Buccaneers can finally breathe easily on important player
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been shaky in several areas during the rough 2023 season, and no area has been worse than the run game. What is new for the Bucs? Tampa hasn't been good at running the ball for the better part of a decade, but the pass has been able to hide this […]
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been shaky in several areas during the rough 2023 season, and no area has been worse than the run game.
What is new for the Bucs?
Tampa hasn't been good at running the ball for the better part of a decade, but the pass has been able to hide this well. With a conservative head coach/offensive coordinator, the run has been all the more prominent, and that has placed guys like Rachaad White, who is now looking ready to play tomorrow, in the limelight.
White has been a breathe of fresh air in many ways for the Buccaneers. While his running between the tackles hasn't been tough much to write home about, he has been one of the best pass-catching back in the NFL, and he has been dramatically better than his counterparts on the Bucs on the ground.
Without White, the Bucs have no run game to speak of, and that was what it looked like they would have prior to the news that White is looking likely to play tomorrow:
In a week filled with bad injury news for the Buccaneers, little would hurt more in an immediate way than the Bucs having to lean on their depth running backs in a must-win game.
These depth backs (Chase Edmonds, Ke'Shawn Vaughn, and Sean Tucker) have done next to nothing this season, and trying to go into a game without a starting back and a Todd Bowles-influenced scheme is a recipe for disaster.
Now, while the Buccaneers do have several other key players out, the presence of White will keep this offense rolling at an important time, and that is arguably most important against a team like the Colts.
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