Bucs' loss was about more than just the last play   The Bucs had
tied the score with one of their most memorable comebacks. Then
they had not.  The officials' hands were in the air. Then they
were not.  Overtime was about two commercials away. Then it was
not.  This is the failure you will remember, that final thrust
of a knife to the heart. One minute, Mike Williams was falling
to the turf with a tying touchdown catch in his hands, and the
next, you were wondering why it did not count. One minute, the
Bucs were going places, and the next, they had stepped out of
bounds along the way.  Yeah, the Bucs lost on the final play of
the game. On the other hand, they did not.  This game the Bucs
lost about a dozen times in about a dozen ways.  When a team
loses a game on the final play on a rarely called rules
violation, as the Bucs did in Sunday's 35-28 loss to New
Orleans, it can overshadow all the other shortcomings of the
afternoon. You can get lost in the language of the rule, and the
illogic of it, and it can m