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TAMPA Oshane Ximines Jersey , Fla. (AP) — On a day when he became Tampa Bay’s career passing leader, Jameis Winston and the Buccaneers lost another game.“You just have to move on to the next game and get better,” the No. 1 overall pick from the 2015 NFL draft said. “That’s all I can say.”The fifth-year pro threw for 194 yards and a touchdown Sunday, moving ahead of Vinny Testaverde for first place on the franchise’s all-time passing list with 14,822 yards in 57 games. He was also intercepted three times, with two of them being returned for touchdowns in a 31-17 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.It was exactly the kind of performance that’s become too common as Winston tries to establish himself as Tampa Bay’s long-term solution at quarterback. He overcame Richard Sherman’s early pick-six to lead a 75-yard TD drive to get the Bucs back in the game in the third quarter, only to falter down the stretch.The 49ers sacked him three times and dropped what easily could have been two more interceptions before Ahkello Witherspoon intercepted a screen pass the quarterback was trying to throw away and ran 25 yards to put a six-point game out of reach with 2:01 remaining.Tampa Bay lured Bruce Arians out of retirement last January in hopes the longtime coach and offensive coordinator could help Winston realize his potential. The coach is adamant that the 2013 Heisman Trophy winner has everything it takes to be elite if he can improve his decision-making and cut down on turnovers.“It’s still a thing of growth,” Arians said. “You have a screen pass called. … Our young running back goes inside and doesn’t get out on the screen. So, just throw it out of bounds. If you get a grounding (penalty), you get a grounding. But don’t leave it on the field of play.”Winston completed 20 of 36 passes and was sacked three times. On one drive in the first half, holding calls on tackle Demar Dotson wiped out what would have been TD passes to Cameron Brate.“We did a bad job of beating ourselves Julian Love Jersey , and we’ve got to go back and stop that,” Dotson said. “If we do a better job of not beating ourselves, then we can beat somebody else.”Arians agreed.In addition to Winston’s three interceptions, tight end O.J. Howard lost a fumble to ruin one scoring opportunity. The Bucs also hurt themselves in the fourth quarter when, trailing 20-14, Arians decided against kicking a short field goal and the offense wound up turning the ball over on downs at the San Francisco 2.“I don’t think there is any doubt about it,” the coach said, when asked if he felt his team beat itself. “We talked about it at the half, even, and before the game. … That was the message. When we stop beating ourselves, we’ll be pretty good.” CHARLOTTE Darius Slayton Jersey , N.C. (AP) — Defensive end Efe Obada plays like a man fighting for survival when he steps on the football field.Given his life story, it’s understandable.The Nigerian-born Obada says he was a victim of human trafficking at the age of 10. He said he and his older sister were abandoned in the streets of London, England.Now he’s a Carolina Panther.The 26-year-old Obada is hesitant to divulge many details of his past, saying he still has “deep trust issues” with strangers and that he doesn’t want to jeopardize losing his focus on maintaining his roster spot.What he does share is far from the usual path to the NFL.Obada said when he was 8 years old his mother arranged for him and his older sister to move from Nigeria to the Netherlands, where she was living at the time. After a couple of years of living there, she decided to send the children to the United Kingdom so they could have a better life.That turned out to be a mistake.Obada told the Panthers team website the stranger that was supposed to take care of children didn’t carry through on the promise. Instead, he and his sister were left alone and homeless. There, they learned to survive until eventually they were discovered and placed in foster care. They moved from home to home until Obada was old enough to make his own decisions.“I was young and I didn’t have any say into what was happening in my life,” Obada said. “I was ignorant to it.”Obada now knows he’s not alone.According to www.worldschildren.org, 21 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking — an issue Obada hopes to tackle when he has a more solid platform in the NFL.Obada said he’s simply not ready to talk about the details of what happened during that time of his life.“Some of the issues, I haven’t dealt with T.J. Hockenson Jersey ,” Obada said quietly. “I haven’t really taken time to understand. … Right now I just want to focus on football and make the most of it.”Obada went to college in London, where he discovered the game of football for the first time at age 22.He caught on with the London Monarchs, the equivalent of an American semi-pro team and helped them win a championship as a tight end and defensive end. He gained some attention there, and got a workout with the Dallas Cowboys while the team was overseas playing a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.Obada signed with the Cowboys practice squad but was later released. Still, that opened some doors for him and he had brief stints on the Falcons and Chiefs rosters before joining the Panthers practice squad last season.Obada was chosen as one of four players to participate in the NFL’s International Pathway Program, which began in 2017. But he’s the only one to make a final 53-man roster, which were determined on Saturday.He’s due to earn $480,000 this season, significantly more than the $129,200 that a member of an NFL practice squad makes.“It instilled a hunger in me that I have until this day,” Obada said of his early life experience. “And I feel like I can apply it in a game. It’s kind of going into a state of survival — that is what I do every day. I don’t take this opportunity for granted.”Panthers coach Ron Rivera said he sees that every day in practice.The coach said 6-foot-6 http://www.lionscheapstore.com/jahlani-tavai-jersey-cheap , 255-pound Obada’s passion and drive is one of the things that helped him earn a roster spot over the team’s 2017 third-round draft pick Daeshon Hall.“He practices 100 miles per hour,” Rivera said. “I got some guys, they get upset with him because on Friday (during walkthrough practice) he’s going hard. But you say to the guys, ‘Hey, if you came from where he came from, if you dealt with what he dealt with, that’s the way you’re going to approach everything in life.”

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