Joe and fellow Bucs fans sure could use a double shot of good news when it comes to the Tampa Bay defense. [read more]

“Can’t we make one play?”

With the exception of one player (Lavonte David), all the Bucs needed in the final minutes of regulation was for one player to make a play. [read more]

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About that Falcons drive with no timeouts to tie the game in regulation… [read more]

Pressures!

Until people start valuing sacks from an edge rush and try to quit equating pressures with sacks, only then will this Bucs defense be feared again. [read more]

Jamel Dean immediately popped off Falcons receiver Drake London after making this tackle.

So late in the fourth quarter last night when the Bucs defense tried to hold a three-point lead to keep the Falcons (who had used all their timeouts) out of field goal range, Tampa Bay was 1 second shy of completing the task. [read more]

Tactics.

If anyone wasn’t aware that K.J. Britt is not an every-down inside linebacker, last night’s game revealed that to America. [read more]

SirVocea Dennis down for some time.

Deflating forecast for Bucs inside linebacker SirVocea Dennis. And this coming from Bucs coach Todd Bowles. [read more]

So formerly invisible defensive tackle Logan Hall had two sacks last night, building on his first sack of the season on Sunday.

Is this real? [read more]

Overmatched.

Two things Joe had an epiphany about last night watching the Bucs choke away a critical NFC South win. [read more]

Rachaad White breaks free (finally!) Thursday against the Dixie Chicks.

Joe may not be the biggest fan of Rachaad White when he takes a handoff. But as a teammate, he seems to be a quality guy. [read more]

So the Joe typing here has no problem seeing a shining light coming from the turd the Bucs dropped on Atlanta’s home turf late in the loss last night. [read more]

Lavonte David shoves Atlanta RB Tyler Allgeier out of bounds.

If Joe were Bucs coach Todd Bowles, assuming Bowles didn’t order his offensive coordinator Liam Coen to go turtle in the fourth quarter, Joe would have trouble deciding what to be peeved at more, the defense or the offense. [read more]

This one will sting for Joe for quite some time. [read more]

Sad record.

Joe used to think Todd Bowles was a really good defensive coordinator. He’s not bad but after last night, Joe cannot rank him with the best in the game. [read more]

A lot went wrong with the Bucs defense last night in Atlanta.

Yes, the Bucs got four sacks, but that’s not a good total when the quarterback drops back to pass 62 times. [read more]

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

The Bucs had a clear path to win this football game. It was right there in front of them as a national audience looked on in prime time.

Then they stumbled all over themselves and ended up on the side of the road, broken down and beaten.

Tampa Bay almost overcame an awful defensive performance but in the end, the Bucs’ second-half offense was equally culpable in a hard-to-believe 36-30 setback in OT. Instead of bolting to a 4-1 start, the Bucs will now have extra time to prepare for another division road game at New Orleans.

It might take a while to get the bitter taste out of their mouths because they had every opportunity to beat the Falcons in a shootout. Atlanta just kept coming as Kirk Cousins threw for 509 yards, primarily against wide-open targets who exploited a soft secondary. [read more]

Baker Mayfield played a heck of a game last night during the groin-stomp overtime loss to the Falcons. That’s back-to-back strong games for the Bucs quarterback, which is exactly what the organization wants from him. [read more]

Lots of fingers of blame to point for the Bucs’ loss tonight, but one has to go toward electric rookie running back Bucky Irving. [read more]