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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers begin their quest for a third straight NFC South title on Sunday, September 10 with a road game against the Minnesota Vikings. It is a matchup between two defending division champs, as the Vikings secured the NFC North with a 13-4 record in 2022. Both teams, however, made a quick exit from the playoffs with a loss to a Wild Card team from the NFC East, with the Bucs falling to the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota losing to the New York Giants. As such, both teams begin the 2023 campaign with a sense of unfinished business.
The Buccaneers also are making something of a fresh start, having brought in a new offensive coaching staff and overall scheme, directed by coordinator Dave Canales, as well as a new starting quarterback in the wake of Tom Brady's retirement. Having won a very tight preseason competition with Kyle Trask for that assignment, Baker Mayfield will be making his Buccaneer debut on Sunday. Mayfield, the first overall pick in the 2018 draft by the Cleveland Browns, is looking to kick his career back into high gear after a 2022 season split between the Carolina Panthers and Los Angeles Rams.
Opposing that new-look Bucs offense will be a Minnesota defense that is also under new leadership. After finishing 31st in total defense last year, the Vikings replaced coordinator Ed Donatell with former Miami Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores, who typically takes a very aggressive approach to defensive play-calling, including a heavy dose of blitzes. The Vikings also were active on that side of the ball in free agency, adding edge rusher Marcus Davenport, down lineman Dean Lowry and cornerback Byron Murphy.
Tampa Bay's defense still contains much of the proven talent that helped the team make three straight playoff appearances and blast its way to the Super Bowl LV title in 2020. That includes Pro Bowlers on all three levels: defensive lineman Vita Vea, outside linebacker Shaquil Barrett, linebackers Lavonte David and Devin White and safety Antoine Winfield. The Buccaneers also managed to retain standout corners Carlton Davis and Jamel Dean over the last two offseasons despite the threat of free agency. The Bucs finished ninth in the NFL in total defense last year and have designs on an even higher ranking in 2023. They also hope that the addition of explosive first-round defensive lineman Calijah Kancey will jump start their entire pass-rush, though Kancey missed much of training camp with a calf injury and is something of a question mark for Sunday's opener.
That defense will get an early test from a Kirk Cousins-led Vikings offense that ranked eighth in the league in points scored a year ago and was very prolific through the air, averaging 263.8 yards per game. Cousins gets a tremendous amount of help from fourth-year wide receiver Justin Jefferson, whose 4,825 receiving yards are the most in NFL history for a player in his first three seasons. Jefferson's former running mate, Adam Thielen, is now in Carolina but the Vikings moved quickly to replace him with an other talented option, using a first-round draft pick on USC's Jordan Addison. The Minnesota passing attack also got a boost midway through last season with the trade for former Lions tight end T.J. Hockenson. Hockenson had 60 catches and 519 yards in just 10 games with the Vikings. There's also a new lead back in the backfield, as the team cut ties with long-time standout Dalvin Cook and gave the starting job to Alexander Mattison.
The oddsmakers have the Buccaneers as heavy underdogs in their road opener, and national power ranking polls suggest there are low expectations for the 2023 Bucs as they move on from the Brady era. Meanwhile, the Vikings generated doubts about their ability to sustain last season's winning percentage given that they finished the season with a negative points differential and were an incredible 11-0 in one-score games. As such, Sunday's game pits two teams that are determined to prove their doubters wrong and are seeking a big boost in those efforts with a Week One victory.
GAME AND BROADCAST DETAILS
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-0) at Minnesota Vikings (0-0)
Sunday, September 10, 1:00 p.m. ET
U.S. Bank Stadium (capacity: 67,202)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Television: CBS (Local WTSP Channel 10)
TV Broadcast Team: Andrew Catalon (play-by-play), Tiki Barber and Matt Ryan (analysts), A.J. Ross (reporter)
Radio: 98Rock (WXTB, 97.9 FM), Flagship Station
Radio Broadcast Team: Gene Deckerhoff (play-by-play), Dave Moore (analyst), T.J. Rives (sideline)
ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD SERIES
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have played the Minnesota Vikings 55 times overly nearly 50 years, but the Buccaneers have definitely enjoyed the last quarter century of the rivalry a lot more than the first two decades.
Overall, Minnesota owns a 33-23 edge in the head-to-head series with Tampa Bay, but the momentum may have swung when Tony Dungy left the Vikings to take over the Bucs' head coaching job in 1996. Dungy's first victory at the helm was memorably over the Vikings, and beginning with that contest Tampa Bay has won 12 of the last 20 meetings between the two teams. That included a six-game winning streak from 2001– the year before Tampa Bay left Minnesota and the old NFC Central behind to join the new NFC South – to 2012. The Vikings briefly reasserted control with wins in 2014 and 2017 but the Buccaneers won the most recent meeting, a 26-14 decision in Tampa. Tom Brady gave the Buccaneers an early lead with a 48-yard touchdown pass to Scotty Miller, then extended it with a scoring strike to Rob Gronkowski, while Tampa Bay's defense sacked Kirk Cousins six times, twice by Shaquil Barrett. That outcome began an eight-game winning streak for the Buccaneers that extended through Super Bowl LV.
Since the 2002 realignment that put the Buccaneers in a new division, Tampa Bay and Minnesota have essentially only met every three years as part of the usual rotating divisional matchups, which means they have almost never finished in the same spots in their respective divisions in the same year. The Bucs and Vikings did both win their respective divisions last year, but the NFC North and South were already scheduled to play each other in 2023. The exception was an extra game in 2012 that the Buccaneers won, 36-17, powered by rookie running back Doug Martin's first 100-yard game and three Josh Freeman touchdown passes.
Minnesota's most recent win in the series came in 2017 as Case Keenum threw for 369 yards and three touchdowns, two of them to Stefon Diggs. Dalvin Cook, then a rookie playing in just his second game, ran for 97 yards and a score as the Vikings pulled away for a 34-17 victory. The Buccaneers' aforementioned six-game winning streak included a number of high-scoring affairs, including decisions by scores of 41-14, 38-24 and 36-17.
The Buccaneers have played the Vikings even in Tampa, with each team winning 14 times. The Vikings had taken a one-game lead in that category in 2014 with a 19-13 decision in Tampa in 2014, an overtime game that lasted all of one play in the extra period. Tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins fumbled after a 10-yard catch and Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr returned it 27 yards for the game-winning score. In an odd note, however, the Bucs have more overtime wins over Minnesota than any other team in their history, owning a 3-2 mark in such games. All three of the Bucs' overtime wins over Minnesota occurred between 1990 and 1996.
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