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Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers prediction, game preview, and fantasy player to watch.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers Broadcast

Date: Sunday, November 15
Game Time: 1:00 ET
Venue: Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC
Network: FOX

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-3) vs Carolina Panthers (3-6) Game Preview

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Why Tampa Bay Buccaneers Will Win

The team can’t play any worse than it did against New Orleans. It started up front – the line couldn’t keep Tom Brady from getting bashed and beaten. Expect more quick passes, more of a running game after a historically bad day on the ground with just eight yards, and a lot more production from the receivers.

There are too many weapons and too many good parts – including a defense that picked a bad time to come up with a dud – to struggle so much. In the first meeting, Brady was good, the running game was better, and the four takeaways were massive in the 31-17 win.

Why Carolina Panthers Will Win

Carolina has hit a wall overall, but the defense was great against the Kansas City running game last weeks and the offense started to function better with Christian McCaffrey back and working.

The D doesn’t have the pass rush the Saints do, but they need to at least bother Brady. Teddy Bridgewater bombed away in the first meeting, the secondary has been great at keeping the big plays to a minimum, and this week there’s going to be an equally matched sense of desperation coming off a four-game losing streak. Tampa Bay won’t be the only focused team.

Fantasy Football Player To Watch

RB Leonard Fournette, Tampa Bay
One carry, no yards. That’s what he did for a Tampa Bay offense that bailed on the run early last week. However, Fournette had his best game of the season against Carolina with 103 yards and two scores, and against the Saints he was a key part to the passing game.

What’s Going To Happen

Tampa Bay is about to fix the glitch in a hurry. The offense has sputtered a bit over the last few weeks, but with no Carolina pass rush to worry about, Brady will be on again, Antonio Brown will have a decent game, and the Bucs will start to look the part.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers Prediction, Line

Tampa Bay 30, Carolina 17
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Tampa Bay -5.5, o/u: 50.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3

Must See Rating: 3

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Many football watchers were excited to see former LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady make the move back to the NFL to take over as the offensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers. Last year in Death Valley, Brady was partly responsible for one of the nation’s best passing games, and the huge draft board rise of current Cincinnati Bengals passer Joe Burrow. While the Panthers lost his first game as an NFL OC, Brady’s creative use of empty formations is a roadmap to how he and the Panthers are going to attack defense in 2020 and beyond.

This started early in their loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. Take this play, a 1st and 10 early in the contest. Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater aligns in the shotgun with the backfield empty. The Panthers have three receivers to the left – including running back Christian McCaffrey who aligns as the inner-most receiver – and two to the right:

If you look at the defensive alignment before the play, Bridgewater can be fairly confident, even without motion, that the Raiders are in zone coverage. The safeties are about 15 yards off the line, the cornerback to the left is in a zone alignment, and the linebacker nearest McCaffrey is not right over him, but shaded to the inside of him. Knowing this, Bridgewater can assume that that linebacker is going to open to the three-receiver side at the snap. That is what happens in zone alignments, and with McCaffrey to that side, it is even more of a likelihood.

So Bridgewater turns at the snap to throw the slant to the right, away from the linebacker drop:

The empty formation combined with McCaffrey’s alignment gives the quarterback information before the play, so he knows where to go with the football.

This completion from late in the first half. is another example of Brady using formations creatively to give his quarterback presnap clues. This time the Panthers start in an empty formation before bringing McCaffrey back into the backfield. In response, the cornerback who was over the RB simply slides, rather than trailing him. Bridgewater now knows the Raiders are in zone coverage. He makes a check at the line of scrimmage, and then works a concept in the middle of the field to Anderson with the receiver sitting down in a soft spot in the zone coverage:

Again Bridgewater gets information thanks to how the formation forces a defensive response. Only this time the defense is responding to a shift away from an empty alignment, to a more traditional 3×1 formation.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Carolina Panthers Prediction, Game Preview