Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady got his win number 35 in the playoffs this Sunday, an NFL record , by leading his team to eliminate the Philadelphia Eagles with a score of 31-15.
The champions of Super Bowl LV qualified for the divisional round of the National Conference.
Brady of 44 years old, winner of seven Super Bowl rings, reached 85 touchdown passes in the playoffs, mark of the league, he got two of them in this game where he passed for 271 yards and was sacked four times.
For Philadelphia rookie Jalen Hurts of 23 years he added 258 yards through the air, had a touchdown and suffered two interceptions.
Since the first quarter the Buccaneers, second best NFL offense, dragged down the Eagles’ defense with a series of plays no meeting of 75 yards that culminated in a rush into the end zone by Giovani Bernard to take a 7-0 lead.
A series later the team of coach Bruce Arians repeated the dose to Philadelphia, now with 70 yards traveled in 10 plays that ended with a run to the end zone by Ke’Shawn Vaughn that raised the difference 12-0.
The Buccaneers opened the second quarter with a field goal to get 17-0. Hurts tried to put up points for his team with less than a minute to go in the second quarter, but was prevented by an interception by Mike Edwards in the end zone.
In the third quarter, on a punt return, Jalen Reagor fumbled the ball that returned the Tampa Bay offense to the field.
The wearer of jersey number 12 of the local squad took advantage of the error with a touchdown pass, 24-0, for tight end Rob Gronkowski, who had 15 postseason scoring.
The away team’s attack continued to fail midway through the third period; Hurts had his second interception of the game, this time at the hands of Shaquil Barrett.
Brady turned the foul into another pass into the end zone, 24-0, who connected with Mike Evans, the first player in the league to add more than 1 in each of his eight seasons.000 receiving yards.
In the last quarter the Eagles broke the shutout with a rushing score by Boston Scott that put them 24-7, success that they replicated in the following offensive series with a pass to the diagonals that Kenneth Gainwell caught that left the score 31-17.