Falcons vs. Bucs Game Preview: Key Players & Match Insights

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00:00Now we got the Falcons taking on the Bucs. This spread is sitting at two and a half

00:07and as well as the total sitting at 45 and a half. It's gonna be a really tough

00:11matchup for a number of reasons. Indivision is always causing a few

00:14sparks here and we know that as for this weekend at least the Bucs will be down

00:18their two top receivers and Mike Evans as well as Chris Godwin at a loss for

00:22the season. We know some younger guys that can step up and get in the mix

00:25there. You're really good with pointing out secondary guys to get active and

00:28involved. So how do you start looking at this matchup between the Falcons and the

00:32Bucs? It is from the Bucs side of things at least when I'm looking at the

00:37receiving all of these lines have been adjusted right? It's not like a surprise

00:41that you know the Chris Godwin's out Mike Evans out. It's not like some pop-up

00:45surprise. We know they're out. So Trey Palmer's at 40 and a half, Jalen

00:50McMillian's at 43 and a half, and Caden's at 45 and a half. They're all super tight.

00:54It's not like we're getting one receiver down at 20 and we think he's gonna smash

00:57just because he's an expanded role. Like the Bucs know this. K. Dotton's my

01:01favorite and I also think K. Dotton is going to score. He has yet to score

01:04touchdown this season. We saw him step up at the second half of last

01:09week's game when Mike Evans was out. I think this is a K. Dotton game. 45 and a

01:14half. We've seen him getting up the seam. Baker, I mean is this the player that

01:18Baker has the most on-field connection with dating back to last season? Like it

01:22probably is. K. Dotton's the guy that I'm gonna be trusting. On the other side,

01:27Drake London's awesome. Kyle Pitts is continuing to have an

01:31emerging role. I'm worried about some of these secondary options because if Kyle

01:35Pitts hits the over, Drake London hits the over, Mooney hits the overs at 40 and a

01:39half, London's up at 63, Kyle Pitts at 44. If all these players are hitting the over,

01:43that means Kirk Cousins is hitting the over. And then instead of trying to

01:47pinpoint one player, you just roll with Kirk Cousins if we expect this game to

01:51be a bit of a shootout, which I'm not necessarily convinced on because again,

01:55it is the vision. Ultimately, the Bucs are so

01:59short-handed and I obviously, you as a Bucs fan, I hate to say this, but I don't

02:03think they want to turn this game into a shootout with a fully healthy Falcons

02:06team because they're short-handed. So they want to slow the game down. This has

02:10to be a defensive game and I think K. Dotton is the safest of the Bucs options.

02:14Yeah, no, absolutely true. They're gonna need this game to be slowed down. They're

02:18gonna need to manage the clock immediately, which means, you know, Tucker,

02:22Irving, their running back group is gonna be probably leading the charge

02:25primarily and then K. Dotton. I mean, we've seen his role expand over the past

02:29three weeks typically, so that reassurance is there for eating up the

02:33middle of the field and kind of getting those passes off. But outside of that, I

02:35think the running back room as well as this defense, this defense has to pull

02:39together. They've kind of let this team hang out to dry in a number of ways

02:42between injuries and just kind of blowing their tackles. But that's a

02:46spiel I can go on on a whole nother day.