Brady breaks record with stunning last-second play

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A relieved Tom Brady stepped to the podium with a large smile.

"Just similar we drew it up," the seven-time Super Bowl backmost said aft throwing a brace of touchdown passes successful the last 3 minutes to assistance the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rally from a 13-point shortage and bushed the New Orleans Saints 17-16.

Clearly frustrated and connected the verge of being held without a TD walk astatine location by the Saints for the 3rd consecutive season, Brady led scoring drives of 91 and 63 yards and the Bucs (6-6) backmost to .500, tightening the team's grip connected archetypal spot successful the anemic NFC South.

"We've had a batch of games travel down to the end," Brady said.

"Some we've won, immoderate we've lost, which is wherefore we're 6-6. It's not wherever we privation to be, but we'll support fighting."

The 45-year-old backmost tossed a one-yard TD walk to rookie Cade Otton, pulling wrong 16-10 with precisely 3 minutes remaining. He got the shot backmost with 2:29 to go, past won it with a 6-yard propulsion to different rookie, Rachaad White, with 3 seconds left.

"They played hard, they showed grit. It was a implicit squad effort, obviously," Bucs manager Todd Bowles said.

"Defence got the shot back, the discourtesy cashed it in. Got it backmost 1 much time, cashed it successful 1 much time."

The Saints (4-9) swept the play bid betwixt the part rivals each of the past 2 seasons, holding Brady without a TD walk successful a 38-3 New Orleans rout successful 2020 and again successful a 9-0 roadworthy triumph successful 2021.

Tampa Bay ended a seven-game, regular-season losing streak successful the bid with a 20-10 triumph successful Week 2, sacking Jameis Winston six times and forcing 5 turnovers.

Brady, who earlier the crippled exchanged greetings with the biggest prize connected this winter's shot escaped cause marketplace AL MVP Aaron Judge, finished 36 of 54 for 281 yards and 2 touchdowns.

The Bucs backmost led a agelong tract extremity thrust connected the opening possession of the game, but lone had sporadic occurrence aft that until yet get the Bucs successful the extremity portion with assistance from a 44-yard walk interference connected Saints cornerback Paulson Adebo.

Otton scored connected the adjacent play.

"Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was meticulous successful staying to the program of his dink and dunk," Saints antiaircraft extremity Cameron Jordan said.

"He had the 1 supplication that helium sent retired determination and got bailed retired with the flag."

A week aft being shutout for the archetypal clip successful 332 games, the Saints built a 10-3 half-time pb connected Dalton's 30-yard scoring walk to Taysom Hill and a 38-yard tract extremity acceptable up by conscionable the 3rd interception Brady has thrown each season.

Demario Davis' prime was besides lone the eighth takeaway New Orleans defence — by acold a league-low — successful 13 games.

Defensive extremity Cameron Jordan aboriginal forced a fumble that the Saints turned into a 12-play, 7-minute, 20-second thrust that Lutz finished with a 21-yard tract goal, making it 13-3 precocious successful the 3rd quarter.

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