@JennaLaineESPN: Breaking: Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans has been suspended one game for his role in yesterday’s scuffle with Marshon Lattimore.
@MikeGarafolo: The #Buccaneers WR will have the chance to appeal, as he did the last time he was suspended for an on-field incident with the #Saints .
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@FieldYates: A look at the Bucs' WR group for Week 3 against the Packers:
- Mike Evans: suspended
- Chris Godwin: missed Week 2 (hamstring)
- Julio Jones: missed Week 2 (knee)
- Russell Gage
- Breshad Perriman
- Scotty Miller
TB12 is still QB...they will work with what they have and be very effective.
I am not as concerned about Brady, more about their running game and their D.
@ilcuqui posted:@FieldYates: A look at the Bucs' WR group for Week 3 against the Packers:
- Mike Evans: suspended
- Chris Godwin: missed Week 2 (hamstring)
- Julio Jones: missed Week 2 (knee)
- Russell Gage
- Breshad Perriman
- Scotty Miller
I want Alexander to bird dog Miller the whole game! 
Especially their D.
The packers are going to squish Tampa bay.
@oshbaul posted:The packers are going to squish Tampa bay.
I hope you are right. It has been a while so it would be nice.
@TomPelissero: #Bucs WR Mike Evans plans to appeal his one-game suspension, per source.
NO turned it over 5 times vs. Bucs yesterday and still only lost by 10 .... I like our chances to win this game that a week ago looked like it would be a loss.
No game should look like a loss until it IS a loss.
..unless you’re Number Three.
https://www.si.com/nfl/packers...time-touchdown-lists
From story:
Next week, the Packers will visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Rodgers vs. Tom Brady is not a mismatch. And Tampa Bay’s defense is No. 1 in points allowed per game (6.5), and in the top six in yards allowed per play, yards allowed per passing play, sack percentage, interception percentage and third downs.
“I’m just trying to temper expectations,” said Rodgers, whose 63 touchdown passes are three more than Brett Favre for most against the Bears. “Obviously, I’m going to enjoy the heck out of this one tonight but we’ve got a big one next week, a tough road trip, and it’s got to be better. This was better than Week 1 but we’ve got to be better than this if we want to compete with Tampa.”
Give me 10 minutes with Brady. I can arrange his COVID symptoms such that he has to miss the game. I have COVID.
Doctor told me today that to get COVID symptoms to stop I need to get plenty of rest. So my question is, is this a nice quiet, peaceful, and restful place to hang out?
At least for this game we won't have turnstile Turner playing LT for us.
Are you planning to give Brady a French kiss?😂
Get well soon, GoL.
Saints were able to run on them, but abandoned it early. Winston had 40 passes in a game that was tied 3-3 in the 3rd quarter.
@Goalline posted:Are you planning to give Brady a French kiss?😂
Get well soon, GoL.
Thanks,
I was just going to have a drink with him and switch the glasses. Seems to work for others.
Last time the the Packers played the Bucs the defense played pretty well (except for that one play before halftime). The Packers offense needs to spread that defense wide- A power running game plays right into the hands of their front 7.
@grignon posted:Last time the the Packers played the Bucs the defense played pretty well (except for that one play before halftime). The Packers offense needs to spread that defense wide- A power running game plays right into the hands of their front 7.
Disagree.. Where we went wrong against them was trying to run wide. They are too fast at LB and that just won't work. We need to punch them in the face and run between the tackles.
Expected high for the game is 88 degrees. Will Tampa Bay play mind games with the Packers and choose home Whites?
Of all of the matchups so far between these two teams (w/Brady), this is by far the most banged up or weakest OL and WR group the Bucs have had. The teams that have beat him have been able to get pressure up the middle in his face.
In theory, this GB squad is equipped well to do just that.
My concern is this may be the best front 7 they play all season and it’s not like the OL has played particularly well this year. They have also played well and limited Jones and Dillon.
One last nugget - they are 0-4 in Tampa in early season games with last September win being 1996.
You would think it would be low scoring and in close games it’s turnovers or special teams that could be the difference. New Orleans was in that game yesterday into the 2nd half until Winston went Winston and started throwing it to the other team.
Time to make history.
@vitaflo posted:Jon Runyan Sr. is the one who handed out the suspension. Inside job.
“The appeal will be heard by one of two hearing officers — former NFL players Derrick Brooks and James Thrash — jointly appointed and paid by the NFL and the NFL Players Association.”
-Tampa Bay’s rebuke.
Great inside linebacker that Brooks.
What team did he play for again?
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:Thanks,
I was just going to have a drink with him and switch the glasses. Seems to work for others.
Yep. 
I hope the defense puts a hurting on Brady.
And I hope I wake up tomorrow rich and good looking.
@BrainDed posted:Disagree.. Where we went wrong against them was trying to run wide. They are too fast at LB and that just won't work. We need to punch them in the face and run between the tackles.
You may be right. Is Vita Vea healthy for them at NG? I would think if he’s healthy he could give our center Josh Meyers some trouble with his size, strength, and quickness.
As great as Aaron Jones is as a RB, he had all kinds of trouble with the Bucs D in 2020. He does look healthier now than he did then. Maybe this time he gets a little payback for the beating they put on him in 2020.
It all comes down to how well the Packers OL plays.
If Bakh and Jenkins both play, the Packers offense scores between 24 and 35 points.
If only Jenkins plays, the Packers offense scores between 17 and 28 points.
If Bakh remains out and Jenkins has to take another week off, the Packers offense will score between 10 and 21 points.
@Floridarob posted:I hope the defense puts a hurting on Brady.
One thing we've seen is that if you can pressure Brady you can frazzle him. He gets worse with pressure. Because he's a statue of a QB you'd think this would be easy, but he's by far the best at quick decisions and getting the ball out (he has to be, dude can't run).
I think this is also the most important game we're playing in the next couple months as head-to-head tiebreaker may come into play for the playoffs from this game.
I'm calling it: NFC division winners: Eagles, Packers, Niners, Bucs.
Come back in four months.
Brady may be the best protected QB in the history of the game. He may be the best at getting the ball out too and it could be both.
@YATittle posted:When I watched their recent game I was so impressed by how fast he gets the ball out compared to Arod.
Yep. To me the 2 guys that always stood out in terms of finding an open guy quickly were Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Their lack of mobility sort of forced them both to develop that skill, but it’s worked for both of them.
Rodgers has every bit as a quick a release as those guys but I don’t think his mind is as quick. He’s made up for it and is in their class by being way more mobile than either of them.
Rodgers just doesn't always throw to the open man, he waits until he sees what he wants.
I see something like a 17-13 type game if that. The way these teams are capable of playing defense - and the fact they are both playing without a fully capable and healthy OL would suggest this should be a low scoring affair.
The one thing that’s tough to predict are turnovers and special teams plays.
Yeah, was surprised that Sunday’s win was Brady’s first vs NO since he arrived in Tampa.
@Tavis Smiley posted:Yeah, was surprised that Sunday’s win was Brady’s first vs NO since he arrived in Tampa.
It wasn't.
Alas, he beat N.O. in the 2020 playoffs ... before venturing north to beat some other team in the NFC Championship game that season.
