Walking into the locker room last Sunday at Nissan Stadium in Nashville following Tampa Bay’s most recent loss, the tension could be cut by a knife.

Bruce Arians added some choice words for the NFL officials, his young secondary and even the media. Wide receiver Mike Evans had to cool off before he could even speak. Jason Pierre-Paul was in no mood to mince words.

While you could sense disappointment in previous games, after the loss to Tennessee you could feel anger radiating from the locker room.

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On Wednesday there was still a touch of anger in the voices of the players and coaches, and that may be a good thing. The Bucs head to Seattle on Sunday to take on a team no one is giving them a chance to beat.

“We want to win bad and that’s just it,” Winston said. “You lose three in a row, you get sick of it so you want to win really bad. You should be sick of it.”

Outside linebacker Shaq Barrett was asked if this team was getting tired of losing games.

“Yeah, because it’s the same thing every week,” Barrett said. “We can be so great of a team but we’re not improved and we’re not fixing the stuff that we need to fix. That’s what’s so frustrating about it because we can fix it and when we do fix it we’re going to start lighting the league on fire.

“Everybody just needs to look in the mirror and just worry about their selves and get their selves fixed and then as a collective of where people need to be.”

Offensive captain Ali Marpet was still upset three days after the loss.

“I think that’s fair to say,” Marpet said. “I think a lot of guys really want to turn this thing around and are willing to do whatever that takes and that means doing stuff that may be different than how we’ve done things in the past, including veterans and how we prepare and how they approach each week.

“I’d also say that it shouldn’t have taken us that long to get pissed off, which is kind of frustrating in its own way, but I think that it’s all another level now that going to help us.”

Bucs LG Ali Marpet – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

Marpet continued.

“I think everybody wants to to that playoffs,” Marpet said. “There’s no question that Jameis, Donovan, and I when we got here we were like ‘We’re going to the playoffs.’ I think what young guys don’t understand, it’s not the desire, it’s they don’t understand, and apparently I don’t understand what it takes to get there, how challenging it is to get there. It’s not college where you can just stack a couple of wins because you’re better than everybody, you need to be detailed and very consistent in this league to have success and make the playoffs.”

Arians, who had up until Sunday, never lost three games in a row as a head coach, said he liked seeing an angry Bucs football team.

“Forget the referees, just having the game and giving it away,” Arians said. “It’s time to stop and I think they all feel that way. It’s a very good feeling as a coach to come back on a plane that’s angrier about losing.”