 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Big expectations. Huge expectations. Going into 2020. Labeled by Vegas, the odds on a favorite of being the first team to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium. Currently set at 7-5. More than likely not going to win the NFC South, that's going to go to the New Orleans Saints. More than likely not going to get the number 1 seed and won't get the first round by as many people expected. Sit at 7-5 and to put that in perspective, what it means 7-5 for you guys that play FNC football, many of you are 7-5 currently and are on the cusp of making the FNC football playoffs. But there is no guarantee that you'll make the playoffs. You have to win or if you lose then you have to help that other people lose. That's what 7-5 means for you guys to put it in perspective. But however with the introduction of the 7th seed and the playoff race, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers do have a good shot of making the NFL playoffs. I'm not doubting that, especially the schedule they have coming up with the next four games coming up. But the expectations that they had on making the Super Bowl, can that still happen? Do they have a good shot of making the Super Bowl? Let's break down the schedule. We talked about the schedule and the four games that they have remaining. After their week 13 buy, they faced the Minnesota Vikings. They faced the Atlanta Falcons twice. They faced the Detroit Lions. They could easily go 11-5 easily. But what happens if out of those two games against the Atlanta Falcons who have been looking better since Raheem Morris took over as interim head coach? What if the Falcons were to win just one time? Alright, 10-6, still a very good record. But what if the Minnesota Vikings who, yeah, technically the record says that they're not good, but recently their defense and their offense has been looking great. What if they were to pull off the upset? Now you're sitting at 9-7. Okay, well with the 7th water card seed, yeah, you have a shot of making the NFL postseason. But if you sit at 9-7, more likely you're going to have the 7th seed, meaning that you have to face the number two seed in the NFL playoffs, which is going to be much harder for the Bucks and moving forward into the postseason. The potential number two seeds, if they were to play that, could be the New Orleans Saints. Oh wait, they were defeated by the Saints earlier this year by two or more possessions twice. They were annihilated one time on Sunday night football and then week one of the NFL season, they lost against the Saints. Speaking of big losses that they had against some pretty good teams, lost to the Saints twice, lost to the Chiefs this past week, lost to the Rams, they did beat the Green Bay Packers and you have to give them credit for that. But you would expect that they would have at least a shot or a chance to beat the Saints in both those games, wasn't even close. The game against the Chiefs, the score might say it's close, but that was a lot of scoring and garbage time and Tom Brady trying to come back and the Chiefs trying to run out of the clock and playing a little bit softer. So the score may say it's close, but if you want to compete with the best, it wasn't as close as you may think. And the Rams, yes, they're a very good team, but out of the good teams, you'd expect the Buccaneers to be better than them, but instead the Rams were able to pull off that upset. The game against the Green Bay Packers, they looked very impressive and it's just a shame that they had a showing like that against a good team just one time this year. Maybe if they just beat the Saints just one time this year, how did showing like that or at least a close victory at that point, maybe we want to be talking about this, but right now the Bucs, the expectations that they had, it's not looking good. It really isn't. They're going to make the postseason, but I don't know how far they're going to get into the NFL playoffs. The fact that Tampa Bay is having this disconnect and not doing that well, a lot of rumors are out there and we're just going to treat rumors like they are. We don't really want to hype up rumors because we want to get to the facts and we just want to talk about what we know is true. But if you want to listen to the rumors, there's Bruce Arians and Tom Brady rumors out there about how they just don't like each other and there's kind of disconnect and I don't believe that for one second. I feel like, yeah, maybe there's a little bit of frustration. I wish Tom Brady did it this way. I wish Bruce Arians did it this way, maybe, but you don't want to dive too deep into that because we don't know 100% what is true or not. Rob Geekovich, former teammate of Tom Brady, stated that Bruce Arians should be fired. I wouldn't go that far. I think he's still a very good coach and I don't think Tom Brady would want Bruce Arians to be gone either, but I don't know what's going on. Bruce Arians could be frustrated because he gave Tom Brady everything that he wanted. He advocated for Grant to come out. He advocated for Antonio Brown to be signed and it's just not translating and maybe Tom Brady's frustrated because this offense maybe it's just a foreign offense to him. Maybe it's just they're not clicking and he just wishes that Bruce Arians just gave Tom Brady a little bit more control with running the offense and I don't know what it may be, but I think that if next year, if Brady's age isn't a factor and he weren't to regress, then they'll be better, 100% because Tom Brady is going to get more adjusted with this offense and they're going to get better and there'll be a much better Super Bowl favorite next season than this season, by the way, that has been turning out, but as for this year, this is more of like a test run. Hey, let's just get adjusted. Let's see. Okay, we have good pieces. We have a winning record. We could make the postseason with the offense that we have. I don't know about making the Super Bowl, so leave your thoughts, leave your comments. What do you feel like is going on with the Tampa Big Buccaneers and what do you feel like in which areas they need to improve?