Nothing got Bucs fans to holler and stomp about their woeful 2023 running game more than the interior of the Bucs’ offensive line.

(Yet the guy who led the league’s worst rushing attack the past two seasons seemed to escape any if not all responsibility. Hhhmm?)

So Bucs fans wanted, no demanded, that Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht do something about it.

He did.

First, incumbent right guard Cody Mauch was ordered to the weightroom. Time to turn that North Dakota State body into an NFL roadgrader.

Then Licht drafted a left tackle from Duke to play center, Graham Barton. Then Licht signed a Michigan Man, Ben Bredeson, from the Giants to play left guard.

At least on one play last night, Bucs fans got what they wanted.

On Bucky Irving’s first quarter, five-yard plunge up the middle, go look at the roadgrading by the interior of the line. Barton blasted his man back into the end zone. Mauch buried his man. And Bredeson ragdolled his.

The Bengals had no chance.

Bucs fans from near and far must have pitched a tent watching the blocking on that TD run.

Bucky Irving gets the @Buccaneers on the board!

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— NFL (@NFL) August 10, 2024