It has been a dismal 2011 campaign for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With the drafting of young players on offense and defense, the Bucs came out of the gate with a 4-2 record. However, since their trip to London to face the Chicago Bears, the Bucs have lost 9 straight games, and haven\u2019t been competitive in any of them.<\/p>\n
Now, the Bucs will finish their season on the road against the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome on New Year\u2019s Day. Kickoff will be at 4:15 p. m.<\/p>\n
The Bucs can play spoiler by beating the Falcons and eliminating them from playoff contention.<\/p>\n
Much talk has surrounded whether or not head coach Raheem Morris<\/strong> will be with the team in 2012, and the Glazers have not issued any statements about the future of their head coach.<\/p>\n Sports analysts have said they feel the shortened season and the youth of the Bucs on defense caught up with them, and they weren\u2019t able to sustain any momentum.<\/p>\n No announcements have been made as to who will take the field Sunday, but Morris<\/strong> has stated more than once that starting quarterback, Josh Freeman<\/strong> will finish out the season.<\/p>\n One glowing light among the Bucs was the announcement that Davin Joseph (pictured)<\/strong> had been selected to the Pro Bowl. This will be his fourth appearance since 2006 when he was drafted in the first round out of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been a dismal 2011 campaign for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With the drafting of young players on offense and defense, the Bucs came out of the gate with a 4-2 record. However, since their trip to London to face the Chicago Bears, the Bucs have lost 9 straight games, and haven\u2019t been competitive […]<\/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-12132","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\/12132","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=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}