The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense must have thought this’d be an easy out. The Rams had scored all of nine points in the previous two games, and looked anemic — a running game that was easy to stop, and a passing game that was going nowhere with Case Keenum at the helm.
Well, whoops. The Bucs gave up a 44-yard touchdown on the first drive of the game when Alterraun Verner and Chris Conte appeared to miscommunicate on who, precisely, was supposed to carry a deep post route. Conte sat short, Verner ran with Brian Quick but gave up the inside, and the result was a 44-yard touchdown.