Rues missing out on six.

Joe is still tossing and turning at night over Bucs coach Todd Bowles deciding to punt halfway through the fourth quarter, trailing 37-32 on fourth-and-two from the Bucs-39. The Bucs were running down the throats of the soft Bills offense.

The Bucs never recovered from that as Josh Allen ran it in from nine yards out on the ensuing drive. Ballgame.

However, Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard thinks the straw that broke the camel’s back came early in the game.

After Jacob Parrish picked off Allen in the first quarter, the Bucs had first down on the Bills-7. The Bucs couldn’t punch it in and had to settle for a field goal.

“It killed us,” Grizzard said Thursday. “That’s what we hit on right after the game – well, not right after the game, but on Monday – in that when the defense turns it over and we get the ball on the seven-[or] eight-yard line, whatever it is, and can’t turn that thing into seven [points], then that’s definitely a missed opportunity in a game.

“I know it ended up being a 12-point differential, but at that point, we’ve got to be able to play complementary football, like we talked about. They did a great job turning it over, we need to be able to go get seven [points] – and that was not a good part of the game there for the offense.”

The red zone offense of the Bucs stinks this year. After the Buffalo loss, the Bucs are now the No. 25-ranked team for scoring touchdowns in the red zone. It happens just over half the time, 51.75 percent.

That has to improve if the Bucs want to be a playoff team. There are only two potential playoff teams with a worse red zone offense. No. 28 Baltimore (47.2 percent) and No. 31 Houston (43.3 percent).

Joe guess the struggling red zone offense is the biggest example of the Bucs missing Mike Evans and Chris Godwin?