Ronde Barber News

Saddled with the worst run defense in the NFL and a 1-9 record, coach Raheem Morris decided Monday night to relieve Jim Bates as defensive coordinator and take over the defensive play-calling duties.

The Bucs have given up bigger games to Saints QB Drew Brees, who went 19-of-29 for 187 yards Sunday.

When Drew Brees was playing collegiate football at Purdue, his quarterbacks coach, Greg Olson , would take him to Indianapolis to watch the Colts' Peyton Manning and meet with him after games.

Tampa Bay won its first game under Morris Raheem last weekend, 38-28 over the Packers.

TAMPA - If Rich Bisaccia could concoct a perfect football script, it would look a lot like Tampa Bay's initial victory on Sunday.

Week after week, he left looking like the loneliest man on the planet. Just Raheem Morris with his disappointments, frustrations and regrets.

Army 1st Lt. Brian Brennan, chatting with the Bucs' Ronde Barber, lost both legs in Afghanistan but walks on prosthetics now.

Two games after he was knocked out by an illegal hit while fielding a punt, Clifton Smith was the one causing headaches again.

Coach Mike McCarthy, on where the Packers go from here: 'We need to rebound. I've been asked if we can rebound from Minnesota.

You loved the "fade back to 1979" orange jerseys. You loved the effort, you loved the result, and you love the fact that there's hope.

Whether buttoning up had anything to do with the Bucs tightening up is debatable.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers saluted their past, then rookie Josh Freeman gave the struggling franchise hope for the future.

Carolina's DeAngelo Williams breaks to the outside as Tampa Bay's Barrett Ruud and Ronde Barber defend.

If defense wins championships, then there was no team that could have ever stopped the 2002 Buccaneers.

With the obvious exception of the final score, there wasn't much about playing a game against the Patriots at Wembley Stadium that the Bucs didn't like.

Tom Brady threw three touchdown passes as the New England Patriots cruised to a 35-7 victory over the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers at London's Wembley Stadium.

In his first regular-season game, Bucs rookie quarterback Josh Freeman finishes 2-of-4 for 16 yards and is sacked twice in two series during the fourth quarter.

LONDON - This is not what the NFL had in mind. When the league decided last December to showcase itself by putting New England and Tampa Bay on its world stage at Wembley Stadium, the Patriots were without quarterback Tom Brady but were still New England and the Buccaneers were en route to a 9-7 season.

The Buccaneers will be going for their first win of the season on Sunday against the Patriots at Wembley Stadium in London.

Paul Stewart never will forget the cool Monday night in November 1982, when Tampa Bay cornerback Mike Washington picked off a Don Strock pass at the goal line to preserve a Buccaneers victory over the Dolphins.