The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have played four games, so we get quarterly reports. First up: defense.
Since this defense is in the second season under defensive coordinator Mike Smith, we will re-visit 2016 before going onto 2017.
Quarter 2 looks bad, but the defense had an OT loss and then played a Thursday Night Game against the high scoring Atlanta Falcons. Those two games totaled 73 points. The previous two games, the Bucs defense only gave up 31 points. Afterwards, look at the scoring production drop. That coincides with the long drives dropping.