With the Buccaneers about to play in their second Super Bowl, a member of Tampa Bay’s first title-winning team decided to reminisce about what made his championship season so special. Former All-Pro cornerback Rondé Barber picked one game that exemplified the greatness of the 2002 Buccaneers — Tampa’s late-November clash with the Packers — and broke it down for The Players’ Tribune.
1. Madden Defense
I’d like to tell you about the 2002 Bucs, but to do so, I need to explain who we were at the time. As everyone who followed the Bucs will remember, ’02 was the year we hired Jon Gruden as our coach.