Shaq Barrett dedicated the first score of his 10 seasons in the NFL to his 2-year-old daughter, Arrayah, who tragically drowned in April.
"It was divine intervention to be able to just get that spotlight for my baby girl," Barrett said after the game, a heart-shaped pendant with her picture in it hanging from his neck.
The Bucs are 2-0 for the third year in a row — a franchise first — but this feels different. Instead of Tom Brady and all the high standards that came with him, this is a Bucs team that entered the season with very low outside expectations, seen as potentially one of the league's worst teams. Yet here they are with wins over the"It was a great play for Shaq," coach Todd Bowles said.
It was one day short of a year since the Bucs' last defensive touchdown, and this was the first score in Barrett's 10 seasons in the NFL, though the last few seconds felt like the longest. "I couldn't be denied," Barrett said of finally finding the end zone."It was three yards. I've got to find a way to get in there. My teammates came to rally behind me and help me get into the end zone. It was just a great way to end the game. The offense did it for us last time, and it was our time to return the favor."
The Bucs offense has made these two wins possible, first and foremost, by not turning the ball over. The last time a Tampa Bay team went its first two games without a turnover was 1994 — 29 years ago, nearly Barrett's lifetime — and no team in the NFL pulled that off last season, and only the
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