Enough about Tampa vs Minnesota

[gjn23]

I keep seeing people say the Viqueens put up 24 on Tampa and coorelating it to the Raiders offense. Uh..the Queens were down something like 31-7 at half and 38-7 midway thru the 3rd quarter and completely got their asses handed to them.

I'd look more closely at the Rams/Saints/Packer games where the Bucs D had success vs GB/Stl and sort of struggled vs NO.

 

[CWood97]

The unfortunate reality of it all is that Tampa has yet to play an offense nearly as good as Oakland's. Conversely, Oakland has yet to play a defense nearly as good as Tampa's. I don't think we'll find any answers looking at how either team fared during the regular season.

 

[gjn23]

Well I'd argue that all of the Rams offenses the past 4 years are at least as good as Oaklands offense.....and the Bucs shut them down in almost every game going 3-1. Most of the defense is still around from those games.

The most similar defense that Oakland played was vs Miami the past 2 years and Miami shut them down both times going 0-2 vs the fish.

Now those are road/home games and regular season games. This is the biggest game and on a neutral field.
Do I see Oakland scoring 30+? No
Do I see Oakland scoring <10? No

I see Oak scoring around 20 with each unit getting somewhat neutralized. What is not factored in is turnovers by the Buc offense...if they give Oak the ball numerous times in their own territory it could get ugly, I don't see Oak putting together too many 80 yard drives.