The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have won 2 games this year. Last year they won 3 games, total. Their current record is largely due to the incompetence of Eric Mangini, and the underperformance of the Carolina Panthers.
The Bucs feature a 22 year-old QB named Josh Freeman. Freeman managed to be drafted in the first round of 2009 without anybody noticing. He's 6'6, 250, and as mobile, if not more so than Roethlisberger. He is not very good at working enough miracles to win a football game, and thus will be at a disadvantage against our pass defense.
Raheem Morris is Tampa Bay's 16 year-old coach. Seriously though, the guy is dangerously young to be coaching a football team. Mike Tomlin and Bill Cowher were young hires; this guy was made interim head coach by an owner that forgot he was actually an assistant DB coach who was serving as interim defensive coordinator. I'm not saying he's awful. Only that he had the most meteoric rise through the ranks of assistant coaching, ever.
Tampa Bay drafted Gerald McCoy as the 3rd overall pick in this year's draft. He's a nasty, run-stopping DT in a traditional 4-3 system, with many analysts feeling like he is as good as Ndamunkong Suh. In any case, watch out for #93. He'll be giving Maurkice Pouncey his first legit challenge since being in the pros.
The Buccaneers have around 200 yards on the ground in two games, yet are averaging only a paltry 2.6 Y/A by their aging featured back, Cadillac Williams. Who knows, maybe tomorrow will be some huge coming-out party for an undrafted schmo who shreds the Pittsburgh run defense. But Vegas is betting against it.
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