Atlanta Falcons at Tampa Bay Buccaneers — 2026 Week 8 | Box Score, Drive Chart & Win Probability | Dynatyze

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Atlanta Falcons at Tampa Bay Buccaneers — 2026 Week 8 | Box Score, Drive Chart & Win Probability | Dynatyze

When the Falcons have the ball

Tua Tagovailoaagainstthe Buccaneers

projected starter · chart of Tue, Sep 8, 2026

Sacks on the dropback

ATL+58

The only line on this board whose two sides are different verbs: the offence's number is sacks taken and it wants it low, the defence's is sacks made and it wants it high. The denominator is dropbacks, not pass attempts, because a sack is a failed dropback and dividing by completed attempts would flatter the worst protections in football.

weakest in the leaguestrongest

Falcons offence

4.4%

5 of 32 · 586 dropbacks

Buccaneers defence

5.7%

23 of 32 · 644 dropbacks

Week to week Falcons's offence held its middle half of weeks between 2.2% and 5.7% over 17 weeks — 0.8 times the league's whole season spread, tighter than the league itself — a habit rather than an average of different afternoons. Buccaneers's defence held its own between 2.2% and 8.7% — 1.5 times the league's whole season spread, wider than the league itself.

Third downs converted

TB+55

weakest in the leaguestrongest

Falcons offence

34.1%

30 of 32 · 205 third downs

Buccaneers defence

39.5%

13 of 32 · 200 third downs

Explosive plays, 20 yards or more

ATL+39

weakest in the leaguestrongest

Falcons offence

5.4%

15 of 32 · 1,036 plays

Buccaneers defence

6.7%

27 of 32 · 990 plays

Staying on schedule

ATL+32

weakest in the leaguestrongest

Falcons offence

45.6%

12 of 32 · 799 early downs

Buccaneers defence

45.5%

22 of 32 · 756 early downs

Expected points a play

TB+23

weakest in the leaguestrongest

Falcons offence

−0.021

24 of 32 · 1,036 plays

Buccaneers defence

+0.013

17 of 32 · 990 plays

When the Buccaneers have the ball

Baker Mayfieldagainstthe Falcons

projected starter · chart of Tue, Sep 8, 2026

Staying on schedule

ATL+32

Share of first and second downs that gained enough to keep the offence ahead of the chains. Third down is downstream of this, which is why a team can convert well and still stall: it is the unit that never faces third-and-nine that wins the afternoon. This has the biggest weekly sample of the five, so its week-to-week reading is the one to trust most.

the 2025 regular season · the rooms, read for these two clubs

Two identities, on the league scale

Last season, labelled as last season

There is no 2026 play-by-play at all yet — the plays are about 20 minutes after each final, with the 5:00 AM ET nightly sync behind it and the Monday 4:00 AM ET weekly sync as the audited pass, and no game has been played. So every rate below is drawn from the 2025 regular season, labelled that way on purpose rather than dressed up as a forecast for this one.

Pass rate over expected

The Over Expected Room →

How far a play-caller ran from the pass rate the situation asked for, in percentage points. A team above zero passes more than the down, distance and score script called for; a team below it runs more. A scramble counts as a pass, because the model's idea of a pass is the dropback.

Falcons

-6.2

29 of 32 · 1,032 plays

most run-heavymost pass-heavy

league mean -2.3 · 32 ranked

Buccaneers

-3.5

18 of 32 · 1,057 plays

Fourth downs, went for it

The Fourth Down Room →

Share of fourth downs on which the offence ran a play instead of kicking. The denominator is every fourth down with a decision on it — go, field goal or punt.

Falcons

21.7%

22 of 32 · 129 fourth downs

most conservativemost aggressive

league mean 23.3% · 32 ranked

Blitz sent on defence

The Tendency Room →

Share of charted dropbacks this defence sent an extra rusher on. Charting is a separate feed from the play-by-play and it begins in 2022, so an older basis season has no blitz number at all.

Falcons

36.3%

6 of 32 · 630 charted dropbacks

least blitz sentmost blitz sent

league mean 29.4% · 32 ranked

Drives that scored

The Drive Room →

Share of this offence's possessions that ended in a touchdown or a field goal.

Falcons

37.2%

22 of 32 · 183 possessions

fewest drives scoredmost drives scored

league mean 39.6% · 32 ranked

Buccaneers

Drives allowed to score

The Drive Room →

Share of opponent possessions this defence let end in points. Lower is better, and the rank reads that way — rank 1 is the stingiest defence in the league. Every possession in football is one team's drive and another team's stop, so POOLED over the league these are the same drives counted twice. The figure printed here is the unweighted mean of the qualifying clubs' rates, which is a different average: a club that faces more drives than it runs pulls the two apart, by a few hundredths over a full season and by a few tenths early in one.

Falcons

41.2%

19 of 32 · 177 possessions defended

2025 regular season, weeks 1 through 18

The usage each side was carrying

Falcons

Player	G	Snap	Tgt	Car	RZ	PPR
QBMichael Penix Jr.	9	93.2%	0.0%	8.8%	3	13.4
WRDrake London	12	90.7%	29.7%	0.0%	16	16.8
TEKyle Pitts	17	88.0%	22.7%	0.0%	13	12.4
QBKirk Cousins	10	86.1%	0.0%	5.1%	1	10.4
WRDarnell Mooney	15	81.9%	16.2%	0.0%	8	5.5
RBBijan Robinson	17	78.2%	19.8%	61.5%	49	21.8
WRDavid Sills	12	64.3%	10.1%	0.0%	6	4.1
WRCasey Washington	4	61.0%	9.5%	0.0%	—	3.0

Buccaneers

Player	G	Snap	Tgt	Car	RZ	PPR
QBBaker Mayfield	17	97.1%	0.0%	11.3%	9	16.0
TECade Otton	15	93.6%	17.4%	0.0%	7	8.1
WREmeka Egbuka

Note

Shares are the mean of a player's weekly share, over the games he cleared eight snaps in — not a season total divided by a season, which would let one enormous week stand in for a role. Weeks 19 through 22 are excluded by hand: the usage table spells every row's season type REG, playoffs included, so the week bound is what keeps the postseason out.