Leicester Tigers 34-13 WorcesterLeicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockeril

For the first time since falling out after Week 2, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston currently ranks inside the top 10 in Total QBR for the season, moving up to ninth with a 67.9. The Buccaneers are on a five-game winning streak and currently occupy the final wild card spot. Over that span, Winston has four games with a Total QBR above a 78, tied with Kirk Cousins for most in that time, and has the sixth-highest Total QBR in that span with a 77.6. He also has the third-highest points added over that span behind only Cousins and Aaron Rodgers.So what has led Winston up the charts?Like many others who have been featured here, improving on third downs is a big reason for Winstons ascendancy up the chart.During Tampas 3-5 start, Winston had a pedestrian 45.5 raw QBR on third downs, 17th in the league. A few interceptions and a costly penalty had a major, negative impact on this number. He had three third-down interceptions during the first nine weeks of the season, tied for the fourth-most in the league. All three were fairly damaging as they all occurred when the Buccaneers were inside their own 30-yard line and on short or intermediate passes, meaning they set up the opponent in or near field goal range. They also all happened early in close games.He also had a 15-yard personal foul penalty following a failed third down attempt against the 49ers, pushing a field goal attempt from chip-shot range out to 38 yards. Since the foul was on him, there was no division of credit on that part of the play, meaning the entirety of the expected points added fell on him.Since Week 10, Winston has thrown only one third down interception and has avoided costly penalties. He also has cut down his sack rate from 10.4 percent of his third down dropbacks to 3.7 percent. On top of avoiding those negative plays, he also has been more efficient at converting those downs into first downs. Winstons conversion rate on third-down passing attempts is up to 58 percent, from 44 percent. This has resulted in Winston posting a 94.5 raw QBR on third downs since Week 10, highest in the league.He has been markedly more efficient in his own territory, especially inside his own 30-yard line. From Weeks 1 through 9, nobody had a worse raw QBR deep within their own territory than Winstons 26.1. He threw a league-high six interceptions and took eight sacks, tied for the second-most over that span.Since, Winston has thrown only one interception and taken one sack inside that area. Hes also upped his completion percentage from 53 percent to 70 percent, and has the fourth-highest raw QBR at 86.8 since Week 10.By improving on third downs and inside his own 30, Winston has been able to rise from as low as 16th in QBR after Weeks 8 and 9, all the way up to ninth heading into week 15. A look at his season-long progression:For more from ESPN Analytics, visit the ESPN Analytics Index.? Tom Candiotti Indians Jersey . - Goaltender Philippe Desrosiers of the Rimouski Oceanic has broken a shutout record that was only three months old in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Charles Nagy Indians Jersey . 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If everything goes to plan, then hopefully hell be available for this weekend.Hes an influential member of the squad and its good to have him around the team.I think he could definitely come straight into the team, six weeks isnt so long. Well asses that in training.Alex Lozowski has put his case forward so its a big shout for us, but Owen is a world-class fly-half. For us to have won five of our first six league games without the likes of Owen, Duncan Taylor and Chris Ashton is a good achievement.Wasps director of rugby Dai Young:?We lost to the better team. We werent allowed to play. You have to give Saracens a lot of credit, they really strangled us and didnt allow us to play.Weve made a really good start to the season, but weve come to the home of the double champions and it was a little too much for us. Its not all doom and gloom because its the first game weve lost, but if youre going to lose to anyone it should be the double winners.Were disappointed because we didnt look like we fired enough shots, but thats because of how good Saracens were defensively.Bath 30-3 Sale SharksBath Rugby director of rugby Todd Blackadder: Im so pleased to finish this block of Premiership matches with five wins out of six. Ill take that any day. The boys put in a massive effort tonight. Defensively, once again, it was just so courageous, wasnt it?We just worked ourselves into the ground and through our defence we took those opportunities to score some points. That was outstanding. I didnt have a lot of expectations at the beginning. Weve just taken it one week at a time. Even with that performance out there, we still have a lot of work-ons.We just get better every week, but theres a long way to go. Im really encouraged by what I am seeing.Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond declined to give interviews afterwards but a club spokesman said he had highlighted the award of a penalty against Halani Aulika as the turning point. Play was brought back to Sales 22 and Fords penalty opened up Baths lead to 16-3.The Press Association contributed to this reportNewcastle Falcons 19-14 Bristol RugbyNewcastle Falcons director of rugby Dean Richards: If youd asked me 15 minutes before kick off would I take a 19-14 win the answer would have been yes, but Im sitting here now slightly frustrated and so is the team. Were in the top half of the Premiership with three wins and a couple of losing bonus points but we do have a lot of injuries to key players and were a little frustrated rather than happy.We played so well in the first half and could have scored two or three more tries and we could have done with those in the second half because we took our foot off the gas. They had two chances and took them both and our kicking went off a little and that was probably the root cause of the problem. I never thought we would ever lose, but we could well have thrown it away.Bristol Rugbys director of rugby Andy Robinson: I thought we started reasonably well, but we lost our discipline and it was a bit of an own goal when Newcastle scored their first try and that gave them the momentum.In the second half, we started to get up off the line, made our tackles and gained momentum. We scored two really good tries but unfortunately just could not keep that momentum going. That second half was pleasing, in that it proved we do have the talent to succeed in the Premiership.We did some good things here today and in the opening game of the season, but we wanted at least one win from the first six games of the season and were frustrated we havent done that. We have ennough games to get the winning habit.dddddddddddd. Its tough in the Premiership but we will come good as we did in the second half today.Harlequins 20-9 Northampton SaintsHarlequins director of rugby John Kingston: He (Marland Yarde) was absolutely terrific. The season started a little bit slowly for him. He had a couple of knocks but the last couple of weeks hes been fantastic. Ive got a huge amount of time for him. He puts everything into his training and everything into his play. He was outstanding today. I think hes really put his weight behind everything this year and he always gives 100 per cent.For me, Adam Jones was unbelievable because he didnt realise he was going to be coming on until very early this morning when Joe (Marler) failed his test to come through. As a consequence, he was into the deep end on the other side of the scrum. Its a testament to him that he answered that. For me, he was my man of the match.Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder: It was a poor performance from us today. We talked about coming here and controlling the game away from home, playing in the right parts of the field and keeping our discipline. We didnt achieve any of those today.I think we always knew we would be up against a fired-up Harlequins side. They like to play a fairly loose game, get the ball wide and they do that very well.We knew what was coming. I thought we defended pretty well for long periods. Some of our defence was outstanding. It was in attack where the frustrations were for me. We couldnt keep hold of the ball. We were turning over the ball after one or two phases and could never get into pattern or shape.Leicester Tigers 34-13 WorcesterLeicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill: The players needed to front up and they did that. But I thought that, at times, we still struggled defensively. With respect to Worcester, against better sides we would have been punished. Its certainly not all fixed.We need to keep working hard and improve. I am always a big believer that if players want to tackle they will, if they dont they wont. We were better today. Its job done. Worcester are not a poor side, they have given other sides a lot of trouble. We rested a couple of guys, we have got a few missing, but you take the five points. It wasnt spectacular but it was a good win.Worcester Warriors Head Coach Carl Hogg: We fed their very dangerous back three. And they profited from it. We wanted to come here and express ourselves, we didnt want to get into an arm wrestle. So we came with the ambition to play but we did not get the high field position in the first half, and we struggled with ball in hand.Exeter Chiefs 27-27 GloucesterExeter director of rugby Rob Baxter said: The game was good, bad and ugly and we gave up some simple possession and points. We gave away two soft tries in the first half.The good part was our comeback as to score three times in the last 10 minutes was fantastic and those 10 minutes was probably the best weve played all season. We are not quite on our game; we carry out our game plans, show good character but need to step up a notch.Gloucester boss David Humphreys said: It was a big step up in intensity from us, which we needed to do against a strong side like Exeter.We played some very good stuff but careless errors let Exeter back into the game. We are pleased to get two points but incredibly frustrated at once again not winning.After two defeats, confidence had ebbed a bit but we showed real self-belief and I sound like a broken record but we have to find a way to win especially as we havent delivered at home. ' ' '