Week 4 Playoff Projections
September 25th, 2024
Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
Time to take a moment to turn the page on Week 3 and start looking ahead to the Eagles, 1 p.m. Sunday at The Licht House.
So entering this weekend, various publications updated their playoff-projection percentages. And the beat down the Bucs took at the hands of Sean Payton and the Broncos really sank the Bucs’ numbers.
For example, the worldwide leader has the Bucs now with a 35 percent chance of making the playoffs. The Athletic has a rosier outlook. They have the Bucs with a 43 percent chance of the playoffs.
The website PlayoffStatus.com has the Bucs with a 56 percent shot. Something called PowerRankingsGuru.com has the Bucs with a 46 percent chance of playing in the playoffs.
The way Joe looks at it, yeah, that loss to Denver was a brutal cosmetic look. But as long as the Bucs take care of business in the NFC South, all will be fine.
September 25th, 2024 at 10:07 am
Yay, a 1pm heat\sauna game with a bunch of eagles fans (worst fans in the league). It will be a blast. Let’s watch the game by the concessions in the shade on tvs. Go BUCS!
September 25th, 2024 at 10:26 am
They stunk so bad they have no playoff chance if they lose to Eagles and stainks.
September 25th, 2024 at 10:40 am
And Tom Brady is going to call this game for Fox. I can’t wait to see what Brady has to say about Mayfield if he crumbles under pressure…
September 25th, 2024 at 10:46 am
way to soon to do playoff predictions and percentages. Anything can happen any week and we are still very early in the season.
September 25th, 2024 at 10:48 am
Need this win bad! Can’t have 3 defensive starters and an o-lineman out with injuries against a good team and expect to win, unless your backups are on their game and everyone is playing with their hair on fire. You may get lucky occasionally (e.g., against Detroit), but 9 times out of 10, it will result in a big fat L.
September 25th, 2024 at 11:01 am
Unless this team sees God after that ugly beatdown, the Iggles will have their way and the wheels come off.
September 25th, 2024 at 11:03 am
Cosmetics and optics ARE important. Everyone yamming about the lack of respect the Bucs get nationally can’t turn around and dismiss the optics. Coming out and laying an egg like that is the most Bucs thing ever. Maybe don’t do that if we all want people to take us seriously as a serious organization. Further, just taking care of the NFC South was not just the team’s goal. Their little war cry was “why not us” for the superbowl, so lets not move the goal posts now. Superbowl Teams win games they should, and battle for the 1 or 2 seed.
September 25th, 2024 at 11:35 am
It’s not the loss it’s how we lost…..beat up and incompetent….lousy coaching
September 25th, 2024 at 11:39 am
If you think Tillman was any good last week, and let me not mince words, our O Line made that practice squad guy look ALL PRO, wait till you see the beatdown they give this week. Baker will need to get the ball out in 1.7 seconds to win. Unless we actually use a 6th lineman? It’s almost like the fans knew more than Coen last week.
Payton showed the road map for beating Bowles.
I expect us to know lose 3 out of the next 4. Watch for that 3-4 record.
That spells losers.
September 25th, 2024 at 12:00 pm
The Fleagles were in a death spiral when beat them in the playoffs. This will be a revenge game for them. If we don’t have all hands on deck for this one, they’re going to sink our ship. I’m not optimistic after last week’s performance. I’m not sure the Bucs could beat the Panthers at this point, but it seems like it’s always been this way. One week the Bucs could kick the crap out of the ‘85 Bears, and the week lose to the Panthers, the Plant HS Panthers. Outside of the division, the team I enjoyed seeing the Bucs beat the most, is the Fleagles. I live in their viewing area. I love telling these people that my favorite Buc of all time is Ronde Barber. His name is still a dagger in their heart for them. Great memories for me. I could use a few more great memories. Go Bucs
September 25th, 2024 at 12:02 pm
This week will be better…they got caught between an emotional/exhausting win against Detroit and looking ahead to Philly.
Chin up fellas
September 25th, 2024 at 12:13 pm
When the OL turns out to be so thin that a concussion to a guy who was coming along but not elite craters the season, it really doesn’t matter. Refusal of coaches and management to upgrade quickly after the Lions game demonstrates that it’s really not an urgency and that hope is in fact the real strategy.
And no one is talking about the brontosaurus in the room.
September 25th, 2024 at 12:34 pm
Last week’s performance was so gross it is hard to get excited to watch the Eagles game. Would be fun to beat Philly and their awful fans, but they’d have to immediately play like the Lions game or this will be a beatdown.
They beat the Saints though, so a win is a full game separation against a common opponent. Given that the Saints will beat the Broncos next month, that matters. The Bucs have to make that game up somewhere to think about playoffs.
September 25th, 2024 at 1:00 pm
I just went back and rewatched the game and there were 2 major issues with 2 players. On the 2nd play of the game Baker left a clean pocket when there was no pressure. Several times throughout the game he had time but would actually close the distance to the tackle instead of buying more time to throw. He had quick dumpoffs on most sacks he took.
Jamel Dean simply allowed pass after pass after pass underneath. The most egregious was a 3rd and 9 from Bo’s own endzone and Dean flat out bails for a pass underneath. Dean was absolutely torched underneath in this game and Todd NEVER changed a thing. We had 2 chances for good drives to their 45 and Baker took a sack both times.
He simply has to get the ball out of his hands quicker. There is no excuse for his play.
As far as pressure from our defense, it would have been there if Nix didn’t check it underneath Dean all game. Look at the passing chart for Nix. He simply threw it left ALL GAME LONG.
September 25th, 2024 at 2:15 pm
This may finally be the year when they burn it all down and start over. Looking grim.
September 25th, 2024 at 3:44 pm
so i am in timeout now that I have been right about them….lol
September 25th, 2024 at 3:44 pm
any detailed post does not go through. nice joe.
they suck
September 25th, 2024 at 4:49 pm
BillyBucco … ‘Jamel Dean simply allowed pass after pass after pass underneath. Dean was absolutely torched underneath in this game and Todd NEVER changed a thing.’
Pro-Football-Reference has Dean with 13 tackles, with 9 of them solo. McCollum had 6 tackles; 3 of them solo. That’s never good when your outside CBs get that many tackles in a game, and 12 of them are solo.
What’s more frustrating is that Dean was targeted 11 times in that game, and McCollum was targeted 7 times. Think about that … your prize starting CBs get targeted 18 times by a rookie QB. And oh ya, Nix completed 9-of-11 against Dean, but only 1-of-7 against McCollum. Yet between them our 2 starting CBs only had ONE PD (McCollum).
September 25th, 2024 at 11:46 pm
More simply stated — Dean has been sucking and Bowles has done nothing to create, instill and produce corrective action. As usual
September 26th, 2024 at 12:05 am
In the immortal words of Jim Mora,
“Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?!?!?!? Don’t talk about…………playoffs! You kiddin’ me?!?!?!?!”
September 26th, 2024 at 9:33 am
How much longer do us fans have to endure his coaching. The ish really sucks