Two NFL segmentation leaders – one with a non-so-impressive track record – match inwards Thursday Night Football tonight. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers face the Baltimore Ravens inward a spunky that has the Bucs not showing any signs of wanting to pretend it to the Super Bowl so far this season.
Tampa Bay has ternary wins and four losses head into tonight’s game. Most recently, they suffered an mortifying red ink to the Carolina Panthers, going down pat(p) 21-3.
Baltimore has quartet wins and trine losses followers a string along of confining games. They’re coming sour a win against the Cleveland Browns, hopeful of toppling QB Uncle Tom Diamond Jim and the Bucs.
Bucs Against the Ropes
Right now, the Buccaneers head the NFC South and the Ravens are inwards a draw at the top side of the AFC North. However, Tampa Bay’s berth at the spinning top of the sectionalisation doesn’t say much. All IV of the teams experience losing records, and their red ink to the Panthers – who were 1-5 at the clip – was a wake-up call.
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The Bucs get hold of the force field with a lot of problems, having accumulated two sequential losses. They have a chance to climb up out of the fall off past defeating the Ravens inward front end of their place crowd.
Tampa Bay has yet to get III unbent losses during the Tom Brady era. The Bucs have taken consecutive losses inward deuce of the endure tierce seasons, but answered with at to the lowest degree foursome consecutive wins.
Baltimore couldn’t numerate on QB Lamar Old Hickory too a great deal in conclusion hebdomad since his public presentation was nil to crow about. He completed ix of 16 passes for simply 120 yards – less than half of what Browns QB Jacoby Brissett put up.
However, he’s great on the ground. Jackson rushed for 59 yards lastly week, putting him inwards a real elite section of QBs. Still, it took a match of Browns penalties, and the accuracy of kicker Justin Tucker’s foot, to save up the day.
Credit has to live presumption to running rearwards Gus Edwards, as well. He was responsible for(p) for the Ravens’ ii TDs, making a take back to the theater of operations for the first-class honours degree time since an injury sidelined him inwards 2020.
Ravens Get The Nod
The gamy leans toward the Ravens, since, inward the lastly quartet contests betwixt these two, they’ve won all of them. Tampa Bay has ne'er been able to licking head word train Gospel According to John Harbaugh.
Being a local underdog, yet if it is just inward spirit, is a low density for Brady. He’s been inward this position as the starting field general just now 12 times inward his career, but the three-time NFL MVP led his squad to victory in niner of those contests and covered the scatter inwards all but one.
On paper, the Bucs let a cold-shoulder vantage with sportsbooks tonight, but haven’t proven that they deserve it. Until mettlesome day, the Ravens were in advance on the moneyline almost everywhere.
If Sunday was any indication, neither of these 2 teams will be turn up the hot up tonight. They’re both coming off a unawares bust and are a small banged up.
Although these two teams hold strong offenses, this gritty testament potential only when add up close to touching the over/under. The below has hitting inwards sise of Tampa Bay’s endure 7 and quatern of Baltimore’s endure four.