{"id":12112,"date":"2025-10-20T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/12112\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:22:07","slug":"tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-detroit-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/12112\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Detroit Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football in a matchup of NFC powerhouses that could have playoff seeding implications come January.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five things to watch out for in tonight&#8217;s contest:<\/p>\n<p>1. BATTLE OF THE QUARTERBACKS<\/p>\n<p>Since 2023, the top two players in passing yards and touchdown passes in the NFL are Detroit&#8217;s <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/jared-goff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared Goff<\/a> (10,594 passing yards and 81 touchdown passes) and Tampa Bay&#8217;s Baker Mayfield (10,083 and 81). Goff leads the NFL with 14 touchdowns passes on the season and ranks second with a 120.6 rating. Mayfield is tied for third in touchdown passes (12) and sixth in rating (108.5). Mayfield has four game-winning fourth quarter drives this season.<\/p>\n<p>Goff and Mayfield have followed similar career paths, both being former No. 1 overall picks who were let go by the teams that drafted them only to thrive in new situations in Detroit and Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football in a matchup of NFC powerhouses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7469,9928,10801,7467,7470,7466,135,11124,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-12112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-aidan-hutchinson","9":"tag-alim-mcneill","10":"tag-amon-ra-st-brown","11":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","12":"tag-jared-goff","13":"tag-news-twentyman","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-at-detroit-lions-2025-reg-7","16":"tag-tampa-headlines","17":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}