![]() ![]() This team has demonstrated it is lethal when turned loose. Joe just hopes Bowles allows offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich to be aggressive. Joe believes the Bucs do have a shot of getting healed up while winning the next three games against Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Carolina. Gage said the Bucs just have too much talent to look like the Chicago Bears, southside edition. ![]() Last night Joe was talking to Russell Gage and he noted that the offense, when it focused on passing, gave fans a taste of what it can be when everyone gets healthy. He connected on 39 of 52 throws for 384 yards, three touchdown passes and no picks.ĭoes that seem like an over-the-hill old man to you? Joe suspected it was that Brady missed foot-rubbing Rob Gronkowski.Īlas, Brady showed again last night that when you let the Bucs’ talented passing attack throw, Brady is still quite good. ![]() Playing behind a run-up-the-middle-on-first-down offense, almost started to show his age. You just don’t know when they can get on the field of play. That’s the problem bringing in guys like Akiem Hicks and Julio. The offense got jump-started yesterday because of who was available.Ĭan the Bucs bank on most of these guys come November and December? The offense stunk the first three weeks partly because of who was not available. But dang, if you hope to be a playoff team, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to bank on one of your best receivers? If Julio is able to play in 10 games this year that will be about right. But can they stay healthy?Īs Joe and most fans sort of suspected, Julio is a walking injury report. With Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Julio Jones and Russell Gage finally all on the field together, it demonstrated what this offense has the capability of doing. We’ll see if Bowles still tries to ground and pound or if he follows his talent and lets them win games for him. And the way to win most games with his personnel is to air it out. So Bowles should follow what the talent dicates on offense. Whether Bowles likes it or not, his first job is to win games. When the passing game was finally unshackled yesterday, the Bucs moved up and down the field almost as easily as the Chiefs. Per Father Dungy, by way of Chris Simms, both of NBC Sports, we learned Bowles doesn’t want to pass that much. He was on the active roster but never got a touch. Playoff Lenny had negative-three yards on three carries. Well, Rachaad White had six yards on three carries. Last week Bucs coach Todd Bowles vowed that backup running backs would be fed the ball, in part because Playoff Lenny was getting run into the ground … (and partly because Playoff Lenny had a terrible yards-per-carry average?) ![]() The other was, well, the Bucs were moving the ball through the air. Now part of this was the Bucs had to abandon running because they got behind so much and so quickly. The Bucs gained - are you ready for this - three yards on the ground last night. It’s pretty clear through damn near 25 percent of the season, the Bucs cannot run the ball. And here comes Mariota and the Dixie Chicks on Sunday. But to prove that the Bucs need to start shutting down offenses again the way they did through the first three games. Yet yesterday the Bucs never had an answer for Mahomes until it was too late and Kelce went nuts on them in the first half. The Bucs have played Mahomes and Kelce and succeeded. That’s where the similarities to yesterday end. The way the Bucs defense played in the Tennessee-Ready game, it was like the defense never practiced a snap against a spread-option or a running QB. What made that loss even more galling was that Lovie allegedly had been scouting Mariota. That’s when lousy Lovie Smith and his defense appeared fully blindsided by then-rookie quarterback Marcus Mariota and the Oregon spread-option offense. It was like the Bucs never played these guys before, forget the Bucs had success against them.Īside from two years ago when the Chiefs dropped 17 points on the Bucs in the first quarter and when the Saints led the Bucs 31-0 at halftime, the last time Joe saw an opponent just impose its will on a Bucs defense was the infamous Tennessee-Ready game. In the first half, Pat Mahomes looked unstoppable. Look, Joe is not about to say the Bucs defense is bad, but man did it get slapped around by the Chiefs. Let’s get to it and harp on a few.ĭid The Bucs Defense Get Exposed Or Was This One Bad Game? ![]()
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