The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a tough task ahead of them. They're set to face off against one of the best teams in the NFC, the Chicago Bears, on the road in prime time on Sunday Night Football in Week 9.
The Buccaneers once fell to 1-5 after QB Baker Mayfield suffered a dislocated thumb on his throwing hand during a Week 3 loss that dropped Tampa Bay to 0-3.
The NFL trade deadline is approaching very fast. There's one week of NFL play left before it hits on Nov. 10, and naturally, teams are calling all around the league to try to make their squads better before that time.
Tampa Bay started 0-4 and sat at 1-5, and plenty of people had written the season off. Two straight wins later, the Buccaneers are 3-5 and back in the NFC South race, a half-game behind first-place Carolina.
Tampa Bay has won two straight, beating Carolina 43-13 and shutting out Atlanta 16-0, and sits at 3-5, a half game behind 3-4 Carolina in the NFC South race.
The NFL trade deadline is November 10 at 4 p.m. ET, and several teams have already signaled their intent to sell off. Several prominent players have already been moved, and these 25 could follow.
Two weeks ago, the Bucs were 1-5 and hearing their names in sell-off conversations. Now they’re 3-5 after a 43-13 win in Charlotte and a 16-0 shutout of Atlanta, and they sit a half game behind Carolina in a division nobody has grabbed.
The Atlanta Falcons entered Tampa Bay with a 3-4 record, looking to reach .500 and take a lead in the NFC South race. Instead, they added a shutout loss to their record.
Rueben Bain Jr. turned in one of the better games of his rookie season in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 16-0 shutout of the Falcons. His 68.6 grade was the second-highest of his season, according to PFF’s midseason first-round grades, which singled him out as one of the top first-round rookies of Week 8.
Bucky Irving has never been a man of many words. The Bucs running back prefers to let his play do the talking. But after Tampa Bay’s 16-0 shutout win over the Falcons, Irving had plenty to say about the offense’s record-setting day on the ground.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears meet on Sunday Night Football with very different momentum and very different identities. Tampa Bay just beat Atlanta 16–0 without completing a pass.
The Bucs offensive line endured growing pains early in the season, but the group has found its footing in recent weeks, paving the way for what has become the league’s most productive rushing attacks.
It was an interesting game, to say the least, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 16-0 Week 8 defeat of the Atlanta Falcons brought them just half a game out of the NFC South lead.
The Buccaneers earned their second straight win on Sunday, with their defense delivering another strong performance. That unit has been dealt a blow, though.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers shut out the Atlanta Falcons 16-0, improving their record to 3-5. However, Sunday’s victory came with a potential injury concern involving outside linebacker Yaya Diaby.
How many of the quarterbacks to complete the fewest passes (while playing at least 90 percent of the offensive snaps) in a win for each NFL team can you name in five minutes?
The Falcons fell to 3-5 on the season when they suffered a 16-0 loss to a Buccaneers side that completed zero passes in driving rain at Tampa Bay's Raymond James Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers turned back the clock on Sunday, with Bucky Irving and Kenneth Gainwell accomplishing something the franchise had not seen since the 1990s.
Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers accomplished the impossible on Sunday in a win over the Atlanta Falcons. The Buccaneers defeated the Falcons 16-0 on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., and they did so without completing a single pass.
Last week, we called the Atlanta Falcons’ upset against the San Francisco 49ers and just missed on our prediction of Malik Nabers going off for 150 yards (finished with 111). Here are our bold predictions for Week 8.