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00:00Meanwhile, the Buccaneers are sitting on the outside looking in. They're going to need a win
00:03this week against the Carolina Panthers. I would assume that they will get it. It's a strange league
00:08this league, Matt, but it's been a very chalky season to say the least. Usually the big favorites
00:13have been covering for the most part all year. It's been the middle numbers that have not.
00:18I would assume they will win and I would also assume that the Bucs will try to get
00:22Mike Evans another thousand yards. I know that's on the table for him as well.
00:25Yeah, I would think so. You know, it's an interesting game because, you know,
00:28anytime you have a divisional game this late, those can get a little weird. And the Panthers
00:32are playing much better ball than they played early in the year. Certainly we've seen that
00:37the last couple of weeks. This isn't a completely roll over and die team. We know there's the Dave
00:41Canales connection. Now the head coach of the Panthers, used to be offensive coordinator with
00:46the Bucs, sort of credited with helping revive Baker Mayfield's career down there. So there are
00:51a lot of connections here to this team. I certainly don't think it's going to be easy.
00:56I think that number is a little big for as much life as the Panthers have shown. And after the
01:02Bucs lost last week in that very strange game where we all just sort of expected that they'd
01:07take care of business against a Cowboys team that had nothing to play for. Yes, that game was on the
01:12road, a Sunday night game, but nonetheless, I think we were all expecting a little bit more
01:16of the Bucs. So this is going to be an interesting game for sure. I do think the Bucs will prevail.
01:21Like you said, Mike Evans has his streak to keep up. He normally does well against the Panthers. I
01:27think they will target him a lot, but I'm not completely writing this one off because we know
01:31there's going to be a couple of these games at the end of the year where it's either a team that's
01:36resting at starters and still comes out and wins or a massive upset. No one sees coming like a team
01:42that you just think, why are you winning? You're way better off losing than if they beat a team
01:47in playoff contention. We're going to get at least one. I don't know if it's this one, but we'll get
01:51one. Yeah, we will. It happens every year.