Was Blocking The True Secret?
October 1st, 2019
Got caught napping?
Man, Joe doesn’t think one Bucs fan saw coming what the Tampa Bay offense did Sunday.
The Rams are one of the best teams in the NFL, having played in the Super Bowl last year. Studs all up and down the roster on defense and one of the best defensive coordinators the game has seen in Wade Phillips.
Yet the Bucs offense b!tch-slapped the Rams with a franchise-record 55 points, all but six coming from the offense.
Yes, it was a surprise. Joe wonders if it was as simple as the tremendous blocking the Bucs offensive line provided? Or did Bucco Bruce Arians light a fire under his offense after choking against the Giants the week prior?
Now Joe confesses to trying to think on Friday or Saturday of ways the Bucs could beat the Rams. One was that the Rams, facing a critical Thursday night against Seattle, may look past the Bucs. This often happens in college football, a sport largely driven by emotion. Not so much in the NFL. Joe’s thought lasted for maybe two minutes and then Joe wrongly came to his senses thinking the Rams were going to work over the Bucs.
Maybe, just perhaps, the Rams did look past the Bucs and towards their Thursday night game this week against the Seahawks and tripped up in the process?
October 1st, 2019 at 11:21 am
Definitely possible. NFL is such a crazy week to week league. I don’t think they took our offense seriously enough and by the time they realized it we had already gotten them completely off balance.
What happened to the Rams is what we’ve seen with the Bucs too often in recent years, where the other team is up 3 scores by the 2nd quarter your QB has to throw the crap out of the ball, which leads to turnovers/sacks and a loss 99% of the time.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:21 am
Bullspit! give these guys the credit that they deserve no crap like this. They won the game period doesn’t matter how. Always an excuse when we win and pointing fingers at the QB when we lose. Whipped their asses in the beginning.. let up a lil bit and came out and finished in the 4th period!
October 1st, 2019 at 11:21 am
Bucs stopped run, created turnovers, OLine played well, Gay made his kicks and most important,Jameis was strong for 4 quarters
October 1st, 2019 at 11:21 am
My Mobile Madden season has predicted the season so far. I’m just putting it out there that my wins and losses match b4 the real games are played. I’ll let ya know when i play the this week’s matchup.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:21 am
Didn’t think we would win but if we did I thought it would be because we were a trap game for the Rams
October 1st, 2019 at 11:23 am
When on the goal line, we need to have big Vita Vea as the power back
October 1st, 2019 at 11:27 am
People forget the Rams were awful for years. Then they brought in a new coach, QB, DT, RB, receivers. The torch just may’ve been passed, that’s all. People thinking this roster isn’t talented aren’t looking at it.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:29 am
Follow the money. If the Bucs played the Rams again in two weeks, the spread would still be about the same.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:29 am
Joe…glad to see this site has been quickly un-hacked.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:39 am
Any given Sunday any team in the NFL can beat another, the talent level is simply too high. Just like we lost to the Giants at home, there are no gimmes, every win must be earned. Turnovers ultimately crush your chances, the margin for error is so slim. That’s why it’s a big deal when Winston leads all QBs in turnovers since joining the league, it stacks the odds further and further against the team. Even in the Rams game where he played exceptionally well, the turnover at the end could have been enough to let the Rams come back. Rams had 4 turnovers…Bucs had 1. Statistically the Rams should lose…which they did. I thought they played very hard and fought us to the very end. Didn’t since they looked past us at all. We made more clutch plays then they did.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:44 am
🙂
October 1st, 2019 at 11:54 am
VV as a back at those times. Good idea. He was a running back in HS.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:54 am
I think you’re right but the Rams were down 21 points before they woke up. I was very impressed with their talent level.
Chris Simms did a very interesting analysis if the game. He initially thought Goff showed he wasn’t ready for prime time. After careful film break down, he saw that Goff had the best game of his career and showed that he was finally ready to carry the Rams on his back if necessary. It bodes well for LA.
All of the Buc’s 4 opponents actually look pretty good at this point. The difference going forward is that the Bucs are maturing, growing confident and learning how to win. 2-2 looks pretty good.
The most surprising thing I heard this week was when someone asked Cappa about the dreadful road schedule they faced, he disagreed and said that road trips were a blast. They were fun. That’s refreshing to hear.
October 1st, 2019 at 11:56 am
Great idea Vita Vea bulldozing into the endzone for the TD.
October 1st, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Yeah right bro Goff turned the ball over he lost that game we game planned for Donald took him out took out Gurley smart well coached team! Seattle and Rams going to be a good game too
October 1st, 2019 at 12:23 pm
@Joe … “Yet the Bucs offense b!tch-slapped the Rams with a franchise-record 55 points, all but six coming from the offense.” True statement Joe, and the Bucs offense played GRRREAT. But to me, the real story of the game is how well the Bucs’ offense and the Bucs’ defense played COMPLIMENTARY FOOTBALL for a change.
Bucs defense created FOUR turnovers, and scored a TD off of one of them. What got me so excited though is how our offense capitalized BIG TIME on every other turnover.
o INT #1: at 13:39 to go in 2nd qtr … Whitehead intercepts Goff pass, returns it 11 yds; Bucs get it at midfield; 7 plays later, Jameis throws TD pass to Godwin.
o INT #2: at 8:45 to go in 2nd qtr … LVD intercepts Goff pass, returns it 26 yds to Rams 9 yd line; 1 play later, Jameis throws another TD pass to Godwin.
o INT #3: at 2:54 to go in 3rd qtr … Barrett intercepts Goff pass, returns it 4 yds to Tampa 47 yd line; 6 plays later, Jameis throw another TD pass, this time to Brate.
THAT is what’s known as COMPLIMENTARY FOOTBALL. And the Bucs put on a clinic on national TV to demonstrate how it’s done. A-W-E-S-O-M-E !!!!!!! (seven exclamation points specifically for Realist in honor of our seven TDs Sunday).
October 1st, 2019 at 12:26 pm
Awaiting moderation for that Joe? Some day I guess I’ll figure out the triggers. Today isn’t that day. Tomorrow’s not looking that good either.
BTW, got a very weird error message about an hour or so ago when going to JBF.com. All it said was that your site had been hacked and wouldn’t let me go any further. Might be worth having your cyber-security folks check it out?
October 1st, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Love the VV power back idea…
Only down side is people taking shots at his knees.
October 1st, 2019 at 12:37 pm
When you do, let Joe know what they are.
October 1st, 2019 at 12:55 pm
rams thought we were the same ol bucs….lol…
they must have forgot dirk is now in ATL!!!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!!!!
October 1st, 2019 at 1:09 pm
I like the idea of Vea as a goal line powerback.
I also like the idea of Suh doing the same.
The man showed some wheels on his TD run.
Also think he would major slobber knock anyone in his way.
October 1st, 2019 at 1:33 pm
@Louis. I thought the same thing about Suh after his scoop and TD. That dude is athletic!
October 1st, 2019 at 1:42 pm
How about VV as the short yardage RB with Suh as the FB?! I imagine a LB going turtle on that assignment.
October 1st, 2019 at 2:23 pm
Full team effort for four quarters. They finished what they started.
October 1st, 2019 at 3:03 pm
Like they have against the Saints and Eagles, also teams thought to be out of their league even with clueless Koetter, they just match up well against them. The Rams didn’t exactly dominate them the last few times they played. Wasn’t that the game where Koetter had that throwback pass or something as the last play, and they went down to the wire with them also when Fisher was coach after a long thunderstorm delay. It’s been largely the same core of players facing each other, but the difference you can see is the coaching. Arians will always have his team in a position to win.
October 1st, 2019 at 5:30 pm
I don’t think they’d have looked past us. We put an ass-kicking on the Panthers and Giants (mostly) and we were one 27 yard field goal away from 2-1 and a “real” contender. I don’t think a coach as good as McVay could look past us like that.
The most solid evidence I have for that is how little they ran the ball. Of course you could say that they didn’t run because they were down so much, but of the 8 plays on their first drive 7 were passes. On the second drive that ended in an INT all 6 plays were passes. The third drive was 2 runs for 6 yards and then the LVD interception.
My theory is that they saw how we contained whoever the hell the 49ers trotted out, CMC, and Barkley, and knew they had to pass to win against us.
October 1st, 2019 at 5:58 pm
Can somebody please call the wahmbulance?
NOBODY gets to use EXCUSES in this league…if the lowly Bucs get none of that consideration…look at the schedule of OUR first 8 games…why should LA?
October 1st, 2019 at 6:32 pm
“Chris Simms did a very interesting analysis if the game. He initially thought Goff showed he wasn’t ready for prime time. After careful film break down, he saw that Goff had the best game of his career and showed that he was finally ready to carry the Rams on his back if necessary. It bodes well for LA.”
From the same crowd that would rip Jameis a new one if he had 4 turnovers.
October 2nd, 2019 at 8:30 am
I would buy that if it was not for the 55 points the Bucs put up against a top Wade (Bum’s son) Phillips defense