Jameis Winston keeps piling up TDs, INTs for Bucs

It’s been an all or thing kind of year so far for Jameis Winston.

Tampa Bay’s quarterback has thrown 20 interceptions and 22 touchdowns so far this season, joining Cleveland’s Brian Sipe in 1979 as only quarterbacks to reach 20-20 club in first 11 games.

Winston’s 24 turvers overall are most in league after 11 games since Drew Bledsoe h that many in 1994 for New England.

Along with all those mistakes has come plenty of big plays as Winston is also second in league with 3,391 yards passing. recipients of many of those good plays have been receivers Chris Godwin and Mike Evans.

y each have three games with at least 150 yards receiving this season after Godwin did it on Sunday against Atlanta, becoming first set of teammates to do that in a single season in NFL history.

Godwin (1,071 yards) and Evans (1,043 yards) are also fourth pair of teammates to each top 1,000-yard mark through 11 games, joining Denver’s Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas in 2004, St. Louis’ Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce in 2000, and Jets’ Don Maynard and George Sauer in 1968.

DOMINANT TRIO

New England, Baltimore and San Francisco are off to impressive starts this season, with all three outscoring opposition by more than 15 points a game. re has never been a year since merger when even two teams h done that through 11 games before this year. 11 teams that h done it h plenty of postseason success, with eight winning Super Bowl, two losing it and 2005 Colts falling in division round to Pittsburgh.

SMOOTH DRIVE

Ravens scored touchdowns on ir first six drives on Monday night against Rams, becoming fourth team to do that since 2000. ors were New Orleans against Detroit (Dec. 21, 2008), Minnesota against Detroit (Dec. 2, 2007) and New England against Buffalo (v. 18, 2007). Patriots actually did it on ir first seven drives that game.

DOUBLE DIGITS

Patriots are assured of ir 17th straight 10-win season, breaking a tie with San Francisco (1983-98) for most consecutive 10-win seasons in NFL history.

IMPRESSIVE STREAKS

Saints receiver Michael Thomas h 10 catches for 101 yards and a TD last week, becoming fourth player to record at least eight catches and 100 yards receiving in five straight games in a single season.

Thomas has 104 catches for 1,242 yards on season, joining Antonio Brown (6), Marvin Harrison (4), Jerry Rice (3) and Herman Moore (3) as only players to reach 100 catches and 1,200 yards in three straight seasons.

GOING BACKWARDS

Packers punt return game is going where. Green Bay has lost 11 yards on season while returning punts, on pace for worst mark in NFL history. lowest mark on record for a season is 27 yards for Cardinals in 1965.

SURPRISE STAR

Ryan Tannehill didn’t even have a starting job to start season but he has moved Tennessee into playoff contention. Tannehill went 14 for 18 for 259 yards and two TDs last week against Jacksonville for a 155.8 rating. It is fourth time in past five years that Tannehill has posted a rating of at least 150 in a game, tying Kirk Cousins for most in NFL in that span.

BLOWING LES

Lions (3-7-1) became third team in NFL history to hold a le at some point in each of first 11 games of season and win three or fewer, joining 1987 Giants and 2004 Chiefs. Detroit hasn’t blown most les, however. winless Bengals have led in eight of 11 games, tying for most blown les through 11 games since merger.

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