Today at 4:05 p.m. ET, the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-7) go face-to-face with the Seattle Seahawks (7-1) live from CenturyLink Field in Seattle. The game can be live streamed here. Tampa Bay fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action by tuning their radios to WDAE 620 AM while Seattle fans can do the same on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM.
Seattle will be without Sidney Rice and still won't have Percy Harvin when they enter play this afternoon. Rice, who has 15 receptions for 231 yards and three touchdowns this season, suffered a season-ending knee injury in Monday's game. Harvin, who was acquired from Minnesota in March, has yet to play a game with Seattle after undergoing offseason hip surgery.
The team has deemed Harvin "close, but not close enough" to returning, according to NFL.com.
Seattle entered a four-game stretch of battling teams under .500 starting last week, but had to fight to the very last play to secure a 14-9 win against the Rams in St. Louis to kick it off. Seattle's seven first downs were the fewest in a win in franchise history and it only amounted 135 yards of offense.
"I think championship teams are able to win the ugly games, where things aren't going right, ball isn't going their way, and they are still able to stand up when they need to," cornerback Richard Sherman told ESPN.
Quarterback Russell Wilson was sacked a career-high seven times Monday but was able to throw two touchdown passes, with one being an 80-yarder to Golden Tate. Wilson is 125-for-205 (61.0%) for 1,628 yards with 13 touchdowns and four interceptions while Tate has 32 receptions for 439 yards with three scores.
With Seattle losing one of its top receivers in Rice, perhaps it couldn't be a better time to face one of the league's worst offenses in the Bucs. Tampa Bay's averages of 14.3 points and 297.7 yards rank worse than only the also winless Jacksonville Jaguars entering Week 9.
The team will hope to get rookie quarterback Mike Glennon some help as he's thrown 181 passes through his first four games--more than anyone in league history through their first four games--but hasn't had much success.
Glennon is 106-for-181 (58.6%) for 997 yards with six touchdowns and three interceptions.
"When you're 0-7 you look at every single thing, and I'm sure we're going to be stronger for it moving forward," Bucs coach Greg Schiano told ESPN. "I think we've put Mike in a bad spot. He's thrown too many passes. We shouldn't put him in that spot as coaches. We've re-evaluated that and we're going to try to play a little more balanced."
Tampa Bay looks to avoid going 0-9 for the first time since the 1985 season while Seattle will look to take advantage of an easy stretch of games without a key receiver as these two teams take the field this afternoon in Seattle.
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