Bucs offense continues to stifle the team

If you are reading this series, then you too are growing weary of the production or rather lack of production on offense.  That lack of production simply wore out the defense.

Offense

The offense continued its failings. Outside of two drives, there was a superfluous amount of ineptness. Three turnovers and for the third game in a row the offense went 1 for 3 in the Red Zone. The team only rushed 14 times for 26 yards.  Of those 14 rush attempts, four of them came from quarterback Josh McCown's scrambling for 8 yards.  Doug Martin had 22 yards rushing on five attempts. Rookie Charles Sims also rushed five times for negative four yards. Recall that mantra to establishing the run game? Welp, it was abandoned here. Not only that, but Sims was on the field more than Martin. Makes me think this is a kangaroo offense.

Out of the 13 drives, six of them were of the 3-and-Out variety. Drives that were only four plays or less are nine out of the 13 drives, or about 70% of our offensive drives. Five of those four play or less drives occurred in the second half.

Let us add this new game to our total season game coverage. Remember, we are looking or observing patterns.  Although we do know what that pattern is, we still need empirical evidence to substantiate what our eyes witnessed.

Yet another pedestrian outing for our offense.

Defense

In the first half, the defense gave up one big long drive. 10 points were given up due to short yardage. The second half was simply demoralizing. DT Gerald McCoy gave us all a big scare, but after a few days have gone by we know the injury was a bruise. Phew!  Even though the defense had four sacks, it did not create any turnovers.

There was one turnover created, but it was created after McCown threw an interception in the endzone and tight end Luke Stocker stripped the ball from defensive back to which offensive lineman Oniel Cousins pounced upon the loose ball.

There is no sugarcoating this week's performance for the defense except that the collapse came in the second half.

Conclusion

Our offense continues to perform beyond an atrocious rate.  Initial offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford was released from his contractual obligation from the team.  It would appear obvious that this scheme will not exist after this year, and thusly not need to revive any portion of it by retaining Tedford's services.

On defense, sacks came not from the usual suspects.  Two sacks came from Jacquies Smith, one from William Gholston, and one was from Larry English.  All of these guys are reserve guys in respect to McCoy, Clinton McDonald, or Michael Johnson.

Oh the season's end cannot embrace us soon enough.