It’s a Tuesday, during the regular season, which means outlets are putting out their power rankings. The first ones of the season, in fact, though hardly the first ones of the year.
We start off with SB Nation’s Adam Stites, who has the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ranked ninth. A top ten ranking before the games have even started. Nice!
Others, of course, also put out power rankings. Like ESPN, which ranked the Bucs 13th and had Jenna Laine do the explaining.
The Buccaneers, who have not made the playoffs since 2007, enter the season as actual postseason contenders.