If you didn’t have a rooting interest in either the Seattle Seahawks or Tampa Bay Buccaneers , Sunday afternoon’s battle at Lumen Field was a thriller.

Buccaneers 38, Seahawks 35: Recap | Instant Reaction | Box score

Two teams with two stout defenses turned a potential low-scoring affair into a shootout between two quarterbacks who, coincidentally, once spent time on the same roster in Carolina.

In the end, it was Baker Mayfield who outdueled his former teammate Sam Darnold. Or was it Darnold who outdueled himself by throwing a late interception ? Or, wait, was the fight lost when Seattle’s defense couldn’t stop the Bucs from returning blow for blow?

Turns out a surprising game left some confusing takeaways. Here’s the good and bad of each.

Darnold’s stellar outing ended wi

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