, pushing the lead to 31-13.The Falcons didnt quit in their final season opener at the Georgia Dome before moving next door to $1.4 billion Mercedes-Benz Sta

ATLANTA -- Dirk Koetter got a game ball after his debut as an NFL head coach.Jameis Winston made it all possible.The second-year quarterback bounced back from an early interception to throw four touchdowns passes, leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-24 victory Sunday over the Atlanta Falcons in a season-opening matchup between NFC South rivals.Good guys win, quipped Koetter , still dripping with Gatorade after a victory splashing. Lets do it 15 more times this year.That might be far-fetched, but at least the Bucs can boast of a winning record for the first time since the 2012 season, when they started 6-4.Winston presented his new coach with the game ball.It was very important that we made him feel the moment was special, not only for him but for us, the quarterback said.Winston was 23 of 33 for 281 yards, using just about every weapon at his disposal. He hooked up with receiver Mike Evans, running back Charles Sims III and tight ends Austin Sefarian-Jenkins and Brandon Myers on scoring plays.The Falcons grabbed a 10-3 lead late in the first quarter after Winstons pass for Vincent Jackson was picked off by Desmond Trufant, who returned it 13 yards to the Tampa Bay 9. Jackson broke outside on the route, while Winstons throw went to the inside.But Winston shook off that miscue with a 4-yard TD pass to Myers, and went to work again with less than two minutes to go in the first half.After a third-down conversion to Jackson, Winston dumped off a short throw to Sims, who did the rest. He faked out two defenders -- cutting right while they both tumbled the turf -- and broke two more tackles on the way to a 23-yard touchdown that put Tampa Bay ahead for good.The Buccaneers scored on their first two possessions of the second half, pushing the lead to 31-13.The Falcons didnt quit in their final season opener at the Georgia Dome before moving next door to $1.4 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium.Matt Ryan , looking to bounce back from a disappointing 2015 season in which the Falcons missed the playoffs for the third year in a row, hooked up with Julio Jones on a 25-yard touchdown and tacked on a two-point conversion.But Atlanta wound up settling for three field goals by Matt Bryant.We had four trips into the red zone and came away with one touchdown, Ryan said. Weve got to be much better.ATLANTA TIESKoetter was offensive coordinator of the Falcons from 2012-14, and his defensive coordinator is former Atlanta head coach Mike Smith .Its weird to see the people on the other side, Koetter said. But thats the nature of the NFL.Smith was the winningest coach in Falcons history, nearly leading Atlanta to the Super Bowl during the 2012 season. That was followed by two straight losing seasons and his firing.INJURY REPORTTampa Bay backup linebacker Jacquies Smith was carted to the locker room with a right knee injury and didnt return. He was hurt covering a punt in the first quarter.UNDISCIPLINED FALCONSSome big penalties cost the home team in the third quarter. Offensive guard Chris Chester was called for unnecessary roughness, knocking the Falcons out of field-goal range.On Tampa Bays ensuing possession, cornerback Robert Alford was also flagged for a personal foul after the Falcons had forced an incomplete pass on third down. The Bucs went on to score a touchdown.FANTASY WATCHWR Mohamed Sanu got off to a strong start with the Falcons. He set up a field goal with a 59-yard grab and hauled in a 5-yard TD pass, finishing with five receptions for 80 yards. He also caught a two-point conversion. ... RB Devonta Freeman was held to 20 yards rushing on 11 carries. ... Evans had five catches for 99 yards.WORTH NOTINGThe Falcons failed to sack Winston, while Ryan was sacked three times . ... Tampa Bays last season-opening win also came in 2012.UP NEXTBuccaneers: Tampa Bay travels to the desert to face the Arizona Cardinals next Sunday.Falcons: Atlanta also heads west next Sunday to meet the Oakland Raiders, who opened with a 35-34 win over New Orleans.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry .---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Air Max 270 Baratas . 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Gonzalez has a six-week window before position players have their first workout at spring training in Arizona.SEATTLE -- Kyle Seager and Tom Wilhelmsen walked out of Cleveland in May feeling bitten by a run of bad luck that saw the Seattle Mariners lose twice in extra innings as part of a four-game sweep by the Indians. The luck seems to be evening out. Seager and Mike Zunino came up with clutch hits early, and the Mariners used an unlikely ninth inning double play to pull out a 4-3 win over the Indians on Tuesday night and extend their winning streak to eight games. Playing without ailing manager Eric Wedge for a second straight game, the Mariners took advantage of defensive miscues by the Indians, received solid pitching and executed flawlessly in the ninth inning when it appeared Cleveland was set to at least tie the game. The Mariners extended the longest current win streak in baseball and have a chance Wednesday for their first nine-game win streak since 2003. "When we were in Cleveland they were playing really good baseball obviously and they got a few breaks for them and thats what good teams do," Seager said. "This series weve been playing pretty well and weve been able to capitalize when given the opportunities." The ninth started ominously with Mark Reynolds singling on Wilhelmsens first pitch of the inning. Drew Stubbs came on to pinch run and went racing to third on Lonnie Chisenhalls single up the middle to put runners on the corners with no outs. Thats when the craziness began. Yan Gomes hit a chopper to third base. Seager briefly looked at Stubbs and quickly threw to second to get pinch runner Mike Aviles. Stubbs found himself caught between making a sprint for the plate or staying at third. When he started to break for home, Nick Franklin was already throwing to the plate. Stubbs was caught in a rundown and eventually tagged out by shortstop Brad Miller. It was a fundamentally solid play mostly by a group of players that havent been in the big leagues for very long. "Our young guys right there, the way they executed that was quite impressive, starting with Seager and then Franklin and Miller getting over there. Thats not an easy guy to track down either," said Seattle bench coach Robby Thompson, who filled in for Wedge again. "It was great court awareness, if you would, for the young guys." Stubbs said he neverr should have hesitated once Seager threw to second.dddddddddddd "Its a play youve got to run through scenarios in your head and make your mind up and go with it," Stubbs said. "Any slight hesitation is going to cost you like it did." Wilhelmsen then struck out Michael Bourn looking to end it. "Thats what winning is about, is taking advantage of those opportunities and were starting to do that more times than not as of late," Wilhelmsen said. The Mariners believed they would have Wedge back in the dugout a day after he went to a local hospital following dizzy spells during batting practice. But doctors kept Wedge for one more night while more tests were run to try and determine a cause. Thompson improved to 2-0 as the Mariners fill-in manager. Seager had an RBI double in the first, an inning that was kept alive by a Cleveland error. He singled and scored the tying run in the third and Zunino came through with a two-out RBI off Cleveland starter Zach McAllister (4-6) later in the inning to give Seattle the lead. Raul Ibanez, Kendrys Morales and Michael Saunders all had doubles in the third inning. Zuninos two-out single into right field scored Saunders with what proved to be the winning run. Zunino had a solo homer on Monday night that was the winning run in a 2-1 victory. Seattle starter Erasmo Ramirez and a pair of relievers made the one-run lead stand up. Ramirez (1-1) pitched 5 2-3 innings, before giving way to Yoervis Medina, who threw 2 1-3 innings allowing just one hit. Wilhelmsens wild ninth was good enough for his 23rd save. Ramirez gave up a two-run homer to Gomes in the second, but allowed only one baserunner past first base the rest of the night. The big inning for Ramirez was the third, when the Indians had runners on the corners and two outs and got Reynolds to weakly ground out. "Sometimes things just kind of snowball and go your way and they seem to be going our way a little bit," Thompson said. NOTES: Clevelands three errors matched its season high, done on two other occasions this season. ... Seattle sent reliever Bobby LaFromboise to Triple-A Tacoma on Tuesday to clear a roster spot for Ramirez to make the start. ... Three of Gomes seven homers this season have come against Seattle. ' ' '