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Bucs show how short of the Super Bowl champs they are

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So how much difference is there between the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos and the Tampa Bay Bucs? Well, it turns out, a lot. Like 20 points. Like 98 yards. Like three turnovers. Like a 4-0 start against a 1-3 start. Like an efficient quarterback (and backup) with a 141.7 rating against a scatter-armed one who had a 40.1. Like that. The Broncos took an easy 27-7 victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday, breaking a 7-7 tie in the first…

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Bucs’ coach Dirk Koetter wants to change the team’s culture

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In the beginning, they lost. In the middle, they drafted poorly. In recent days, they have had a coaching carousel. For the Tampa Bay Bucs, all of it has led to a losing culture and bad players and coaches who couldn’t measure up to the challenge of turning the team around. Now, three games into his coaching stint, Dirk Koetter has noticed. After his team’s 37-32 loss to the Rams on Sunday, Koetter talked about a needed change in the…

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Bucs’ mistakes doom them in narrow loss to Los Angeles

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The distance to the end zone was so close. The time on the clock was so fast. And, for the Tampa Bay Bucs, the mistakes were too plentiful. The Bucs fell to 1-2 Sunday, losing 37-32 to a Los Angeles Rams team that had scored only nine points all season long. The defeat came despite 405 yards passing by Jameis Winston. But Tampa Bay doomed itself with its own mistakes. Winston had a sack-fumble-touchdown-return play. Roberto Aguayo missed a field…

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Bucs hope a home game against Rams fires up their defense

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Finally, the Tampa Bay Bucs come home. After spending the first fortnight of the season on the road, the 1-1 Bucs play against the Rams at 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay is coming off a sobering 40-7 loss to Arizona. “It’s fantastic to be at home, number one,” said Bucs’ coach Dirk Koetter. “As I said many times, we’re one of three teams to start the first two games on the road and we’d love to be 2-0, but we’re 1-1…

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Tampa Bay Bucs anticipate pressure from the Arizona Cardinals

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The Tampa Bay Bucs are preparing for heat in the desert. The kind of heat the defense of the Arizona Cardinals brings. “I’m expecting that we’ll see more pressure than we saw last week,” Bucs coach Dirk Koetter said. “Arizona’s always been a pressure team. Sounds like they were maybe wanting to pressure more than they did last week. That’s just speculation, things that you hear out of their media side. I think they’ll try to heat Jameis (Winston) up…

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Bucs’ Jameis Winston rebounds from early mistake to lead Bucs to a win in Atlanta

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It started with a mistake. Jameis Winston expected Vincent Jackson to zig, and instead, Jackson zagged. And the ball was intercepted by the Atlanta Falcons. It was early in the Bucs’ 31-24 victory over Atlanta, however, and Winston was just getting started. He responded with four touchdown passes, and 281 yards, and the victory. It wasn’t the first time Winston has responded. Coach Dirk Koetter says he hasn’t seen another quarterback who can move on from mistakes as quickly. “No…

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Tampa Bay’s Dirk Koetter makes impressive debut as coach

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So what’s so tough about coaching in the NFL? Just ask the guy with Gatorade all over his shirt and a game ball under his arm. New Tampa Bay Bucs coach Dirk Koetter won his first game with the Bucs Sunday in Atlanta behind several highlight plays in a 31-24 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. It was an impressive debut, one where most of Koetter’s weapons took turns trying to impress the new boss. There was Charles Sims, who took…

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