Bucs Must Improve The Details of Their Game

Little things have been hurting the Bucs so far as they have lost the last two games against the Cardinals and Rams. Turnovers, defensive communication, clock management, and unbalanced play calling are things the Bucs need to tighten up in a hurry or the Bucs are going to continue to lose games. The offense has been pretty good as an unit despite the turnovers which has hurt them the last two weeks, if the unit can eliminate the bad timing turnovers they can be a force offensively. The play calling needs to get back to being more balance and have Jameis under 30 pass attempts a game. Bucs need to run the ball at least 25 times per game to keep the defense guessing and also keep their defense more fresh during the game.

Clock management needs to be better as well as Dirk Koetter was a little too aggressive during the end of the first half against the Rams. Bucs had a critical interception and instead going into halftime with a 20 to 10 lead, it was 20-17 at half. Then at the end of the game, Koetter admitted to being dumb by not calling timeout with 36 seconds left after Sims had just got a first down which cost the Bucs valuable seconds off the clock. Its the little things like this that the team must clean up if they want to win consistently.

Then on the other side of the ball, communication and better play calling needs to occur as the Bucs defense is allowing too many big plays. The safeties and corners need to be on the same page as this team shouldn't be allowing guys get past them downfield. Our run defense is superb and if we are going to blitz then either send the linebackers or safeties not our corners. The gameplan needs to be simple on the defensive side until the players get comfortable with the scheme. Too many breakdowns are occurring causing big plays to happen against them. Bucs have tough road ahead and better work on the details or it could get ugly.