2027 season
Benchmarks:
Roster Rating – 100/81
Cohesion – 68-86-72-55
My predictions:
Bryant Czyz tops 1,000 for his first time, with around 100 catches on the year
DEs Ingram and Bolsins and LB Daniels all get double digit sacks for us
We post improved number everywhere, and manage about 11 wins to take the division
Season narrative:
We suffer two blowouts in out first four games, and while 2-2 isn’t awful, it doesn’t look good on the stat sheet. Halfway through, at 5-3, we still don’t look very strong – we are upside down in passing yards per attempt, giving up more than we get.
We get down toward the end of the season, and we are 9-5 – but in a three-way tie for the division lead. Our last game is against Carolina, and we are tied at 10-5 for the division lead – they get the win and take the division, we expect to hit the road again as a wild card team – but are disappointed when we realize that we grabbed the dreaded 7-seed with the loss, and lose out to Atlanta for the final wild card. We’re done.
Code:
Front Office Football 2007
2027 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Year 2027
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 149-203
Winning Pct. .423
Playoffs 3-4
Playoff Visits 4
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 31-22
Winning Pct. .584
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.6 18
Rushing Yards 114.8 14
Yards Per Carry 4.31 11
Pass Attempts 35.1 11
Completions 24.6 1 (T)
Completion Pct. 70.1 2
Passing Yards 258.6 7
Yards Per Attempt 7.36 10
Yards Per Catch 10.50 28
Total Yardage Gained 362.3 5
3rd Down Conversions 49.8 1 (T)
Points Per Game 27.6 3
Pass Rush Pct. 21.3 6 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 48.8 20
Turnovers 27 19 (T)
Turnover Margin +2 15
Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.2 8 (T)
Rushing Yards 91.0 3
Yards Per Carry 3.61 1
Pass Attempts 32.2 9
Completions 20.7 18
Completion Pct. 64.3 29
Passing Yards 235.4 13
Yards Per Attempt 7.31 21
Yards Per Catch 11.38 16
Total Yardage Gained 309.6 6
3rd Down Conversions 44.6 26
Points Per Game 24.4 26
Pass Rush Pct. 15.7 3
Pass Defense Pct. 35.1 4
Turnovers 29 10 (T)
Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 21 at NOS 38
2 21 JAX 17
3 34 at SFO 10
4 20 at WAS 45
5 45 DAL 28
6 28 ATL 31
7 35 PHI 28
9 17 at NYK 16
10 24 NOS 31
11 22 at CAR 10
12 37 at LRK 17
13 19 GBY 13
14 17 IND 34
15 30 at ATL 27
16 51 at TEN 20
17 20 CAR 25
Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
6 K. Beason QB 547 385 4075 7.45 30 15 98.6
**Team --- 562 394 4137 7.36 31 15 98.5
$$Opp --- 515 331 3767 7.31 32 15 94.7
Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
24 T. Reed RB 304 1347 4.43 12 4
35 A. Newton RB 87 402 4.62 4 2
**Team --- 426 1836 4.31 16 25
$$Opp --- 403 1456 3.61 11 26
Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
18 W. Dickens WR 104 68 688 10.12 6.62 5 6
24 T. Reed RB 79 62 356 5.74 4.51 2 5
84 M. Farias TE 64 53 531 10.02 8.30 1 6
81 M. Hevey WR 78 52 733 14.10 9.40 3 3
8 B. Czyz WR 82 49 641 13.08 7.82 3 5
83 J. Deberry WR 45 29 344 11.86 7.64 3 3
82 C. Kanell TE 34 27 257 9.52 7.56 1 2
43 K. Raven FB 31 25 231 9.24 7.45 0 0
Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
93 D. Daniels OLB 81 26 10.0 11 0 3 77.7
95 D. Winfield ILB 80 36 0.5 0 3 2 75.5
34 R. Fritz S 75 23 0.0 0 2 8 80.3
32 R. Booker S 72 24 0.0 0 2 8 80.8
48 B. Shea CB 70 12 0.5 2 3 13 75.5
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 54 9 0.0 0 2 15 78.5
98 A. Ingram DE 48 20 8.0 15 0 1 81.7
90 A. Wilkerson DT 40 26 9.0 9 0 0 81.9
99 B. Bolsins DE 32 15 4.5 12 0 0 81.4
56 J. Dirnbauer ILB 31 6 2.0 0 0 2 73.7
58 H. Palm OLB 28 13 5.0 6 0 0 77.2
51 D. Leal OLB 27 11 1.0 2 0 4 78.8
Well, our offense is clicking pretty well – we are not explosive, but we are pretty consistent. This year Beason improved slightly everywhere (except TD passes), and made fewer mistakes. WR Czyz was never on pace for a huge year, and injuries hobbled him late in the season. And we got another excellent season from RB Todd Reed, who seems to fit us like a glove.
I though our pass rush would be vastly improved – Daniels was pretty good, and Ingram was his usual solid self, but the teamwide 21.3 was a shade lower than I had hoped. We managed to get back to basically even in turnovers, but didn’t really get much better – I fear that below the surface, we are not a better team than we were last year.
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Season Coda
I’m admittedly disappointed in the season, I really believed that with the weapons we had in place, our offense would be better. If we retain QB Beason for next season, I think it might be back to our more traditional offensive style, and throwing the ball downfield more. As much as I say I can live with the stats generated from the short-passing, control-the-game style… I guess it’s just in my blood to grip it and rip it. This 11 yards per completion stuff doesn’t do it for me.
Speaking of Beason – we have on late-season reneg we can do. He is asking for $17m per year, after playing the last two seasons for $5m each. My thinking here is that we can let him walk, he will ask for a ton of money, and maybe we can work out a long term deal with two or three affordable seasons to get him to return. He’s obviously good enough to run our offense, and it’s not like I have another really good option sitting around – no offense to OJ Turnbull.
I instead lock up G Maurice Donhoff for three more seasons, getting a solid interior starter on the payroll and hopefully continuing to build OL continuity.