Pitts suffered a hamstring injury and was held out of practice all week. Patterson was placed on injured reserve after having knee surgery last week. We’re going to get the guys ready that can play.” “That’s the reality, everybody deals with it,” Smith said. Patterson had accounted for three of the 10 touchdowns entering the game, so they were without 30% of the touchdown output. Running back Cordarrelle Patterson (340 yards rushing, 28 yards receiving) and tight end Kyle Pitts (150 yards receiving) had combined for 518 total yards of the Falcons’ 1,451 yards entering the game. The Falcons entered the game with 35.6% of their offense unavailable. The Falcons could never get much going through three quarters as Brady and the Bucs took their time dissecting the Falcons’ defense. It was the Falcons’ fifth one-score game, as the defending NFC South champion Bucs took over sole possession of first place in the division with the victory. “That is what I (made) my decision based upon.” “What I had was the defender grabbed the quarterback while he was still in the pocket and unnecessarily (threw) him to the ground,” Boger said.
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Referee Jerome Boger was questioned about the play from the Pro Football Writers of America in a pool report. “From my vantage point, it was a bad call,” Falcons cornerback Casey Hayward said. Some of the Falcons, including owner Arthur Blank, were irate about the calls. “There was a lot of things we could have done,” Smith said. “I don’t throw the flags,” Brady said when asked about the roughing-the-passer call.įalcons coach Arthur Smith, who didn’t want to get fined by the league office, didn’t directly address a question about those two penalties. The Bucs picked up an additional first down and ran out the clock. He was called for roughing the passer with 3:03 to play. On third-and-5 from Atlanta’s 47, Jarrett broke through for an apparent sack of Brady for a loss of 10 yards. “They just called it in a clutch situation when we were trying to get off the field.”
“It’s something that I can’t control what they call,” Terrell said. On third-and-4 from Tampa Bay’s 43 with 3:18 to play, Brady tossed an incomplete pass but got a first down when Terrell was called for defensive holding of wide receiver Mike Evans. Terrell and defensive tackle Grady Jarrett.
The Falcons forced two third downs, but the Bucs were bailed out by questionable calls on cornerback A.J. The Falcons battled back from a 21-point deficit to make it a one-score game late in the fourth quarter with a surprise two-point conversion. The Falcons dropped to 2-3, while the Bucs improved to 3-2.
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