TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will spend a lot more time practicing in the red zone this year in an attempt to match a league-wide trend of increasingly efficient offenses inside the 20-yard line.
"We have good options," said head coach Dirk Koetter. "We were actually, I think, about 51 percent touchdowns in the red zone. The league took a jump -- it used to be that 55 percent touchdowns would put you in the top five in the league. Tennessee led the league at 72 percent. That's insane -- 72 percent touchdowns.
"We've actually raised our goal this year to try to be 60 percent touchdowns; that's something we have to do better.