The past four seasons of Tampa Bay Buccaneers failures on defense have consistently proven one fact: run defense means nothing.
Since 2012, the Buccaneers have allowed teams to run for just 3.7 yards per attempt, ranked second in the entire NFL. Over that same time, they've ranked third, eighth, eighth and ninth in run defense DVOA. Every year, they manage to produce one of the best run defenses in the NFL -- in large part because of the work Lavonte David and Gerald McCoy have done. Those are terrific numbers.
Over that same period, the Bucs defense allowed 5.