{"id":11138,"date":"2011-11-03T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11138"},"modified":"2011-11-03T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T18:09:10","slug":"bucs-travel-to-new-orleans-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11138","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Travel To  New Orleans Healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be hitting the road and will be facing the New Orleans Saints in the Super Dome this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs are coming off of a bye week, and will enter Sunday\u2019s contest healthier than they\u2019ve been in weeks. Returning to the lineup will be <strong>LeGarrett Blount<\/strong>, <strong>Mason Foster<\/strong>, <strong>Tanard Jackson<\/strong> and <strong>Gerald McCoy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs will have their hands full with the Saints who are coming off an unexpected loss last week at the hands of the St. Louis Rams. Speculation is Buccaneer quarterback, <strong>Josh Freeman<\/strong>, will have a more complete game with the return of Blount to the lineup, and the defense is also expected to step up from past performances.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs (4-3) still hold a special place in the NFC South since the Saints and Carolina Panthers both lost Sunday, and the Atlanta Falcons took a week off.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs rank 15th in the NFL in total offense and in their last game against the Saints,<strong> Josh Freeman<\/strong> went 23 of 41 for 303 yards and 2 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buccaneers Sign Safety David Sims<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11140\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DAVID-SIMS.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11140\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11140\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DAVID-SIMS-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DAVID SIMS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed safety <strong>David Sims<\/strong>, bolstering the team&#8217;s depth in the secondary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sims<\/strong> was in training camp with the New York Giants, but was released during the final cuts. He entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa State.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs announced the move before practice Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be hitting the road and will be facing the New Orleans Saints in the Super Dome this Sunday. The Bucs are coming off of a bye week, and will enter Sunday\u2019s contest healthier than they\u2019ve been in weeks. Returning to the lineup will be LeGarrett Blount, Mason Foster, Tanard Jackson [&hellip;]<\/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-11138","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\/11138","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=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}