In their season-ending overtime loss to Atlanta on Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers held the Atlanta Falcons to 87 yards on 30 carries, an average of 2.9 yards per run. Those are very good results for the Buccaneers' run defense, and that's also the most rushing yards Tampa Bay has allowed in a game since Week 11.

It's a measure of how impenetrable the Bucs' run defense has been all season that there was just a slight hint of dissatisfaction in how things went in the season finale. The bar had been set very, very high over the first 16 weeks of the season.

"I thought they ran the ball in the middle of our defense a little too well today," said Head Coach Bruce Arians. "But again, we came up with some big stops. Our defensive line has played outstanding all year. Our front-seven played well all year."

Sunday's finale marked the sixth straight game in which the Buccaneers held an opponent below 90 rushing yards and also to 3.0 yards per carry or worse. Only three of Tampa Bay's 16 opponents in 2019 rushed for over 100 yards as a team. The only individual 100-yard game the Buccaneers allowed was to Seattle's Chris Carson, who got to 105 yards in Week Nine.

In the end, the Buccaneers allowed just 1,181 rushing yards in 2019. Excluding the 1982 strike season in which only nine games were played, that's the fewest rushing yards Tampa Bay has ever allowed in a single campaign. And while it's fair to point out that the NFL has evolved into a more passing-centric league, the 3.26 yards per carry the Bucs allowed is also their second-best single-season mark ever.