Tampa Bay Buccaneers Show Their Split Personality: The Bucs and the Sucs

Oh-for-England.

Now that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have gone oh-for-England, it has become painfully evident that this team is suffering from a psychosis—it has a deep, split personality.

There are the Bucs.

And there are the Sucs.

You've seen them both now after seven football games.

You saw the Bucs against New Orleans last week. You saw the Sucs out in San Francisco and you saw them for three quarters at Wembley Stadium.

The Buccaneers lost on Sunday to the Chicago Bears because the Bucs couldn't fight their way out of the deep hole that the Sucs had put them in.

After 45 minutes of football on the pitch at Wembley Stadium, the Sucs had managed five points, three on a home run by Evan Longoria and another two on a dinger by B.J. Daniels.

No, seriously, a safety and a field goal was all the Sucs could manage against a Chicago Bears team that was begging to be beaten.

The Bucs could have beaten them, too, had they showed up right after halftime. Alas, the Sucs that started the game also played the 15 minutes after halftime and 21-5 was asking a bit much of the Bucs.

There are also two Josh Freemans. There is the Freeman that quarterbacks the Sucs and the one who heads the Bucs. The former is awful, he throws picks, throws high and throws with regularity into double-coverage.

The other leads furious comebacks for victory.

You get the picture.

The defense for the Sucs can't stop their grandmothers. They gave up mega yardage to Matt Forte for the Bears, who had 145 on the day.

The defense for the Bucs plays with intensity and comes up with stops like the two late in the game. They made one but then the bonehead from the Sucs, Aqib Talib, came up with yet another stupid penalty that hurt his team, gave the Bears three more plays and cost the team a minute-and-a-half off the clock, that sure would have come in handy at the end.

The defense for the Bucs stopped the Bears, forced the field goal and gave the Bucs a chance to pull it out.

It was simply asking too much. With Earnest Graham gone early, Tanard Jackson's hamstring proving he's not Superman and Jeremy Zuttah out, it was seemingly hopeless.

In the end the final score was 24-18 and it was a second straight English loss for the boys.

Now they get to come home and take a week off.

They have a lot of thinking to do after this one.

They've got to figure out how to get the Bucs to play more.

And the Sucs to play less.