The message at Tampa Bay Buccaneer headquarters is loud and clear. Now is the time to start preparing for next season.<\/p>\n
After suffering their 7th straight loss, a humiliating 41-14 thumping by the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Bucs (4-9) can now start allowing their starters to heal for next season, and give playing time to second and third string players.<\/p>\n
The Bucs front office will also decide whether they will retain head coach Raheem Morris<\/strong>, in spite of glowing support from the players that he stay on.<\/p>\n This Saturday, the Bucs will face off against the Dallas Cowboys at Raymond James Stadium. The Cowboys are coming off a heartbreaking loss to their division rivals, the New York Giants. The Cowboys now are tied for the lead in the NFC East division.<\/p>\n Depending on what sports show you watch or listen to, Josh Freeman<\/strong> needs to be benched for the rest of the season to allow his ailing shoulder to heal, along with other players nursing nagging injuries.<\/p>\n Kickoff Saturday will be at 8:20 p. m.<\/p>\n The final two games for the Bucs are against the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons, both road games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The message at Tampa Bay Buccaneer headquarters is loud and clear. Now is the time to start preparing for next season. After suffering their 7th straight loss, a humiliating 41-14 thumping by the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Bucs (4-9) can now start allowing their starters to heal for next season, and give playing time to second […]<\/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-11932","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\/11932","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=11932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}