It would have been easy just to chalk it up to “new year, same old Buccaneers” as you watched Matty “Ice” Ryan trot in with the two-point conversion to close Tampa’s lead to a meager field goal.
Three things ought to have prevented that kind of thinking: 1. we still had the lead, 2. we had possession of the football, and, of course, 3. we had the GOAT-Tom Brady manning the controls.
Any other Buccaneer team, including the first half of last season, would make it a life and death struggle and usually die. See if you can remember how it was to have to play a team with an elite quarterback?