NFL & Buccaneers Rankings, Who Cares?

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Maybe it’s because I’m a grumpy old Buccaneers football fan. Maybe it’s because I’ve watched decades of football. Or maybe it’s a combination of both, but ranking the “best” teams after 2 weeks seems like a collosal waste of time. The only thing worse than rankingss are fans who feel slighted because their team isn’t ranked higher.
News flash. This isn’t college football where team rankings actually matter. The Bucs are playing good football but to proclaim them Super Bowl contenders seems a bit silly. Most of us have watched enough football to know how quickly a season can go south.
Coordinators know how to  make the necessary adjustments to stop teams best plays once they have enough game tape to review. That’s why these early rankings are even more laughable.
I love the physicality that the Bucs have shown, but I still have concerns about the guard positions. Last week vs the Lions, they were whipped and  Skule wasn’t the only one at fault.
The Bucs will earn whatever record they have at the end of  this season and hopefully that leads to a playoff birth. And please let’s not talk about the “if the playoffs started today talk…..”
Go Bucs!

 

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Of all the NFL teams that I could follow, why did I choose the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? It was 1979, I was an impressionable 12-year-old living in Canada. At that time, getting any NFL coverage was tough enough but that was reserved for the elite teams like the Cowboys, Steelers etc. I watched one game at 1 PM and one game at 4 PM. That was it. No Redzone, no night games on Sunday Each Christmas my family would drive from Montreal to visit my aunt in Jacksonville. I remember seeing the Bucs playing on TV against the Falcons when I was there. I saw something that day that changed my fandom forever. There was a QB wearing number 12, in an orange jersey and he wasn’t white! As a minority myself, seeing a non-white QB was something that immediately I was drawn to. I knew that this was the team, and this was the guy who I would follow. The years between 1979 and 1997 were obviously difficult but my fandom never wavered. If anything, it made me stronger as a person. I’ve often joked that I’ve had 3 wives but only ONE football team. I was asked if I wanted to write the occasional article for Bucs Report. Talking and writing about the Bucs is a full-time hobby so of course my answer was YES. I’m 56, retired and living in Costa Rica now. I sport 4 Buc tattoos and have been fortunate to make many visits to Tampa to watch the Bucs. I’ve made countless friends and even more memories. I look forward to chatting and interacting with the many Buccaneer fans throughout the world. Go Bucs Greg D’Cruz