Bucs One-Dimensional—Six Rushes for Three Yards Sure Seems Like It

By John Turney

In tonight's game in Tampa, the Kansas City Chiefs made the Tampa Bay Buccaneers one-dimensional or the Bucs made themselves one-dimensional by getting behind and being forced to give up trying to run the ball.

For the game, the Bucs ran the ball six times for three yards. Six runs and 53 pass plays. Maybe not the recipe that will make a play-action passing game work.

It tied the franchise mark for fewest yards allowed, in 1961 the Dallas Texans also allowed three yards. before tonight nine was the fewest against the Texans/Chiefs franchise.

For the Bucs franchise, the three rushing yards were the third-fewest in a game, ever. On October 10, 2021, they ran for minus one yard and on November 11, 2013, the Bucs offense managed just two rushing yards.

The six attempts did set the Bucs record for the fewest in a game, however. 

Even for this pass-happy era, this is quite an abandonment of the running game.