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1st round pick Davin Joseph (OG), who was projected to be a starter, will miss the first four weeks of the season with a knee injury.  This will hurt the running game and it showed last Sunday.

The Bucs looked absolutely horrible on offense.  The Ravens decided early on that Cadillac Williams was not going to beat them.  The Ravens defense then looked like sharks that smelled blood in the water when they forced Chris Simms to pass the ball.  Simms completed 17 of 29 (58.6%) of his passes for 133 yards and 3 interceptions!  Gruden yanked him in the 4th quarter and he threw rookie Bruce Gradkowski to the wolves.  Gradkowski quickly found out that the NFL defenses are a little tougher than the MAC defenses he played against in college.  Gradkowski completed 1 of 5 passes for 4 yards.  RB Cadillac Williams looked like he was left in the garage as he only carried the ball 8 times for 22 yards (2.8 ypc) and caught 5 passes for 25 yards.

The defense actually did play that bad when you look at the numbers, but the offense kept putting the D in bad situations.  CB Ronde Barber and LB Derrick Brooks each had 11 tackles.  The Bucs held the Ravens to an average of 3.0 yards per carry (34-103).  The Ravens completed 63% of their passes for 168 net yards thru the air.

I think the big mistake Coach Gruden made was not to play his starters long enough in pre-season games.  This play one series then all the starters are out in favor of viewing the young players is what cost the Bucs so dearly in their first game and led to their crushing defeat at the hands of the Ravens.

The starters were just too rusty, and out of synch because of lack of playing time in actual game conditions.  They were just never able to get on track.  Practice squad activity is not the same as game conditions.

Coach, I hope you learned something from this and don’t make the same mistake next pre-season.  Play your starters for at least one full quarter, if not the entire first half.

David Boston was cut, but no reason was given why yet.  This is a surprising development due to how well Boston played in the pre-season, making the team out of nowhere.  Rookie WR Maurice Stovall will move up the depth chart due to this move.