Bucs Fall In BSPN Rankings
December 17th, 2025
What do you think Lavonte? How many more wins you have left in those old bones?“
The Bucs are almost in the bottom third of the league.
In the eyes of the mouse outfit more commonly known as BSPN, losing to two division rivals at home with awful records who had more to lose by winning, in less than two weeks, well, that tends to put frowns on the faces of those who judge from afar.
And so it is with BSPN. It has the Bucs ranked at No. 21 in its latest power rankings. So if the NFL players were based on rankings rather than division titles, the Bucs wouldn’t be anywhere near close enough to qualify as one of the 14 playoff teams.
Thank goodness for the NFC South, right?
The Bucs, since the bye week, have stunk. They’ve lost five of their last six games (since the bye), and six of their last eight games. It’s been brutal.
Last week the defense let the Bucs down, not that the offense played perfect ball. But with the return of Mike Evans (wow, what a difference maker) and Jalen McMillan who had a 19-yard catch right off the bat, it seems the offense has new life.
At least the offense appeared dangerous for a change. And Devin Culp even proved that yes, a tight end can actually catch a touchdown. Imagine that.
But now with the offense apparently rounding into form with the cavalry arriving, it’s up to the defense to hold up their end of the bargain.
Can defensive-minded Bucs coach Todd Bowles find a way, somehow, to squeeze two more wins out of the defense to get to the playoffs?
December 17th, 2025 at 12:03 am
At least we won the week 6 ESPN Power Poll… we were #1 and they can never take that away.
December 17th, 2025 at 12:08 am
Our only hope is that this team defensively gets on a run like the 06 Colts. Absolutely terrible in the regular season and inexplicably (aside from the return of Bob Sanders) started making plays. Offensively, Mike Evans will literally have to drag us to and through the if they’re going to do anything. & No more hospital balls from Baker (who has looked more like Shaun King since the Lions game – my guess is it’s some obscure oblique injury or something that has totally broken his mechanics.)
December 17th, 2025 at 12:12 am
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December 17th, 2025 at 12:22 am
in case Grizz and todd hasnt noticed, Panthers love to overload the right side of the O line. Compensate for that with proper play calling, plus our 4 star WR’s and Bucky back….how the heck do we not put up 30 to 40 plus the next 3 games, regardless what the D does?
Baker? Grizz? You listening? (now granted, I know Baker is playing injured, but some things will give in these next three game’s DC play calls)
December 17th, 2025 at 2:07 am
Irving has underperformed White and Tucker AND he is coming back from an injury. But, for some reason, Grizzard keeps forcing snaps on Irving when he should be spreading the snaps evenly between all three running backs.
And, while the RBs have mostly been averaging 4 yards per carry of more since the Detroit game, Grizzard keeps passing the ball when half of the pass attempts result in incompletions, completions for no gain, completions for loss, sacks and interceptions with only the occasional big play.
On the fourth quarter against Atlanta, on 2nd and 14, the Bucs could have run the ball twice and ran the clock down to 1 minute and 20 seconds left in the game. The Falcons burned more time than that getting the ball across midfield which should have given the Bucs the win.
Instead, the Bucs threw and incompletion and then Baker was sacked forcing the Bucs to punt with 2 minutes left on the clock and letting Atlanta kick the winning field goal.
The best defense in the NFL is the one sitting on the bench while the team has a lead and the offense plays Ball Control.
The Bucs hired a game manager and they have statistical analysts. But, they cannot figure out that they would be winning more ball games if they just ran the ball more?