Buccaneers make major veteran addition after embarrassing loss

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers made a bold move to go after cornerback Richard Sherman following a bad loss against the Los Angeles Rams.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers did not take their epic loss to the Los Angeles Rams lightly. Although the final score was 34-24, the loss to the Rams was not all that close, in reality.

Matthew Stafford had a stellar performance in his early MVP candidacy, throwing for 343 yards and four touchdowns on over 71 percent passing against the Buccaneers’ secondary.

Ouch.

The Buccaneers had enough of that after giving up 391 passing yards to Dak Prescott in week one, 293 yards to Matt Ryan in week two, and then 343 to Stafford in week three.

Buccaneers add Richard Sherman after big loss to Rams

Apparently, Tom Brady and Richard Sherman are going to let bygones be bygones in the name of winning football games.

The former three-time All-Pro selection at cornerback has now joined the reigning Super Bowl Champion Buccaneers in hopes that he can help upgrade a secondary that has been porous at best through the first three games of the season.

The Buccaneers have assembled an unbelievable roster in terms of just star power.

Some of the players are bigger in terms of their name than their impact on the field (at least, compared to what it once was) but they should make significant contributions en route to another possible NFC title.

The Buccaneers got a major wake-up call against the Los Angeles Rams, who absolutely crushed a defense that dominated last year’s Super Bowl.

The Buccaneers have shown a willingness to go after big-name veterans if they can produce even a fraction of what we’ve seen in the past. Obviously, Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski are two major representatives of that, but they have also gone after guys like Antonio Brown and Giovani Bernard.

Richard Sherman is the latest.

The Buccaneers have the type of pass rush up front that can help Sherman really succeed early on with them. He’s played a ton of football and obviously in a lot of very meaningful games.

As a free agent, he’d been holding out for the right situation and getting the chance to come in and play a substantial role for the reigning Super Bowl champion Buccaneers is obviously a clear sign that Sherman made a wise choice not simply settling earlier in the year for a worse opportunity.

Sherman only played in five games last season, so it’s hard to know exactly what kind of player the Buccaneers will be getting. They are obviously planning on Sherman playing at a high level and Sherman wouldn’t be coming back if he didn’t think he could do that.

In his last healthy season, he played 15 games and had three interceptions and 11 passes broken up.

A healthy Richard Sherman is good for the NFL, and it’s impossible to argue that it would be good for the Bucs, whose pass defense can’t get much worse than we’ve seen in the first three weeks of the young NFL season.