Bucs-Falcons TNF Insanity and Week 15 Power Rankings!

NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Baker Ball season is officially in jeopardy. After an incredibly preposterous final quarter of play, the Atlanta Falcons triumphed over the Buccaneers in the Week 15 edition of Thursday Night Football. Kyle Pitts Sr. scored three touchdowns, Bijan Robinson dominated on the ground and Kirk Cousins actually looked like a serviceable quarterback. Despite that, the Bucs had every opportunity to put the game away but ultimately fell to 7-7 on the season. Tampa Bay is now a half-game back from the Carolina Panthers — a team it will play twice in the final three weeks of the season. Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook handle the recap of this wild one, before collaborating on a Week 15 Power Ranking of every NFL team.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	McConnell to snap.
0:05.6	It's on the near hash.
0:08.8	Snap spot.
0:10.3	Kick by Gonzalez.
0:12.6	It is good.
0:15.0	Fly home safely.
0:16.8	Atlanta wins.
0:18.0	This is the end of the game.
0:20.4	29, 28. 2928.
0:23.9	The Falcons beat the Buccaneers on a 43-yard field goal by Zane Gonzalez.
0:33.6	Never doubt Kurt Cousins on Thursday night football against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
0:40.9	One of the most reliable phenomenons in sports.
0:45.0	Falcons come back from 28 to 14 down in the fourth quarter to stun the Bucks 29 to 28.
0:54.1	That was West Durham on WZGC. And the NFC South might not be
1:01.0	great, shook, but they have a way of coming up with the most ridiculously dumb, entertaining
1:07.7	games every season. And this was one of them. This was certainly one of them, especially after it was 28 to 14. I thought the Falcons were dead and buried. They had 19 total penalties in this game. I thought, well, you know what? It's a good thing they're wearing red hats because it's like wearing red helmets because it's like wearing red hats like their Santa Claus because they were just gifting the game to the Buccaneers. Terribly timed miscues. It just seemed like they couldn't get out of their own way. But Kirk Cousins wasn't going to let him go down that easily. He's going to make throws under pressure. He's going to take shots from rushers. He's going to find Kyle Pitts a billion times for the Kyle Pitts game and they're somehow going to pull off a victory on the road.
1:44.7	And I can confirm that Connie Wolf is somewhere on a couch feeling no pain and enjoying her Kyle
1:54.7	Pitts breakout game. She's been honking about him all season and here's what he did, Shook.
2:00.8	11 catches, 166 yards, and three touchdowns.
2:05.3	The first tight end to put those numbers together, 150 and 3, since Shannon Sharp in the 90s.
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