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The Optimist: Tampa Bay will make the playoffs in 2018.

In this two-part series, Bucs Nation’s Evan Winter looks ahead to the Buccaneers 2018 season. He starts with optimistic reasons why they’ll be playoff bound.

The NFL is all about numbers and anyone who follows the sport can tell you that. Unfortunately for Bucs fans, there is one number that is widely known - 10.

It has now been over 10 years since Tampa lost to the Giants in January of 2008. The eventual Super Bowl champs controlled the game after the Bucs scored first, and the rest is history.

Last year, expectations were high after the Bucs made some flashy moves in the offseason and appeared on HBO’s Hard Knocks.