Although the Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened their 2011 campaign with a 27-20 loss to the Detroit Lions last week, perhaps you can draw some relief in the fact the other three NFC South teams lost their season openers.<\/p>\n
This Sunday, the Bucs will hit the road to face Donovan McNabb and the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings also lost their season opener to the San Diego Chargers, 24-17. Last week against the Lions, the Buccaneer offense and defense looked unprepared, although the offense started coming around in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n Buc quarterback Josh Freeman<\/strong> will be fired up and expects a much better performance form himself and his teammates than last week. Both he and Coach Morris<\/strong> want to see better run blocking so they can take advantage of the bruising style of LeGarrett Blount<\/strong>. They also would like to see the defense do a better job against the run, a problem that has plagued the Bucs for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n This game will be televised and kickoff will be at 1 p. m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although the Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened their 2011 campaign with a 27-20 loss to the Detroit Lions last week, perhaps you can draw some relief in the fact the other three NFC South teams lost their season openers. This Sunday, the Bucs will hit the road to face Donovan McNabb and the Minnesota Vikings. The […]<\/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-9886","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\/9886","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=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBuccaneer head coach, Raheem Morris<\/strong>, was not a happy man after Sunday\u2019s defeat, but remained optimistic that his young team will turn things round.<\/p>\n