2033 Season
Benchmarks:
Roster Rating – 96 (2nd)
Cohesion – 91-81-70-100
My predictions:
We are again solid passing downfield, I’ll guess 3,600 and 36/16
Maybe THIS is the big breakout year for CB Carlisle?
We can actually have a LB lead the team in tackles – Chancey with about 85
We stay solid, but don’t get the bye week – 10-6 and a #3 seed
Season narrative:
An 0-2 start is jarring for a team that went 13-3 last year, but we need to shake it off and get back on track. 0-3 is even worse. 0-4 is a nightmare taking its shape right before us.
It looks like Bryant Czyz is the only guy on the offense playing hard – I don’t know what to make of things here. We have registered 1 sack in 4 games, and QB Swartz is upside down in his ratio. We can’t run, we can’t stop the run, this is really bad suddenly.
Okay – two wins and things are looking incrementally better. 2-4 ain’t great, but it beats 0-6. At 3-5 halfway through, we are basically out of the division race already, and our only postseason hope is to make a late run and maybe get to 9 or 10 wins to eke in as a wild card. Wow, didn’t see the bottom falling out this season.
We get to week 13, our record is 5-6, and this is the “moment of truth” for DE Ronald Harmon, who has been upgraded to probable. he was rated 75/75 before the injury was fully revealed… and now he is… 44/44. A massive hit. He will still be a decent player, but not the defensive anchor we previously had. That really sucks.
We scrape our way to 8-7 with one game left, and in-game it says we are ranked 2nd among the **five** 8-7 teams in a multi-way tie for the two wild cards. So, we have a shot – our playoffs basically start right here, at home, against 12-3 Carolina. We lose the game at home 24-21, and our season is over at an up-and-down 8-8. Tough.
Code:
Front Office Football 2007
2033 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Year 2033
Record 8-8
Winning Pct. .500
All-Time 212-236
Winning Pct. .473
Playoffs 6-8
Playoff Visits 8
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Shaun Grier
Record 8-8
Winning Pct. .500
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 28.5 13
Rushing Yards 122.8 9
Yards Per Carry 4.31 12
Pass Attempts 28.7 30
Completions 18.1 27
Completion Pct. 63.2 10
Passing Yards 253.3 12
Yards Per Attempt 8.83 1
Yards Per Catch 13.98 1
Total Yardage Gained 369.0 6
3rd Down Conversions 49.5 2
Points Per Game 22.8 17
Pass Rush Pct. 19.5 18 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 53.5 18 (T)
Turnovers 33 29
Turnover Margin -11 30 (T)
Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 30.4 30
Rushing Yards 121.5 25
Yards Per Carry 4.00 7
Pass Attempts 32.9 7 (T)
Completions 19.9 10
Completion Pct. 60.6 19
Passing Yards 225.2 8
Yards Per Attempt 6.85 12 (T)
Yards Per Catch 11.29 12 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 336.4 14
3rd Down Conversions 49.3 32
Points Per Game 22.4 16
Pass Rush Pct. 19.0 11
Pass Defense Pct. 51.9 17
Turnovers 22 22 (T)
Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 14 NOS 24
2 7 at MIA 28
3 19 DET 23
4 19 WAS 20
5 34 at DAL 31
6 31 ATL 7
7 20 PHI 25
9 34 at NYK 20
10 34 at NOS 21
11 7 at CAR 31
12 14 NYJ 3
13 38 at SFO 35
14 24 at BUF 31
15 24 at ATL 21
16 24 NED 14
17 21 CAR 24
Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 437 283 3945 9.03 25 18 95.6
**Team --- 459 290 4053 8.83 25 19 92.4
$$Opp --- 526 319 3603 6.85 20 14 82.7
Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
24 B. Thornton RB 278 1285 4.62 14 13
32 T. Sullivan RB 116 436 3.76 1 4
4 J. Swartz QB 59 228 3.86 2 8
**Team --- 456 1964 4.31 17 29
$$Opp --- 486 1944 4.00 19 19
Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 125 80 1399 17.49 11.19 1 9
89 K. Lindsay WR 95 48 914 19.04 9.62 5 5
80 T. Montgomery WR 58 38 523 13.76 9.02 4 3
24 B. Thornton RB 35 27 195 7.22 5.57 1 0
84 D. Edwards TE 36 25 321 12.84 8.92 1 5
11 B. Iadevaia WR 37 19 202 10.63 5.46 2 1
44 L. Murray FB 20 18 176 9.78 8.80 1 2
88 T. Buffington TE 23 17 226 13.29 9.83 0 0
Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 97 33 0.0 1 3 10 80.5
96 H. Harlow ILB 91 40 1.0 0 0 3 76.1
39 O. Carlisle CB 72 15 0.0 0 2 13 74.8
50 K. Chancey ILB 63 15 0.0 1 1 4 75.5
48 B. Shea CB 55 10 0.5 1 5 17 84.9
59 E. Gerald OLB 51 14 3.0 8 0 4 79.5
79 A. Fernyhough DT 41 27 5.5 10 0 0 81.9
91 G. Samuels OLB 39 17 5.0 6 0 3 78.7
93 J. Thorp DE 37 13 6.0 17 0 1 82.2
30 R. Woodson S 36 16 0.0 0 1 3 78.7
72 D. Newman DE 29 13 4.0 12 0 0 81.3
54 K. Devine ILB 28 8 1.0 0 0 0 70.2
42 G. Pujols CB 25 15 0.0 0 0 4 78.0
47 X. Andrews S 24 6 0.0 0 2 2 81.5
23 N. Paas S 21 8 0.5 0 0 0 71.8
26 L. Thornton OLB 21 5 1.0 1 0 0 69.1
90 A. Wilkerson DT 16 8 0.0 0 0 0 80.0
45 D. Abercrombie OLB 16 4 0.0 2 0 0 77.2
Really, all told, this wasn’t a terrible season by the numbers. About what I expected on offense, but I guess a late run made up for some early lapses. Thornton was solid enough in what will be his last year with us, though 13 fumbles does seem a bit excessive to me. Bryant Czyz remains the real deal, and even with all that cash weighing him down, he’s still getting it done for us. Good years from our top three wideouts, really.
So, we do have a pretty good tackle total from a linebacker (Harlow with 91) but it’s still not enough to overtake the tackling machine that is S Ben Terry. The pass rush was adequate, but we were used to being well above average, and now are basically a median-level team. Same with secondary stats in coverage – basically average. For our talent level, we really should expect more than that. CB Shea might have had another all-pro year, and maybe Terry too, but overall I’d like to see this defense play like it’s good enough to win games for us. Not the case here.