The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have experienced plenty of highs and lows so far this season.

It might be smart for Bucs fans to start expecting their Week 8 matchup against the Bills to go in the "low" category.

Buffalo has generally looked like one of the best teams in the NFL during the season. Tampa, on the other hand, has mostly just found success against the bad teams.

This shouldn't be news to many people. The Bucs have a tough schedule. The bad teams stand out as bad, but the good teams (Eagles, Bills, 49ers, etc.) stand out in a huge way.

The Bucs as they are currently constructed are able to dominate these bad teams with a great defense and a quality passing attack, but good teams appear to do something psychological to Tampa.

The defense still usually plays well, but the coaching staff seems to start making moves to simply not lose rather than make moves to win.

Bowles takes chances and allows the offense to air the ball out with a bit more confidence against the bad teams. Against the good teams, the Bucs start getting too conservative, and this is usually what hurts them in the end.

This strategy has led to obvious losses against the Eagles and the Lions. While the score in each could've been closer, the Bucs were outmatched by most metrics and via the eye test.

Based on everything we have seen this year, the game on Thursday could prove to be more of the same.

Josh Allen is hard to stop in his own regard, so Todd Bowles and Dave Canales are going to try to set up the ineffective rushing attack to give the defense time to rest.

We don't need to see the game to know how that will play out.

Rather than keeping control of the ball, the Bucs will instead have to end drives even earlier than if they were throwing the ball with conviction, and this will just leave the defense on the field for longer, tire them out, and give an unneeded advantage to one of the most talented offenses in football.

Thursday Night Football can be a strange entity and is often difficult to predict, but even the messiness of the affair may not be enough for the Buccaneers to overcome one of the best teams in the NFL.

Buccaneers have perfect opportunity to get right vs. Falcons

This is as good a chance as any.