There’s a good chance at some point Sunday against the Chiefs, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have the football and swap out, say, a tight end for a 300-pounder with an offensive lineman’s number.
When the referee says the man who just entered the game is an eligible receiver, it will also stoke the competitive fires of the 11 Chiefs on defense, whose eyes will widen.
“I’m thinking it’s a run,” inside linebacker Derrick Johnson said, when asked for his first reaction when he sees teams do that. “I’m becoming very aggressive, gearing up, telling the rest of the D-linemen don’t pass rush — here (the run) goes.