Tampa Bay vs. Washington: Buccaneers Get a Slippery, Costly Win

December 13, 2010   ·   Tom Edrington   ·   Jump to comments

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have let some games slip away from them this season.
Sunday they slipped into one.
That's the good news.
The good news is that with overtime staring them in their rain-soaked faces, Hunter Smith was kind enough to let the snap on the tying point-after squish through his fingertips, then Graham Gano got squashed and the Bucs went home with that nail-biter of a 17-16 victory over the lowly Washington Redskins.
The bad news is, well, really bad. Gerald McCoy was taken to the locker room with a little less than four minutes left in the first quarter. He would return with his arm in a sling, and if you believe what Raheem Morris tells us, the first-round draft pick is lost for the season with a torn bicep.
Just what this team needed, a luck-out win that took them to 8-5, but yet another valuable player is gone, as McCoy will most likely join Jeff Faine, Aqib Talib and Cody Grimm on injured reserve.
Thank goodness Josh Freeman is st...

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