On Sunday at 4 p. m., the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will take the field at the Oakland Coliseum to face the Raiders without a key offensive player.<\/p>\n
Starting left guard Carl Nicks<\/strong> has been lost for the season with a toe injury. Another starter, Davin Joseph<\/strong>, was also lost for the season with an injury. The Bucs are coming off a thrilling victory over the Minnesota Vikings, and are now 3-4 in the lethargic NFC South.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the season, the Buccaneer offensive line was considered the strength of the team, and the factor behind their selection of running back Doug Martin<\/strong> with their first pick. The offensive line has seen the benching of Jeremy Trueblood<\/strong>, who was replaced by Demar Dotson<\/strong>. That was followed by the benching of Joseph\u2019s <\/strong>replacement, Ted Larsen<\/strong>, who was replaced by journeyman, Jamon Meredith<\/strong>. On Sunday, two of the Bucs\u2019 five projected offensive line starters will line up (left tackle Donald Penn<\/strong> and center, Jeremy Zuttah<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Both quarterback Josh Freeman<\/strong> and running back Doug Martin<\/strong> are coming off record-setting performances last week, and are expected to put up big numbers against a suspect Raider defense. The Buccaneers also announced that the NFL may suspend cornerback Eric Wright <\/strong>for his alleged use of the banned substance, Adderall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday at 4 p. m., the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will take the field at the Oakland Coliseum to face the Raiders without a key offensive player. Starting left guard Carl Nicks has been lost for the season with a toe injury. Another starter, Davin Joseph, was also lost for the season with an injury. […]<\/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-17801","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\/17801","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=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}