Things only get worse for Tom Brady as his Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose AGAIN – this time to the modest Carolina Panthers – to add to his misery, while reports reveal his wife Gisele Bundchen has hired divorce attorneys
Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell below .500 with a stunning 21-3 loss to the Carolina Panthers, who won just their second game of the season on Sunday despite playing with a third-row quarterback and interim head coach.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion was 32 of 49 when he passed 290 yards for the Bucs (3-4). One of those incompletions came when Mike Evans dropped a wide-open 64-yard touchdown pass on the third play.
Brady has not suffered a loss this season since the New England Patriots lost four straight games 4-3 in 2002. Brady has never been below .500 after eight games.
Tom Brady struggled to energize the suppressed Bucs offense against a fearsome Carolina defense
PJ Walker threw for 177 yards and two touchdowns for Carolina (2-5) in place of injured Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold. The Panthers won for the first time under interim coach Steve Wilks, who replaced Matt Rhule when he was fired on October 10.
Tampa Bay’s defense allowed the Panthers to rush for 173 yards three days after Carolina traded star running back Christian McCaffrey to the San Francisco 49ers.
D’Onta Foreman rushed for 118 yards, Chuba Hubbard added 63 yards and a touchdown, and the Panthers gave the Buccaneers their third loss in four games.
Defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos (R) puts pressure on Brady (C) after a second-half pass
Carolina came in as an underdog with 13 1/2 points after losing 12 of 13 games. It’s now one game behind the Bucs and Atlanta Falcons for first place in the NFC South.
The Panthers led 7-0 at halftime behind a 20-yard TD pass from Walker to DJ Moore. The Buccaneers failed to get anything going in the first half after Evans juggled Brady’s long pass and then dropped it when he was more than 10 yards behind the defender.
Tampa Bay never recovered from offense and was limited to 46 yards rushing.
Carolina extended the lead to 14-0 after Foreman’s 60-yard run set up a 17-yard touchdown burst from Hubbard. Walker finished the game with a 29-yard TD pass to Tommy Tremble’s tight end in the right corner of the end zone with 9:33 in the game.
Sunday’s 21-3 loss to the Panthers could well be the low point of Brady’s Tampa Bay career
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