TAMPA, Fla. -- After his Tampa Bay Buccaneers tripled their win total from the previous year and played meaningful games in December, coach Lovie Smith set a high standard for next season.
Playoffs are the mission.
"I'm saying it should," Smith said Monday, when asked if the 2016 team should make the postseason.
"We were 6-6 with a quarter [of the schedule] to go. That was progress to get in position, and things looked pretty bright for us. We weren't quite ready to take that next step then. But we'll make the corrections, the moves that we have to make in order to finish the 2016 season.