“I Messed Up”: Tom Brady’s Teammate Confesses “Miscommunication” That Cost Bucs Another Game

The Buccaneers conceded another important game. They suffered a terrible loss against the Cincinnati Bengals. The mind-beguiling thing is that Bucs were up by 17 up until the near end of the first half, and they still lost. While in the post-game press conference, Tom Brady admitted his mistakes, there was also a certain incident that happened on the field which sparked the barrage of turnovers that led to the Bucs losing.

Bucs’ veteran running back, Giovani Bernard, took responsibility for the mess up on the fake punt play that sparked the Bengals comeback and the Bucs’ collapse in the second half.

Bernard’s game-costing fault

Giovani Bernard is a veteran running back at the Bucs. Even though he hardly plays, he was assigned punt protector in the 3rd quarter. At fourth down, Tampa Bay called for a fake punt play, and Bernard was supposed to protect Jake Camarda. However, when the play progressed, Bernard failed to catch the snap and fumbled the football.

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He had to recover the fumble and this gave the Bengals time to capitalize on it. Later on, the running back admited to his mistake in a media interview. “Miscommunication on my part. I take complete fault for that. It’s on me. All me. That’s something I did wrong. It was all on me. No. 25. That was me out there. I did it. I messed up,” said Bernard while speaking to the press. The running back was not the only one who had an open admission of guilt. The leader of the team, Tom Brady, also spoke to the media and admitted the mistakes he committed. Notably, Brady had 2 interceptions in the game.

Admission of mistakes by Tom Brady

Like Bernard, the quarterback also openly admitted to making mistakes on the field today. He spoke to the media about his botch-ups on the field and his contributions to the turnovers. He had gotten intercepted twice and had also fumbled the ball a couple of times. The Bucs’ star quarterback also spoke about the missed opportunity of the fake punting play and admitted that he thought the botched play was the spark that ignited the fire of the Bucs’ loss.

Two prominent veterans of the team openly admitting their mistakes is a nice sign of humility from the senior players. However, they would be better off making plays happen that can help them capitalise on the kind of lead they had against the Bengals. What remains to be seen is how the Bucs perform in their few final games and how well can the veterans help the team.

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