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Can Mike Glennon Save the Buccaneers' Season?

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have started off 0-3 for the second straight season, losing in embarrassing fashion in Week 3 to the Falcons. But there is a glimmer of what some may call hope, as Mike Glennon will start this weekend with Josh McCown sitting out with a thumb injury.

And while it would be hard to play any worse than Josh McCown was playing for the Bucs (our second-worst quarterback on a per drop back basis among those to drop back over 70 times), Glennon was the fourth-worst signal-caller last year among those to drop back 400 or more times.

And he picked up right where he left off against Atlanta, posting a similar per-opportunity NEP average in his first game of 2014 as he did in 2013. The Steelers are banged up on defense, and Glennon has been preparing with the first team this week, so will he be less offensive than McCown and give his team a chance to grind out a victory?

He has to if the Bucs plan to salvage their season. A road game against New Orleans waits in Week 5, which is virtually guaranteed to be a loss; a loss that would put the Bucs at 0-5, and in contention for the first-overall pick in next year's draft.