TAMPA - Monte, you want to leave all this? ...more

November 30, 2008

PLAYER OF THE GAME The Bucs usually try to pick their spots with Warrick Dunn. He is 33, after all. He didn't look much like a 33-year-old back on Sunday, though. ...more

October 13, 2008

Barack Obama was at this football stadium not too long ago to make an acceptance speech. Subject: change. We're pretty sure this wasn't the change he was talking about. It definitely wasn't the change Jon Gruden was talking about. ...more

October 6, 2008

The first real indication of just how explosive the Saints can be offensively came during their first series, on a third-and-3 play from the Bucs 39. They sent David Patten straight up the seam on a go route in which Patten quickly breezed past Aqib Talib and into the end zone. That's where he easily took in a Drew Brees pass that Talib tried to bat away somewhere near the 3-yard line. It would have helped immensely if the Bucs could have generated a pass rush here, but even with nickel rusher Greg White in at right end and Gaines Adams at left end, they couldn't pressure Brees enough to keep him from making an easy play. ...more

September 8, 2008

Keep in mind that the Bucs beat the Patriots during the preseason last year, too. But that was with Jeff Garcia starting at quarterback and Joey Galloway in the lineup at receiver. ...more

August 18, 2008

The Rams started their second series of the second quarter deep in their own territory, but they still came out firing. Marc Bulger threw downfield to Isaac Bruce on the first play and while Bruce made the catch, he didn't survive the pop he took from Jermaine Phillips. First, he fumbled the ball away. Then he left the game, missing the remainder of the first half. He came back in the second half, but he wasn't the same again. Nor was the Rams offense. ...more

September 24, 2007