Detroit Lions — – Whenever a team loses 47-7, it is difficult to choose one play that could possess changed things.
The Detroit Lions, though, can at least contemplate it.
Brady modified the first straight down with a complete to Chris Godwin, by given a second chance, then put the Buccaneers in advance with a 33-lawn move to Rob Gronkowski.
After that, it had been a disaster for the Lions (5-10).
Detroit with Robert Prince handling training duties after interim head coach Darrell Bevell was first sidelined by COVID-19 protocols, lost quarterback Matthew Stafford to a good lower-leg harm on the first group of the game.
Chase Daniel completed 13 of 18 passes, but also for only 86 back yards and never got the Lions recent midfield.
“We had been 1 of 10 on third straight down, this means we weren’t staying in the discipline,” Daniel explained. “When that occurs, you are adding your defense in a very tough spot, and it is possibly worse if you are facing Tom Brady.”
Twenty-three years after backing Brian Griese on the University of Michigan’s 1997 national championship team, Brady didn’t show any signs of age. He accomplished 22 of 27 passes for 348 back yards and four touchdowns in the first half as the Buccaneers had taken a 34-0 lead.
“I’m not likely to blame the defense for all of this – that is a team video game and we fell brief on both sides of the ball,” Prince explained. “The offense couldn’t stick to the field and the defense wasn’t able to get the sort of stops we had a need to beat an excellent football team.”
Tampa Bay rested Brady found in the next half, but Blaine Gabbert only needed 10 seconds to make it 40-0. After a touchback on the kickoff to start out the 1 / 2, Lions running back again D’Andre Swift fumbled on earliest down. The Buccaneers recovered the ball on the Detroit 25 and Gabbert hit Gronkowski on another perform for his second TD of the overall game.
Detroit’s only factors came on Jamal Agnew’s 74-lawn punt return found in the third quarter, however the Buccaneers simply needed four has to create it 47-7 on a franchise-record sixth touchdown move of the game.
“It has been frustrating, because we have been buying a play like this all season, and when we finally get 1, it comes when the rating is 40-0,” Agnew said.
David Blough, the 3rd Lions quarterback of the game, did get the offense into Tampa Bay territory early on in the fourth one fourth, but the drive finished with a punt from the Buccaneers 40.
“It was a good crazy week with the coaches and it is obviously tough to reduce Matthew after one get, but that’s why Chase and I are here,” Blough said. “No-one feels sorry for us. It is our task to go in to the video game and execute and we didn’t do this.”
Tampa Bay could possess scored 50 points, but Ryan Succop missed two extra tips and a 42-backyard field-goal attempt.
“I am in a few video games like this,” Blough explained. “We (Purdue) played Auburn in the Music City Bowl within the last game of my senior time and got beat 63-14. That wasn’t very much fun.”
The Lions allowed 588 yards, the second-highest total in team history and the best in a regulation video game. In 1990, the Lions quit 566 back yards in a 43-23 home damage to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, then allowed 676 in a 41-38 overtime loss to Washington three weeks in the future.
Those, though, were the only occasions the Lions allowed 40 points in a 6-10 time. This year, they’ve given up that many five times and so are averaging a league-worst 32.1 points allowed every game.
“This just isn’t sufficient,” Prince said. “We had our team, they had their workforce and they beat us up.”
