Former Buc Bryan Anger delivered a good punt of his own, pinning Tampa Bay at its own 6. Lavonte David got pressure on the third-down play, which led to a punt for the Cowboys. Prescott threw short on first down, CeeDee Lamb dropped a second-down pass and then Prescott missed again on third down after a false start. A 16-yard pass from Prescott to Dalton Schultz got the ball into Buccaneer territory before the drive finally stalled. Ezekiel Elliott then got in on the action with a couple of runs and another completed pass getting the Cowboys another first down. Prescott was unphased by the bad field position, finding Amari Cooper for 28 yards on first down to the 30.
He boomed it 65 yards to the Dallas 2-yard line, backing Dak Prescott and the Cowboy offense up to start. But on third down, Brady missed Chris Godwin over the middle to bring Bradley Pinion out for his first punt of the year and it was an absolute beauty. Leonard Fournette got back-to-back carries to start the drive, picking up five and three yards to set up an early 3rd & 2. That meant Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay offense would get the first shot of the 2021 NFL season.Īfter a touchback on the opening kickoff, the Buccaneer offense took the field to start its opening drive from the 25-yard line. Once the championship signage was unveiled and the National Anthem was sung, we got the new season underway with Dallas winning the coin toss and deferring. It was quite the scene at Raymond James Stadium leading up to kickoff, as it was one final chance to celebrate the Bucs’ Super Bowl LV triumph on the very same field seven months ago. Dallas took a late lead with 1:24 to go, but that was too much time for Brady and the offense, which drove down and set Ryan Succop for a game-winning 36-yard field goal with two seconds left. The Bucs weren’t at their best and the Cowboys certainly were, but it was the defending champions coming away with a 31-29 victory. The Bucs came in as nine-point favorites on their home field, with ESPN’s matchup predictor giving them a 70% chance to start the season with a victory. While a now-healthy Prescott was reuniting with Ezekiel Elliott, Amari Cooper, CeeDee Lamb and Michael Gallup on a talented offense, not many gave Dallas much of a chance in this one, due in large part to the fact that its defense is in something of a rebuilding phase. On the down side for Dallas, All-Pro guard Zack Martin had to sit this one out after being placed on the Reserve/COVID-19 list earlier this week.
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Prescott, the 2016 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year and two-time Pro Bowl selection, was playing his first game after recovering from a broken ankle as well as a shoulder injury.
The Cowboys came into Thursday night on a bit of a high themselves, as they took the field with Dak Prescott as their quarterback for the first time since October of last year.
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Not to mention, Bucs fans were back in full force at Ray Jay on Thursday night after capacity restrictions in 2020 cost them a chance to create much of a home-field advantage for their team. Tampa Bay came into the new season riding an eight-game winning streak and, after returning its entire starting lineup from Super Bowl LV, have been tabbed as favorites to go the distance and win its second consecutive Lombardi Trophy. At long last, the defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers returned to Raymond James Stadium on Thursday night to host the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL’s regular season opener.
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