The whole game shouldn’t have come down to this moment, but it did. With the Bucs up 28-22, Tom Brady and co. faced a 3rd-and-7 from the Eagles 45-yard line. 3:24 remained on the clock. In the biggest moment of the game, Brady and wide receiver Antonio Brown delivered. The quarterback scrambled right and hit Brown on his back hip with a tight-window throw on third down. Brown made a fantastic catch to rip the ball away from the flailing defender, and the Bucs were able to run out the clock on the victory.

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“It was huge,” head coach Bruce Arians said. “Great route and hell of a throw when you’re trying to get out of the pocket. It’s a couple times this year he’s thrown out of the pocket to the right and made a big play down the field.”

Brady’s improved mobility has been a greater asset than anyone could have foreseen this season. So has Brown’s impact, as the receiver piled up nine catches on 13 targets for 93 yards and a touchdown. Despite playing less than 50 percent of the offensive snaps last night, Brown is putting up numbers on par with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.

“Yeah, [Brown] made a great play,” Brady said. “Just dipped underneath the guy and then found space. Kind of what he’s done his entire career. He made a huge play, it was awesome.”

According to Arians, Brown the progression order of the play had Brown as a late read. Brady’s ability to get out of structure, combined with Brown’s feel for space in the scramble drill, created the big play.

“No, it was probably the third [read],” Arians said. “The first two [are] quick ones. Then [Brady] breaks contain and just finds him. It’s one thing that [Brown] does. He’ll run and get to an open spot when he sees the quarterback moving.”

On the season, Brown has 29 catches for 418 yards and four touchdowns.