The Buccaneers and Rams met on Sunday in a rematch of the divisional round playoff game that sent Los Angeles to the NFC title game a year ago. Both teams have come a long way since then, and not in a good way, as both Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford entered Week 9 desperate for a turnaround. And both continued to struggle throughout their rematch, trading dismal drives all evening. That is until Brady engineered a last-minute comeback to steal a 16-13 victory and snap the Bucs’ three-game losing streak, dropping the reigning champions two games below .500.
The win was not pretty, to be sure, with Mike Evans and Scotty Miller each struggling to hang on to the ball as Brady fought to elevate Tampa Bay’s slumping offense at home. But the “W” suddenly, inexplicably, pushes Brady and Co. back to first place in the NFC South. The Rams, meanwhile, have even more questions to answer after Sean McVay’s squad consistently failed to seal a one-score lead that came almost exclusively on the back of Cooper Kupp.
Stay tuned for takeaways from Sunday’s sloppy Buccaneers-Rams showdown.