Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
One would hope a team can improve as the season progresses.
We’re right at midseason for the Bucs (3-5). Good thing they play in a trash division.
Bucs radio play-by-play man Tony Castricone had an interesting nugget on Twitter. The Bucs have won three of their last four games. So yeah, it’s not a shock that the Bucs would be scoring more points of late.
But the Bucs have been better than just scoring more. The margin of difference in scoring for the Bucs the past month has skyrocketed.
In fact, in the past four games, the Bucs have had the highest scoring margin of anyone in the NFL. But here is where it gets, um, interesting.
In the past four weeks, the three immediate teams that trail the Bucs in highest margin of points are all teams the Bucs lost to. That would be Pittsburgh, Green Bay and Cincinnati.
Now, now. Joe knows what you are thinking. The three teams the Bucs beat are trash teams: Dallas, Carolina and Atlanta.
Well, at least the Bucs beat them. Isn’t that the first goal of a team that aims for success, to beat the teams you are supposed to beat?
Joe hopes this doesn’t turn out to be like 2010 when the Bucs won 10 games and not until the final game of the season, when they beat the slimy Saints, did the Bucs beat a team with a winning record.
And that same year, the Bucs lost to a team they should have beaten (Detroit) and as a result, they lost a wild card tiebreaker to the eventual Super Bowl winner, Green Bay.
Over the last 4 weeks (Weeks 5-8), the @Buccaneers lead the NFL in scoring margin.
A point behind them is the team that beat them in OT.
1. Tampa Bay (+47) 3-1-0
2. Pittsburgh (+46) 4-0-0
3. Green Bay (+39) 3-1-0
4. Cincinnati (+36) 3-0-0