Bucs Fans, Be Thankful For A Snuggly-Soft Late-Season Schedule
November 28th, 2024
Saved by the schedule?
OK, since it is Thanksgiving, you’ve got to have a Thanksgiving story, right? It’s the law, ain’t it? You know, like an 11th commandment?
So Jeffri Chadiha of NFL.com decided to type a piece earlier this week looking at what every NFL team has to be thankful for.
And Chadiha believes Bucs fans ought to give thanks to the almighty NFL strongman Roger Goodell for giving them a pumpkin-pie-soft schedule the rest of the way to keep the Bucs in the playoff hunt.
The remainder of the schedule. If there’s one reason to feel good about the Buccaneers — a team that had lost four straight games and five of its last six coming into this past weekend — it has to be the remaining slate of opponents. They just beat up on the Giants on Sunday coming off a Week 11 bye, and they’re only set to face one more team that currently owns a winning record (the Chargers). That’s the second-easiest schedule left in the league for a Tampa Bay team that is currently sitting at 5-6. …
“This Joe” is still uncomfortable how so many people both inside and outside of One Buc Palace think the Bucs can rip off six wins out of seven games, take over the division and make the playoffs.
Could the Bucs do that? Sure. It’s just not something “this Joe” would lay any cash on.
Is Joe hopeful? Of course. But Joe also lives in the real world. One slip up to someone like the Stinking Panthers on Sunday and this team is on the edge of doom.
Damn thankful this post-bye schedule is so weak.
November 28th, 2024 at 8:11 am
Get Gruden back here!
November 28th, 2024 at 8:26 am
“This Joe” is still uncomfortable how so many people both inside and outside of One Buc Palace think the Bucs can rip off six wins out of seven games, take over the division and make the playoffs.”
Im with you Joe… It just feels to this life long buc fan we are playing on eggshells.
November 28th, 2024 at 8:38 am
Just WIN BABY… The rest will work out. Bucs trajectory pointing up Falcons trajectory pointing down. Now fix the pass defense and storm into the playoffs.
November 28th, 2024 at 8:44 am
Yes they are being saved by a soft schedule after enduring the hardest schedule in the NFL. It balances it out.
November 28th, 2024 at 8:59 am
Hahahaha, be thankful. Stop it guy don’t tell the fans to be thankful.
What a chooch. Cmon now guy. You be thankful you still have a job.
You be thankful Bruce Arians and TB12 gave you a SB.
Lastly you be thankful for having the easy schedule because your the one who is gonna need it if you want to keep that job. SMH.
November 28th, 2024 at 9:07 am
And what do you think will happen if we do pull off a miracle and win a spot in the playoffs? With TB at the controls I bet we’ll be one and done….
November 28th, 2024 at 9:10 am
Who is “Guy”? Who are you talking to and what are you talking about? Happy Thanksgiving! Go Bucs!
November 28th, 2024 at 9:35 am
If our guys go into this thinking “soft games” they will have laid a trap for themselves. That will lead to losses that ensure no chance of making it to the playoffs. So far the chatter from the team sounds like they get it.
Go Bucs!
November 28th, 2024 at 10:06 am
They must have had the toughest first half schedule. Beat Detroit and Philadelphia when healthy, lost close to Falcons, Ravens, KC, Denver, and San Francisco when injury-riddled.
I like their chances if Wirfs gets healthy!
November 28th, 2024 at 10:10 am
1 game at a time
November 28th, 2024 at 10:23 am
Yea Brady changed the culture, he brought this annoying Dallas cowboys type fan base mentality to Tampa, everything will work out because it did last year and the year before plus we are the Bucs. Yea Todd is gonna do something he’s never done before. I would believe that if the Bucs actually had a winning record going into this home stretch. One win against a 2 win team and suddenly y’all forget our defense is trash. Liam Coen is the one giving you hope but you’re believing in Todd Bowles and it’s weird.
November 28th, 2024 at 10:28 am
Just what I want going into playoffs: cupcakes.
November 28th, 2024 at 11:22 am
Going to Charlotte this weekend. Love to go to the game. Tickets?
November 28th, 2024 at 11:25 am
Never understood this mentality. If you need weak opponents just to make it to the tournament. What does that say about you as a team?
November 28th, 2024 at 11:49 am
You forgot to mention, We still gotta show up and win those so called soft games.
November 28th, 2024 at 12:03 pm
@BucsBeast exactly
As much as we hoped Brady “changed the culture”, we’re still a low self esteem franchise with low standards. More interested in good enough than greatness. More interested in keeping jobs than winning rings.
You should want to play and beat the best to be the best.
November 28th, 2024 at 12:26 pm
Here’s wishing “This Joe” and “That Joe” and “That Ira” and all the commenters a joyous Thanksgiving Day. Before I proceed with my Thanksgiving Day, and I have much to be thankful for, I will make this one comment.
The Bucs have problems. I say this not as a cynic with “battered child syndrome” as “That Joe” so labeled myself and other older fans but as someone who’s cataracts aren’t bad enough to fog my vision. The Bucs have talent but no identity. On one hand they appear to be winners and on the other they appear to be losers. Which is it ? It has been my observation over a long time that a team needs two key elements to form an identity and that is a head coach and a quarterback. I’ll leave it to those who read this to decide what the Bucs need to form a winning identity.
November 28th, 2024 at 1:16 pm
Never quite understood the need for “identity”. When I hear that word, i think “predictable”. What team wants that? The 90s Cowboys had a great run game, passing game, and stellar line. They could beat you in many ways, depending on what the defense schemed. Ditto the 70’s Steelers. The last thing I want my team to be is predictable. Now, “culture” is what i believe many want in terms of identity. Give Canales credit. His team is fighting and playing for him, nearly beating the Chiefs last week. I think our players see Bowles as a father who they want to make proud. Not the greatest tactician, per se, but his stoic nature and quiet calm has its strengths.