Tampa Bay Buccaneers Scare the Green Bay Packers, but Raheem Morris Craps out

Fox analyst Troy Aikman couldn't figure it out; it made no sense to him, and I'm on board with the Hall of Fame quarterback.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers stood on the verge of a mighty upset at chilly Lambeau Field on Sunday afternoon. They were scaring the cheese right out of the Cheeseheads—why, these upstart Bucs had the gall to pull within two points of the undefeated Green Bay Packers with a mere 4:25 to play.

The score was 28-26, and for all intents and purposes, it should have been 28-all except for the fact that Kellen Winslow did his best Jackie Smith imitation and dropped a pass in the end zone, a seemingly easy catch for a guy with his hands.

A two-point conversion would have put the full house at Lambeau in more shock than it already was.

Then came the unthinkable.

Raheem Morris ordered an onside kick.

The statistics gremlins in the basement of NFL headquarters tell us that Morris had about a 25 percent chance of pulling it off.  Those are not good odds when your team has already defied those odds and has given the Packers a major scare with a chance to actually WIN THE GAME in the final four minutes.

Of course, by now, we all know the derring-do by Morris had a Bay of Pigs outcome.

The kick wouldn't have worked anyway; Adam Hayward was offsides, and Green Bay was in business at the Buccaneer 46. Three plays later, Aaron Rodgers hit Jordy Nelson for a touchdown, and it was game, set and match.

Nice gamble, Raheem.

"I don't get that one at all. You had all the momentum. Raheem, you weren't surprising anybody there. He's saying he can't stop Green Bay offensively."

That's what Troy Aikman said from the broadcast booth after Morris put a gun to his team's head and pulled the trigger in a stinky game of Raheem Russian Roulette. This time there was a bullet in the chamber—an Aaron Rodgers bullet—and Tampa Bay's hopes took one to the head.

Gotta side with Aikman on this. This was a real head-scratcher.

"We were going to get it and win," Morris told the St. Petersburg Times after the game. This one could have been closer than the 35-26 final, although it seemed the Pack was in mercy mode at the end when Rodgers and company were staring at the Tampa Bay goal line and did their best to not embarrass a team that had fought its collective heart out.

There was simply too much good on that field by this Buccaneer team to let it all go down the way it did.

LeGarrette Blount was incredible and showed that the Green Bay defense is the team's weak link with that humdinger of a 54-yard run that produced a touchdown.

Josh Freeman played the way he should, now that his thumb is freed from the tape. And the receivers finally showed up—Mike Williams, Arrelious Benn, Dez Briscoe and, yes, Winslow (although Winslow did his thing with a penalty that cost him a touchdown).

It was still an amazing display. These Bucs put up 455 yards on the Packers' defense, which doesn't bode well for the Cheeseheads in the long term.

Yes, there were still too many stupid penalties—nine of them.

Should have been 10.

Someone should have thrown a yellow flag on Raheem Morris.

Is there a penalty for reckless decisions?

Morris made it so very easy for the Pack to put this one away, to flush the Bucs. Morris rolled the dice at the wrong time.

He crapped out.