@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.
Exactly! Put AJ Dillion on the field. He’ll be the hot back this week.
If I had my way they would line him up in some I formation and pound away. Let’s see how cocky those speedy safety sized linebackers are then.
@SteveLuke posted: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.
My fault. Announcers said regular season.
Can’t find the post, but I agree that this is a statement game for GB and specifically for Rodgers. Just my opinion. I think he needs a “signature” road win against Brady. Might not mean shit, but I think it’s time. Goes into a larger issue that I think is starting to face Rodgers as his career winds down.
Bucs were missing players on offense last week, but they didn’t look particularly good. I watched they game (while getting drunk), Saints we’re banged up with Kamala out, Ingram banged up, Jameis with a bad back. Defense was missing Adebo and Turner and still held Bucs to 3 points until the end of the game. Saints D gave up 10 points and lost. Tough pill to swallow.
@MikeGarafolo: From @gmfb: With injuries at WR mounting and Mike Evans facing a one-game suspension, the #Buccaneers are adding veteran WR Cole Beasley to the mix.
Get Tom in there.
2021 season:
Week 1 - Terrible loss on the road. Team looks completely lost and unprepared.
Week 2 - Comfortable bounce back win at home vs a division opponent.
Week 3 - Trip to a state where the Packers have struggled for years vs a team they have been having trouble beating.
Packers 19 - Bucs 13. All the hand wringing over Mason Crosby starting to look silly after his 5-5 FG and 5-5 PAT start to the season.
@PackerHawk posted:Packers 19 - Bucs 13. All the hand wringing over Mason Crosby starting to look silly after his 5-5 FG and 5-5 PAT start to the season.
I think much of TB's chances of winning will also come down if Mike Evans and Godwin play. Hamstrings rarely heal quickly and Godwin is going into week 2 with his. Julio Jones is hurt yet
again, same issue. This was also interesting:
Top 5 CB coverage grades after two weeks per @PFF
— Jacob Morley (@JacobMorley) September 20, 2022
1. Darius Slay #FlyEaglesFly
2. D.J. Reed Jr. #TakeFlight
3. Kader Kohou #FinsUp
4. Rasul Douglas #GoPackGo
5. Jaire Alexander #GoPackGo
@RochNyFan posted:He's a slippery sucker.
7/156 as they play zone.
@packerboi posted:I think much of TB's chances of winning will also come down if Mike Evans and Godwin play. Hamstrings rarely heal quickly and Godwin is going into week 2 with his. Julio Jones is hurt yet
again, same issue. This was also interesting:
I think playing without Gronk after his retirement is actually more important than without Evans. Gronk, even the mildly diminished version that played the last two years, was like a security blanket for Brady (and he was like a video game cheat code when he was younger). Over the last decade or so since he's played with Gronkowski, Brady was much less effective without Gronk. Basically, Brady has stats that are among the best of all time with a very large sample size (9 years of games) and without Gronk he's league average at best (at least statistically). Brady was already 33 years old when Gronk arrived in the league, but having him around really changed the conversation about Brady from "only" being a first-ballot HOFer to the top QB in NFL history.
https://fansided.com/betsided/...concerning-bucs-fans
Without Gronkowski, Brady is a completely different quarterback. It’s been like that since Gronk entered the league and will be even more so the case now that Brady is entering his age 45 season.
Brady has played 148 games with Gronkowski in his career. In those games, he has a completion percentage of 66%, averages 291.6 yards per game, has a 4.21 TD-INT ratio and a QB rating of 103.8. Those are fantastic numbers. Let’s look at the flip side.
In the 48 games without Gronk, Brady’s numbers drop across the board. He falls to a 60.8 completion percentage, averages 261.6 yards per game, a 2.86 TD-INT ratio and a quarterback rating of 89.6.
@packerboi posted:I think much of TB's chances of winning will also come down if Mike Evans and Godwin play. Hamstrings rarely heal quickly and Godwin is going into week 2 with his. Julio Jones is hurt yet
again, same issue. This was also interesting:
Why do I feel like this MF is gonna appeal, and the league will let him play Sunday pending the appeal, then uphold the suspension and he will miss the Chiefs game?
Beat ‘em with Evans, then.
By the way, former WR James Thrash is apparently hearing the appeal today. Last time Evans appealed a suspension (for another altercation with Lattimore), Thrash upheld the suspension. I think Evans sits on Sunday.
If Evans is out, I could easily see this as a 13-10 game, either team winning, as the D will have the edge in both cases. Bet the under.
Bucs’ DT Akiem Hicks tore the plantar fascia in his foot and is now expected to be sidelined a month, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 20, 2022
Appeal meeting going on right now, so we will know today. Sounding like they are going to overturn it and he will play based on previous similar incidents resulting in no suspensions. Figures.
@Chongo posted:Appeal meeting going on right now, so we will know today. Sounding like they are going to overturn it and he will play based on previous similar incidents resulting in no suspensions. Figures.
"Sounding like they are going to overturn it"? Says who? See above case which Thrash did not overturn.
Found on the internet:
Evans was also punished because he has a prior history with the Saints. In 2017, Evans was suspended one game for making a blindside hit on Lattimore and the NFL takes into account your prior history when imposing punishments.
Although it was Evans who was suspended, Brady took some of the responsibility for the receiver's actions. The quarterback pointed out that Evans likely wouldn't have done what he did if Brady hadn't instigated things by arguing a call.
"Obviously if I didn't run down there to argue with the call ... if things weren't said back and forth between both teams, it could've been avoided," Brady said. "There's a lot of things that go into it and there's a lot of things at fault, so I don't think Mike should be the one to be blamed and singled out. Unfortunately he has been, and that's just the reality of life in the NFL."
The bottom line for the Buccaneers is that Evans is going to have to sit out this week, which means Brady is going to have to figure out how to survive without him for Tampa Bay's Week 3 showdown with the Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.
@YATittle posted:"Sounding like they are going to overturn it"? Says who? See above case which Thrash did not overturn.
Nevermind...that's what I get for listening to talking mouths on ESPN Radio...they failed to mention the key difference in these "precedent" cases is Evans came off the bench.
No way he plays.
I have a solution, Let Evans play and suspend Brady for inciting a riot!
How very 2022 of you...
Evans is OUT for Sunday. Todd Bowles just announced it.
Looks like no Evans decision until tomorrow.
you guys are all over the place! Make up your mind.
Fuck it.
Hoping one of your opponents players is out is a losers mentally…bring back fucking Gronk for all I care.
@Chongo posted:Bucs’ DT Akiem Hicks tore the plantar fascia in his foot and is now expected to be sidelined a month, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 20, 2022
Put a healthy Hicks and Vita Vea out there together, you ain’t running up the middle. Vea by himself is still gonna cause problems
Heard that dimple boy forgot the password for that tablet he threw….. might be time to just retire ya loser. GBP 28 - Bucs 27. Good ol’ Mason wins for the Pack with his winning field goal.
@Tavis Smiley posted:you guys are all over the place! Make up your mind.
My bad on my post. 
What I read was dated Sept.19, not today. Sorry for the confusion. The story I read was from a story related to Cole Beasley signing. The link was from that so I incorrectly assumed it was current.
I have been looking for tickets for Sunday but at the prices offered I wont be going. I paid $350 for each ticket in Lambeau last November that were on the 50 yard line and club level seats. Perfect. And It was Lambeau. Those prices here would get me nose bleeds and they really suck. Any seat decent is $1000 per. Forget it. Plus it is going to 90 degrees. Plus it is Raymond James that really sucks....Longing for the days in the 1990s when good tickets were $50 a piece and 60% of the fans were mostly Packers fans.
I remember when you could get into the big sombrero for like $10.
What is being overlooked is that they have added Cole Beasley. I had been hoping that we would pick him up. Brady needs a security blanket and Cole might just be that. He simply gets open on shorter routes. That’s Brady’s MO. If he gets activated for the game I see him getting a few key passes going his way.
@Floridarob posted:I have been looking for tickets for Sunday but at the prices offered I wont be going. I paid $350 for each ticket in Lambeau last November that were on the 50 yard line and club level seats. Perfect. And It was Lambeau. Those prices here would get me nose bleeds and they really suck. Any seat decent is $1000 per. Forget it. Plus it is going to 90 degrees. Plus it is Raymond James that really sucks....Longing for the days in the 1990s when good tickets were $50 a piece and 60% of the fans were mostly Packers fans.
I got a similar "reality check" looking at tickets for Bruce Springsteen concerts coming up next year .... prices are about 4X what they were the last time I saw him in 2016. Along with everything else, if enough people will pay the price asked .... that is where the price will stay.
Really the opportunity for the Packers to make a statement. Unfortunately, in the most recent statement games all they're really done is shit the bed.
Hoping this time is different.
@ilcuqui posted:@TomPelissero: #Bucs WR Mike Evans plans to appeal his one-game suspension, per source.
How would he appeal it? His attacking Lattimore is all on tape, plus, he has a history of this behavior. The last time he was suspended, he had attacked Lattimore! Maybe he should change his name to Mad Dog Vachon!
