3 stats that defined Washington’s thrilling upset over Tampa Bay

1. 19-play, 10:26 drive to ice game

Be honest. After Milne’s fumble helped the Bucs climb back into the game, you thought Washington was going to blow it. If you didn’t think it at the time, the thought definitely crept into the back of your mind.

How could it not? Washington has established a knack for finding ways to lose, and Milne gave the greatest quarterback of all time a window of opportunity to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Lo and behold, the Bucs never got the ball back after Evans’ 40-yard score with 10:55 remaining in the fourth quarter, as Taylor Heinicke engineered a 19-play drive that took 10 minutes and 26 seconds off the clock to put the game on ice.

We obviously don’t think of Washington as an elite team, but that’s the kind of drive the league’s best squads put together to put games away. Amazingly enough, it was the longest drive of the 2021 season based on both drive time and play total.

That’s what we’re talking about!

The drive was capped by an Antonio Gibson TD run on fourth down to really put the nail in the Buccaneers’ coffin.

If this was earlier in the season, this drive probably stalls out after one or two first downs. However, there was clearly magic in the air in Landover on Sunday and Heinicke’s wand of a right arm could do no wrong.

Some say the drive is still going.