Good luck finding this team’s next win Martin Fennelly, The Tampa Tribune, published 27 October 2014 Man, and this was their chance to make a move in the division. I wish I were making that up, but it’s true. Also true: Bucs rookie tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins caught what should have been the game-winning touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings. Only it wasn’t, and later, on the first snap of overtime, the kid coughed up the ball and the Vikings ran it in for a touchdown and a 19-13 win and the Bucs are 1-6. So much for a fresh start coming off the bye week. This season is already bye-bye. You can’t lay that entirely at Seferian-Jenkins’ feet, though he should have tucked that ball right between his Seferian and his Jenkins, right where the hyphen goes. But there are plenty of feet to go around. Try 97 yards of Bucs offense through three quarters. Try 1-for-12 on third down. Try five straight three-and-outs at one point. Try Mike Glennon watching Josh McCown again. There’s your playoff ticket. Try the defense, led by the freshly minted Gerald McCoy, which should have had its way against Vikings rookie quarterback Teddy Bridgewater all day, to say nothing of with just two minutes left. Try Jonathan Banks needs to intercept that Bridgewater pass and end the game. Try Minnesota drives for the tying field goal as regulation time expires. And now try and find: the Bucs’ next win. Where is it coming from? Even in this seemingly target-rich stretch of mediocre to bad teams, Lovie Smith’s Bucs might take the cake, and the cake is seven games old and moldy. Yes, the NFC South is dissolving, but these Bucs are worse than that. They’ve already lost to Carolina, Atlanta and New Orleans. The Falcons are 0-5 since they gutted the Bucs 56-14. After the season, maybe Lovie can hire the Falcons’ offensive staff when it gets fired. It has to beat the Bucs’ crew. Try Anthony Collins can’t get it done at left tackle. Busto. Try former Patriots perennial Pro Bowler Logan Mankins doesn’t even look like he wants to be here. Try trading Vincent Jackson — now. You might get something. I’d trade Doug Martin, too, only he’d only fetch a fourth- or fifth-rounder if I was on the other end of the phone. That’s how bad it is. Try playing the second half first or the first half second. The Bucs have 27 points in the first half this season. They scored 13 points in the fourth quarter Sunday to grab that lead, but mostly lifeless starts have undermined this season, no matter who’s at QB, and don’t be surprised if it’s McCown next Sunday in Cleveland. Try the defense has just one sack in the past three games. Try Lovie has a mess on his hands. Even when they did come back, the 32nd-ranked defense in the league folded. The Bucs let Bridgewater — intercepted five times and sacked 13 times in his past two games — off the hook. Banks jumped the route but couldn’t make a pick early in Minnesota’s tying drive. You have to make a rookie pay. “I made a great jump on the ball,” Banks said. “It’s just unfortunate I missed it.” Unfortunate — yeah, that’s the word. After that, you just knew Minnesota was going to win it. And win it the Vikings did on that fumble return to start overtime. It was ghastly stuff, in keeping with this season. It almost beat that 10-second run-off that beat the Bucs here against St. Louis. By the way, the Bucs are 14-30 at home since 2009, worst in the majors. Some fresh start. Then again, Lovie said it could be worse: “In the big picture, right now, we’re in the same position we were before we started today.” You know, the Bucs are in the same position they were before the started Sunday. Prone.