BSPN: Bucs Are No. 1
October 14th, 2025
The best!
We are living in Bizarro World.
When Joe saw the following (texted to him this morning by Joe’s good friend Dr. David Wenk of Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute), Joe just blindly stared into space the same way Yosemite Sam or Forhorn Leghorn or Daffy Duck stare ahead immediately after a bomb exploded in their face.
BSPN has the Bucs ranked as the No. 1 team in the NFL based on Week 7’s Power Rankings.
Jenna Laine of BSPN had the honor to type up this summary:
1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-1)
Week 6 result: Beat the 49ers 30-19
Week 6 ranking: 4
Lesson learned: The Bucs are far better equipped to weather injuries.
The Bucs lost three games last season without Mike Evans and Chris Godwin Jr., and yet the past two weeks, Baker Mayfield and this defense have pulled off back-to-back victories without both receivers. In fact, Mayfield delivered this past Sunday’s win with just one healthy starting skill player by the game’s end in tight end Cade Otton. The Bucs were down to the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth wide receivers — two of whom scored their first NFL touchdowns. And the defense might be short at corner again, but its depth and ability to get takeaways has catapulted Tampa Bay to the top of the NFC.
With the possible exception of BSPN’s power rankings immediately after the Bucs’ Super Bowl win in February 2021, Joe doesn’t ever remember the four-letter ranking the Bucs first in their power rankings.
The Mouse Outfit may have. Joe generally doesn’t monitor power rankings because it is usually the same drivel being pushed by BSPN. Either they get behind a team they want to be No. 1 (Atlanta) or they usually circle jerk a predictable team like the Eagles or the Crows or Cowboys or Rams or Patriots or Steelers or Packers.
For a team quarterbacked by Baker Mayfield, not a team from the northeast or a team that has a monster following, to be labeled as the best in the land by BSPN, folks, we are truly living in strange times.