Where was our offense? Will it Re-Appear?

Time of possession says a lot -- we CANNOT abuse our defense like that against Seattle. They had the ball for nearly 10 minutes more than us. We had all of 9 first downs.

I'm sorry, but that should not win games. Luckily our defense played amazing and scored, but I'm sick of making games come down to the last plays against our tired defense. We saw last year how great tossing a tired defense on the field to save a game works -- answer: not to well most of the time.

Granted, we won and this is moot. But don't be so sure that this was just some crazy one-time poor offensive showing. This is reminding me far too much of last year's Brunell and offensive game planning that led us to 6-10. Let's make the other team work late in a game. More than anything, keep them off the field.

I know you want to run to take up clock, watching what the Panthers did to the Giants was great. They'd throw a play on 3rd down to try to pickup that down to keep the clock going. I don't suggest bombs down field, but HIGH PERCENTAGE passes that move the chains and keep THEM off the field.

Let's face it guys, one of the reasons we did not put up any stats is because Gibbs got a 2 TD lead and was content to run the ball as much as possible and NOT pass, unless neccessary. I think he got very conservative and played not to lose and let Chris Simms make a mistake, which he did. I don't like it, but we won. We will need a new formula to win next week on the Seahawks. They will score more than 10 points!

I agree, Coach Gibbs played conservative because the defense was winning the game hands down. Before the ejection of Sean Taylor the Bucs were afraid of throwing the ball down field. In fact, the longest pass may have been 25 yds. only to have Simms sacked out of field goal range. If Taylor isn't ejected on 3rd and 5, we get the ball back and the Bucs don't score which takes them back to 3 points on offense. So all in all, Gibbs plays every team differently and will certainly get more players and plays in this game.

Funny thing, when I was watching the Panthers game, they were running on third down and getting the third down with the run. You're kind of comparing apples to oranges, because Carolina could run at will against the Giants' defense, and the Bucs' defense did a great job at shutting our run down. When you can run at will, you can do most anything you want to on offense. We couldn't against the Bucs - it was a one time deal! Not saying we'll score 40 points in this next game, but we'll have a better game offensively.

We scored 30+ the past three games before we stuck the joint up vs a Top Notch D. I don;t see any reason why we don't easily bounce back vs a Avg Sea D. After our O-line was tryin to block the TB D-line, Seattle's D will seem like a JV Team.

Can we enjoy a win 48 hrs and be critical on Wednesday? I don't know about anyone else, but I've waited 6 yrs, Norv Turner, Tony Banks, Steve Spurrier, Shane Matthews, Trung Candidate and Bruce Smith wasting roster space and cap money to enjoy a post season victory so I'm going to sit back and enoy the win.. :oink:

As we dialogue, Coach Gibbs is working on new offensive plays just to satisfy his own mind. I'm satisfied with getting Rock Cartwright involved in this next game. I do believe Portis's shoulders and arm was injured. So we should rotate the RB's more if Portis isn't 100%. Wouldn't it be something to make it to the Superbowl and Gibbs use Nehemiah Broughton or Rock Carwright as the "Timmy Smith" of that game. I could see the Rock getting 200 yds.

it should improve