Defensive football has seemingly always been a staple of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
It was true in the Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks days and as recently as Lavonte David, Devin White and Antoine Winfield Jr. — that tradition has been carried on.
If you need more proof of that statement, just check out Tampa's defense on this play. Forcing a team into a safety is a rarity in the NFL, no matter what Dan Orlovsky says about it.
You see it happen more in college because in the NFL, quarterbacks are usually aware enough to get rid of the football before something awful happens.
That wasn't the case for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, though, and the awful in this case (at least from Philly's perspective) was two points in favor of the Buccaneers.
BUCS GET THE SAFETY ‼️
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) January 16, 2024
(via @NFL)pic.twitter.com/hU4vAoyrAg
That's a tremendous job of pursuit from the Buccaneers, who ended up forcing the intentional grounding in the end zone (which led to the safety call), but it was a truly terrible play from Hurts.
Once thought of as an MVP quarterback, one would think he would have known to get rid of the ball much sooner.
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