LONDON _ Jameis Winston has played some terrible games before.
He's thrown a lot of interceptions. He's lost fumbles.
But the Bucs quarterback has never played the way he did in Tampa Bay's 37-26 loss to the Carolina Panthers at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Winston threw five interceptions and committed six turnovers, one coming on a fumble.
This is not the type of football that Bruce Arians had seen from Winston until Sunday, when under constant pressure with seven sacks, he set the tone for a Bucs performance the Brits might say was bloody rubbish.
"He has a habit of trying to be Superman," Arians said in a postgame press conference. "That's been a problem in the past, and fumbles haven't occurred this year until today. But again, trying to make something out of nothing. It's just a matter of knowing when to quit on a play."
More games like this one and the Bucs may have to consider quitting on Winston.
Sunday's game was a big one for the Bucs (2-4), especially since they had already won at Carolina in Week 2.
Even though it was a Tampa Bay "home game," with the stadium covered in red Bucs bunting, their own cheerleaders and control of the video board, the crowd of 60,087 was decidedly with the Panthers.
After Sunday, the Bucs should exercise their own Brexit, refusing to play in the U.K. where they are now 0-3.
On the first play of the game, Winston tried to hit receiver Mike Evans on a curl route and was intercepted by Panthers cornerback James Bradberry. The Bucs defense held the Panthers to a field goal and somehow only trailed 17-7 at halftime.
It was notable that the game began ? and ended ? with Winston being intercepted trying to connect with Evans.
After going without a catch last week for only the second time in his career, Evans was targeted 17 times and caught nine for 96 yards Sunday. He also lost track of a deep ball he dropped in the second half.
Evans took responsibility for the first interception for failing to come back for the football. The last pass he said he lost in the lights.
Asked about Winston's interceptions, Evans said: "I don't think that's who he is."
"We've got to a better job around him. O-line and receivers. Especially me," Evans said. "He trusts me to make a couple plays for him and if I make them, that changes the game.
"It's tough. I felt like we were better than that team. We had the turnovers. We didn't execute as well as we should have and I played like (crap)."
Winston knew he would be under duress. The Bucs were missing right tackle Demar Dotson and right guard Alex Cappa with injuries. But he didn't make excuses.
"No, it's not on Mike," Winston said of Evans. "At the end of the day, I throw the football, I get the interceptions. We've got to win games. If I do that (throwing five interceptions), it's tough for us to win. Mike is one of the best receivers in this league.
"It's okay for some people to have a bad day. I don't think he had a bad day. But, as a quarterback, you can't have a bad day. That's just the business. If the quarterback has a bad day, things are escalated and we lose the game."
While Winston was imploding, Panthers quarterback Kyle Allen was exploding.
Allen completed 20 of 32 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions in running his record to 4-0 since taking over from injured starter Cam Newton. He had a 30-yard TD strike to Curtis Samuel and hit Christian McCaffrey on the left flat for a 25-yard score.
Now the Panthers are debating whether Allen should remain the starter even when Newton returns.
Two plays must have had Arians questioning Winston's future.
With the Bucs trailing 17-7 and at Carolina 17 late in the first half, Winston double-clutched a pass and was stripped by defensive end Vernon Butler. Center Ryan Jensen somehow recovered the fumble.
On the next play, Winston held the football too long and was sacked again by Butler. This time Panthers linebacker Bruce Irvin recovered.
"Throw the damn ball away," Arians said. "You avoided one and you might have avoided two. You're not throwing it anywhere to our receiver.
In his four previous games, Winston had thrown 10 touchdown passes and two interceptions. After Sunday's game, a reporter asked Arians if this was the first time he's witnessed "the Jameis Winston experience," presumably referring to a stretch of excellent performances followed something awful.
"Yes and no," Arians said. "I see the preparation. I see what he's trying to do. The fumbles, we have to get rid of those. We have to start throwing balls away. And we don't need to take those sacks. You don't need to take those hits, either.
"The interceptions, I have to go back and look at the film and how the ball got there. I knew the one his arm was hit. The last one was just a prayer that Mike didn't see in time."
Winston had help losing the game.
The defense allowed Carolina to drive 99 yards for a touchdown. Rookie Devin White blew coverage on Christian McCaffrey's 25-yard reception. Bobo Wilson muffed two punts, losing one of them.
But all anyone will remember is Winston threw five picks and lost a fumble. A whole continent had one chance to see him and this is the impression he left.
"I'm happy, we had a lot of fans come out," Winston said. "It was an amazing atmosphere. But home game, away game, London game, you have to protect the football.
"Today was not a good day. But there will be better days."
