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Bucs “Not Your Typical 2-5 Team”

October 30th, 2026

Not done yet.

No, the Bucs are not your ordinary 2-5 team.

How many 2-5 teams find themselves in the thick of a playoff chase with 10 games to go? The Bucs!

The Bucs are certainly a work in progress. The defense is sound after finding ways to get quarterbacks on the ground the past two games. Young players are rising to the occasion.

The offense? Well, that’s a work in progress. Sure, it was awesome to see the Bucs curb-stomp the Stinking Panthers with a devastating running attack. But how often in a passing league will the Bucs get away with that?

Sooner or later, the Bucs will have to win using a forward pass, not a bunch of glorified pitches that this squad calls a passing game.

Dixie Chicks beat guy Daniel Flick of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution points out you don’t see many 2-5 teams do what the Bucs are doing in 2026. They have yet to lose to a team with a losing record, and those five losses came to teams with a combined record of 24-9, per Flick.

Lastly, all of the Bucs’ losses were one-score games (one of the Joes will slam his head through a wall reading this, adamant that losing one-score games simply is a sign of mental weakness and/or that your team is not good enough, as most NFL games are one-score games).

“Not your typical 2-5 team,” Flick typed.

They’re not, but are the Bucs a good enough team to win the division? A win Sunday and the Bucs will be a half-game out of first place in the NFC South landfill with nine games to go and multiple tiebreakers on their side.

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2 Responses to “Bucs “Not Your Typical 2-5 Team””

  1. buc4evr Says:
    October 30th, 2026 at 4:57 am

    Yes they are. 2-5 team until they can prove differently. Atlanta is their big chance to finally get a win at home. I too would like to see a vertical passing game. Can the O line pass block, can the WRs get open and actually hold on to the ball, and can the defense step up like last week?

  2. Defense Rules Says:
    October 30th, 2026 at 5:08 am

    All the rest of the stats are nice, but only 2 stats really count in the NFL: Wins & Losses. It’s interesting however, that w’ve been 2 teams with losing records and lost to 5 teams with winning records.

    Project that ‘beat the losers but lose to the winners’ out for the rest of the season using remaining opponents current records, and we’d end up 9-8 on the season (7 of our remaining 10 teams now have losing records). We’d also end up with a 4-game win streak going into the playoffs.

    Hey, the sky’s the limit. Of course, in the playoffs we’d be playing teams with winning records and that MIGHT be our undoing. But going into the playoffs HOT is always better than going in ICE COLD.

 

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