Buccaneers

Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield returned in Week 7 and felt the team proved a lot to themselves and showed what they are capable of with their win on Sunday.

“I think it’s a statement internally for us, not to anybody else, but for us,” Mayfield said, via NBC Sports. “This is what it’s supposed to look like. No, it’s not always going to look like that, it’s the NFL, but operation-wise and when it comes to complementary football, this is what the potential for this team can have so it’s a statement within ourselves.”

Falcons

Last week, Falcons LB Kendal Daniels was stretchered off the field and taken to the hospital. This week, Daniels returned to the field and recorded an interception and a fumble recovery as Atlanta totaled four turnovers, handing the 49ers their first loss.

“I’ve never not gotten up from an injury,” Daniels said, via AtlantaFalcons.com. “Being stretched off the field, I won’t let it happen again. It was a bad feeling. I’m blessed to be able to play this week.”

“He helped me out tremendously,” Daniels added on LB Divine Deablo. “Being able to have a vet like that on the back end being able to help me in communicating and make calls when I’m giving the whole defensive call, he can calm me down and just be like, ‘KD, let’s go.’”

Panthers

Panthers HC Dave Canales was pleased with how the defense performed and executed the game plan in Week 7.

“I liked our calls. We had good run calls to take care of some of that run game, and it just really came down to execution,” Canales said, via Panthers Wire. “It came down to guys fitting their gaps, setting their blocks, and then containing the running backs. They did a good job. Again, I can’t take that away from them — being patient with their runs and trying to find voids. But it is stuff we have to look at. It’s stuff that we have to attack, and something that we’ve made great strides in. But we can’t have setbacks like this.”

“I mean, it’s a shock. Literally I’ve never been a part of a half of football like that, and to experience it in all phases — a blocked kick, sack-fumble, interception, a dropped punt, and then the defensive side, really just not getting off the field in different ways,” Canales added. “It just felt so crazy and so egregiously different than the ball that we’re used to playing. Again, I’m going to look at the things and see what was technical about it, what the execution was, and look at all those things. But again, when something like that happens, it’s like ‘Okay,’ and then you settle in and play better football.”