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Things go from bad to worse for Tom Brady as his Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose AGAIN – this time to the lowly Carolina Panthers – to compound his misery amid reports his wife Gisele Bundchen has hired divorce lawyers
- Tampa Bay and Tom Brady fell to their second-straight loss to the Panthers 21-3
- The Bucs found it wildly difficult to produce any offensive efficiency throughout
- Wideout Mike Evans dropped a certain 64-yard TD on the third play of the game
- Despite the loss, the Buccaneers remain first in the NFC South with a 3-4 record
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Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell below .500 with a stunning 21-3 loss to the Carolina Panthers, who won just their second game of the season Sunday despite playing with a third-string quarterback and interim head coach.
The seven-time Super Bowl champ was 32-of-49 passing for 290 yards for the Bucs (3-4). One of those incompletions came when Mike Evans dropped a wide-open 64-yard touchdown pass on the third play of the game.
Brady hasn’t had a losing record this far into a season since the 2002 New England Patriots dropped four straight games to reach 3-4. Brady has never been under .500 after eight games.
Tom Brady struggled to energize the stifled Bucs offense against a fearsome Carolina defense
P.J. Walker threw for 177 yards and two touchdowns for Carolina (2-5) in place of injured Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold. The Panthers won for the first time under interim coach Steve Wilks, who replaced Matt Rhule when he was fired Oct. 10.
Tampa Bay´s defense allowed the Panthers to rush for 173 yards, three days after Carolina traded star running back Christian McCaffrey to the San Francisco 49ers.
D´Onta Foreman ran for 118 yards, Chuba Hubbard added 63 yards and a touchdown and the Panthers handed the Buccaneers their third loss in four games.
Defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos (R) pressures Brady (C) after a pass during the second half
Carolina came in as a 13 1/2-point underdog and having lost 12 of 13 games. It’s now one game behind the Bucs and Atlanta Falcons for first place in the NFC South.
The Panthers led 7-0 at halftime behind a 20-yard TD pass from Walker to D.J. Moore. The Buccaneers couldn’t get anything going in the first half after Evans juggled and then dropped the long pass from Brady when he was more than 10 yards behind the defender.
Tampa Bay never recovered on offense and were limited to 46 yards rushing.
Carolina pushed the lead 14-0 after Foreman’s 60-yard run set up a 17-yard touchdown burst by Hubbard. Walker put the game away with a 29-yard TD pass to tight end Tommy Tremble in the right corner of the end zone with 9:33 left in the game.
Sunday’s 21-3 loss to the Panthers could well be the lowest point in Brady’s Tampa Bay career
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