his 23 NFL seasons for the first three quarters of Sunday night's game (the last five quarters if you count the second half against the Bengals.) He had no rhythm in the pocket, was rushing throws when he didn’t have to, and was late on throws that he normally makes in his sleep. This game, like the majority of games this season, looked to be another disappointing effort by an uber talented team, that simply cannot get out of its own way.

If the Bucs (7-8) beat the Carolina Panthers (6-9) in Tampa on Sunday, they will win a second straight NFC South division title and host a first-round ...

We know we had to win this one.” “We know where we want to be. “If we keep it close in the fourth quarter, we know we have a shot,” Brady said. “Say what we had to say and get it off our chest. It’s not where we want to be, but we got a chance at a championship game next week.” We know what’s on the line.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers spent Christmas in Glendale but got their Christmas wish granted: A victory over the Arizona Cardinals in Week 16.

The Cardinals first four possessions resulted in a fumble (12 plays, 55 yards), punt (three plays, two yards), a field goal (five plays, 23 yards) and another punt (three plays, -1 yard). Prior to the play, the Bucs' longest of the night was 12 yards. Early in the fourth quarter, Leonard Fournette led the longest play of the day. In overtime, Ryan Succop's fourth field goal of the game, a 40-yarder in overtime, sealed the win for Tampa Bay. Despite early miscues by the Buccaneers' offense and an ineffectiveness in the red zone, in short-yardage and on third down, Tampa Bay once gain pulled off late-game theatrics for the win on Christmas. "In the fourth quarter, we executed pretty well, broke some tackles, ran hard, a lot of guys made plays in the pass game, contested catches, guys hit as soon as they caught it and came up with it," Tom Brady assessed.