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Tom Brady has change into well-accustomed at making historical past over his lengthy and illustrious NFL profession. And on Sunday, the 45-year-old set extra historic marks from all the way in which throughout the globe.
Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-16 on the Allianz Area in Germany, the NFL’s first common season recreation within the nation.
With the victory, Brady turned the primary quarterback to win an NFL recreation in three totally different international locations exterior of the US.
As a New England Patriot, Brady received all three of the worldwide video games he performed in, with two in London and one in Mexico Metropolis.
And now, he can add Germany to the record because the NFL’s most embellished participant provides one other accolade to his ever-expanding assortment.
After the victory, Brady described the ambiance within the Allianz Area – the house of German soccer giants, Bayern Munich – as “fairly electrical.”
“It was an ideal ambiance,” he advised the NFL Community. “It felt like a fairly overvalued recreation once we got here out for warm-ups.
“It was fairly electrical so I hope the German followers obtained what they needed. Nice win by our staff, we wanted it. Performed towards an ideal opponent, our protection performed nice and I’m glad we discovered a strategy to slug it out and win.”
Regardless of a tricky season previous to Sunday, Brady seemed far more like himself, throwing a 31-yard landing go to Julio Jones and with Leonard Fournette working for one more because the Buccaneers raced right into a 14-0 second lead.
With the Bucs up 14-3 within the third quarter, the staff tried to tug out all of the stops as Fournette tried to throw to Brady although Brady slipped and Fournette was intercepted by Tariq Woolen.
And when Chris Godwin caught a four-yard landing go from Brady early within the fourth quarter, the end result seemed wrapped up with the rating at 21-3.
Nonetheless, a late comeback from the Seahawks meant the German followers went house with their fair proportion of pleasure.
Tyler Lockett’s landing with simply over eight minutes narrowed the hole and Brady’s premature interception to Cody Barton was capitalized on by Seattle as Marquise Goodwin caught a landing go from Seattle quarterback Geno Smith to scale back the deficit to simply 5 with below 4 minutes to play.
Smith completed the afternoon with 275 passing yards and two landing passes.
However, simply once they wanted it, Tampa Bay produced a time-killing drive to kill the sport off behind the working means of Rachaad White – who ran for a career-high 105 yards – and safe the staff’s fifth victory of the season and second in a row.
The Bucs now head into their bye week atop the NFC South and searching far more just like the staff that was predicted to vie for a Tremendous Bowl ring.
For the Seahawks, after a promising begin to the season, they fall to 6-4, however head again to the West coast of the US with their heads held excessive after displaying resolve late on.
