I personally am going to go absolutely bonkers and predict the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to upset the Green Bay Packers this week in Lambeau. What do I have to lose, and besides, you cant tell me the stars aren’t perfectly aligned.
Green Bay played on Monday Night and MNF teams fare poorly on Sunday, PLUS, Green Bay COULD BE looking ahead of the Bucs towards a THURSDAY game vs Detroit on Thanksgiving day. Meanwhile the Bucs were embarrassed, they they responded each time they’ve been blown out under the Raheem Morris regime with a solid performance.
- 10-9 2011@ SF49ers Lost 3-48, beat Saints 26-20
- 9-26 2010 Vs Pittsburgh lost 38-13, Beat Cincinnatti 24-21
- 10-17 2010 Vs Saints lost 6-31, beat St.Louis 18-17
So that the only way I can say I think the Bucs will beat the Packers on Sunday. Now lets get into what REALLY could happen.
- The Bucs could get blown out
- The Bucs could get weathered.
Either way, it could get ugly; as in 1983-85 Ugly. Those are the two years the Bucs completely embarrassed themselves against the Packers in Green Bay by the above mentioned means.
BLOWN OUT! 10-2-1983 Lost 14-55
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The score wasn’t as close as the game! It could have been worse, it was after all 49-7 at the half. The Bucs were completely unprepared for the Packers game (sound familiar) as a decimated Bucs team that kept losing starters every week lost their first 4 games in a row, all of them close. Opening up with an 11-0 shutout to Detroit at home, the Bucs lost 17-10 at Chicago, 16-19 to the Vikings, then 17-23 to Cincinnati. Most battle of the bay scores were close, and this one should have been no exception.
It was 21-0 at the start of the 2nd quarter after an Epps Punt return and quick 75 yard TD pass. Hugh Green picked off Lynn Dickey for a pick 6 to make it 21-7 and you thought maybe it would be a game. 3 mintues later it was 28-7, then 2 minutes after that a fumble return for a TD and another pick 6 a few minutes after that had the game out of reach at 42-7 with 4 minutes left in the first half! Then Lofton scored on a 57 yard catch at the two minute warning for good measure.
12-1-1985 Snow Bowl- Lost 0-21
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The score wasn’t that bad, the problem was the weather. Both the Bucs uniforms and the field both looked like the background on this webpage: completely white. You couldn’t even see the Bucs half the time, except for the faces that peeked out of the warming hats and gloves. Lynn Dickey scored on a one yard run with 8 minutes left in the half, and that’s all the points the Packers needed. The Bucs played the game with a foot of snow on the field at kickoff, and 4 more inches fell during the game.
Put it this way, 45000 people were no shows, IN GREEN BAY! They don’t miss packer football, yet only 20k showed up to watch. Green Bay finished with 512 yards of offense, the Bucs only had 65. Even if they had all that yardage in one drive, they never would have scored.
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