Indeed - none of the Bucs 9 wins this season have come against a team who can finish with a winning record, the best any of them can do is the Rams who would finish 8-8 with a win on Sunday.

We really should have won comfortably that day as well. If not for our annoying habit to try and run out the clock by containing the offense with a lead we would already be in the playoffs. That game and the 49ers road game still annoy me thinking back to them.

Yep, sounds about right, picks in a big game

Dark Horse for OPOY - Jamaal Charles

Never in a million years - a player with four touchdowns won't win it, despite his brilliant yards per carry average this season and the fact that Thomas Jones has stolen touchdowns from him.

Cinci were classed as a good team when we beat them at their place



We will also have beaten the winner of the NFC west whoever that may be. The Rams in the last minute and have blown the Seahawks out 2 seasons in a row.

We have shut out the 49ers @ Candlestick and were the 1st team to do that to them since the 70's. We have gone to Arizona and although close in the end started to run away with it in the 3rd.

All in all regardless of if we get in the playoffs or not (which a couple of pundits are saying we will) it has been a successful season.

Think even the coaches are surprised how well you've done this year, Morris has been on record as saying it's work in progress!

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- The Bucs are the 7th ranked rushing offense in the league

- Caddilac was our starting RB from weeks 1-7... we averaged 82.9 ypg (Half of which came from Graham and Freeman)

- Legarette Blount took over in week 8... we now average 148.5 ypg

- Blount has only started 7 games but has run for 941 yards averaging 5.2 ypc

- Josh Freeman has thrown the 4th fewest interceptions of all starting quarterbacks in the league (Big Ben, Cassell & Brady being the 3 with less)

- Only TWO quarterbacks in NFL history have had 5 TD/0 INT games before their 23rd birthday. Josh and some bum named Marino

- We are the 1st team since 1970 that has started 10 rookies and had a winning season

- With 924 receiving yards this season, Mike Williams has a shot at passing 1,000. No rookies have done that since Marques Colston

- Williams has also scored 10 TDs. Since the 1970 merger, only two wide receivers in NFL history have had 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns in their rookie year (John Jefferson and Randy Moss).

- We are THE youngest team


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These bowl game names get dafter and dafter!

Currently the Maineke Car Care Bowl

Very much so. The youthfulness of the team means that even us fans dont know whats going to happen week to week. What we do know is that when these guys mature and become more consistent we will have a QB heading towards elite status and a hell of a good attack around him. The rest of the team will cut out the mistakes and as we add depth around our core things will only get better.

As a journo for NFL.com said earlier today. We will see far more 10-6 seasons than 6-10 seasons over the coming years.

The NFC South looks like it will be an awesome division for the next few years. Think of this... Freeman v Ryan v Brees home and away every year. Its mouthwatering.

I was thinking that before it`s as if they try to pick the stupidest name possible



Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg
GoDaddy.com Bowl

Imagine it over here!

Halfords Bowl
Walkers Quavers Bowl
Greggs Steak Bake bowl

C'mon... it's obvious Carnegie would buy the rights to all the Bowls

Carnegie Pavilion Bowl
Carnegie Stand Bowl
Carnegie faculty of sport and education bowl

Cashyourgold.com bowl
Cashconverters bowl
webuyanycar.com bowl

What exactly is meant by a player being a true freshman ?

I took it to mean he's a young guy with all the talent and ability in the world but is still very raw and makes those mistakes that Freshmen make.

I could be wrong though.

Sometimes when a player starts college they sit out their freshman year which is called redshirting. If they play football in their first year then they're a true freshman

www.stumbleupon.com/su/2O0kox/ww ... temId=9945 both funny and kinda true

www.stumbleupon.com/su/2O0kox/ww ... temId=9945 both funny and kinda true

The only reason he's in contention this year is because he's lead a load of misfits to the verge of the playoffs. People like Blair White and Jacob Tamme would have seen barely any action all year, Manning has made them look like decent NFL players this year!

He's carried the entire Colts offence on his own!

Don't bother mate. The Pats fans say they don't care about the MVP awards etc because they win Superbowls but duly go on and on about Manning all the time. Cancel the award for the next few years, it's got Bradford written all over it

MVP is a nothing award really though isn't it? What's so great about an award for one person on the team when there's a Lombardi to be won.




Misfits like Benjarvus Green-Ellis and Danny Woodhead?

both QB's are great and can make any receiving corp look good.

Why do you and LFC continually bang on about it and Manning's victories then? It's not a nothing award. It is terribly biased towards QB's but it's still a hell of an achievement. Has Peyton Manning deserved all his victories, probably not but it's a QB league and he's a very popular player. Ray Lewis should have won it the season the Ravens won the SB but he was overlooked as he's a defensive player.

Nothing award, no. Poorly awarded, yes. It might as well be most valuable QB.

Which is why OPOTY and DPOTY are better suited awards imo, the MVP should be renamed something else and used exclusively for QB's, putting it on par with and leaving OPOTY and DPOTY for the outstanding seasons of other players who don't get the recognition deserved with the MVP award.