The 6-7 Tampa Bay Buccaneers can win a maximum of nine regular season games in 2015, and will probably have to do so to have any hope of playing in the postseason. Lovie Smith's team is aware of that fact, but also understands that it can't get from six to nine wins in a single night.
"To be in the playoffs, this is a must, simple as that," said Smith of the Buccaneers' Thursday night game in St. Louis. "The only way we have an opportunity to get to nine wins is to get to seven."
Tampa Bay will play its first prime time game since Week Three of last season when they take on the Rams in the Edward Jones Dome, and they would like to show the rest of the NFL that they are indeed a playoff-caliber team.