Patriots Defense Impressed Against Bucs in 28-23 Win

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00:00So then he throws that interception and you go, all right, here you go.

00:04Baker Mayfield, he's the comeback kid.

00:07This team does nothing but come back.

00:09This is why he's an MVP candidate.

00:11This is why he was the big favorite to win the MVP.

00:14You know, Baker Mayfield's got the ball in his hands.

00:16It seems at this point, oh, no, this was the mistake that's going to kill us.

00:21Now Tampa's got it.

00:23Now Tampa Bay is going to do some damage.

00:25He drove down the lane.

00:26The blitz is coming.

00:27Mayfield's being pressured.

00:28Mayfield's being sacked.

00:29Chase on.

00:30Put the first one there.

00:32The ball's shoveled free.

00:33He got it away.

00:35As he is being wrapped up, the Patriots make the tackle nonetheless on Rashad White at the 30-yard line.

00:41That takes some call, man.

00:42Aggressive play calling for the Patriots on offense and defense.

00:46Takes some balls right there.

00:48Fourth and three.

00:49Yeah, that's a fourth and three play that goes as a negative completion, but it was really a sack, basically.

00:56And that's the most impressive thing about this game to me from a Patriots perspective was what they did defensively against Tampa Bay.

01:07I mean, you know, May makes a terrible mistake.

01:09You know, you bend a little bit.

01:12They get it down to the, you know, you're 27 and you're able to stop them.

01:18Not many teams have been able to do that this season.

01:21It's also the aggressive play calling, as Bob was saying, on both sides of the ball.

01:25To have the confidence in this team to execute at a really tough time.

01:30You know, the fourth down play, you know, throwing to the back corner of the end zone on fourth down at the end of the half.

01:35And then the dial-up pressure like that with the game on the line and Tampa with the ball on your 30.

01:40I mean, I don't think they would have made those aggressive play calls earlier this season.

01:45This is kind of evolving right in front of us.

01:48The players are executing at important times and the coaches have the confidence to let them do that.