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I love when teams just give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the ball. The defense has found it hard enough to produce any turnovers this season — they only have two all year — and it’s just nice of other teams to help them out a little. Or, in this case, help out special teams.
See also, what the Carolina Panthers did just now.
Oops.
— NFL (@NFL) October 11, 2016
Muffed punt!@TedGinnJr_19 is hit by his own teammate. Bucs recover! #TBvsCAR https://t.co/nBNiRMP591
Haha, suckers. That’s what losing teams do. They give away the ball in ridiculous ways.
Then the Bucs did what other losing teams do: they turned a third-and-one from the six-yard line into a third-and-11 with two pre-snap penalties, then called a timeout (which they could have used to avoid a delay of game penalty), then Jameis Winston missed Vincent Jackson on third down, and then Roberto Aguayo missed a chip-shot field goal.
Note to self: Aguayo is not looking like a good second-round pick, who knew?
So yeah. These sure are two losing teams playing against each other. The Bucs are slightly less losing, though: they’re up 6-0.