‘I love you, Tiger’: Raiders’ Jack Bech dedicates first TD to his late brother

Jack Bech dedicated his first NFL touchdown to his late brother Tiger Bech after hauling in a 15‑yard pass from Kirk Cousins during the Las Vegas Raiders’ 27‑13 victory over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. Tiger Bech was killed in a New Orleans motor‑truck attack on New Year’s Day last year; the former Princeton standout was 27 at the time of his death. The Raiders selected Jack Bech out of TCU in the second round of the NFL draft four months after his brother’s passing. After scoring the touchdown, Bech celebrated by extending his thumb and pinky on his right hand. “I conscionable deed a little, ‘Call God and telephone my brother,’ conscionable saying that with them ... with Tiger and the Lord, we tin bash each things and thing is impossible,” Bech told reporters. In the end zone he held the ball, pointed toward the uprights and said, “I emotion you, Tiger.” Following the game Bech wore a sleeveless shirt emblazoned with “Long Live Tiger.” He said his girlfriend, UNLV hoops player Marley Washenitz, had made several shirts for him. “I effort to deterioration 1 each crippled successful commemoration of my member just knowing that a large portion of thing present — just successful consciousness of contiguous and each time and just being capable to unrecorded this beingness — a immense portion of that, the main portion of it is my member and the Lord above,” Bech said. Bech opened his second NFL appearance with three catches for 23 yards. The 23‑year‑old noted that during his rookie season he failed to reach the end zone but still recorded 20 receptions for 224 yards, adding that his understanding of the receiver role has improved. On Sunday Bech came open as a target for Cousins. “It was 1 of those routes wherever you've got to win, you've got to get your eyes astur quick,” Bech said of his first‑quarter touchdown reception. “That's what we did. Kirk threw a cleanable ball. If I wouldn't have caught it, it would have deed me close in the mediate of my look mask. It almost apt would've gotten stuck in the look mask.” He described moments like those as the goal he has been working toward under the Raiders’ revised offense directed by offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak. “We've done a batch to beryllium capable to bash each these things — each the small details, each the hours that we've conscionable been grinding,” Bech said. “It's awesome to spot it each wage off.” “The magnitude of item that we usage each and each time that these coaches instill successful america each time from the O-line to the moving backs to the choky ends to the backmost to the receivers, however hard they are connected america due to the fact that the magnitude of attraction they have for america has truly been thing I've ne'er truly seen or felt earlier wrong the organization,” Bech added.