Welcome back to a bonus edition of Predict The Score, for at least one game we're past the regular season, and with what is likely our last home game of the season.
I've been predicting bucball all season long, and every week either our offense clicks or our defense sucks or both. This past week, finally, defense won the day when the offense couldn't generate ten points. Normally we lose those but shades of Tony Dungy. So I finally picked up a win, woot. Barring a tremendous comeback TonyLip is going to win the season contest. But there are at least two contests to go so it's not over yet.
The season standings are as follows:
Week 1: Jonny, Predicted Bucs 20 Vikings 17, 0 points off. Whoa!
(wins/total points off 1/0)Week 2: Doooshnzl, Predicted Bucs 28, Bears 17, 1 point off, winning the tiebreaker over Kaimaru and Bootz (so close!)(1/1)
Week 3: acmillis, Predicted Bucs 14 Eagles 26, 4 points off. (1/4)
Week 4: Buc2, Predicted Bucs 23, Saints 13, 7 points off. (1/7)
Week 6: Four Verticals, Predicted Bucs 10, Lions 24, 8 points off. (1/8)
Week 7: No winner, as no one predicted a Bucs loss. (---/---)
Week 8: Nobody, Predicted Bucs 16, Bills 24, 2 points off. (1/2)
Week 9: Bahamian:bucfan, Predicted Bucs 20, Texans 25, 31 points off. (1/31)
Week 10: TonyLip, Predicted Bucs 19, Titans 13, 11 points off. (1/11)
Week 11: Kress, Predicted Bucs 16, Niners 27, 2 points off. (1/2)
Week 12: Nobody, Predicted Bucs 21, Colts 23, 5 points off. Honorable mention to Kress! (2/7)
Week 13: TonyLip, Predicted Bucs 20, Titans 17, 2 points off. (2/13)
Week 14: Bahamian:Bucfan, Predicted Bucs 35, Falcons 25, 8 points off. (2/39)
Week 15: TonyLip, Predicted Bucs Bucs 28, Packers 22 with 3 sacks each, 8 points off. (3/21)
Week 16: CannonFire, Predicted Bucs 27, Jaguars 10 with a 51-yard Bucs FG, 5 points and 1 yard off. (1/5)
Week 17: acmillis, Predicted Bucs 13, Saints 22, 1 point off. (2/5)
Week 18: Xandtar, Predicted Bucs 13, Panthers 10, 13 points off (1/13).
The tiebreaker next week is total yards of offense by the Philadelphia Eagles (season average 354 yards per game)
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I'll begin.
This game is truly a roll of the dice. We've seen the Bucs play great, we've seen dog turds less stinky than the Bucs. Everyone knows the winner goes to San Francisco to probably get destroyed in the divisional round, but that's so irrelevant to this game. With that in mind, I'm going to predict that the Bucs give up lots of yards, lots of yards, but they hold and hold and hold when it counts, leading to lots of field goals by the bad guys.
Tampa Bay 13
Philadelphia 12
395 yards.
Your turn.
