Nailbiter
December 19th, 2021
Joe has to call it straight. And it wouldn’t surprise Joe if all fans are sweating watching tonight’s slimy Saints-Bucs game more than a vegan feminist at Hooters.
The slimy Saints have some French Quarter voodoo hex on the Bucs in the regular season. And starting that glorified Wing-T quarterback Taysom Hill tonight, and how the Bucs demonstrated last week they struggle terribly in stopping running quarterbacks, this game scares Joe.
Joe’s good friend Mike Tanier of Football Outsiders believes Joe and other Bucs fans have a good reason to sweat.
But in the end, Tanier believes 17-game-loathing, salad bar-hating, park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, smartphone-phobic, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, roller-coaster-scared, numbers-rules-peeved, helmet-tossing, football-punting Bucs Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady finds a way to win tonight.
The Saints are reasonably healthy by both their standards and Week 15 standards. They beat the Buccaneers despite losing Jameis Winston on Halloween. And they have a 22.7% chance of reaching the playoffs that will climb much higher with a win, because they face the Dolphins, Panthers, and Falcons to wrap the season. The Saints are also an option-flavored team facing an opponent that struggled to stop the Bills’ option-flavored tactics in the second half last week.
Unfortunately, option-flavored tactics are much easier to stop when your safeties have no reason whatsoever to respect the deep pass. So this game will play out like last week’s Buccaneers-Bills game: the Taysom Hill Experience will be unable to move the ball before halftime, Tom Brady will probe the Saints defense until he finds its ever-softening soft spots, and Taysom’s gutsy fourth-quarter comeback will only impress Sean Payton and the producers of weird Sean Payton streaming-service biopics. Buccaneers 27, Saints 22.
For the love of Brad Johnson, Joe has no earthly idea what Payton sees in this stunt of a Wing-T quarterback Taysom Hill. The guy stinks. But we all know how the Bucs have a frightening history of getting stung by backup quarterbacks.
Brady, by the way, has seven picks in his three previous games facing the slimy Saints in the regular season. About time for Brady to light these guys up.
December 19th, 2021 at 8:07 am
I refuse to bite my nails Joe! At my age good chance my teeth break doing that! We should win this one easy, relax, kick back with a Big Storm, Bucs win big!
December 19th, 2021 at 8:09 am
Bucs will see 50 touches between Hill and Kamara tonight.
The Bucs are more vulnerable to the run than many think.
I don’t feel that positive about this game, even if Peyton is watching at home.
December 19th, 2021 at 8:12 am
Pete chews his toenails vs Saints. Pete needs a blowout for once
December 19th, 2021 at 8:24 am
The defense got scorched by Josh Allen last week. Taysom Hill is not Josh Allen.
We are going to crush our chance to clinch the division, at home, while ending their season.
Go Bucs!
December 19th, 2021 at 8:35 am
FIRST OFF IM NOT ONE TO BLAME REFS….EVERY GAME YOU HAVE TO OVERCOME THE REFS CALLS…BUT CLEARLY THE REFS HARDCORE MESSED UP CALLS FOR US IN THAT GAME ..THEY CALL (3) 15 YARD PERSONAL FOULS ON ONE DRIVE INCLUDING WHEN WE PICK OFF SEAMAN IN THE ENDZONE BUT OBVIOUSLY WE GOT A PF PENALTY FOR RUFFING THE PASSER WHEN GOULDSTON ONLY BUMP THE QB..THE NFL LITERALLY CAME OUT AND SAID TGEY WOULD STOP CALLING THOSE FAKE PF CALLS…EVERY TEAM WAS SUFFERING FROM IT…
December 19th, 2021 at 8:41 am
This go around I believe we The Bucs beat the ain’ts by 14.
December 19th, 2021 at 8:47 am
“Joe has no earthly idea what Payton sees in this stunt of a Wing-T quarterback Taysom Hill.”
Let me help. You know how the girls get prettier the closer it is to final call?
Payton has had little with which to work.
This is why I think Khan should open the Brinks truck and shower mega millions on Payton!!! He should give Payton full control over player decisions and get out of Sean’s way.
Hey I loathe Payton so I’m prejudiced against him but he has scoreboard on me I have to acknowledge he is a great coach whether I want to or not.
He would get a fresh start in Jax with one of the most promising young QB’s in the league to develop.
And how great would it be for the Bucs to get Payton out of our Division and Conference? If I thought it would it help I’d start a Gofundme page to help Sean move to Jax!
December 19th, 2021 at 8:49 am
BTW A weird incentive for Payton…a fresh start and if he won an SB in Jax who would enter Don Shula territory for greatness.
December 19th, 2021 at 9:00 am
Perriman one TD and test positive for covid. He’s out. Next man up Scotty or Darden. Hopefully Vaughan steps up as 3rd down back. I bet Simeion plays a lot tonight, Payton knows Bucs weakness is the pass.
December 19th, 2021 at 9:05 am
I’m thinking a win is 50/50 at best. One bright spot is our waiver wire secondary has had some practice since the last meeting
December 19th, 2021 at 9:06 am
Blowout
December 19th, 2021 at 9:22 am
Tampa always makes opposite average QB’s look like all stars. Is it in the water? Hopefully that changes today.
December 19th, 2021 at 9:28 am
Saints always play us tough, I believe we crush them tonight on our way to Super bowl
December 19th, 2021 at 9:34 am
If my memory serves well, I recall Gronk did not play against the Saints on Halloween.
That’s a big difference for the O in this game.
December 19th, 2021 at 9:36 am
I was thinking the same thing. Nothing in stone says if Hill starts out bad they don’t put Siemian in. He did it once and our defense would let him do it again. Brady and the offence would have to score 40 points.
December 19th, 2021 at 9:47 am
My man Pete needs a blowout…and not in his jean shorts due to too many wings, wine coolers & cupcakes.
Expect a tough game…
December 19th, 2021 at 9:48 am
Every time we play the Saints somehow we manage to get stung by them every game. I praying tonight will be different and Tom and his great team will come out and take care of business and not repeat what happen last weekend with the Bills. Yes we were fortunate enough to pull out the overtime win but we just might not be as fortunate to do so with the Saints. Let’s gooooo and kick some Saints butts tonight. Gooooo Bucs!!!
December 19th, 2021 at 9:58 am
“Vegan feminist at Hooters” Classic.
December 19th, 2021 at 10:24 am
Bucs D needs to understand that Saints will throw everything they have at them tonight. Just because Peyton isn’t there doesn’t mean they don’t have some new looks and trick plays ready to go tonight. Hill looked terrible last week, I expect him to run it a lot tonight.
December 19th, 2021 at 10:29 am
I agree. It will be close. Lets face it. Their defense is one of best in nfl and seems to always have a good game plan for our offense.
And their offense has beaten us with taysome hill and siemen at qb
Payton is out but he is so slimy i could see him calling plays from home 😂 or dressed up in a disguise near team bench
But in all fairness , i hope its a blow out just to crush their dreams of making playoffs. Cant stand the saints or their fans.
December 19th, 2021 at 10:47 am
Saints fighting for their season, and always give us fits.
Maybe we could run a trick play?
December 19th, 2021 at 10:49 am
Boy do I hate the friggin Saints. This is definitely a who wants it more kind of game. Do the Saints really believe they are a playoff team? How bad do the Bucs want that division title and #1 seed? This is always a physical matchup. Will the Bucs D come in ready to tackle kamara and Hill all night? Are the O-line and Lenny ready to make an impact? Huge game. Wish I didn’t have to wait till 8:20. Go Bucs!
December 19th, 2021 at 12:29 pm
Begging the OL to run block better than they ever had. Let’s get 150 tards rushing for Lenny and another 100 for Rojo.
Then Tom only needs to throw about 15 passes.
I’m already experiencing spastic colon about this game.
December 19th, 2021 at 12:32 pm
Most importantly, ignore Joe’s 600 word Tom Brady adjective rampage. If not, you will hear it every time his name comes up in an article. Wink wink.
December 19th, 2021 at 1:21 pm
Let’s start off with a run up the middle for a yard and a half
December 19th, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Even though I dislike him with a passion Payton is a smart dude and knows that we are gosh awful against terrible quarterbacks. We are even worse against terrible quarterbacks that run well. Hill is on the team to get two easy wins against us. Hopefully, we show up tonight and kick this horrible trend in the teeth.
December 19th, 2021 at 1:41 pm
Swampbuc Says:
“Let’s get 150 tards rushing for Lenny…”
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While politically incorrect, this would be fun to watch! 😂🤣
December 19th, 2021 at 2:46 pm
Yeah Coke Spoon – a fat finger changes everything. But given all the charity programs, I could envision like a dozen short buses pulling up to RayJay and letting them all run around with Lenny before the game.
December 19th, 2021 at 3:01 pm
Only way we win is if Brady stops his penchant for throwing to Saints players and we have a turnover free game.
December 19th, 2021 at 3:08 pm
When are clowns going to spell Ronde Barbers first name correctly? Who told them “shouting” online is a cool thing?
December 19th, 2021 at 4:21 pm
They need to play the receivers tight and just bring it for the run all day. The Buccaneers have home-field and locking up the division in their sites. I think this is going to be a blowout. I think they are upset they let Buffalo back in the game last week.
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