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Bucs @ Bills XSL Week 3

Posted on August 19, 2009 at 02:08 AM.

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Buffalo-The Bucs traveled to Buffalo for their game vs the Bills and coach TheSilverCrow. Right off the bat, avoid this guy if your a sim style player. If your not, then read on for your easy win tips and seek him out.

With M Lynch, T Owens, L Evans, and R Parrish in the mix I knew that this might be a Wildcat kind of game. It wasn't, though I did see a few plays, but it was boring all the same. 4 WR set, owens on a post as the X receiver, Parrish and Evans on drags/crossing routes from the slots all game long. This guy has the post well timed and it was actually tough to stop for a while. Any time he caught me in a bad defense he went to no huddle.

I took the KO and scored first on a ball control drive for a quick 7-0 lead. he scored the 21 points as he had 1 offensive drive and 2 pick 6's. One was a 98 yard jaunt by LB Palmer where he broke 3 tackles and outran the other 8 defenders. I settled down and scored to end the half down 21-14.

I held him scoreless in the 3rd and added a 19 yard TD run by D Ward to tie the game at 21. We traded 4th quarter TD's for a 28-28 tie during the 4th with him kicking off to me with about 3 minutes left. My intention was to move into FG range and run the clock since he had used 2 TO's earlier in the half but Ward broke a 22 yard run for a TD and a 35-28 lead with 1:41 to go.

Knowing what he wanted to do I just sat in Nickel 2-5 Velcro, pulled the FS down tight so that he backpedaled into the Owens post and I manually covered the crossing route on the side. I blitzed the OLB on the offenses right and shifted my line to the offenses left and slanted them out wide as well which created 2 sacks and ate a bunch of time. he made an adjustment but it was too little too late and the Bucs moved to 2-0 with a 35-28 win.

Ward had 15 carries for 125 yards and 2 TDs plus a 42 yard run on the opening drive to set up that score. Leftwich went 14-18 for 259 yards, 3 TDs and 2 picks.

note:I've stopped doing EA Highlights for now because it always cuts out the first part of the play. Hopefully, they'll fix that as Ward had some beautiful cuts in the early parts of some of his runs and I'd love to show them off.