After a promising first half of football, everything just collapsed for the Bucs in their 34-23 loss to the Bengals on Sunday. Tampa Bay just seems lost as a football team. There’s no continuity or consistency and even when there are flashes of brilliance,  the team reverts back to its old self. This week, the entire team gets more of the blame than any one player, but there is plenty of blame to go around.

Here are the most disappointing players from Week 15:

Tom Brady

Bucs QB Tom Brady – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

Things started well for Brady and the Bucs offense. They were able to move the ball down the field and sustain drives, getting out to a 17-3 lead in the first half of the game. But after halftime, the team imploded. The Bucs had turnovers on four straight possessions, and Brady had a hand in all of them.

The first of Brady’s turnovers was an interception intended for Cameron Brate. The ball was poorly thrown and 100% on the quarterback. The next turnover was a fumble on a strip sack. Brady’s protection broke down and the ball was swatted out of his hands by tacklers D.J. Reader and Logan Wilson. On the next drive, Brady was credited with an aborted handoff to Leonard Fournette that resulted in a fumble recovered by the Bengals.

That bad lucked continued for Brady and the Bucs as he tried to rainbow drop a pass into the hands of Mike Evans that was picked off by Germaine Pratt.

Giovani Bernard

The Bucs’ first possession out of halftime stalled in a three and out. Trying some trickery on 4th & 1, it appeared the team was going to try a fake punt with a direct snap to Giovani Bernard. However, Bernard looked as if he was unaware of the play call and had the direct snap by Zach Triner go right through his hands. The Bengals took over at the Bucs’ 16-yard line as a result and eventually added three points off the turnover on downs.

Cameron Brate

Brate had a ball go right through his hands that would’ve converted a third down and put the Bucs in the red zone. The result was a 50-yard field goal attempt by Ryan Succop that was unsuccessful. Brate was also the intended target on Tom Brady’s third-quarter interception, though that was more of a bad decision on Brady’s part.

Third Quarter

Bucs OC Byron Leftwich and HC Todd Bowles – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

After turning in a first half that saw the Bucs put 17 points on the board while holding the Bengals to just three, the third quarter was much of what we’ve seen all season. The Bucs couldn’t move the ball consistently and turned the ball over four times. First, they had the botched punt fake by Bernard. Then, Brady threw a bad pass intended for Brate that was intercepted by Tre Flowers on the second drive. He then fumbled the ball on a sack by D.J. Reader and Logan Wilson.

All three turnovers gave the Bengals excellent field position within the 31 yards of the end zone. Cincinnati scored off all three possessions, flipping the game in a 17-point swing to put them up 20-17. As if things couldn’t get worse, the Bucs closed out the quarter with another fumble, this one coming on an exchange between Brady and Leonard Fournette. It led to seven points coming in the fourth quarter and a commanding 27-17 lead for the Bengals.

Sean Murphy-Bunting

Murphy-Bunting had two chances to turn the tide of the game, but allowed Tee Higgins to get behind him to score the Bengals’ first touchdown of the game. He also had a chance to swing momentum by recording an interception and halting Cincinnati’s drive in its tracks, but he dropped the ball as he was coming down with it.

Second Half Defense

Before the final drive of the first half that saw the Bengals drive 47 yards down the field and kick a field goal, the Bucs defense allowed just 36 yards of offense in the first half. The second half saw them get gassed with short field after short field from turnovers. As a unit, Tampa Bay allowed 31 points to Cincinnati to end the second half. The result was a second straight loss.