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Don't expect the Bucs to get back to .500 with Smith in charge

LANDOVER, Md. — It’s all over but how many shovels of dirt it will take to fill the grave. The Bucs finished digging it Sunday.

When they close the book on Lovie Smith’s return, and they will, and they should, this one will be written in blood.

This is the game that the Glazers — and the rest of us — will look back on: an epic collapse, the Bucs losing to a bad Washington team, 31-30. After being up 24-0. While making Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins into Tom Brady, including that final coffin nail, that winning touchdown slant pattern that no member of a pathetic Bucs defense thought to cover.