"It has to have a starting point. Every escape from the darkness does. Maybe that game-winning drive late Sunday against the Packers, which produced a 38-28 victory, was it.
It wasn't necessarily one for the ages. But coming as it did, with rookie quarterback Josh Freeman at the wheel and in a uniform that has come to symbolize a losing era, it was enough to make some believe better days are just ahead.
"You've got to think it's the start of something special," Bucs receiver Michael Clayton said of Freeman's work during the eight-play, 72-yard touchdown drive that completed Tampa Bay's comeback from an 11-point, fourth-quarter deficit and ended an 11-game losing streak.
"That's why we brought him here to lead this franchise," said first-time winning Bucs coach Raheem Morris, a former Kansas State defensive coordinator who had as much to do with bringing the former K-State quarterback to Tampa as anyone. "It reminded me of his first college start.""
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