Last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers traveled to the west coast to fact the San Francisco 49ers, and came back to Tampa with a 21-0 shutout victory.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, The Bucs not only didn\u2019t come close to that kind of performance, but took several steps back in their progress.<\/p>\n
The Bucs were soundly beaten 48-3 by the 49ers, and every phase of their game plan was taken apart by the 49ers.<\/p>\n
Buccaneer head coach Raheem Morris<\/strong>, along with some of his players, had trouble keeping his composure and was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n Normally steady quarterback, Josh Freeman<\/strong>, looked rather shaky, recoding 187 yards on 17 for 33 passing, and adding to his interception total with two more.<\/p>\n The Buc ground game that had began to reveal itself over the past two weeks, was completely shut down with LeGarrette Blount<\/strong> carrying the ball 10 times for 34 yards. Blount<\/strong> left the game early with a leg injury, and defensive tackle Gerald McCoy<\/strong> was also carted off with a serious ankle injury.<\/p>\n The 49ers recorded three sacks while their quarterback, Alex Smith<\/strong>, was never put on the ground.<\/p>\n The 45-point margin of victory for the 49ers was their largest since a 48-0 win over the Rams in 1997 with Joe Montana at quarterback.<\/p>\n This Sunday, the Bucs will host their division rival, the New Orleans Saints, at Raymond James Stadium. Kickoff will be at 4:15 p. m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers traveled to the west coast to fact the San Francisco 49ers, and came back to Tampa with a 21-0 shutout victory. On Sunday, The Bucs not only didn\u2019t come close to that kind of performance, but took several steps back in their progress. The Bucs were soundly beaten 48-3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}