Everyone was so concerned about how the Buccaneers offense would function without Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, but the narrative perhaps downplayed how horrendous this Tampa Bay defense continues to be.
Welp, everyone got a quick, painful reminder in the first couple minutes of the first quarter as Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons once again eviscerated Todd Bowles’s unit in a 31-26 game that wasn’t really that close.
With the season series all done and Atlanta holding the hands-down tiebreaker, the division title is basically toast already for the Buccaneers unless they straight-up win more games than the Falcons, which feels pretty damn unlikely right now.