{"id":180034,"date":"2025-12-07T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180034\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:32:06","slug":"smyth-tastes-victory-in-second-new-orleans-saints-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180034\/","title":{"rendered":"Smyth tastes victory in second New Orleans Saints start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Smyth tasted victory in his second start on the bounce for New Orleans Saints as they defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24-20 in the NFC South on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints were eliminated from play-off contention last weekend, going down 21-17 at the Miami Dolphins. However Smyth had a day to remember, with a successful onside kick and 56-yard field goal delighting those watching back in his native Mayobridge, Co Down.<\/p>\n<p>Against Buccaneers, Smyth produced another good performance to strengthen his hopes of becoming the long-term kicker for the Louisiana outfit.<\/p>\n<p>He missed a 48-yard field goal in the second quarter, but made a 30-yard field goal that tied the score at 17 each at the end of the third quarter. He also nailed all of his three extra point attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie quarterback Tyler Shough had two of New Orleans&#8217; three rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Shough passed for just 144 yards, but he rushed for 55 and fellow rookie Devin Neal contributed the third touchdown and 70 rushing yards on a rain-soaked field.<\/p>\n<p>Baker Mayfield passed for 122 yards with a touchdown and an interception for the Buccaneers (7-6), who dropped into a tie with idle Carolina for first place in the NFC South.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Charlie Smyth again through the driving rain in Tampa! \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dAbAGH90PR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dAbAGH90PR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL UK &amp; Ireland (@NFLUKIRE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLUKIRE\/status\/1997761677182562801\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth tasted victory in his second start on the bounce for New Orleans Saints as they defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-180034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}