Baker Mayfield.
So just how good are the Bucs? We’ll find out tonight.
It’s one thing for the Bucs to mop up on Dallas, Carolina and Atlanta. That’s great.
But tonight, the Bucs are facing a different animal. They’re going to battle perhaps the best team in the league with probably the best quarterback in the league not named “Josh Allen” or “Matt Stafford.”
And the Bucs will try to pull off this feat playing in a decrepit stadium a block from Lake Michigan that has been a house of horrors for the Bucs this century.
Good luck.
Frank Schwab of _Yahoo!_ wonders aloud if it’s possible the Bucs [are being overlooked](https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/betting/article/week-9-nfl-picks-against-the-spread-predictions-for-every-game-bears-have-momentum-going-into-sunday-night-vs-buccaneers-151416985.html) and the Bears are getting too much run?
> The Buccaneers will be completely overshadowed in this game. The Bears will be the focus on Sunday night as they’ve emerged as one of the NFL’s most dangerous teams. That’s a reason they’re a healthy 6.5-point favorite. That’s a lot of points, and the Buccaneers might be secretly pretty good.
Well, being 3-5 and starting the season 0-4 is a big reason why the Bucs are “overshadowed.” When you start like that, normally a team’s focus turns to the draft and which players they want to retain and which players they want to wave goodbye to.
Thank goodness for the NFC South landfill, where seemingly no team is eliminated from postseason play until the regular season ends.