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Tampa Bay NFL subordinate Giovani Bernard's testy speech with reporters aft a costly mistake has been endorsed by NBA prima Kevin Durant.
A second-half meltdown saw AFC North-leading Cincinnati tempest backmost for a 34-23 triumph implicit the Buccaneers.
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The illness started erstwhile a fake punt went awry and Bernard fumbled the ball.
After being up 17-10, Tampa saw that pb crook into a 17 constituent shortage earlier Tom Brady added a consolation people successful the last minutes.
As you tin imagine Bernard, 31, was successful nary temper to delve deeper into his mistake with reporters successful the locker country aft the loss.
Bernard started to marque his mode to the doorway erstwhile reporters started hounding him with questions.
He responded by saying that this was the archetypal clip reporters wanted to speech to him each season.
A journalist, successful effect to his complaint, said: "What person you done for america to speech to you astir each year?"
Bernard asked if helium could spell and spot his household extracurricular earlier giving successful and taking questions, albeit with quotes that would beryllium virtually unusable.
Asked if it was a fake punt, Bernard said: "I don't know. It was my fault. That's it."
Then arsenic helium was peppered with much questions, Bernard chopped them off.
"It's my fault. It's connected me," Bernard said.
"That's thing I did wrong. And that's all. It was each connected me. Yep, No.25 retired there, that was me. I was the 1 that did it. It was conscionable me. I messed up."
Durant spoke up successful defence of Bernard arsenic did different journalists, commentators and fans connected societal media, with the Nets prima saying: "Giovani handled this similar a existent pro."
"We tin past without spoiled, entitled clickbait media… determination are immoderate bully radical who simply emotion to screen the sport," helium wrote erstwhile asked wherever sports would beryllium without media coverage.
At 6-8, the Bucs are the lone squad successful their part with a accidental to decorativeness the regular play with a winning record. Carolina, Atlanta and New Orleans — each 5-9 — stay successful the hunt for the part rubric and a playoff berth.
After playing astatine Arizona adjacent Monday (AEDT), Tampa Bay closes retired the play with games against the Panthers, who bushed the Bucs earlier this year, and the Falcons.
“We person 3 games near to effort and prevention our season,” Tampa Bay manager Todd Bowles said.
Brady was 30 of 44 for 312 yards, 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions arsenic helium mislaid for the archetypal clip successful his 23-year vocation aft starring by astatine slightest 17 points. He entered 89-0 successful those games.
“We’ve got a immense crippled coming up, truthful I cognize we support saying it but it’s reality, we’ve got to spell marque it better,” Brady said.
Tampa Bay linebacker Lavonte David declined to speech successful the sullen Bucs locker room.
Teammate Devin White said the Bucs' ascendant archetypal fractional is thing to physique on.
“You seen what benignant of show we tin do,” the linebacker said.
“If we tin enactment unneurotic those for 4 quarters, man, we're 1 of the champion teams successful this thing. I genuinely judge that.”
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