So far in the 2012 season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have both won and lost a close, low-scoring game\u2014both finished with the score of 16-10\u2014and have been the victim and aggressor in a second-half comeback attempt.<\/p>\n
The latest comeback attempt was Sunday at Raymond James Stadium where Tampa Bay erased a 21-6 halftime lead by scoring 16 unanswered points, only to fall to a last-second field goal.<\/p>\n
In Week 2 Tampa Bay led the New York Giants 24-13 before New York scored 25 points in the fourth quarter to win by a touchdown.<\/p>\n
The Bucs\u2019 most recent loss, Sunday\u2019s 24-22 loss where Billy Cundiff<\/strong> nailed a 41-yard field goal with three seconds remaining to seal Tampa Bay\u2019s fate, answered some questions and still leaves a few to be determined.<\/p>\n Freeman<\/strong> didn\u2019t torch the Redskins defense, but in putting up 299 yards on 61.5 percent passing, the young passer showed his mettle.<\/p>\n Forced into passing action because of their 15-point deficit, the Buccaneers gave Freeman the green light and scaled back the running plays for Doug Martin<\/strong> and LeGarrette Blount<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Williams<\/strong> led the team with 115 yards receiving on four catches. Jackson<\/strong> caught six balls for 100 yards. It was the first time in Freeman\u2019s<\/strong> four-year career he had two receivers reach the 100-yard receiving mark.<\/p>\n If the Buccaneers needed proof that Freeman<\/strong> could handle throwing a lot in a game, Sunday\u2019s performance should lay most of those questions to bed. Still unanswered is how are the Bucs going to improve enough against the pass.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay ranked 30th entering Sunday\u2019s game in pass defense and allowed rookie Robert Griffin, III<\/strong> to throw for 329 yards. That\u2019s the third quarterback in four games to go over 300 yards, and Tony Romo was close at 283 yards passing in Week 3.<\/p>\n The Buccaneers sit at 1-3, tied for second place in the NFC South, and still desperately need to find a way to slow down opposing quarterbacks. Greg Schiano<\/strong> and his staff must address that issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So far in the 2012 season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have both won and lost a close, low-scoring game\u2014both finished with the score of 16-10\u2014and have been the victim and aggressor in a second-half comeback attempt. The latest comeback attempt was Sunday at Raymond James Stadium where Tampa Bay erased a 21-6 halftime lead by […]<\/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-17119","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\/17119","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=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}