The early-2000s Tampa Bay Buccaneers were a really good football team. But those days are long gone, as are the way the game was played then. The Tampa 2 is dead as a base defense, and is generally used as a conservative passing-downs call, especially in the red zone.
As this article on NFL.com from 2012 notes, it’s a passing league. NFL rules and rules enforcement, plus scheme evolutions, have made football dominated by quarterbacks and the pass. Football Outsiders’ Scott Kacsmar had this to say:
For the fourth time in the last decade, the NFL’s single-season record for completion percentage was broken.