Chase McLaughlin kicked a 36-yard field goal as time expired and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a 29-27 thriller over the Jets last Sunday. The Bucs had to hold on after New York came from 17 points down in the fourth quarter, even taking the lead with less than two minutes left on a blocked field-goal attempt that was returned for a touchdown.<\/p>\n
It was a frantic final few minutes. The Buccaneers led 23-6 early in the fourth quarter and held a 26-13 lead before Jets quarterback Tyrod Taylor \u2014 filling in for Justin Fields, who was out because of a concussion last week \u2014 threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Allen Lazard with 3:40 seconds left. Tampa Bay then drove into Jets territory and, with two minutes left, McLaughlin lined up for a 43-yard field goal attempt, which would have given the Bucs a two-score advantage.<\/p>\n
Instead, New York\u2019s Will McDonald IV leaped over Tampa Bay\u2019s offensive line and blocked the kick. He scooped the ball up and ran untouched for a 50-yard touchdown. Suddenly, the Jets led 27-26 with 1:49 left, and their first win under coach Aaron Glenn seemed like a real possibility.<\/p>\n
It was not to be. The Buccaneers went 48 yards on seven plays to set up McLaughlin\u2019s game-winner, improving Tampa Bay to 3-0. Despite the furious comeback in the fourth quarter, the Jets fell to 0-3.<\/p>\n
GO FURTHER<\/p>\n
Buccaneers vs. Jets: 3 takeaways as Tampa Bay overcomes late blocked field goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase McLaughlin kicked a 36-yard field goal as time expired and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a 29-27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-178433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}