The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been awful on defense this year, if you ask Football Outsiders. In fact, they rank them the second-worst defense in the entire NFL so far. That’s despite holding the New England Patriots offense to just 19 points—but giving up 38 to the Arizona Cardinals.
Outsiders’ statistics are derived from the play-by-play statistics, but the traditional stats tend to agree. The Bucs are ranked 22nd in points given up, 30th in yards given up, 30th in net yards per pass attempt given up, and eighth in yards per carry given up.