Haye Haye Haye

Jovan Haye got ten tackles yesterday. Ten! And a brutal sack. This was a career game for Haye, and he was a big reason why the Titans never got their running game going.

Slowly but surely, Gaines Adams is improving.

And the hits just keep on coming for Tanard Jackson. That tackle up the middle on Chris Brown in the second quarter was just plain mean. Did you notice that Brown only carried the ball once after that hit? That may have been at Brown's request.

How likely is it that Bruce Allen will keep both Brian Kelly and Phillip Buchanon around next year? Buchanon is playing very well in place of Kelly and I'm guessing that the secondary doesn't miss him all that much. Kelly's groin may have cost him a job (if I had a nickel for every time that's happened to me...)

With all this praise for the defense, you'd think they'd be able to get off the field. I realize the offense wasn't helping them out much, but that six-plus minute drive at the end of the game for the touchdown was a killer.

Ronde Barber better not complain about being robbed today. Neither of those interceptions should have stood and getting up and running with the fumble before securing it was his own fault. Don't get me wrong, he made some great plays, but I can see him saying something like, "What does a guy have to do to get credit for an interception?" on the radio today. He has to make a legal catch... that's what he has to do.

Remember in the Rams and Panthers games how the Bucs were running for 180 yards per week? How did the offensive line forget how to block in two weeks? Ok, so Cadillac Williams and Michael Pittman are out, but they wouldn't have done any better than Earnest Graham did yesterday. If the team can't put together at least a consistent running game, opponents are going to forget about stacking the line and take away whoever Jeff Garcia has to throw to. It doesn't have to be great, but there has to be a legitimate run threat on every down or these ugly wins are quickly going to turn into ugly losses.

Couldn't they have at least tried to hand the ball off to B.J. Askew once or twice to see how it went? He always seems to make the first guy miss when he catches a pass.

The wide receivers were the game yesterday. Joey Galloway's touchdown catch, Michael Clayton's two big first down catches and Ike Hilliard's two end-of-game catches to set up the field goal were almost the entire offense.

A 13-10 defensive game where the offense did just barely enough to stay alive used to be called "Buc Ball" and was tolerated because it was the only way the Bucs had ever consistently won. But after six years of being fronted by an "offensive genius" and several years of offense-heavy drafts (2007 excluded, of course), you've got to wonder if there's something inherent in the team that prevents offenses from every really lighting it up.

Jeez, Mark Jones kind of petered out, didn't he? The Bucs were getting some nice field position out of their special teams for a few weeks, but starting field position sucked for the most part.

Ok, ugly win better than pretty loss blah blah blah. I get it. And if those are my only choices, of course I'll take the wins. But Detroit and Arizona have pretty decent offenses that I don't think 13 points will beat. And Jacksonville is running the ball like a bunch of madman and will keep the Tampa defense on the field all damn day if the offense can't sustain a drive. They're so close to putting all the pieces together.