Balance!
Joe admits he had to shake his head, Looney Tunes-style like when Yosemite Sam got blasted in the face by a cannon.
The Bucs have as balanced an offense as… the Dixie Chicks?
Yeah, Joe thinks that’s pretty far out there. But who else comes up with head-scratching, far-out-there nonsense like the PFF tribe?
Armed with their well-trained orangutans sitting in Irish dorms, cobbling together weirdo stats off of broadcast tape, the PFF tribe tried to make the case of the Dixie Chicks having as balanced of an offense as the Bucs.
[That’s the word](https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2025-roster-rankings-strengths-weaknesses-x-factors?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null#TB) from Max Chadwick and Dalton Wasserman of the PFF tribe.
> **Biggest strength in 2024: Offensive balance**
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> With the addition of the dynamic Bucky Irving to the team’s backfield, the Buccaneers boasted one of the NFL’s most balanced offenses last season. They ranked among the top nine teams in … 2024. The only other teams to accomplish that feat last season were the Falcons and Ravens.
Look, at times last year (specifically against the Bucs) with Kirk Cousins and Bijan Robinson, Atlanta did have a really good, balanced offense.
But when Cousins started to slide, that “balance” was out the window. And while Joe likes Dixie Chicks quarterback Michael Penix a lot, he was nowhere near as consistent as Baker Mayfield.
The Bucs were third in passing last year and fourth in rushing. While Atlanta was a surprising fourth in passing (the Bucs padded the Dixie Chicks’ numbers in two games big time), Atlanta was 10th in rushing.
So statistically, Atlanta was good on balance offensively. Not top-three like the Bucs were.
And from midseason through the latter half of the season, the Dixie Chicks were not consistent at quarterback.