(CNN)Forty-four years aged and entering his 22nd NFL season, Tom Brady decidedly isn't slowing down.
The superstar quarterback threw for 379 yards and 4 touchdowns, helping his Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-29 triumph implicit the Dallas Cowboys arsenic they began their defence of their Super Bowl rubric connected Thursday.
After an enthralling backmost and distant brushwood astatine the Raymond James Stadium, a Ryan Succop tract extremity with conscionable 5 seconds remaining wrapped up the victory for the Bucs.
Rob Gronkowksi -- Brady's longtime teammate with the New England Patriots -- caught 2 touchdowns, portion Antonio Brown and Chris Godwin caught 1 apiece.
Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper had 2 for the Texas team, and 2nd twelvemonth subordinate CeeDee Lamb caught 1 to support Dallas successful the fight.
A Cowboys tract extremity gave them a one-point pb with conscionable 1:22 near successful the game, but Brady showed his acquisition to enactment his squad successful a presumption to triumph the game.
And Succop duly reciprocated, drilling his footwear from 36-yards retired successful the last seconds.
After the game, Brady praised the corporate squad effort successful a affirmative commencement to the caller season.
"The borderline of mistake is bladed successful the NFL and, 1 oregon 2 plays, that's the mode the crippled is," Brady told the media afterwards.
"Fortunately, we recovered a mode to win. I'm truly blessed Ryan (Succop) and the tract extremity squad made that truly clutch footwear astatine the end, that was large to see. Special teams were conscionable awesome tonight. As a team, we each cognize that we've got to get backmost to enactment and effort to improve."
Shining stars
In a crippled of outstanding backmost play, Brady and his Cowboys counterpart Dak Prescott lit up the tract with their accuracy and timing aft a challenging preseason.
Prescott, who was making his instrumentality to the tract for the archetypal clip since suffering a compound ankle fracture and dislocation past season, has had to conflict a sprained enarthrosis during the offseason.
But the 28-year-old showed nary signs of rustiness connected Thursday though, arguably outperforming his Bucs opponent, throwing for 403 yards, threw touchdowns and 1 interception -- Brady had 2 interceptions.
"You tin beryllium large and travel up short, right? That's what contiguous was," Prescott said aft the game.
"It was a large effort, but we came up short. We privation to beryllium the best, and the champion is simply being amended than the different guys -- time in, time out, being the champion successful the league."
With an array of violative talent, the Cowboys volition beryllium hoping to amended connected their disappointing 6-10 grounds past season.
They question to look the Los Angeles Chargers successful week 2 of the caller play portion the Bucs volition big their part rival, the Atlanta Falcons, connected Sunday, September 19.
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