Bucs need to rethink defensive strategy over bye week

TAMPA, Fla. -- You could have heard a pin drop in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' locker room after Sunday's 48-10 beatdown by the Chicago Bears. Players sat in silence at their lockers -- stunned and speechless. This wasn't Drew Brees or Matt Ryan who had just dismantled them -- it was Mitchell Trubisky.

The second-year quarterback threw six touchdown passes against the Bucs -- five in the first half alone -- after throwing seven all of last season. The Bucs' defense should let that stew for a little while.

Trubisky only completed four passes in the past three games that traveled 20 or more yards downfield, but he managed to do so five times Sunday. Instead, the Bears relied on pre-snap motion and…