The Commish, Justin Pawlowski, of WDAE-AM 620, delivers his weekly bizarre/informative fantasy football report in this video.

Joe’s idea of fantasy football involves delivering pizza to a ladies-only, Bucs cheerleader pool party, but Joe does understand lots of readers enjoy the other kind of fantasy football. Check out the video. It’s unique and special.

If you don’t want to get fired up about the Bucs, then you best not click this link.

Nothing quite like the NFL Network for breaking down film. Mike Mayock (offense) and Brian Baldinger (defense) look at some good and a little bad from the Bucs’ performance in Cincinnati.

Mayock is sold on Josh Freeman. Baldinger likes a couple of the Bucs’ pass rushing packages.

Everybody is excited about the Bucs. Joe’s enjoying the hype.

Rick Stroud called the Bucs a house of cards back in May. And now he likens their 3-1 record to a mirage.

Rick Stroud of the St. Pete Times just can’t believe what he’s seeing from these Buccaneers.

Stroud thinks their 3-1 record is largely an illusion because statistically the Bucs are so poor that the wins don’t add up, so Stroud told J.P. Peterson on 1010 AM this afternoon. (Yes, that’s the same Peterson who is shunned by the Rays).

Stroud bellowed on about how the Bucs have a poor pass rush, can’t stop the run, have a poor running game, etc, while explaining why the Ws don’t add up.

“Everything I know about the game tells me this is more of a mirage,” Stroud said.

The St. Pete Times beat writer went on to say the Bucs are surviving on winning the turnover battles with nine interceptions and protecting the ball.

But then Stroud tossed an ice cold bag of cold water on those nine interceptions, “some of them, let’s face it, they’re sort of the jump-the-route variety,” he said. “And they did it with Josh Freeman making some unbelievable throws and Micheal Spurlock and Mike Williams coming up with unworldly catches.”

Uhh, that’s football, Rick. You make plays and you win. And since when does jumping a route devalue an interception? This is news to Joe.

Initially, Joe was surprised by Stroud being so negative. But Stroud is the same guy who called the Bucs a house of cards during a TV interview before the season started. So maybe it all makes sense.

Some suggest Peter King has the best gig in the country. He gets flown to New York to feed his face on Dick Ebersol’s dime in Manhattan each Sunday while watching all NFL games at once and then gets to babble about them hours later.

That’s not Joe’s kind of fun, sans the free grub. Joe can’t even watch the Red Zone Channel (way too ADDish for Joe). Joe can handle watching two games at once on his two TVs, but six (in one screen) or bouncing from stadium to stadium every 20 seconds makes Joe want to inhale Dramamine.

Today on SI.com, King explained what he will be watching Sunday on his many TV screens at 30 Rock. One of those screens will have the Saints-Bucs game.

10. The Bucs try to slay the Big, Bad (and Flawed) Saints. In the last eight quarters, the Saints watched teams quarterbacked by Jimmy Clausen and Max Hall outscore them 44-36. Now comes 22-year-old Josh Freeman, who is Johnny Unitas in experience compared to those two guys. And Freeman won’t be scared of anything Gregg Williams throws at him. Amazing to think Tampa Bay could be a game-and-a-half up on the Saints, with a tiebreaker edge too, by 4 p.m. Sunday.

Joe believes the Bucs will have to play their best game of the season to win Sunday. If someway the Bucs win, all you Bucs fans who curled up into a fetal position sucking your thumb wondering why those outside the Tampa Bay region wouldn’t waste 20 seconds on a sad sack team better watch out.

With a win Sunday, the Bucs will become the talk of the NFL.

Yeah, Joe’s a boring guy. Friday morning he was home watching the Documentary Channel. Sure, Joe understands this is no way to lure Rachel Watson.

There was a film shown this morning about the NFL draft, “Two Days in April.” It was a fascinating look at a handful of players that had their lives chronicled from their final college game through the Senior Bowl (if selected), through the combine and up to the 2006 draft.

At the NFL combine, one of the players featured, Derek Hagen, who later was drafted in the third round by the Dolphins, was being interviewed in a hotel room by then Bucs general manager Bruce Almighty and his right-hand man who is the current Bucs general manager, Mark Dominik.

Dominik, largely, sat silent on the couch to Bruce Almighty’s left. Bruce Almighty did the vast amount of the talking, with the exception of Dominik asking Hagen, “What kind of coach do you like, a guy that pats you on the back or guy that gets on you?”

When Hagen answered he liked both, that he liked a “mellow” coach who also would motivate a player, Bruce Almighty laughed and said, “We don’t use the word ‘mellow’ very much around One Buc Place.”

But what Bruce Almighty said a bit earlier in the interview may speak volumes about the draft philosophy the Bucs had under Bruce Almighty (and Chucky, who was also in the film). Bruce Almighty told Hagen, “Look, you are all good players here. What we are looking for are good teammates.”

You’ve all read THE PESSIMIST, who spews his Bucs-related anger like no other. But Joe also wants you to know THE OPTIMIST. 

THE OPTIMIST is Nick Houllis, a Bucs fan and an accomplished writer whose steadfast allegiance to the team goes back to the 1970s. Houllis is the founder, creator and guru of BucStop.com, a place Joe goes to get lost in time via Houllis’ stunning video collection.

THE OPTIMIST will shine that positive light in your eyes. Some will love it. Some won’t.

So you’re probably asking yourself by now, ‘why are the Bucs winning?’ How is it this team that is pretty much the same club that won only three games in 2009 has the same amount of wins already in 2010, and has gone 5 dash 2 (Gulp) in the last seven games?

Well, for starters, there is never only one reason that anything gets done. One is the way different players were added; and it’s the primary difference between this regime, and the last one.

These Bucs know how to draft players. Good college teams know how to recruit, and good NFL teams know how to draft; these are your core players you build your team around. These players can be on your roster for a decade, as opposed to free agents who tend to stay on a roster for only a couple years, maybe four.

There is no mystery to why this team is being run by a Morris and Dominik instead of a Gruden and Allen; the prior regime would not or could not develop young talent, instead relied on expensive (short and long term) free agents.

Take a look at players who made major contributions in the win over Cincinnati as well as victories over Cleveland and Carolina this year.

Sammy Stroughter, a seventh round draft pick, is the third-down specialist who had a few key first downs Sunday, as well as others.

On third down with 10:00 left in the third quarter Sunday, still down by three, Cincinnati threatened with a possession near the 50. They threw deep down the left sideline for Ochocinco, but the pass was excellently defended by E.J. Biggers, another 7th round draft pick that is looking to be the heir apparent to Ronde Barber. That’s two seventh-rounders from the 2009 NFL draft, while the Gruden/Allen regime were supplying the team with names like CB Marcus Hamilton,  S Hamza Abdullah, or the more infamous CB Alan Zemaitis, who was a FOURTH round pick!

What is the current leadership doing with 4th round picks? They’re doing their homework and taking the likes of Mike Williams WR from Syracuse, and DE Kyle Moore who laid a smashing hit on Carson Palmer in the second half to end another threat.

You can go down a list, and find players drafted by Mark Dominik and crew, guys like Cody Grimm who is shoved into the starting lineup and after two games and has more touchdowns than John Lynch already! Arrelious Benn made some nice catches and will continue to grow each week and get better. to the point where 19, 18, 17 won’t sound like a countdown to the end of a season, but what it is instead, roster numbers of the Bucs up-and-coming lethal weapons.

Almost every player taken in the ’09 draft had a part in the win over Cincinnati; From No. 1 pick Josh Freeman on down. Compare that to the starters from the 2008 draft, Gruden/Allen’s last; CB Aqib Talib and LB Geno Hayes, and third round pick Jeremy Zuttah is starting for Faine now, but is a backup across the line. Mind you this was probably the deepest draft of Gruden’s days here.

More names from Bruce Allen and Jon Gruden draft War Room; WR Aaron Lockett, TE Tracy Winstrom, C Zach Quaccia, DE John Stamper, WR Marquise Walker, T Lance Nimmo, LB Marquise Cooper (RIP), FB Casey Cramer, WR Lenny Williams, TE T.J. Williams, CB Justin Phinisee, and TE Tim Massaquoi.

Before the season, knowing the team had 10 draft picks to use in a very deep draft, I heard a lot of criticism on the radio, saying basically do we trust these people who gaffed in years prior to bring in quality bodies, to be responsible for laying the foundation for the franchise for years to come. Acknowledging that a lot of the same people are still in the building, be it Dominik, or director of college scouting Dennis Hickey, perhaps the voices were correct in their concern.

Or maybe the problem was not the picking of the talent but the development of it.

I’ve said this on many occasions to people who want the Glazers to spend more money and bring free agents NOW rather than later to augment a developing team: when you bring in a free agent and plug him into a position, you prevent a young player from also playing that position and developing there. You must either sacrifice development of a young player who may take over that position and keep it for a decade (say Mike Williams) or plug in the veteran for a few years (Anquan Boldin, or Brandon Marshall), only to find you need to replenish it again. You can’t have both.

Clearly, the Bucs under Dominik and Morris have got it right, or at least that’s the view from 3-1; Because that too, may change.

Trey Wingo, Herm Edwards and Mark Schlereth debate the outcome of the Saints-Bucs tangle.

JoeBucsFan.com photo by Kyra Hallett

Now Joe listens to all the Bucs player shows on WDAE-AM 620 so he can share anything interesting with readers and learn more about the team.

This truly is a public service, since often these shows are about as exciting as a Larry King-Tony Bennett interview, but Aqib Talib’s appearance on Wednesday night was a little entertaining. Talib’s voice is unique, and he kept it real talking to callers.

Some highlights:

Talib is very concerned about his swag, and other players’ swag. His pink breast-cancer-awareness socks got a hole in them against the Bengals, and Talib isn’t sure he’ll get a replacement pair before the Bucs wear their pink accessories again against New Orleans.

When it comes to cornerbacks, you could hear in his voice that Talib is awe of the film he’s watched of Deion Sanders.

“Deion just had that unnatural speed that covered up anything you wanted to cover up. But then on top of that he had technique,” Talib said. “So I mean, you rarely see people who could do it all. Deion to me, in my eyes, he was one of the few corners in the league that could do it all.”

On his teammates, Talib said Cody Grimm let down the secondary with a weak touchdown celebration. “We gotta work on his swag.” And Talib said after three touchdowns Mike Williams needs some much better endzone swag, as well.

Talib talked about he craves going up against the best receivers in the game. And Talib gave a very humble answer when asked what personal goals he has for the season. Pro Bowl? Number of picks? “I always just want to be better than the previous year in every respect,” he said.

Raheem Morris took a break out of his busy day earlier this week readying the Bucs for their game this Sunday with the defending Super Bowl champions to appear on perhaps the only Yiddish sports radio show Joe has heard of, “The King David Show,” with former Bucs quarterback Shaun King and Toby David heard locally on WQYK-AM 1010.

Shaun King: I was one of the only ones who was waving the Bucs flag saying you could be successful this year.

Raheem Morris: Don’t worry Shaun, you are one of us.

King: What is the difference this year?

Morris: The guys in the building. They are dedicated. We wanted to play together, grow together. We are not there yet but the confidence is helping us. We are getting there. We feel good about it.

Toby David: There’s a lot of negativity from the media and the fans. How do you silence the critics?

Morris: We haven’t done that yet. We are young, humble and keep fighting. We are not worried about the critics. I pride myself in not listening to the critics. We do it our way which is the best for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

King: You speak of your youth movement. You have a young quarterback. Tell us about Josh.

Morris: He is young. You don’t want to get ahead of yourself. He’s done a great job of what he has been able to do. He is wise and he is clutch but you have to continue to grow and get better every week. Once you say you have it, that’s when you don’t. His leadership role is coming out more and more every week. He is demanding more from his receivers and his teammates and that is the process you have to go through to be great.

King: What Bucs fans would like to know is how you were able to get Mike Williams [so late in the draft]? Tell us about Mike Williams.

Morris: He has done a good job. Got to give credit to the scouting department, Dennis Dickey and Doug Williams was around at the time, and Mark Dominik. They did the research and they did the digging. I also give a lot of credit to [Williams] for letting us get that personal and let us dig like that. But he has put himself into position to be successful. I am very high on him. He works hard every week but we have to continue to push him.

King: I know you have a couple of rookie tackles and it’s hard for rookie tackles. Ndamukong Suh was drafted right before Gerald McCoy. Suh has 18 tackles. McCoy and Brian Price have combined for nine. How hard has it been for those two to get acclimated?

Morris: Winning is part of that. If you aren’t winning, you are more worried about stats. Price came on slower because of his hamstring injury but he is coming on and getting stronger. They will take us to the new millennium of this Tampa-2 defense. It’s exciting where we can go with them.

King: The run defense is 30th in the league. How do you get better?

Morris: Practice. We have to go every single day and work at it. Look who is running the ball on us. Look at our gap. What is hurting us is giving up huge running plays and not being explosive on offense. Those are some things we have to get better at.

King: You have two white guys starting at safety Sunday. We need a nickname for them. How about “Bruise Brothers” and you dress them up in hats and all black and sunglasses?

Morris: [Laughs] Cody had a splash play. He’s doing some good things. I’ll let you guys come up with the nicknames. I loved how Sabby has been able to bounce back but we want him to play better. I’m looking forward to the effort I am getting from my young football team.

The Bucs went from super healthy to Sean Jones missing a game, Jeff Faine out a month, and a bunch of other guys are now banged up.

Woody Cummings, of The Tampa Tribune, chronicled the wounded. You can catch his full story here.

Morris said that in addition to Faine, who will miss several weeks, Moore and Mack were the players most in danger of missing Sunday’s game.

Tim Crowder or Michael Bennett would replace Moore while rookie Myron Lewis likely would replace Mack on the game-day roster.

Frankly, Joe thinks more Crowder and Bennett would be a very good thing.

As for Lewis, Raheem puts him on his “ascending players” list, but Joe would prefer to see him get his first significant action in another game. Joe can imagine the drool dripping off Drew Brees with rookies Cody Grimm and Lewis in the secondary.

Three Saints beat writers gathered and churned out a very intelligent video take on the Saints-Bucs game.

Among the highlights, these guys explain why the Saints are “much less of a threat and “aren’t going to forget” about the crushing loss to the Bucs in New Orleans last December.

Unless you’ve got star talent or a massive contract, it’s easy to lose your role on an NFL team when you get hurt.

Essentially, that’s what happened to Maurice Stovall. He went from depth-chart starter early in the preseason to a guy who missed a ton of time with a bad ankle.

Stovall caught more balls from Josh Freeman than any other Bucs wide receiver last year, but now he’s fighting to get a helmet on.

That’s football.

Tom Balog, Sarasota Herald-Tribune beat writer, takes Stovall’s plight a giant step further. In a long feature story, Balog writes the Bucs have all but given up on him.

He’s been healthy for three weeks now, but inactive for Tampa Bay’s last two games and three of the four this season. He had no catches in his only appearance in the road win at Carolina.

You see, the Buccaneers have already moved on without Stovall, who was third-round draft pick in 2006 that has underachieved his entire career. He has 44 career receptions and two touchdowns in 45 games, only 10 starts.

 The depth chart at wide receiver, where everybody is getting playing time except Stovall, tells you as much.

Joe really can’t go there yet with Stovall. It’s only four games into the season. Way to early.

But it’s pretty obvious that Stovall is not going to be ahead of Sammie Strougther, “ascending” Arrelious Benn and Mike Williams anytime soon. And Micheal Spurlock is making big plays.

Stovall’s the odd man out — for now. Remember, the Bucs love his work ethic.

The NFL Network’s Total Access gang of Rich Eisen, Daryl Johnston and Rod Woodson discuss if the Bucs are for real or not in this NFL Network video.

Johnson seems to be a bit skeptical. Woodson isn’t exactly drinking the Kool-Aid yet but he’s intrigued. He believes the Bucs “statement game” is fast approaching.

Watch the video and let Joe know your thoughts on the trio’s observations.

No Reggie Bush. No Pierre Thomas. And the Saints are on back-to-back road games.

On top of that, the Saints are struggling at 3-2.

What a lucky time to get the Saints, if there is such a thing? The football gods are shining on Raheem Morris.

If you’re wondering what the heck is wrong with the Saints and how they could lose to a rookie quarterback in Arizona last week, Joe suggests you check out this intense Times-Picayune look at the Saints’ troubles.

Turnovers and field goals are to blame, Payton asserted. The latter rear their stunted head in the team’s red zone performance. Normally a strong suit for the Saints during Payton’s tenure, the team has slipped to 24th in the NFL, scoring a touchdown only 36.8 percent of the time on trips inside the 20-yard line. The Saints have more field goals, eight, on such drives than they do touchdowns, seven.

Unfortunately, the culprits are more readily identified than rectified. While the Saints’ accomplished roster does not require a return to square one, Payton said there would be additional emphasis this week on fundamentals such as ball security in the red zone. That could mean spirited practices, especially on Friday when the first team offense and first team defense go full-speed, full-contact in red zone drills.

There’s a lot more to the story. Again, Joe suggests you check it out. Good stuff.

For Joe, absolutely the best news for the Bucs is the putrid Saints running game, led by Ladell Betts (good four years ago) and fumbling rookie Chris Ivory, and now newly signed Julius Jones (good four years ago, too).

Joe doesn’t expect the Bucs’ rushing defense to get fixed in a hurry, but there’s no Cedric Benson on the other side this week.

The gorgeous Jenny Dell of BSPN breaks down the Saints-Bucs game this weekend. It’s easy to see from this video how Jenny became a cheerleader at UMass.

There’s a quote running wild on the Internet and on talk radio that has morphed into the Bucs officially saying they don’t expect to sell out a home playoff game.

This really isn’t so. Here’s the original quote in The Tampa Tribune:

But it doesn’t end there, because team officials are bracing for blackouts of every home Bucs game.

“We are expecting a blackout for this (the Saints game) and the remaining slate of home games,” Bucs director of communications Jonathan Grella said. “Obviously, it’s a challenge we’ve been facing for awhile now.”

Grella said the team’s sales department is “understanding of the pace of ticket sales” and projected that the Bucs’ remaining home games will not sell out.

Joe read this initially and saw it as being very straightforward, simply meaning the Bucs are so far from selling out games with the current numbers of season tickets plus the pace of single-game sales, that it’s obvious it’ll take more than, say, a 6-4 record to fill the stadium.

The quote doesn’t say the Bucs don’t think they can sell out a playoff game.

In Joe’s opinion, the Bucs would have no problem selling out a playoff game following this season.

First, it would a miraculous football story of epic proportions if the Bucs made the playoffs, let alone get a home game. Second, there likely would be plenty of visiting team fans gobbling up those playoff tickets, unless the Bucs played a West Coast team.

Mark Dominik gave an exclusive interview to NFL Radio on Wednesday, only transcribed right here by Joe, and Dominik explained that he’s transitioned from his Jimmy Johnson phase into his Tony Dungy phase.

Mark Dominik: Let’s be honest, we are 3-1 and we played some close games. But one thing we all attribute this success is that we have been building chemistry on this football team. That is how we tried to build the football team. I had a Jimmy Johnson philosophy in changing the roster around and making some hard decisions. Before, we were claiming guys off of practice squads. We have now set ourselves up into what I call the Tony Dungy philosophy in that we will go all young and grow together.

Now this made Joe laugh a bit. Joe’s not sure what “philosophy” Mark Dominik’s past mistakes came under, but that doesn’t matter now. The Bucs are 3-1. Josh Freeman is for real. And Dominik is a budding rock star on the NFL front office circuit for his two drafts.

So Joe has to wonder what philosophy is next?

If the Bucs manage to go 8-8, a tremendous achievement for their talent level and experience, does that mean Dominik would then turn to a get-over-the-hump, get-a-few-premier-free-agents philosophy? And try to accelerate a Super Bowl march with a mix of “ascending players,” as Raheem Morris likes to call them, and established stars?

Surely, Team Glazer remembers its glory years of stockpiling studs and paying a steep price for them, in draft picks and/or cash. It paid off with the ultimate prize and a packed stadium.

For now, Joe just hopes a new philosophy is in play at the end of the season. That would mean the Bucs finished the season strong.

Father Dungy, along with Rodney Harrison and Dull Patrick, discuss the past weekend’s winners in this NBCSports.com video. Father Dungy picks Raheem Morris as his winner.

The first punter didn’t work out, 2010 sixth round pick Brent Bowden.

Then Australian rookie Chris Bryan got cut after Sunday’s win in Cincinnati.

Now the 3-1 Bucs turn to Robert Malone, another rookie, who didn’t stick with Jacksonville after the preseason.

Joe’s not surprised that the Australian guy got cut. He was struggling. Plus, master communicator Raheem Morris couldn’t seem to bond with the guy after they chatted following Bryan’s poor outing against the Steelers.

 “He gave me that accent. I didn’t really know what was going on. I kinda told him I’d talk to him Monday,” Morris half-joked during a bye week news conference.

Mark Dominik snagged Connor Barth on his third try to land a kicker. And Barth has been extraordinary, so Joe has faith this Malone guy will pan out.

Last time the Saints came to the CITS, it marked the end of the heinous Jim Bates Experiment.

When the Saints come marching in Sunday, it may just bring a tear to Joe’s eye. For the last time the Cajuns arrived at the CITS, it marked the end of a hideous Bucs era and may have been the turning point into the winning (?) team the Bucs have become.

Sure, there are 12 more games yet to play, so it’s premature to say the Bucs will have a winning record this season.

If they do, they can point to a man Joe went to college with — New Orleans coach Sean Payton – and his quarterback Drew Brees for helping turn the Bucs into winners, as explained by eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune as he posted on the TBO Bucs Twitter feed.

The last time the Saints came to town, they administered a 38-7 beating that prompted head coach Raheem Morris to take over the defense.

Raheem Morris taking over the Bucs defense meant the end of the heinous Jim Bates Experiment, the worst era of defensive football in the sometimes sordid Bucs franchise history. Under the jailbreak that was the heinous Jim Bates Experiment, the Bucs set a record for most games (six) giving up 25 or more points in a season.

After the Saints left that day, Morris shortly thereafter defrocked Bates of his title as Bucs defensive coordinator.

Since, in 10 games, only the Jets and Steelers have scored 25 or more points against the Bucs.

So nice job, Payton. Nice job, Brees. You helped make the Bucs into the team they are today. Bravo!

Now lose Sunday!

The Bucs’ offensive linemen are a competitive bunch, so says Donald Penn.

No, Penn was not referring to competitive eating.

In the weight room, it’s Jeremy Trueblood and Jeremy Zuttah leading the way with an unwillingness to be outmuscled by teammates, Penn told a fan caller into the Total Access access show on WDAE-AM 620 Monday.

“”Trueblood is such a big competitor. He wants to lift the most out of everybody. And if you lift more than him, he will not let you hear the end of it,” Penn said. “Don’t get Zuttah involved because Zuttah thinks he’s the strongest person in the world. He’s the same way. …We hold each other to a high standard.”

Penn went on to heap more praise on Zuttah for his work ethic and subsequent success at center filling in for Jeff Faine in Cincinnati. ((Hmmm. Joe recalls a certain Web-only publication, behind the security blanket of paid content,  painting Zuttah as a lazy slug this summer.))

Penn went on to name his three toughest defensive ends in the league: Dwight Freeney, DeMarcus Ware and John Abraham.

But Penn, who said he’s “always talking to the other team” keeps his constantly running mouth shut around those guys.

“I love to trash talk because I feel it puts me in my zone. It loosens me up. It gets me going. It relaxes me, too, ” Penn said. “I love to talk trash, especially when the guy can’t do nothing about it. …Oh, no. I don’t talk trash to [Abraham]. I try to keep it cool. I pick and choose my battles.”

Joe can only imagine that as a proud instigator, Penn must have endured an incredible barrage of fat jokes last season. Goodness. 

Penn went on to say the Bucs’ O-line has been preparing for the Saints and their complex blitz packages since the offseason. … He also said they did the same type of prep for the Steelers.

Hats off to Roy Miller for calling the Bucs’ run defense as he sees it.

The Bucs’ rushing defense was miserable the last two weeks, and Miller told St. Pete Times beat writer Rick Stroud he finds it offensive.

“I cannot speak for everybody. I had two mistakes that make me sick,” defensive tackle Roy Miller said. “I gave up a couple yards on the two plays I made my mistakes on. Just as a defense, as a unit, we’ve got to pick it up and find a way to stop then.

“It’s disgusting. Just to know I had a part in that, that’s disgusting to me. Like I said, I had my mistakes, I had two bad plays. One is enough. When you have inconsistent play here and there, it adds up. It’s not that we don’t have the guys or the talent, we’ve just got to find a way to get it done.”

The Bucs are ranked 30th in the NFL against the run and No. 9 in pass defense.

Joe loves the accountability by Miller, who had even more to say. The talk is nice, but can it be fixed this season? Joe suspects that it will take quite a bit of time to turn around the run defense. Thankfully, the Bucs have time before they play the Falcons.