I am thrilled that I won’t have to listen to the obligatory “The Buccaneers have never had a kickoff return for a touchdown in their history” during Buccaneers broadcasts every again!  Thank you Michael Spurlock.  Is it too late to get him written into the Pro Bowl as a Special Teamer?  Hey, lest we forget, that TD return happened enroute to our winning the NFC South Division Title.  So, let’s see, wasn’t it about 10 weeks ago that we were fielding calls for Jon Gruden’s job?  How about some good, bad and ugly?

The good ~ No… the GREAT!  Michael Spurlock’s 90 yard TD return of a kickoff.  I, for one, have seen every game over the 31 year history and it was tremendously satisfying to see that return.  Good was the play of our O-Line.  These guys are getting better, and may just be a force in a playoff game or two.  Our entire Defense played well today.  We’ll have to watch the stats, but this performance might just have the Bucs climbing atop the league rankings.  Let me add one more: Jon Gruden and his staff’s job this season.  They were forced to play many second and third stringers and all they did was go from worst to first.  Oh, and you have to love the network coverage today that pointed out only Bill Belichick has more Division Titles than Gruden since 2001.  Hmmm.

The bad ~ Nothing bad today. 

The ugly ~ The fact that the Dolphins won today is ugly.  I really looked forward to losing ‘the most futile season in NFL history’ tag.  Oh well, we’ll keep our fingers crossed.  Maybe next year.

What did you see?