Buccaneers rout Bears, NFL Scores

By ESPN

Jameis Winston kept retreating toward his own goal line, seemingly in disregard for the best interests of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The second-year quarterback often is at his best when he's improvising, though, and the first overall pick from the 2015 draft kept scrambling into the end zone and back out before heaving a 38-yard completion to Mike Evans.

The play started at his own 23 and ended at the Chicago 38, where Evans made a leaping catch. On the next play, Winston threw his second TD pass in a 36-10 rout of the Bears on Sunday.

"That's Jameis making plays," Bucs coach Dirk Koetter said, though that hardly crossed the coach's mind while Winston was heading the wrong way with the Bucs clinging to a seven-point lead early in the third quarter.

"Throw it away. Throw it away. Do anything. Don't take a safety," Koetter recalled himself thinking.

"But, the thing about Jameis, Jameis is going to do some things that we don't plan for and he's going to do some things that sometimes I don't like," the coach added. "But Jameis is going to make some plays. That's who he is. ... You can't coach that out of him. He's a special player in that respect."

Winston finished 23 of 33 for 312 yards with one interception, helping the Bucs (4-5) win at home for the first time this season. The Bears (2-7) are winless in five road games.

"That was a great play by him. ... He retreated. I tried to get him again and he stepped up in the pocket and let it rip," Bears linebacker Leonard Floyd said. "Great play by him."

Winston threw for TDs of 10 yards to Cameron Brate and 43 yards to Freddie Martino, a former practice squad player with two career receptions.

Two weeks after returning from injury and helping the Bears (2-7) beat NFC North leader Minnesota, Jay Cutler threw two interceptions and fumbled twice, one resulting in a third-quarter safety that put the Bucs up 29-10.

Sunday, November 13 Scoreboard

Tennessee 47, Green Bay 20

Tampa Bay 36, Chicago 10

Washington 26, Minnesota 20

Kansas city 20, Carolina 17

Philadelphia 24, Atlanta 15

Los Angeles 9, New York Jets 6

Denver 25, New Orleans 23

Houston 24, Jacksonville 21

Miami 31,  San Diego 24

Dallas 35, PIttsburgh 30

Arizona 23, San Francisco 20

Seattle 31, New England 24

Monday, November 14 Schedule (Time Central)

Cincinnati at New York  Giants, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 17 Schedule (Time Central)

New Orleans at Carolina, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday, November 20 Schedule (All Times Central)

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, noon

Baltimore at Dallas, noon

Jacksonville at Detroit, noon

Tennessee at Indianapolis, noon

Buffalo at Cincinnati, noon

Tampa Bay at Kansas City, noon

Chicago at New York Giants, noon

Arizona at Minnesota, noon

Miami at Los Angeles, 3:05 p.m.

New England at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Washington, 7:30 p.m.