Comments on: Rushing The Ball

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:45:07 +0000

Our run D was dominant end of story.

People can’t be pleased these days, this is evidence of that.

Virtually no run game? Outside of Martin?
I’m sorry I thought martin was our starting RB? Our bad lol

By: Jessup

Jessup — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:01:51 +0000

For the record, Martin didn’t have a fumble. That was a TD clear as day. Bad call. Not only did it incorrectly give him his solo fumble stat on the year, but it robbed him of a TD as well.

By: Mike J

Mike J — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:41:17 +0000

Andrew 1, I believe you left out a ''not.''

By: 4everBucsFan

4everBucsFan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:37:12 +0000

Our run defense was the beneficiary of a weak secondary, but even so, we won our fair share of the battles in the trenches, regardless of a swiss-cheese pass defense. Look at how many TFLs were made. Now we need corners that can survive being left on an island.

By: kryq

kryq — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:35:34 +0000

Can you imagine Martin and Bush ?? im sure bush will love to play against the aints twice a season

By: Brian D.

Brian D. — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:15:04 +0000

These rankings are an irrelevant joke…and you talk badly about ProFootballFocus?

By: Bb

Bb — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:05:00 +0000

This sounds about right to me, we lost a lot so we really did not have a good d, fumbles cased is big in the nfl, also we did not seem to control most of the games with our run so 9th feels about right

By: Andrew 1

Andrew 1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:43:10 +0000

@ tampabaybucfan

your exactly right about teams running less on us causing less fumble opportunities. once teams realized they could run the ball on us early on in the game they abandoned it.

By: Andrew 1

Andrew 1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:32:09 +0000

“This may be because the Bucs, outside of Martin, had virtually no running game.”

This is where Blount should have come in. I think it says a lot when a rookie gets the start over someone who had already entrenched himself as the starting running back on our team. That is not a good sign for Blount as a buc. I think the writing is on the way and he will no longer be on our team in the VERY NEAR future, Im sad to say. But hey, if anyone is going to replace Blount, Im glad its someone with Doug Martin’s talent. Its all about the muscle hamster from here on out.

By: Mike J

Mike J — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:29:32 +0000

The Bucs need to do more gang-tackling in order to force fumbles. In particular, Lavonte David needs some one close behind; David is such a clean, ''form'' tackler, hitting low & wrapping up, that opposing runners often are down too quickly for help to arrive, though.

By: tampabaybucfan

tampabaybucfan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:39:59 +0000

Forcing fumbles is a deceptive stat. If teams chose to run less on the Bucs or….pass more because of our run stuffing D…..then it would stand to reason that we would force fewer fumbles.
I would like to see that stat on a per-carry basis.
Another item that affected our running game is the lack of a running QB….something we had in 2010 when Freeman was 2nd behind Vick. Let Freeman run more and that stat will improve drastically and it will free Martin up for even greater gains. One of the reasons Morris ran so well for the Redskins is the running of RG3.