Monday, 4 a.m.
The difficult part about the Tampa Bay Bucs embarrassment on Sunday night is describing it.
No, it was uglier than you feared. No, it smelled worse. No, if you're going to bury the game films, you going to need a deeper hole. It was so ugly it made your eyes hurt.
It was Richard Williamson ugly. It was Bruce Gradkowski ugly. It was Booker Reese ugly.
It was the Bucs' third straight defeat, and each one looks worse than the previous. The Bucs have given up 106 points in their last three games.
It was ugly enough that quarterback Baker Mayfield was knocked out of the game ... and he was one of the lucky ones. It was ugly enough that backup Teddy Bridgewater played ... with no evidence of a reason why. It was ugly enough that the Bucs' waisted a tank full of plane fuel to make the trip.
The Bucs were indescribably horrible in their 34-7 spanking by the L.A. Rams. The Bucs couldn't block, couldn't tackle, couldn't cover, couldn't catch. Couldn't do anything, really. They looked like an expansion team playing against a Super Bowl champion.
"I saw some things we can do better," Bucs' coach Todd Bowles said. "We're pissed off. We've got a bad taste in our mouths, and we should have. Everything we need to do is right in front of us, but we've got a lot of work to do."
How bad was it?
--- Baker Mayfield, the one-time MVP front-runner, threw for all of 41 yards before being knocked out the game. When sack yardage is subtracted, the Bucs' quarterbacks combined for just 70 yards.
"Right now, he has a shoulder sprain," Bowles said. "He'll get an MRI tomorrow."
-- Emeka Egbuka, at one time the leading Rookie of the Year candidate, caught two passes over the first three quarters. For zero yards.
-- The Bucs' offense had 139 yards of total offense.
-- The secondary gave up 25 completions and three touchdowns. Rams' quarterback Matthew Stafford had 273 yards passing.
The Bucs are at home at Raymond James Stadium Sunday at 1 p.m. against Arizona.