Never would have guessed the offense would be far ahead of the defense

[OriginalPantherDan]

I am not sure that is true. We had 5 turnovers and less than 250 yards of offesnse.

Yeah...lotsa points on the board, but the offense still needs the defense to set it up for them. 

[beastson]

Listen I'm not taking away from what the D has done, but against what teams and against what offenses have they done it against? JNo has been carrying D. No doubt in my mind we lose to the saints if JNo was out

[csx]

Norman had some big takeaways for sure but the guy he was covering had 147 receiving yards and a td.

[SOJA]

ITT: OP expects us to give up zero yards 

[motocross_cat]

If the offence was so good they would have turned all those turnovers into 7 points...your all idiots.

[Davidson Deac II]

I'm talking overall through 4 games

You  would be better off looking at just today's game.  The defense actually carried us in the first two games.  The offense carried the load in the second two. 

[amcoolio]

Defense won the game today, even giving up all those yards and points. We don't get those turnovers, we don't win the game.

 

The offense is in trouble and it will show @ Seattle until we can find a WR that can separate from the defender and we run block better. We are gonna have to have a heck of a gameplan to win in Seattle, I can't see us putting up much more than 10 points unless we get a bunch of takeaways again. As of right now, Cam can't throw to anyone because defenses are taking out Greg Olsen and our recievers are slow and/or small.

[juliosantos]

offense is terrible lol cam is legit our offense rbs cant run oline cant run block , receivers cant catch and our defense is lost without the best aka luke 

[JawnyBlaze]

Norman had some big takeaways for sure but the guy he was covering had 147 receiving yards and a td.

Norman wasn't on vjax. He covered him some, but he was on Evans most of the game. I'd have to rewatch to determine how much of vjax's production was on Norman, but I mostly noticed vjax abusing Tillman, Thompson and other defenders 

[JawnyBlaze]

And I'm not gonna talk too much poo about our defense since our pass rush showed some signs of life and Norman balled out as usual, but I was texting my Bucs friend that we really really missed luke out there. A lot of those medium to big runs wouldn't have happened with him out there. 

[Carolina Cajun]

Luke being out is giant, our defense is top 10 with him out, it's arguably the best in the league with him in it.  Get him back, and when CJ comes back, Jesus, that is a super bowl defense.  I'm far more concerned with our run game.  Cam shouldn't have to carry as much as he does.

[Mojo]

Norman had some big takeaways for sure but the guy he was covering had 147 receiving yards and a td.

You do realize Norman wasn't on Jackson the whole game, right?  

That includes the TD 

http://www.buccaneers.com/videos/videos/Highlight-Vincent-Jackson-6-Yard-Touchdown/a13dab91-0663-4074-8f4d-6398399feaa8

[beastson]

Defense won the game today, even giving up all those yards and points. We don't get those turnovers, we don't win the game.

 

The offense is in trouble and it will show @ Seattle until we can find a WR that can separate from the defender and we run block better. We are gonna have to have a heck of a gameplan to win in Seattle, I can't see us putting up much more than 10 points unless we get a bunch of takeaways again. As of right now, Cam can't throw to anyone because defenses are taking out Greg Olsen and our recievers are slow and/or small.

To be fair, everybody struggles against seattle defense. The question will be will the defense allow Russell to do enough to ease a W

[The Gus Bus]

This defense is at least top 5. Offense is lucky to be in the top half.