Lackluster for a great part of the game, Tom Brady did what he specializes in the second half Monday night.
Brady tossed scores passes to Rob Gronkowski and Mike Evans, lifting Tampa Bay to a 25-23 triumph over the New York Giants, and giving the Buccaneers quarterback the vocation lead in TD tosses again.
The Saints’ Drew Brees had passed Brady on Sunday, yet now the six-time Super Bowl champ is back on top with 561. Evans’ jumping 8-yard get given the approval focuses.
In any case, Tampa Bay (6-2) needed to work it out. Daniel Jones drove New York (1-7) 70 yards in 13 plays and associated with Golden Tate for a 19-yard score with 28 seconds leftover. The 2-point change fizzled as the authorities got a banner apparently for guarded pass impedance.
Brady and Gronkowski prior consolidated for a 3-yard scoring pass on which Gronk scarcely clutched the ball sufficiently long. That made the old New England blend second in TDs for a pair with 93, 21 behind Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison of the Colts.
Unfit to associate with Evans on a 2-point transformation, Brady actually had the Bucs on top 15-14.
After New York returned ahead on Graham Gano’s 33-yard field objective, Daniel Jones was compelled into an imprudent toss to Tate that Sean Murphy-Bunting took out at the Tampa 33. That set up for the 66-yard drive to the score by Evans.
Jones had two expensive picks, nullifying a solid exertion by New York’s protection.
New York got an early break — and not long after a score — when Brady’s pass was tipped by Dalvin Tomlinson and got by Bucs running back Ronald Jones. However, he bobbled when hit by Blake Martinez and newbie Darnay Holmes recouped at the Tampa Bay 12.
Dion Lewis’ made a sliding catch toward the side of the end zone on third down for a 7-3 lead.
Ronald Jones was a nonfactor the remainder of the half as Leonard Fournette got a large portion of the activity.
The Giants’ next scoring drive was a model of proficiency, including two additions of 11 yards, a 12-yarder, a 14-yarder and a 17-yard run by Wayne Gallman. He scored from the 2 to complete the 10-play arrangement that covered 77 yards for a 14-3 lead.
Brady, as has been his custom for twenty years, at that point guided his group to a score, yet it was just Ryan Succop’s second of four field objectives, a 40-yarder with 7 seconds left in the half. Succop likewise had a 37-yard field objective on the game’s initial drive, a 43-yarder set up via Carlton Davis’ capture in right off the bat in the second from last quarter, and a 38-yarder with 3:41 to go for what ended up being the definitive focuses.
Not long after Succop had made it 14-9, Gronkowski was in the end zone — just to see Daniel Jones associate with his tight end, Evan Engram, for a 30-yard play. That set up Gano’s 33-yard kick and the 17-15 New York lead heading into the fourth time frame.
In any case, that is normally Brady time.
Legacy
The Giants wore garbs like what the 1990 Super Bowl title group wore, white shirts, and jeans with blue and red stripes, a GIANTS cap decal rather than the recognizable and white facemasks supplanting the standard dark.
