Falcons Edge Out Bucs in High-Scoring Overtime Thriller

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00:00First of all, anyone who took the under on that game, that went way over going 30-30

00:08into overtime and I'm trying to keep my cool here, Tom, because what a tough ending for

00:13the Tampa Bay Bucs.

00:14You've got Kirk Cousins dancing on the sidelines.

00:16It's driving me mental, but a big game and a big finish for the Atlanta Falcons closing

00:22out this one, 36-30.

00:23But my gosh, I mean, this was probably a lot off script from what we thought we were going

00:29to see a lot of different things in that second half.

00:31Let's start with what we saw in the second half before we touch back to the full recap.

00:35Yeah, the second half is kind of what I was expecting for the whole game, 3-3, 3-10 when

00:43it comes to scoring.

00:44So a bunch of field goals, one score here, one score there.

00:47That's what I was anticipating for the entire game, divisional game.

00:51As I'm going to keep saying, a short week, divisional game, important, move the ball

00:55on the ground.

00:56And that's not what we saw.

00:57We expected a lot of it was in the first half.

00:59Some inefficiencies when it comes to field goal kicking, missed field goals.

01:03But they were moving the ball up and down, Kirk Cousins, 5-0-9 and four through the air.

01:09They moved the ball left and right.

01:11You know, as I kind of mentioned on the pregame as well, I said Baker was going to be efficient.

01:15He could probably be around 200 yards and have multiple touchdowns, 180-3, like Baker

01:21was good tonight.

01:22Like, that's a fact.

01:23This game is not on Baker.

01:24And listen, he got the knee thing.

01:27He got kind of twisted down.

01:28He came back.

01:29He was moving.

01:30This game is not on Baker or the offense.

01:31It's about the Bucs defense because your quarterback goes out there and gives you three touchdowns.

01:35You have an offense that rushes for 160 yards on the ground.

01:39They should be winning that game.

01:40So it was very exciting.

01:42If you have overs on Kirk Cousins, they flew past that.

01:46Overs on Drake London, like, we got a lot to talk about.

01:49Oh, absolutely.

01:50But you did say it.

01:51You talked about Baker Mayfield's ability to be efficient.

01:54He had the ability to do so, 79%.

01:56And then he ranked about 6% higher than Kirk Cousins, regardless of that insane 509 passing

02:02yards.

02:03It's just ridiculous.

02:04But good football all around.

02:05You did mention the most important thing here is the fact that Bucs defense kind of let

02:09down their offense.

02:10Not kind of.

02:11Tremendously did.

02:12I mean, they allowed 28 first downs to take place there, which is obviously going to put

02:17your opponent in a better position to score.

02:19And that's what we saw there.

02:20We saw their ability to get down the field no matter what.

02:22I mean, I thought it was a wrap when Levante David got that interception.

02:25I was in here hollering.

02:27I was trying not to disrupt the guys in in-game live.

02:30And then just imagine me trying to keep my cool over here in the corner as the game just

02:33slips away from the Bucs because defense was just unable to lock down the Atlanta Falcons

02:37offense.

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