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(CBS Miami) — Tom Brady was capable to sneak retired of New England with a victory. He brought his Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost precocious connected the Patriots, driving 45 yards to acceptable up the game-winning tract goal. That elevated the defending Super Bowl champions to 3-1 up of their Week 5 matchup with the Miami Dolphins. They’ll big a Dolphins squad that’s coming disconnected its 3rd consecutive loss. Miami, present 1-3, fell to the winless Indianapolis Colts successful Week 4, failing to support up with Carson Wentz, who was playing connected 2 sprained ankles.
Tom Brady continues to impressment astatine the property of 44. While his erstwhile squad constricted him to lone 22-43 passing for 269 yards and nary touchdowns, helium moved the shot erstwhile it mattered. Topping the Patriots gave him astatine slightest 1 triumph implicit every team successful the league. He besides acceptable the grounds for regular-season passing yards successful a career, surpassing Drew Brees. Brady leads the NFL successful passing yards this play with 1,356 and has tossed 10 TD passes against lone 2 interceptions.
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While the GOAT deserves a batch of the recognition for the Bucs’ perch atop the NFC South (in a necktie with the Carolina Panthers), helium is starring 1 of the NFL’s astir high-powered offenses. Chris Godwin, Mike Evans and Antonio Brown contiguous a formidable receiving trio. Leonard Fournette is unsafe retired of the backfield. However, Rob Gronkowski, the team’s touchdown person and a favourite people of Brady from their days successful New England, missed Week 4 with cracked and breached ribs. He’s expected to miss aggregate games.
Up until past week, the crushed crippled was a spot of an afterthought successful Tampa. But with the rainy upwind successful Foxborough, the Bucs relied heavy of Leonard Fournette. And helium came done with 92 yards connected 4.6 yards per carry. “Knowing however you tin champion onslaught a team, those are adjustments you person to make,” said NFL connected CBS expert Trent Green.
Brady and institution should beryllium capable to determination the shot connected a Dolphins defense that’s allowing 388.3 yards and 27.3 points per game. Both stats enactment them successful the NFL’s bottommost 10. Miami has fixed up astatine slightest 20 consecutive points 3 weeks successful a row. They were capable to incorporate the Colts for the archetypal 4th plus, but gave up much large plays arsenic the crippled wore on. The Dolphins defence allowed 103 yards connected 16 carries to Jonathan Taylor and struggled to halt extracurricular rushing plays. Their walk unreserved was lone capable to sack the immobile Carson Wentz twice. Lavonte David and Devin White pb the squad successful tackles, with 32 and 28 respectively.
This isn’t the Dolphins squad galore were expecting astatine the season’s outset. “I’m really amazed aft having that archetypal game,” Green said. “It’s a gangly bid to deliberation they’re going to get turned astir this week against the Bucs. It’s the NFL, truthful unusual things tin happen. Brian Flores has a inheritance with practicing against Tom Brady each that clip helium was successful New England. But Tom is moving rather a antithetic discourtesy than what helium was moving successful New England. So that’s going to beryllium a gangly bid for the Dolphins to get things turned around.”
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While the Dolphins’ defence is underperforming, their discourtesy remains the existent problem. Tua Tagovailoa is sidelined with a rib injury. He could instrumentality for the team’s Week 6 crippled with Jacksonville Jaguars, but that won’t assistance them this week. For now, they’ll proceed to sputter on down Jacoby Brissett. He completed 20 of 30 passes for 199 yards and 2 touchdowns against the Colts. But they had lone 62 nett passing yards aft 3 quarters. The team’s 2 passing touchdowns connected Sunday springiness it a expansive full of 3 connected the season. Brissett faced a batch of pressure, getting sacked twice.
“They had a circumstantial acceptable of plays and the mode they wanted to tally their discourtesy with Tua, I retrieve from talking to the coaches backmost successful week 1,” said Green. “You look astatine Tua, and you look astatine Jacoby Brissett, and they’re rather a spot different, antithetic quarterbacks. So I’m definite that has a batch to bash with it.”
Brissett isn’t getting overmuch assistance though. The violative enactment has allowed 13 sacks connected the season, 4th worst successful the NFL. Myles Gaskin, the team’s starring rusher, has conscionable 142 yards connected the season.
The enactment whitethorn conflict to artifact a coagulated Bucs tally defence that’s allowing a league-low 47.5 yards per game. That fig partially stems from the Brady-led discourtesy forcing opposing offenses lighting up the scoreboard and forcing opposing offenses to trust connected the pass. But that doesn’t relationship for each of it. The Bucs really held the Patriots to negative rushing yards connected Sunday, a archetypal for the Tampa defence and lone the 4th clip this has happened since the AFL-NFL merger. They besides sacked Mac Jones 4 times and deed him 12 more.
The Dolphins volition person to support Brissett upright to person immoderate accidental astatine sticking with the Buccaneers. And adjacent then, it whitethorn beryllium connected however overmuch Miami is consenting to agelong the field. The Buccaneers are favored by 10 points, but there’s a bully accidental it won’t adjacent beryllium that close.
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