Sacks are always the answer.
Joe wants to see an entrepreneur start printing T-shirts with this slogan emblazed across the front and have Bucs fans from Wesley Chapel to Sarasota wearing them:
“BEAT ATLANTA”
It’s like when Celtics fans used to chant to an opponent in the Eastern Conference finals when it was apparent the Celtics wouldn’t be advancing to play the Lakers in the finals.
‘BEAT LA”
Or, whenever the old Eagles teams or the Joe Gibbs-era Redsk!ns were riding high. RFK Stadium used to quake the chants were so loud.
“WE WANT DALLAS”
The Bucs need to get payback on the Dixie Chicks from last year to make sure the Bucs wrap up the NFC South for a five-peat this season. Last year the Bucs choked the first game away in Atlanta and then in the rematch, a horrendous gaffe made worse by either FOX or the NFL (or both?) penny-pinching by multi-billion entieis not having a replay camera on the goal line gave the Dixie Chicks a touchdown on what should have been an Antoine Winfield forced fumble.
Both games were one-score games. The contest in Atlanta was an overtime loss where the Bucs gave the game away.
BEAT ATLANTA.
For the Bucs to get the upper hand in the race for the division, Jenna Laine said [the easiest way](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/-nflschedulerelease-45054958/tampa-bay-buccaneers-schedule-2025-takeaways-predictions) for the Bucs to do this is simple:
BEAT ATLANTA
> **Circle this date**
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> Week 1 at the Falcons, and Week 15 hosting the Falcons. The Bucs lost a 36-30 in a “Thursday Night Football” matchup that went to overtime in Atlanta in Week 5 last season and then suffered a 31-26 home loss to the Falcons in Week 8, but none of those games were against quarterback Michael Penix Jr. It should be noted that as head coach of the Bucs, Todd Bowles has never lost a season opener.
BEAT ATLANTA
The Bucs cannot let a young, though very talented, Michael Penix get off to a hot start and build confidence in Week 1. The best way to do that is to make him eat the turf of the Dixie Chicks’ bird cage.
You do that with sacks. Are you reading this, Bucs?
Joe really thinks Atlanta’s defense, which was awful last year, will only get better as the season transpires. But the first week of the season, banking on rookie edge rushers going up against Tristan Wirfs and Luke Goedeke? HA!
The mission is simple.
BEAT ATLANTA.
The entire Tampa Bay region needs to begin speaking this now. It has to happen. It must happen.
When you walk into bars this weekend or hit the beach, you don’t say hi to people. You don’t ask them how they are doing. You simply green them with a two-word phrase.
BEAT ATLANTA.