10 quick thoughts from Week 10 as Washington upsets Tampa Bay

DeAndre Carter is here to stay: We’ve been calling for DeAndre Carter to get more snaps at receiver, and those wishes have been granted in recent weeks.

After notching three catches for 51 yards and a TD against the Broncos, Carter found the end zone on Sunday for the fourth time this season. Not bad for a player who had zero career touchdowns entering the year.

Carter is far from a polished receiver, but he seems to always come up with a big play when the offense needs it most. We know the value the 28-year-old provides in the return game, but the fact he’s made THIS many strides as a pass-catcher tells us that Washington must re-sign him in the offseason.

Boneheaded penalty to end first half: This is a quick one, but it deserves a write up. On what should’ve been the final play of the first half, William Jackson brought Mike Evans down by the face mask and gifted Tampa Bay the opportunity to run another play, a 30-yard field goal that was converted.

That’s about as inexcusable as it gets. Jackson came up with a big interception in the first half, but he undid all that good work with this penalty, which luckily didn’t come back to haunt Washington later on.

Can somebody stop Devin White?: This has been a Washington-dominated article thus far, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge Devin White’s performance. The Bucs’ budding young linebacker sniffed out a number of plays in the backfield and seemingly made every open field tackle he stumbled upon.

We generally don’t like waxing poetic about an opposing team’s player, but we had to make an exception for White, who finished the game with 18 tackles (13 solo), three tackles for loss and two sacks.

Take a bow, young fella.