The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Los Angeles Chargers 40-17 to win their fourth straight and improve to 8-6 on the season. That can only mean it’s time for Carter Brantley’s weekly article “Captain’s Table/Walk the Plank.” Enjoy!
Captain’s Table:
Jamel Dean
What a pick, huh? The defense has been picked apart by many fans and media members throughout the year, and rightfully so, but they stepped up Sunday against a very underrated offense. Herbert is elite, and Ladd and Johnston are both solid targets (when Ladd isn’t dropping everything, of course).
Jalen McMillan the receiver
He’s been elite over the last couple of weeks. Getting open, making plays, just doing his thing, showing that talent everyone was raving about in the offseason. Him and Cade Otton have been such pleasant surprises throughout the season at different points, it’s been a lot of fun watching them go to work.
Mike Evans
Need I say more?
Todd Bowles
He’s been having people call for his head seemingly his whole tenure here. He doesn’t seem to mind much. The Bucs’ defense has looked atrocious at times this season, but Sunday in a huge game with playoff implications he schemed up some madness that was really a blast to watch.
Baker Mayfield (other than those 2 throws in the 1st half)
He was so bloody good throughout the day, he had a few huge scrambles taken off the board by some holding calls (that were correct and totally justified, would rather lose yardage than lose your starting QB to an injury), and he was throwing darts.
Bucky Irving
Buck-ky. Buck-ky. Buck-ky.
Walk the Plank
The 1 pm slate
My goodness, you mean I have to choose between this game, which was a really fun matchup between 2 playoff teams, the Eagles-Steelers, a great game between 2 great rivals, and the Bills-Lions, a Super Bowl matchup? And at 1 pm my choices were tank-offs like the Jags-Jets and the Cowboys-Panthers? Yuck.
Jalen McMillan the decision maker
Look, it didn’t cost them, and it was a bit soft, but you can’t have a post-play penalty like that in a huge game that forces the Buccaneers to take a field goal instead of thinking about going for it. He was on fire, but that’s gotta be cleaned up.
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