The trade deadline has passed! The excitement and controversy are reverberating. Is there any appetite left for talk about the Tampa game?
What impressed me about the Tampa game was that it was such OBVIOUS evidence for opponent-specific game planning. The team you’re playing is missing six of their top eight players in the secondary. Come out throwing! That’s what they did: they opened with two straight passes to Mark Andrews, and went to him a third time on the fourth play. (Remember Andrews was held without a catch in the previous game.)
This was exactly the opposite approach from what they did against the Brownies.