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Bucs continue their play against a weak schedule vs. Rams

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The Tampa Bay Bucs continue their skid row schedule Thursday night in St. Louis. The Bucs have played 13 games, but only one opponent — Carolina, which is 13-0 — has a winning record. The Bucs’ other six losses, as well as its six wins, have all come against teams on the lesser side of .500. The team’s next two opponents — the Rams and the Bears — also have losing records. Still, Tampa Bay has tripled its victories from…

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Bucs’ game plan omitted Doug Martin, Mike Evans in loss

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Not enough Doug Martin. Not enough Mike Evans. Not enough points or plays or third-down conversions. Looking back, that was the key for the Tampa Bay Bucs against New Orleans. Not enough. That was the thing about the Bucs’ 24-17 defeat at the hands of the New Orleans Saints. The Bucs simply couldn’t get enough offense going to make anyone happy. There was running back Martin, who touched the ball only 11 times despite a 7.4 average. There was wide…

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The 5,000-day streak: Bucs look as if they’ll miss playoffs again

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Things to think about: If the Tampa Bay Bucs do not win a playoff game this season – stop laughing, won’t you? – then it will at least 5,000 days between victories. Ouch. The Bucs, who last won a playoff game when they won the Super Bowl on Jan. 26 of 2003 (4,706 days ago), have a sad little streak going. It isn’t the longest streak – seven teams have longer ones – but to Tampa Bay, it’s long enough.…

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Bucs’ Lovie Smith says that despite loss, his team is still in it

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The NFL playoffs look further away than ever for the Tampa Bay Bucs, but coach Lovie Smith says he isn’t surrendering. One day after a disappointing loss to New Orleans dropped the Bucs to 6-7 on the season and two games out of the playoff race, Smith said there is still a chance. “The same goals we had are still there,” Smith said. “Nothing has been decided, so we are still talking about the same thing. We have three games…

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Not 4th down for LA, but surely 3rd and long

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If there’s one thing the NFL doesn’t want associated with moving a team or teams to Los Angeles, it’s confusion. Too late. With each delay in the process, as well-intentioned as they might be, the league perplexes residents of LA, St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego. Not to mention fans of the Rams, Raiders and Chargers, wherever else they reside. This week’s move to punt any decision to Jan. 13 in Houston, a delay of nearly six weeks, was deemed…

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The endangered running back not so endangered

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Jeff Fisher hasn’t lasted so long as an NFL coach without being a risk taker. He likes aggressive defenses, and when he was a coordinator, he loved the blitz. Fisher also builds his offenses around the running game, which goes against current NFL philosophies — at the club and league level — that passing is the most effective way to keep fans intrigued. And, oh yeah, the surest way to win. Fisher put the Rams’ first-round draft choice where his…

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