Bucs-Bears Or Bucs-Bills On 2021 Opening Night?
February 8th, 2021
One crazy fun perk of being Super Bowl champs — in addition to telling your friends that your team is freakin’ Super Bowl champs — is that the Bucs will open the 2021 season at night and at home (aka The Licht House) expected to be Thursday, Sept. 9.
It’s NFL tradition, granting the honor to the Super Bowl winner and its fans.
So who will the Bucs play?
Joe doubts the NFL and TV networks will choose a foe from the NFC South. Frankly, they all might suck next season.
That leaves the Bills, Bears, Cowboys, Dolphins and Giants as the remaining home opponents.
Joe suspects the networks won’t burn the guaranteed national draw of the struggling Giants and Cowboys on that game. Heck, it’s going to draw big eyeballs regardless, so why not go for a more attractive football matchup.
A Bucs-Bears rematch would be a heck of a draw. The big-market Bears are solid and could be very interesting with a free agent quarterback, Jameis Winston? And Bucs-Bills would be a monster of a game for football-starved fans after a long summer.
Joe’s going to throw 20 bucks down on Bucs-Bills kicking off the season.
February 8th, 2021 at 8:57 am
Bucs vs Bills GO WORLD CHAMPION BUCS!!!!!!
February 8th, 2021 at 8:59 am
Three Observations:
1) Shaq Barrett was the MVP, with honorable mention going to Devin White. No one, literally no one, expected Tampa to keep the Chiefs under twenty points, let alone ten. Barrett was most impactful player on the most important unit. The Buccaneers’ defense put pressure on Mahomes on 29 of 56 dropbacks, the most pressure in Super Bowl history.
2) The NFL can change all the rules it likes. Defense still wins championships.
Sportswriters can stop crying about Eric Bienemy not being offered a head coaching job now.
3) Todd Bowles proved that if they want to cry about a black man not being offered a job this year, he’s the better candidate.
February 8th, 2021 at 8:59 am
I agree, Bucs vs Bills makes most sense.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:13 am
Licht House? Please No.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:15 am
Bucs vs. Bills would be a great game. Chicago is a bit of a mystery due to the potential changes they make.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:16 am
It doesn’t matter who. We gotta win them all to go 16-0 on our way to repeating. One game at a time.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:18 am
Bucs can sweep their division with brees out and team 100 mil over cap
Bucs can go 3-1 at worst in miami division
Hope deshaun watson stays in houston and not miami
February 8th, 2021 at 9:25 am
I’m a Bucs fan but Bienemy absolutely deserves the accolades he’s getting for this season. The Bucs O-line and D-line determined the outcome of that game.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:29 am
As long as we don’t get shafted again with a road game.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:41 am
I would love for the Bucs to steamroll the Bears on opening night.
February 8th, 2021 at 9:51 am
If it is the Bills, it is the same game plan.
Take Stephan Diggs out with double teams and get after Josh Allen.
He was backpedaling and running for his life against KC,
imagine what Bucs will do
February 8th, 2021 at 9:53 am
I wish Todd Bowles would be one of those guys that realizes he’s a better coordinator and not seek to be a head coach. I don’t know why more guys can’t realize that. So many are better as a coordinator on offense or defense
February 8th, 2021 at 9:59 am
The Licht House? Good effort, but let’s keep it moving on this one…
February 8th, 2021 at 10:00 am
i want the saints!!! shove it down their mouthy traps while we raise the banner!!!!
February 8th, 2021 at 10:03 am
Hmmm… Perk of being SuperBowl Champs- except after winning the 2002 SuperBowl we opened at night in Philly – the biggest bunch of bu!!$hit in NFL
history, and beat their a$$ again in their brand new stadium
February 8th, 2021 at 10:08 am
THEE LICHT HOUSE, HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN THE DEN OF DEPPRESSION
February 8th, 2021 at 10:08 am
SB CHAMPS
GO BUCS
February 8th, 2021 at 10:18 am
I CAN’T WAIT.. no matter who the Bucs play!!!!
February 8th, 2021 at 10:27 am
The MVP was Aaron Stinnie. He was a bulldog all night. Honorable mention to the rest of the O-line.
The Bucs defensive line had no competition last night, it was like the Chiefs brought in a high school line.
February 8th, 2021 at 10:28 am
Bucs and Bills makes the most sense unless Jameis ends up in Chicago. Saints are a possibility as well, the Bucs opened the season against them when Fitzmagic beat Bree 48-40 back in the dark ages of the Koetter regime, and it also depends on who their QB is.
February 8th, 2021 at 10:34 am
The Licht House sounds naughty.
February 8th, 2021 at 10:39 am
I know the champs usually start at home, but aren’t we missing the obvious one that the NFL might not be able to resist? Tom Brady starts a title defense AT New England?
February 8th, 2021 at 10:46 am
I’ve got a Philly friend who claims that yesterday, the Eagles agreed to send Wentz to the Bears for picks + players. The league didn’t want to announce a big trade on Super Bowl Sunday. We’ll see if that was right…
February 8th, 2021 at 11:00 am
2021 is about payback and dynasty building. Bears and Rams are in for a slugging. Did you hear about the time the Bucs lost to KC and the saints twice ?😀
February 8th, 2021 at 11:39 am
When Andy Reid called his offense line “scrappy” I knew they would get dominated by the Bucs.
February 8th, 2021 at 11:40 am
Bucs-Saints is the absolute right call. Still bad blood between the two teams, and the added draw of Jameis starting his first game not as a Buccaneer. TV ratings galore.
February 8th, 2021 at 11:59 am
About the Saints, watch them go after D Watson big time. GO BUCS!!!
February 8th, 2021 at 12:24 pm
Bucs will open at Philly. NFL never varies from tradition. Mark it down.
February 8th, 2021 at 12:49 pm
I like The Licht House. Great!
February 8th, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Oh God no, the Bears games always suck. ALWAYS. In Tampa the Bucs will win, but who wants to see that in prime time? It’s like all the times they put the Panthers and Bucs on Thursday nights – why? Even as a lifelong Bucs fan, I don’t want to see that game, it’s almost always the worst game of the year.
Bucs vs Bills – now that has the NFL written all over it. Brady just took out Mahomes, next bring up the next young gun…
February 8th, 2021 at 3:50 pm
Do you really think they’re turning down Bucs vs Jameis? Think about it Joe.
February 8th, 2021 at 3:52 pm
August, Payton said their QB is Winston.
February 8th, 2021 at 3:58 pm
itz the Bills
February 8th, 2021 at 4:20 pm
I want the Bills. Beat the Packers, Saints, Chiefs, we should add Bills to that list
February 8th, 2021 at 4:29 pm
I could see the saints. Remember when they made us go on the road an open the linc in Pily? Sly stalone got to watch us beat phily again