Bucs at Panthers Statistical Snapshot

[Jeremy Igo]

[t96]

The KB and Evans debates have now become Funch and Evans debates... with Funch winning as of now.

[CatAttack]

Never would guess that Stewart and Funchess are outplaying Martin and Evans.  Crazy times indeed...

[Wolfcop]

Hard to believe we are 4th in rushing and 10th in yards per rush after the way we started the year running the ball. Of course Cam is a huge part of that, but we have really improved running the ball the second half of the year.

[Squirrel]

Green bay Tampa bay get they both have bay in them. 

[Squirrel]

See alot of the buffalo package this weekend. Especially with Davis suspended. 

[Captain Morgan]

here's another fun little statistical snapshot

 

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Julius Peppers has played 18 games against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In those games, he has:

 

-18.5 Sacks

-7 Tackles For Loss

-5 Forced Fumbles

-1 Interception Returned for a TD

[PantherBrew]

Passer rating is so stupid. 

 

 

[usmcpanthers]

good lord those def ranks on the sucs....

[Moorgan]

How many times this year have we played the worst defense in the league (at that point in the season)? Saints early on, then the Pats and now the Bucs? Anyone else?

[Pantha-kun]

The Bucs have atrocious defense stats across the board holy fug.

Especially glaring is all those 32nd rank passing defense stats . Maybe this is the game that we actually have some completed deep bombs?

[Pantha-kun]

3 minutes ago, Moorgan said:

How many times this year have we played the worst defense in the league (at that point in the season)? Saints early on, then the Pats and now the Bucs? Anyone else?

well it worked out against the Patriots . Cam completed 76% of his passes for over 300 yrds and 3TDs. And the team also rushed for 140 yards averaging 4.8 yards per rush.

The Saints defense of today was basically born in our first meeting since it was so early in the season. And they were extremely desperate with their backs against the wall at 0-2.

So stats def do mean something, especially in this case that Tampa has the absolute dead last ranked defense in 5 different catagories. Being last ranked in sacks and last ranked in pass D is a huge indicator we should have a field day throwing the ball. And their rush D is 23rd as well

[Pantha-kun]

Pretty much all the teams we lost to (Saints, Eagles, Bears) have good defenses so there's something to be said there. 

[GusLevy]

My initial random thoughts on the Car-TB game:

1. Desean Jackson injury. Listed as questionable. W/o knowing degree of injury, motivation to play goes both ways...can try to build up stats in meaningless game vs. risk of worsening injury.

2. Stats for small sample sizes are meaningless. By this time of yr, however, the picture is about as clear as it gets with 2 games left. Car is 2nd in the league in the critical TOP measure at just under 33min/game..only PHI ranks better. Control the ball, control the clock, don't turn the ball over...

3. TB is an unbalanced offense. Low TOP suggests falling behind in games so can't establish run and need Winston to rally team..unfortunately, he is not accurate enough of passer to succeed so passing yards appear OK but lots of meaningless yards. TB seemed to be turning a corner as a franchise in 2016 but was mirage. Defense in disarray, offense in disarray and special teams in disarray with 31st ranked punting and return avg.

4. TB is a horrid Away team this year. 1-6 SU and ATS. TB has not beaten a team with winning record in 2017.

5. Car is good 5-2 SU and ATS at Home.

6. Greg Olsen hitting stride is huge addition for Car.