Falcons vs Buccaneers: Key Injuries Impact Crucial Game

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00:00Let's go to Falcons Buccaneers at Raymond James.

00:07Yeah, for the division, right?

00:09Both teams at four and three.

00:10The Falcons are in good health shape.

00:11In fact, they've been one of the healthiest teams in the NFL, but the Bucs, this is just

00:16awful.

00:17Mike Evans is not going to play for a while.

00:18He re-injured that right hamstring.

00:20And then Chris Godwin out for at least the regular season, dislocated ankle.

00:24It's brutal.

00:25Look, they're a team that wants to play a lot of free receiver sets.

00:29It's going to be hard.

00:30So what they're going to do with, they're going to go with Jalen McMillan, who's a third-round

00:34rookie at the University of Washington, who, by the way, he had an ankle injury.

00:38He missed time earlier this season, so he'll start on the outside.

00:41Probably Trey Palmer, second-year receiver out of Nebraska, he was a six-runner last

00:44year.

00:46This is hard.

00:47I mean, it's going to be hard for them to compete.

00:49You know, I picked them to win a division.

00:50I still think they would have done it had Godwin and Evans not gotten hurt, particularly

00:54Godwin.

00:55So they're in trouble in this game.

00:57To me, they're going to have to change the way that they play.

01:00They're going to have to run the ball more.

01:01I know that's not what maybe the OC wants to do.

01:05But when you look at Todd Bowles and that defense, they're going to have to play better.

01:08You saw what Lamar Jackson did to Scott.

01:10That was not good.

01:11And here's the other thing.

01:12Their best corner, Jamel Dean, is on IR.

01:14He went on IR right before the game on Monday night.

01:18He's on IR.

01:19He's got to serve three more games with a hamstring, and they're in major trouble in

01:21this game.

01:22And we'll talk more about this game as we break it down in the second segment.

01:25But injuries are absolutely impacting the Bucs' chances, not only in this game, but

01:29going for the rest of the season.