With this game being one of the better primetime games thus far of the season this Buccaneers and Ravens game has high potential to be a great standalone game for the week. As I previewed this game yesterday and looked into the biggest X factor for each team to win, let’s take a look and break down what happened in this game and how close my prediction was.
As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers controlled the first quarter they really stood out with the passing game, but ended up scoring with the run game and Leonard Fournette, as Tampa‘s offense has really looked stout in the first half of this game, controlling the line of scrimmage and blitzing Lamar Jackson, Tampa’s linebackers are really giving the Ravens tight ends big trouble. As the Ravens saw themselves in multiple third and longs due to penalties and or runs for losses their offense really struggled in the first half.
The second half was the complete opposite as the Ravens completely dominated the Buccaneers and outscored the Bucs 24 to 12 and win the game 27-22, speaking of the second half the Buccaneers just looked so gassed as this team was missing tackles left and right, making big mistakes which ended up costing Tampa a potential touchdown in the red zone. The Bucs had six drives which resulted in a punt as their offense just doesn’t look like it’s clicking for some reason.
Credit to the Baltimore Ravens as they won this game on the road to advance to 5-3 on the season and without their top two pass catchers in Rashod Bateman and Mark Andrews who got injured in the second quarter of this game, the Ravens were also missing their top running back in J.K Dobbins. The Bucs seem to be in more and more trouble as the weeks go on with another potential season ending injury to pass rusher Shaquill Barrett who is the Bucs leading sacker for the last couple seasons. Ravens advance to 5-3 and the Bucs fall to 3-5.
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