{"id":18021,"date":"2012-11-12T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18021"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:42:08","slug":"bucs-beat-chargers-for-third-straight-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18021","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Beat Chargers For Third Straight Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccan-eers, winners of 4 of their last five games, made their claim to a playoff spot with a 34-24 victory over the visiting San Diego Chargers Sunday. Former Largo High School quarterback, and Buccaneer cornerback,<strong> Leonard Johnson (pictured)<\/strong>, showed out in front of his hometown fans when he intercepted a <strong>Phillip Rivers<\/strong> pass and returned it 83 yards for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Another new face, cornerback<strong> LeQuan Lewi<\/strong>s, recorded his first career interception with 3:09 left in the game and setting up Connor Barth for his game-sealing 45-yard field goal. Rivers finished the evening completing 29 of 37 passes for 337 yards, 3 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions. Buccaneer quarterback, Josh Freeman finished with 14 out of 20 completions for 210 yards, 2 touchdowns, and no interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Running back sensation, <strong>Doug Martin<\/strong>, didn\u2019t have a spectacular game, but still finished with 68 yards on 19 carries, and ripped off a 14 yard run during the contest. Buccaneer receivers Dallas Clark and Tiquan Underwood caught touchdown passes from Freeman, while Adam Hayward started things off for the defense in the second quarter when he blocked a punt, and returned it for a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>With the Buccaneer victory, the Bucs are now 5-4, and a game ahead of the third place New Orleans Saints in the NFC South. The division leading Atlanta Falcons suffered their first loss of the season, pulling the Bucs to within 3 games of the division lead. The Bucs will hit the road next week for a division game against the Carolina Panthers (2-7), who are coming off a loss to the Peyton Manning-led Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccan-eers, winners of 4 of their last five games, made their claim to a playoff spot with a 34-24 victory over the visiting San Diego Chargers Sunday. Former Largo High School quarterback, and Buccaneer cornerback, Leonard Johnson (pictured), showed out in front of his hometown fans when he intercepted a Phillip Rivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}