“Sean did a great job,” Head Coach Todd Bowles said after the game. “We had some good runs in the first half (but) some penalties, we shot ourselves in the foot so many times that we had to keep throwing. But in the second half, between Sean and Bucky, with Sean coming on in particular, he made a lot of speed.

“This is the Sean Tucker we thought we were getting when we got him last year, and he’s coming into his own.”

Good things have happened with Irving on the court so far this season, and it’s hard to imagine Tucker returning to a nearly non-existent role on offense after that performance in week six. All this raises the question of how ball contacts from the backfield will be distributed when White returns to action. It may be difficult to feed three different backs, but on Monday Bowles made it sound like the team would try to find a way.

“It’s definitely worth him turning it into a three-headed monster,” Bowles said. “He took advantage of his opportunities. He ran away from some tackles, some linebackers, he ran the gap, he made cuts, he made plays, he caught the ball well out of the backfield, so that gives us a three-man lead.” sample.”

In terms of football distribution, it also complicates things – in a good way – that Baker Mayfield is off to a blistering start, with a 109.4 passer rating and an NFL-leading 15 touchdown passes. He threw four more against the Saints on Sunday. And no offensive coordinator would ever consider minimizing the roles of wideouts Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. Perhaps it will be a bit of an ebb and flow, with the Bucs going with the hot hand (or hands) in the backfield and play situations determining how much they will lean on what appears to be a rapidly improving run game.

Such was the case against the saints. After a wild first half, the Bucs began to pull away in the second half, creating a double-digit lead. Irving and Tucker consistently broke off chain-moving runs and that allowed the Bucs to keep the ball away from the Saints and burn time off the clock.

“We broke up some runs to make it a little more feasible to run the ball,” Bowles said. “Between Bucky (Irving) and Sean (Tucker), they broke some runs outside and were putting up some blocks pretty well and it was working for us, so we stuck with it.”

As of Monday morning, Bowles had no updates on the status of the team’s injured players, including White. The team does have an extra day to prepare for the Baltimore Ravens, who they play Monday night in week seven. It will become clearer later in the week whether White is on track for a quick return, as the Bucs would hope. After that, it will take a little more time to figure out how the Bucs will fuel their new “three-headed monster.”