Not Overly Impressed
August 27th, 2021
Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.
You would think a team that brought back 22+1 starters from a Super Bowl club that curb-stomped the Chiefs would get a little respect.
Not from Conor Orr.
The SI.com NFL beat guy is clearly not a believer in the Bucs. In picking the outcome of each NFL game, Orr has the Bucs losing to just about every decent team on the schedule to finish at 12-5.
The Rams, the Belicheats, the slimy Saints (twice) and the Bills? Orr has each of those games as an “L” for Tampa Bay. Well, at least with the slimy Saints, Orr thinks the Bucs split the two-game series between the division rivals.
Shame on us for doubting the Buccaneers last year. While we had them winning 10 games, we had them missing the playoffs, being edged out by the Falcons. That won’t be the case in 2021, when Tampa Bay comes into the season riding a tailwind of great understanding that flowed from the end of last year. The Bucs caught a lot of breaks en route to their Super Bowl title, but also successfully melded two offenses to the point where they could resemble the best of what New England always was—a good power running team at its core, with the ability to seek out and take advantage of certain mismatches throughout the course of a game. While we often tend to develop a special kind of amnesia this time of year, forgetting that teams rarely make it back to the Super Bowl the following year, Tampa Bay did return all requisite pieces of an already very talented roster. With Tom Brady as their Pied Piper, the Buccaneers roll on.
To be fair, Orr believes the Bucs win the division, though Orr claims the NFC South will be very poor this fall.
While he professes respect for the Bucs, as you can read in the excerpt above, losing to so many good teams (though he has the Bucs cleaning up on lesser teams) suggests to Joe that Orr isn’t fully sold.
August 27th, 2021 at 12:07 am
Not too outlandish in my opinion ( still not used to the 17 game thing )…as long as they get hot again to close out the season…I’m good.
August 27th, 2021 at 12:36 am
Mr. Orr thats called winning!
August 27th, 2021 at 12:57 am
That looks like an L to the Giants? Really? Not sure they will age well
August 27th, 2021 at 12:57 am
That^
August 27th, 2021 at 1:52 am
Zero chance Bucs lose to NE.
August 27th, 2021 at 3:30 am
In the words of Bender, the robot from Futurama:
He can kiss My
shiny metal azz!
August 27th, 2021 at 3:38 am
He’s just an Ork, thinking he defeat the Lord of the Rings….😂
August 27th, 2021 at 4:13 am
The World Champs losing to the Giants?? At home??? What are the odds on this?
August 27th, 2021 at 5:41 am
How times have changed!! Bitching about a 12-5 season! Let the games begin….Go Bucs!!
August 27th, 2021 at 5:42 am
Thank God you listed Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians under that photo.
Who would have known otherwise.
August 27th, 2021 at 6:59 am
I’ll take it.
August 27th, 2021 at 7:57 am
I’m disappointed. I thought we were less than a week from Dallas. I don’t ever remember a week off after preseason.
August 27th, 2021 at 8:21 am
I’ll take 12 – 5 any given Sunday. Just get to the playoffs and let the magic re-commence. Remember when 5 wins a season was likely? Grateful those years are over, every day.
August 27th, 2021 at 8:25 am
“Buc Taint”
“They are still the Bucs.”
It’s generational.
August 27th, 2021 at 8:35 am
Most of these sport genius’s don’t know crap. Pencil pushers at best. After the season they’re all hiding, none of them stand by their predictions. GO BUCS!
August 27th, 2021 at 9:39 am
Until weathermen like Conor Orr learn how to accurately forecast team injuries PRIOR to the start of the season, it’s hard to put much faith in their prediction.
August 27th, 2021 at 9:54 am
Thisisouryear!! … I’m thankful as all git-out that we do have that 10-day breathing space between our first real game & last preseason game. Gut feeling is that they did it because we only played 3 preseason games, and most teams will probably play the starters quite a bit in that 3rd game.
Looking at the rest of our schedule, we lucked out. The only real ‘short week’ that we have is Oct 14th (Thursday) when we play the Eagles after playing the Dolphins that previous Sunday (Oct 10th). Good news might be that the Eagles haven’t looked all that good in preseason. But of course that doesn’t count.
That’s it; almost all the other games have 7 days between them except for our Nov 28th game against the Colts AFTER we played the Giants the previous Monday night. Even our BYE week comes at a great time, almost mid-way in the season (play 8 games, then BYE, then play 9 games). Finishing our season with the last 3 games against the Panthers, Jets & Panthers again may very well work in our favor too.
August 27th, 2021 at 10:21 am
We are going to beat the Rams. It’s my personal guarantee! For what it’s worth you know as a drunk.
August 27th, 2021 at 10:47 am
The Bucs lose to Jameis? I think our defense still has a pick or 30 to bone. Ain’t no way the defense doesn’t outdo themselves if they seem Magoo across the line.
After the Bucs, the rest of the division is going to be crap this season, I expect the Bucs to sweep them all and win the division by 6 or more games.
August 27th, 2021 at 2:06 pm
Its mot hard to imagine the Bucs losing.
They’ve done it more than any Pro team in history- in any league.
I still have to pinch myself, to believe it.
August 28th, 2021 at 4:56 am
W he at are you doing in the middle of a horrible hurricane. We here is your common sense and do you not.read the weather reports
August 28th, 2021 at 12:10 pm
I’m fully sold that Orr is horrible at his job.