Tampa Bay Buccaneers 'Are Fine' According to Coach Todd Bowles

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-5) were once on top of the NFC South Division after beating the hated New Orleans Saints 26-9 on the road.

Coming out of that big win the Buccaneers entered the earliest bye week the NFL allows and most thought it would be a good opportunity to get healthy and prepare for the long season that remained ahead.

Oh boy, were we - and they - wrong.

With four losses in a row since coming out of the bye later the Bucs are not only not in first place in their division anymore they only have a two-game lead on the last-place Carolina Panthers (1-7) and are sitting in 10th place in the NFC Playoffs race.

That's the bad - really bad - news. The good news is coach Todd Bowles has nine games left and a chance to turn all the negatives into positives starting this weekend against the Tennessee Titans (3-5).

"Our team is fine. They were great at practice today," Bowles says. "Once you go through the tape and get over it...We've got a 24-hour rule. Right now, we're getting ready for Tennessee. The focus was good, the practice was good."