10) The best way to keep a bad team around is with turnovers. The second best way is penalties. In the first 20 minutes of this game, the Eagles had six flags, including multiple first downs on defense, including a killer of a phantom unnecessary roughness call (the refs called it on Macho Harris for burying the wideout on a scramble, just ridiculous) that gave the Bucs extra snaps. Driving me even more crazy was that the third down conversion came after one of those snapped at zero plays. Just maddening.9) Don't let the final score fool you: Josh Johnson is an NFL quarterback. He might not be a starter, but he's not hopeless, and if the Bucs receivers were any good, he'd have been in this game longer today.8) The Bucs are winless, but not hopeless. Had they simply made a few plays in the red zone, this game would have been a lot closer; the Eagles offense was highly dependent on big plays, and the Bucs actually won time of possession going away.7) The WR Du Jour for the...
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