First, I understand as much as anyone that it's preseason. This is the best time to iron out mistakes and find the right guys. We are playing a lot of inexperience in the 2nd and 3rd teams and this will add to penalties. However, after a quick observation something stood out to me.
Tampa Bay has never really been known as a penalty disciplined team. I think the correlation to penalties and success is a little overrated, however, you can't just give 70-80 free yards a game. If I were to put a number on it 40-50 Yards Per Game would be an acceptable amount of penalty yardage a game. It also matters what the situation is and so on.
With that said here are the penalty numbers from the first two weeks of PreSeason in 2007, 2008, 2009.
Week 1 - 2007 - 3 Penalties for 22 [...]
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