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The Tampa 2 defense is not the problem for the Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers got beat down by the Tennessee Titans, and mostly by the defense's complete inability to stop Marcus Mariota from completing pass after pass after pass. Naturally, fans rushed to blame the supposedly outdated Tampa 2 -- something that's been said ever since the Bucs won their Super Bowl, even though every team has that coverage as a core concept in their playbook.

Yes, Lovie Smith's defense was absolutely horrendous. It wasn't horrendous because of the Tampa 2, though, because the plays on which the Bucs got beat were generally not the plays where they were running that concept, as Stephen White pointed out repeatedly yesterday.