2006 Tampa Bay Buccaneers and football betting at SBG Global Sports betting

2006 football betting season review:  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were one of the bigger NFL betting disappointments in the 2006 football betting season.  They had huge quarterback problems as starting QB Chris Simms was injured in week #3 of the football betting season and rookie Bruce Gradkowski was thrown to the wolves. 

	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2006 Team Rank
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2006 Player Stats
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2006 Stats
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2006 Review
	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2007 Preview

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 4-12 football betting season was their worst since going 3-13 in 1991.  Football betting players did not have much success with the Bucs in 2006 as the team went 6-9-1 against the NFL betting spread.  Football betting players that bet totals saw the Bucs go under in 9 of their 16 games. The 2006 football betting season was a season to forget in Tampa Bay.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS 2006 SEASON REVIEW

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS 2006 Stats

In the 2006 football betting season, Tampa Bay Bucs had two things going for them that always spell trouble:  they were awful and they were unlucky.  Rarely do those to characteristics result in winning football betting season in the NFL and the Bucs were no exception to that rule.  During the off-season not much happened and the team was hoping to build on a surpassingly decent football betting season the year prior that was heralded by the arrival of offensive rookie of the year Cadillac Williams.  There were some high hopes around camp that this might be the football betting year the Bucs get back to post season glory.  But there was no such luck, in fact the only luck this team had was bad.  Fans and NFL betting followers were disappointed.

For teams in the NFL football betting, success begins and ends with the QB position.  This football betting year for the Bucs nothing went right at his spot and as a result they stunk.  The team started out thinking that this would be the football betting year that Chris Simms would take over the reins of the franchise and step up and be the big time QB they thought he could be when he was drafted out of Texas.  For a while he played decently.  He wasn’t a great, but he was still young and he seemed to be getting a little bit better each week, at least in the eyes of the coaching staff.  But when he was the recipient of several violent, but clean hits, mid-way through the football betting season his guts got all smashed up and he was taken to the hospital.  The injuries were quite serious and he missed the rest of the football betting season.

For a team that was already thin at the QB spot this was a major disaster.  Tim Ratty the veteran signed as an emergency back, paid mostly to hold a clipboard was forced to step and try and guide what was left of the football betting season.  He played decently for a brief spell before he was knocked out for the football betting season as well.  That means that all the hopes of the 2006 football betting season now rested on the shoulders of 3rd string QB, rookie Bruce Gradkowski who was selected from the University of Toledo on the second day of the draft.  It should have been a disaster, but actually the rookie, after learning the hard way from a few of his early football betting season mistakes took this like a man and actually seemed to find his groove after a couple of starts.  In limited play he finished the football betting season with a pretty low NFL betting numbers of 54% completion percentage, a decent 1661 yards, 9 touchdowns, nine INTS and a 65 QB NFL betting rating, which all sounds pretty bad, but he improved with every start.

So with the merry-go-round of QBs it’s no real surprise that the team struggled to finish at 4 and 12 and dead last in the division.  The only good thing that came out of the football betting season was the fact that the team will get to pick fourth overall in the 2007 NFL betting draft and there should be plenty of talent available to make an immediate impact on NFL betting games.  And this offense could use some help.  The QB spot was awful all football betting year but it didn’t get a lot of help from other skill position either, although it could be debated that the other positions performed poorly as a direct result of the QB debacle.  RB Cadillac Williams had a big drop off in production failing to rush for 1,00 yards on a 3.5 yards per carry average, although he only touched the ball 225 times during the football betting season.

Michael Pittman took some of the rushing load, averaging 4.9 yards per carry, but again, only saw the ball 50 times all football betting season.  Mike Alstot looked terrible.  He has been reduced to a blocking back and did that reasonably well, but his running was awful as he racked up career lows with only 171 yards on 60 carries for paltry 2.9 yards per carry average.  In the receiving department, there wasn’t really anyone to throw them the ball, so numbers were down across the board.  Joey Galloway did pass the 1,000 yard mark but only by averaging 17 yards per catch.  Michael Clayton the young receiver expected to have a break out season stunk, catching only 33 passes for 300 yards.

The defense, once feared and always dependable also slipped.  It ranked 17th in yards per game and 21st in points per game.  Against the run the stunk, ranked 17th, and against the pass they stunk, ranked 19th.  When you combine those numbers with the second worst scoring offense in the country, it’s a recipe for a disaster, or the Bucs 2006 football betting season.