The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have struggled on defense all season long. Their pass rush has been absent, their coverage has been incompetent, their linebackers have been inconsistent -- it's been a total mess. In his latest column over at Pewter Report, Scott Reynolds notes that the Bucs have responded to that by drastically simplifying their defense.
After starting the season running a lot of man coverage the Bucs have played a lot more Cover 2 over the past couple of weeks, especially against the Giants. The reason was because too many mental errors were happening when the Bucs were in man coverage and Cover 3.