History.
You don’t often see teams with back-to-back game-winning drives in the final two minutes of games. That’s why Joe is typing this here story.
The Bucs took the lead against the Dixie Chicks with 1:18 left when Emeka Egbuka and Baker Mayfield hooked up on a 25-yard touchdown pass. The Bucs then hung on to win 23-20 to open the season in Atlanta.
Then last night the Bucs scored a touchdown on a two-yard plunge by Rachaad White with 0:06 left to escape Houston with a 20-19 win.
So why is this important? Well, the Bucs, by winning Monday night, became the very first team this century to win back-to-back games on the road on the backs of two very late touchdowns.
Per the Bucs media relations department by way of something called @StatsPerform, the last team to do that was the 1999 Jimmy Johnson/Dan Marino-led Miami Dolphins.
And if you must ask, the Dolphins were a wild card team that season. It turned out to be the final season for both Johnson and Marino and their Hall of Fame careers.
Joe doesn’t think Todd Bowles and Mayfield are going anywhere after this season.