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Buccaneers vs. Seahawks Snap Counts: Keith Tandy takes over

The snap counts are in for Sunday's game, and Keith Tandy, Leonard Johnson and Skye Dawson received a surprising number of snaps.

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Keith Tandy is not a good safety, despite an interception against the Seattle Seahawks. In general he lacks the speed and coverage abilities to really function in the NFL. I'm not a big fan of Ahmad Black, but he was certainly better than Tandy. And yet, Tandy took all of the snaps against the Seattle Seahawks with Dashon Goldson on the sidelines -- Kelcie McCray didn't even get on the field once on defense.

Leonard Johnson is quickly being replaced with the return of both Danny Gorrer and Michael Adams. Johnson managed just 18 snaps, with Adams getting 15 and Gorrer adding 19 snaps. Johnson's play has been poor all season long, but the Bucs really didn't have any better options. Another interesting point in this game: even second cornerback Johnthan Banks played just 71% of the snaps.

This was probably due to Seattle's use of run-heavy personnel, which dictates fewer nickel and dime packages than the Bucs usually run. Mason Foster took 59 of 63 snaps after all and Jonathan Casillas was on the field for half of the game.

On offense, Tiquan Underwood took the majority of the snaps as the second wide receiver, with Skye Dawson acting as the third receiver throughout the game. Eric Page managed just two snaps and with Chris Owusu out the team didn't have many other options. One interesting development: Tom Crabtree had three more snaps than Tim Wright, probably because of the Bucs' run-heavy game plan.

Player Pos. Offense % Defense % Special Teams %
Totals 69 63 29
D Joseph G 69 100% 4 14%
D Penn T 69 100% 4 14%
J Meredith T 69 100% 4 14%
D Dotson T 69 100% 4 14%
J Zuttah C 69 100%
M Glennon QB 69 100%
V Jackson WR 68 99% 1 3%
T Underwood WR 53 77% 1 3%
M James RB 52 75% 1 3%
T Crabtree TE 40 58% 10 34%
T Wright TE 37 54% 5 17%
S Dawson WR 36 52% 1 3%
E Lorig FB 32 46% 15 52%
B Leonard RB 16 23% 18 62%
G Carimi G 9 13% 4 14%
E Page WR 2 3% 7 24%
L David LB 63 100% 13 45%
K Tandy SS 63 100% 13 45%
M Barron SS 63 100% 6 21%
D Revis CB 62 98% 5 17%
M Foster LB 59 94% 6 21%
A Clayborn DE 56 89% 7 24%
G McCoy DT 47 75% 6 21%
J Banks CB 45 71% 5 17%
D Te'o-Nesheim DE 41 65% 4 14%
J Casillas LB 31 49% 23 79%
G Gibson DT 26 41%
D Landri DT 25 40% 3 10%
A Spence DT 23 37% 5 17%
D Gorrer DB 19 30% 8 28%
L Johnson CB 18 29% 13 45%
M Adams CB 15 24% 12 41%
D Bowers DE 14 22% 2 7%
W Gholston DE 8 13% 1 3%
S Means DE 6 10%
D Watson LB 5 8% 17 59%
A Hayward LB 4 6% 19 66%
R Shepard WR 17 59%
M Koenen P 16 55%
S Larsen FB 12 41%
A Economos LS 10 34%
K McCray FS 6 21%
T Larsen C 4 14%
R Lindell K 4 14%
B Rainey RB 3 10%

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