Hey, it’s the Buccaneers again! How fun.
The last time these two teams met, Tampa Bay won handily. The time before that, Tampa Bay won handily. The time before that, Tampa Bay won narrowly. A team the Falcons merrily beat to a pulp many times over the past decade has begun to dominate Atlanta, and I really don’t like that. The hope is that the Falcons have a surprise or two up their sleeves and can wipe the grin off Tom Brady’s face, assuming his extensive plastic surgery will allow for that.
To do so, they’ll need to lift their passing game out of a three game funk, continue and accelerate their defensive improvement, run effectively again and avoid the kind of sloppy errors that have doomed them so many times this season.