Brady: Season goals still within reach for struggling Bucs 20 hours ago TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Tom Brady only knows one way the Tampa Bay Buccaneers can pull out of a season-long funk on offense and realize their potential. Alex Stalock Kids Jersey Hope is not a strategy, so youve got to go out there and youve got to earn it, the seven-time Super Bowl champion said. Youve got to do it.Brady entered Week 13 ranked fourth in the NFL in pa sing, behind Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow, with 3,051 yards.Still, the 45-year-old quarterback and a group of talented offensive playmakers around him have not performed anywhere near the consistency of the past two seasons when the Bucs were one of the NFLs highest-scoring teams.Tampa Bay (5-6) heads into Monday nights game against the New Orleans Saints (4-8), a NFC South rival thats given Brady fits since he moved from New England to Tampa Bay in 2020. The Bucs are averaging just 18.2 points per game down from more than 30 the last two years.Only five teams are scoring fewer points per game than the Bucs, who despite having a losing record remain in a good position to repeat as division champions. They could host a home game in the playoffs, where no player has been as succe sful as Brady.Weve got six games and everything will be determined by what we do going forward, and I think thats important for all of us to realize, the leagues career-pa sing leader said.Everyone, every team faces different adversities and weve faced quite a few in different ways. ... Weve had some really great wins, weve had some really tough lo ses, Brady added. No one likes the fact that were 5-6, believe me. Were not celebrating any of that. We have not played the way were capable of playing. I think the thing we can do about it is this week we Matt Cullen Jersey can try to go out and play the way were capable of playing.The last-place Saints trail the Bucs by only 1 games in a tight division race in which no team has a winning record.New Orleans has won four of five regular-season meetings between the teams since Brady joined the Bucs, although Tampa Bay did win a playoff matchup on the way to capturing the quarterbacks seventh Super Bowl title.Were going against a team thats a very good team, and theyre not going to let us off the hook, Brady said. Theyre not going to give us touchdowns and give us easy runs and give us easy throws. Theyre going to challenge us. Thats what they always do.New Orleans expects to catch Brady and the Bucs at their best, too.Some of Tampa Bays problems on offense are linked to having the NFLs 32nd-ranked rushing attack.But Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan, who has 17 sacks and 18 tackles for lo s in 23 career games against the Bucs, emphasized New Orleans understands previous succe s against Brady means nothing.You have a guy who knows how to win. You have a guy who wakes up in the morning and he just Victor Rask Jersey believes hes going to win, right? So thats our biggest opponent, Jordan said.Whether theyre running the ball well, not running the ball well, at the end of the day, the New Orleans star noted the Bucs still have a big, strong running back in Leonard Fournette and a formidable collections of receivers led by Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Julio Jones.Brady pointed to turnovers as the difference in the series.The Bucs intercepted Jameis Winston three times and had five takeaways overall in a 20-10 victory at New Orleans in Week 2, a game that was tied 3-3 entering the fourth quarter.The Saints have won four straight in Tampa, including 38-3 in 2020 and 9-0 last year.Were going to have to take care of the ball, were going to have to make the plays when theyre there, Brady said. Were not winning scoring zero points. Were certainly not winning, probably, scoring three points. So were going to have to do a good job and hit Nino Niederreiter Men Jersey the ones that are there.Jordan stre sed if the Saints are going to improve their plight, they need to do whatever nece sary to win Monday night.I have no idea in terms of analytics ... but to us, every game is of the utmost importance. Its dire to win this game, Jordan said.It doesnt matter the opponent. Right now, we have to win or were going to be sitting the same place we were at the end of last year outside of the playoffs. And thats not where we want to be, Jordan added, We have a chance. We have to be able to capitalize upon that.___More AP NFL: hub/nfl and AP_NFL in this topic Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Football League Chris Godwin Leonard Fournette Mike Evans Cameron Jordan Tom Brady Jameis Winston Tampa Bay Buccaneers New Orleans Saints Spain or Morocco? 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