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Tampa Bay stuns Saints as Jameis Winston plays better in Week 2

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If nothing else, the Tampa Bay Bucs bought themselves a second look Sunday afternoon. The embarrassment of their opening defeat still lingers, but the Bucs at least evened their record with a 26-19 upset of the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. Tampa Bay played much better on defense, and got superior results from rookie quarterback Jameis Winston, who ran for one touchdown and threw for another as the team broke a seven-game losing steak to the New Orleans Saints. The…

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Defense leads the way in FSU’s victory over Boston College

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For most of the off-season, most of the talk around FSU centered around quarterback Everett Golson. The rest of it went to running back Dalvin Cook. As it turns out, the FSU Seminoles also have a defense, however, one that made just a few points stand up in a 14-0 victory over Boston College Friday night. FSU held the Eagles to 139 yards rushing and 15 yards passing in the shutout, The Seminoles’ last shutout on the road had been…

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Lopsided defeat drives Bucs’ Jameis Winston to film study

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You might think he would want to get as far away from football as possible. You might think he would want to go crawl under the covers to stop the sound of displeasure. Instead, Jameis Winston went to the game films. In the hours following the Bucs’ 42-14 loss to Tennessee, Winston sat and watched the disappointment over and again. He watched his first interception. He watched his second. He watched his fellow rookie, Marcus Mariota, have a day at…

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Tampa Bay Bucs bring up the rear in NFL’s Week 2 power rankings

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Last. You probably saw it coming. Thirty-second. And who can blame them? The caboose. And where else would you place Lovie Smith’s Tampa Bay Bucs? The Bucs, who lost 42-14 to a Tennessee team that was 2-14 a year ago, are the last-place team in the Pro Football Talk power ratings this week. The ranking was accompanied by a single sentence: “Maybe the Bucs should add a ‘no blocking’ and ‘no tackling’ clause to the ‘no baseball’ provision in Jameis…

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Bucs’ Lovie Smith stops short of saying his team wasn’t ready

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Lovie Smith wouldn’t say his team wasn’t ready to play. Vote, anyone? The Bucs were squashed from the opening kickoff in their 42-14 loss to Tennessee. They had a penalty on the first play, got beat for a touchdown on the first drive and quarterback Jameis Winston had his first pass intercepted and returned for a touchdown. The Titans, a 2-14 team a year ago, same as the Bucs, scored on five of their first six possessions. “I wouldn’t say…

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Marcus Mariota badly outplays Bucs’ Jameis Winston

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Did the Tampa Bay Bucs take the wrong quarterback? Jameis Winston of Florida State over Oregon’s Marcus Mariota? Given the chance, would they do it all over again? Such questions are fair considering how dominant Mariota’s performance was over Winston’s on Sunday afternoon. Actually, a lot of questions are in bounds as the Tennessee Titans won a 42-14 game over Tampa Bay Sunday. Mariota was superb, hitting 13 of 16 passes with four touchdowns, earning a rating of 158.3. By…

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If the Bucs are getting better, the opening game matters

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For a good team, it doesn’t matter. Oh, good teams, as well as bad ones, want to win their opening game. But when you are standing at the end, who really cares how you start. For a bad team, it doesn’t matter. If a team is going to be terrible, you are just fooling the masses for a week. It is false hope. It is counterfeit football. But a team that is getting better, for a team that is transforming…

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