{"id":18424,"date":"2012-12-03T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:21:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:21:53","slug":"bucs-cant-keep-up-with-manning-in-loss-to-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18424","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Can\u2019t Keep Up With Manning In Loss To Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came out swinging against <strong>Peyton Manning (pictured)\u00a0<\/strong>and the Denver Broncos. At halftime, they actually led 10-7, and things were looking good. But after a 21-point third quarter, the game was over for all intent and purpose, and the final score of 31-23 doesn\u2019t really indicate just how lopsided the game really was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manning<\/strong> threw for 242 yards and three touchdowns, and gave his team the AFC West title. The Bucs (6-6) still have a chance for a wild-card spot for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Freeman<\/strong> completed 18 of 39 passes for 242 yards, two touchdowns, and 1 interception. Running back <strong>Doug Martin<\/strong> rushed for 56 yards on 18 carries, and wide receiver, <strong>Mike Williams<\/strong>, finished his day with 6 catches for 93 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneer defense didn\u2019t have a bad day overall, but failed to stop the Broncos from driving down the field on two of their second-half scores. The Bucs also were exposed in their defensive backfield with <strong>Aqib Talib<\/strong> being traded, and <strong>Eric Wright<\/strong> serving a suspension.<\/p>\n<p>With just four games remaining in the regular season, the Bucs will now face the Philadelphia Eagles at home; the New Orleans Saints on the road; the St. Louis Rams at home, and end their season against the 11-1 Atlanta Falcons in Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came out swinging against Peyton Manning (pictured)\u00a0and the Denver Broncos. At halftime, they actually led 10-7, and things were looking good. But after a 21-point third quarter, the game was over for all intent and purpose, and the final score of 31-23 doesn\u2019t really indicate just how lopsided the [&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-18424","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\/18424","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=18424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}