{"id":18890,"date":"2013-01-03T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18890"},"modified":"2013-01-03T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:33:51","slug":"bucs-improve-but-still-fall-short-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18890","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Improve, But Still Fall Short Of Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josh Freeman<\/strong> became Tampa Bay\u2019s first 4,000-yard passer and also threw for more touchdowns in a season than any player in franchise history, yet the NFL playoffs will begin without the Buccaneers for the fifth straight year.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s 22-17 victory over the Atlanta Falcons stopped a five-game losing streak and enabled the Bucs (7-9) to finish with three more wins than they did a year ago, when a season-ending 10-game skid led to the dismissal of former coach <strong>Raheem Morris<\/strong> and the hiring of <strong>Greg Schiano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <strong>Freeman\u2019s<\/strong> record-setting season, Tampa Bay had a 1,400-yard rusher in rookie <strong>Doug Martin<\/strong> and a 1,400-yard receiver in <strong>Vincent Jackson<\/strong>. One of Freeman\u2019s other playmakers, <strong>Mike Williams<\/strong>, finished four yards shy of giving the Bucs their first pair of 1,000-yard receivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Freeman became Tampa Bay\u2019s first 4,000-yard passer and also threw for more touchdowns in a season than any player in franchise history, yet the NFL playoffs will begin without the Buccaneers for the fifth straight year. Sunday\u2019s 22-17 victory over the Atlanta Falcons stopped a five-game losing streak and enabled the Bucs (7-9) to [&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-18890","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\/18890","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=18890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}