
Numbers of the week: the Bucs win without a completion, and four more wild weekend stats
Tampa Bay beat Atlanta 16-0 with zero completed passes, and Joe Burrow matched a line nobody had posted since 1951. Here are the five numbers from the weekend that are hardest to believe.
By Beat Chuck Sports Desk / 5 sources / Published November 2, 2026
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers won an NFL game Sunday without completing a pass. It was the strangest number of the weekend, and it had company.
1. Zero completions, and a 16-0 win. Baker Mayfield went 0 for 3 on Sunday in a driving rain, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers still shut out the Falcons. Tampa Bay ran for 324 yards, a team record, with Bucky Irving at 170 and Kenny Gainwell at 140. The Associated Press reported the Bucs were the first team without a completion since Buffalo on Sept. 29, 1974, and that the Bills' 16-12 win over the Jets that day had been the only other time it happened in the Super Bowl era. Researcher Connor Groel posted the same 1974 mark and added that the Bucs were the first team since the 1945 Steelers to win by 10 or more without completing a pass.
2. Joe Burrow joins Norm Van Brocklin. Burrow threw for 462 yards and five touchdowns, then ran 9 yards for the winning score in overtime as Cincinnati beat Tennessee 43-36. Only one other quarterback has thrown for 450 yards and five touchdowns and run for a score in the same game: Van Brocklin, in his record 554-yard game for the Los Angeles Rams on Sept. 28, 1951, according to the AP and the NFL Researcher account. Burrow did it while throwing three interceptions, all to Titans safety Amari Hooker.
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3. 202-0-1, until Sunday. The Dallas Cowboys had played 203 home games with a fourth-quarter lead of at least 14 points and never lost one, ESPN reported, citing team history including playoffs. They led Arizona 24-10 with 14:20 left and lost 33-30 in overtime. NFL teams were 44-0-1 this season when leading by 14 or more in the fourth quarter before that game, per ESPN, and ProFootballTalk noted the Cowboys had never blown a 14-point fourth-quarter lead at home before.
4. 23 straight in Pittsburgh. The Steelers sacked Deshaun Watson eight times and beat the Browns 27-6. It was Cleveland's 23rd straight regular-season loss at Pittsburgh's home stadium, according to the AP and Browns beat writer Scott Petrak. The AP said that ties the NFL record for consecutive home wins over one opponent, set by Green Bay against Detroit from 1992 to 2014.
5. A rookie scoring line the Warriors last saw from Steph Curry. With Curry and Draymond Green resting, Yaxel Lendeborg scored 37 points on 13 of 19 shooting as Golden State beat the Clippers 124-112. ESPN's Anthony Slater and the AP both reported it was the most by a Warriors rookie since Curry scored 42 on April 14, 2010, at Portland. The AP added that Lendeborg is the third Warrior with two 30-point games in his first seven, after Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry.
What's next: The Bucs will have to throw at some point, the Cowboys are 3-5 and short on answers, and Lendeborg gets Phoenix on Monday night with Curry back beside him.
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