Eight years is a long time between victories on Monday night, and even though Hank Williams and his rowdy friends couldn’t make the trip, it was as memorable a victory as Tampa’s had in a long while. Sold out stadium, prime time football, and some unfinished business from early 2003. The Good It’s wasn’t pretty, …
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Good Bad & The Ugly
It was sloppy. It was ugly. And it was about time. With a 16-13 victory, the Bucs snapped a five-game losing streak to Matt Ryan and the Dirty Birds, and — per usual — it took every inch of Tampa’s 295 yards to put away their division rival. The Good Of all the good — …
Thank God that’s over with. Week one, the team we all had so many expectations for just got demolished by the Detroit Lions. The score doesn’t do the game justice, not at one point beyond the first quarter did I think we actually stood a chance. That was one of the toughest things I’ve ever …
It’s the last game of the preseason: the edge of the void between offseason and opening day; the 60-minute audition for the bottom third of the roster. It’s Jonathan Crompton’s job interview. Mossis Madu’s center stage. It’s the last desperate chance for the backups to the backups—the men buried beneath the depth chart—before the final …
Even though the Bucs beat the Dolphins, one of their in-state rivals 13-17 the dress rehearsal left more questions then answers. Third-year pro Josh Freeman, who looked razor sharp in training camp has had an inauspicious pre-season completing just 56.5% of his attempts (26 of 46) for 255-yards a far cry from how he finished …
Two pre-season games in to the 2011 exhibition season and the Bucs have taken on a Jekyll and Hyde complex. After drubbing the Kansas City Chiefs on the road the team returned to the friendly confines of Raymond James Stadium only to be shellacked by a veteran laden Patriots team. Good P Michael Koenen – …
THE GOOD Josh Johnson exists somewhere in that gray area between first and second string. He struggled as a starter in 2009—throwing to Michael Clayton and a gimpy Antonio Bryant—and didn’t do much to dissuade Josh Freeman’s ascendancy, but in the preseason, he’s been an athletic, reckless, yardage-eating dynamo. The Chiefs didn’t have an answer; …
Playing Atlanta, a divisional foe, in Tampa with playoff implications’ at stake and a chance to truly establish an identity fell by the wayside in the fourth quarter as the Buccaneers squandered a 10-point lead behind shoddy special teams play and ill time penalties dropping the Pewter Pirates to 7 dash 5 and on the …
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