A 42% 3rd & out on defense. 349 point scored against the defense. 42 total tds score with 27 td from the pass along. They only contribute just 4 td off a turnover. QBR is very decieving it contain yardage+comp/att+ td/turnover ratio. Just talking about 3rd downs along makes the qbr looks bad because 3 &10-25 don’t really make a big impact to qbr. COmpared to a long pass for a Td with one pass. Here what the article from the St Louis coverage said: “But the Bucs have been OUTSTANDING on third down, making eight interceptions and allowing a mediocre passer rating of 78.5.”

Tell me when does being ranked #27 rank on 3rd down on defense is worthy of being called outstanding? Here you reply after their article: “Joe nearly fell off his chair reading this. But this is why Bernie is one of the “BEST” to dig up information.” No one is perfect, yet you can look at the games and tell that the pass defense isn’t outstanding in third down.

The point of that post is to show that in all the Freeman arguements you and other refused to acknowledge how bad the pass defense. Several stats and as well as post from other and myself said that Freeman is in a slump. But to go as far as saying the guy should be gone. He suck, he’s horrible, and etc. was constantly posted even after seeing the same stats you now want to defend. Even insults, jabs, and all caps was traded. Many including yourself praise Nick Foles and wanted the guy over Freeman. In a game that the team had two score lead with 6-5 mins left in the game. Foles walked the “outstanding” passed defense down the field twice. After the sub par first half from Freeman, threw 2 tds for the lead. But nooo it Freeman’s fault. IN the Giants game the defense gave up 25 points in the fourth quarter along after being up in the first half. SMH.

@joe: Wait are you even a Bucs fan at all? Do watch or even listen to the games? If so then what the point of posting an obivous misinform article about how good our pass defense?

Joe’s cutting off your insults right here. And Joe’s system doesn’t accept massive links like you put in.
Red86- How about you actually tell Joe what’s inaccurate in the data linked here from the St. Louis writer. Oh yeah, that’s right, you can’t. You don’t get to come on here and make accusations of Joe’s motives and insult Joe. –Joe.

Even more so then the pass defense, I really hope Josh Freeman has a bounce back game.

The INTs, however, are nice to see.