The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a 6-2 record at the halfway point of the season, and currently hold the second spot in the NFC playoff race. Tampa Bay has been able to overcome injuries to key players and maintain a winning record, but the upcoming road out of the bye week won’t be an easy one.

First up for the Bucs following their bye next week is the New England Patriots at home, and odds are already set as they set their eyes on New England.

How do the oddsmakers feel about this matchup for Tampa Bay? Per FanDuel, Tampa...

With two NFC frontrunners on the bye this week, the games on Sunday afternoon still packed a ton of playoff intrigue. With the Seattle Seahawks still to play on Sunday night, it could change a whole lot still before the end of Week 9.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Philadelphia Eagles were on a bye, but they moved into a tie for the top spot when the Green Bay Packers lost. Philly gets the nod due to their win over Tampa earlier this season. The Seahawks are third — but they play Sunday night — and the Packers fall all...

Buccaneers fans would argue with anyone in the NFL that quarterback Baker Mayfield should be MVP and rookie wide receiver Emeka Egbuka should be the offensive rookie of the year. At one point, many NFL fans felt the same. However, with Egbuka dealing with a hamstring injury limiting his performance and Mayfield not playing the same in recent weeks, fans across the league no longer feel the same way as Bucs fans do.

This week, fans were asked who will be named the league’s most valuable player when the season ends. Entering this week, 24-percent of fans felt that Colts...

Buccaneers fans are excited for their 6-2 team. After beating the Saints in dominating fashion 23-3, Tampa Bay’s fan base is next level excited. Despite dropping games against the Eagles and Lions, Bucs fans see some good reason for excitement for the second half of the season. Upcoming games against the Patriots, Bills, and Rams on Sunday night in three weeks, confidence in the team has soared.

This week, fans were asked if they were confident in the team’s direction ahead of the team’s bye week. 97-percent of the fan base feels they are heading in the right direction.

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The National Football League today announced that Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Chase McLaughlin was named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week, and outside linebacker Anthony Nelson was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Week for Week 8. They are the first set of teammates in 2025 to win Player of the Week honors in the same week, and the first set of Tampa Bay teammates to do so since Derrick Brooks and Matt Bryant in 2008 (Week 4). Tampa Bay’s four Player of the Week awards in 2025 are the most in the NFL.

In Tampa Bay’s...

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Throughout the 2025 NFL season, SB Nation’s Doug Farrar will write about the game’s Secret Superstars — those players whose performances might slip under the radar for whatever reasons. In this installment, we turn our attention to Tampa Bay Buccaneers edge defender Anthony Nelson, who currently owns the city of New Orleans after what he did to the Saints on Sunday. It was a historic performance for a defense in need.

Before the 2025 season started, Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was less than happy about his overall pass rush, and the normally taciturn coach had a lot...

The Buccaneers are 6-2 thanks to a fantastic defensive effort in New Orleans as they beat the Saints 23-3. The offense never really got going, but four takeaways by the defense including a defensive score (even if it should’ve been two) would do the trick before the bye week.

Let’s see what social media had to say about the convincing win.

Have a day, Anthony Nelson

Bucs linebacker Anthony Nelson had easily the best day of his career on Sunday and was all over the place with two sacks, a forced fumble and an incredible pick six where he...

– Tampa Bay defeated the New Orleans Saints, 23-3, and have started 6-2 for the fifth time in team history and for the third time since 2020 (1979, 2002, 2020, 2021, 2025). The three points allowed by Tampa Bay were its fewest surrendered in a game since Week 18 of the 2023 season at Carolina (zero).

– The Buccaneers have now earned double-digit wins in each of their last four trips to New Orleans, marking just the second-such occurrence vs. New Orleans in NFL history (Chargers, 1977-1997). It was also the first time in franchise history that the Buccaneers have...

Oftentimes, it did not come smoothly, but the Buccaneers still cruised by a bitter division rival in large part to a dominant defensive outing.

The Bucs logged four turnovers (one returned for a score but it should’ve been more), four sacks, five tackles for loss, and two fourth-down stops to go along with just 3 points allowed as they tallied their fourth consecutive double-digit victory over the Saints in New Orleans, a 23-3 showcase that clearly displayed how far apart the teams currently are on the competitive spectrum.

Despite dealing with a litany of injuries, traveling on a short week,...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost the top spot in the NFC last week with their loss and even though they won in Week 8, they didn’t get a ton of help in the playoff race. The loss by the San Francisco 49ers moved the Bucs up one spot from fourth to third.

The Green Bay Packers are in first place and still play on Sunday night, though.

The Philadelphia Eagles won in Week 8 to hold onto the second spot via tiebreaker over Tampa.

The only playoff team to lose was the San Francisco 49ers, who fell from fourth to...

First Quarter:

Buccaneers’ fans’ first facetime with Baker Mayfield came with 12:13 first quarter, following a forced fumble by Anthony Nelson. Nelson, in his first starting action of the season, instantly found the football and gave Tampa Bay the game’s first swing of momentum. Josh Grizzard quickly featured Rachaad White who got to running and then got to watching his team get to punting. Another Saints drive and another Tampa Bay stop. The Bucs’ next drive would carry them across midfield and into the second quarter.

Second Quarter:

The Buccaneers would take that drive all the way down...