Confidence for the Buccaneers up, fans believe Jameis Winston is the future

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Buccaneers fans have been very up and down with their faith in the team this season to this point. After beating the Cleveland Browns last week 26-23 in overtime, fans are cautiously optimistic about the team’s success moving forward.

It’s fair to point out that the team hasn’t done much to allow fans to be extremely confident in their direction. So it’s understandable.

Below is the graphic for the confidence rating which shows the slight increase.

The confidence rating for Week 8 is down 10-percent from last week. But if the game against the Browns would have ended in a tie or loss, we could have seen that confident rating plummet.

Also for this week, we asked Bucs Nation’s readers if Jameis Winston is the right quarterback for the Buccaneers moving forward. Readers voted nearly 3-to-1 that Winston is the right quarterback for the future of the franchise.

Week 1 – 86%
Week 2 – 87%
Week 3 – 95%
Week 4 – 93%
Week 5 – 21%
Week 6 – 28%
Week 7 – 22%
Week 8 – 32%

Latest line: – Bengals by 3.5, over/under: 54.5

Gil (3-3): Bengals 27, Bucs 23

James (3-3): Bucs 33, Bengals 27

Evan (1-5): Bengals 31, Bucs 17

Alex (3-3): Bucs 35, Bengals 28

Jon (3-3): Bucs 27, Bengals 26

Kyle (5-1): Bucs 28, Bengals 27

David (2-4): Bucs 31, Browns 28

Bailey (1-5): Bengals 31, Bucs 23

Dustin (2-4): Bucs 34, Bengals 23