The Buccaneers are just a bit behind Seattle, which is averaging 146.6 yards on the ground. Doug Martin is leading the way with 1,133 yards, which also ranks second in the NFL individually behind Adrian Peterson, who has 1,182. Neither the Buccaneers as a team nor an individual Tampa Bay player has ever led the league in rushing.*

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Tampa Bay's rush *defense has been outstanding, as well. The Buccaneers rank seventh in the NFL with an average of 94.7 yards allowed on the ground per game. That makes Tampa Bay one of seven teams in the NFL who rank in the top 10 in both rushing offense and rushing defense. It's clear from the win-loss records of those seven teams that this sort of two-way dominance is a good way to get into playoff contention. The seven teams below are ordered by their combined offensive/defensive rankings, with lower numbers being better.*

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Tampa Bay's offense gained 166 yards on the ground in Indianapolis while allowing the Colts rushing attack to pick up just 64 yards. That marks the ninth straight game in which the Buccaneers have out-rushed their opponent. Incredibly, in five of those nine contests, the Bucs have had a positive differential of more than 100 yards in that particular category. Overall, Tampa Bay has had more rushing yards than its opponents in 10 of 12 games so far, and only one team in the NFL has won that battle more often.

Most Games with a Rushing Yardage Advantage, NFL, 2015

It is likely not a coincidence that the list above includes some of the NFL's most successful teams this year. Every team on the list has at least a .500 record and the seven clubs have a combined winning percentage of .690 (58-24).

No team has had as many games with a lopsided edge in rushing yards as the Buccaneers. Tampa Bay has already posted five games this season in which it had at least 100 more rushing  yards than its opponent, including the last three in a row. There have only been 41 such games in the entire NFL this year, and no other team is on the list more than three times. The Buccaneers are the only team in the NFL with a 100+-yard rushing advantage in three straight games.

Over the last three games combined, the Buccaneers have out-rushed their opponents, 581 yards to 227, for a whopping 354-yard overall advantage. Only three teams have managed to out-rush their opponents by 350 or more yards in a three game span this year:

The 2015 Buccaneers have a chance to be one of the most dominant rushing teams in franchise history, in terms of how much better it has been than its opponents. The Bucs have currently won that battle in 10 of 11 games, as mentioned, meaning they can do so in a maximum of 14 games this year. The team record is 13 such performances, by the 1999 team. Only five other Buccaneer squads have hit double digits in that category: 1999, 1998 (12), 2000 (11), 1979 (10) and 1988 (10). The Buccaneers have already set a new franchise record with five games in which they have out-rushed their opponents by 100 or more yards.

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The record for most games in a season in which a team out-rushed its opponent by more than 100 yards is nine, set by the Los Angeles Rams in 1973 and tied by the Washington Redskins in 1983. The Bucs could theoretically match that mark with four games to play, though that would be an extremely aggressive prediction. A total of 104 teams have had five such games in a season since the merger, but only 19 have had at least seven of them, which would be a more realistic target for the Buccaneers. Over the last five seasons (2011-15), the only team to have six such games was the 2013 Seattle Seahawks, who went on to win the Super Bowl.

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It seems likely that the Buccaneers will finish the 2015 season with the greatest rushing yardage margin in team history. They would already own that mark if the season ended today, though it is possible for the team to be out-rushed over the final month and give up the top spot. If the Bucs continued to out-rush their opponents at their current per-game rate, however, they would instead end up with a margin of 779 yards, which would improve upon the old record, set in 1998, by an enormous 37.9%.

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As for Doug Martin he narrowly missed rushing for 100 yards on Sunday for the second straight week, following up a 97-yard performance in Indy with 95 against the Falcons. That leaves him still sitting at four 100-yard games on the season. His own personal high is five 100-yard games in a season, set in his 2012 rookie season. The team record is six, established by Cadillac Williams in his rookie campaign of 2005.*

Martin's 4.99 yards per carry this year are third-best in the NFL among all players with at least 100 totes, behind Seattle's Thomas Rawls (5.57 on 141 carries) and Cincinnati's Giovanni Bernard (5.06 on 120 carries). Martin is close to establishing a new Buccaneer single-season record in that category, as seen in the chart below. Even if one establishes a qualifier of at least 100 carries in a season, the Bucs could end up with two of the top three performances in team history. Charles Sims has not logged 100 carries yet but is a good bet to do so and is averaging 4.70 yards on his carries.

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Martin's 1,133 rushing yards are already tied for eighth most in a single season in team history, with a quarter of the regular season still to be played. He is on pace for 1,511 rushing yards, which would threaten James Wilder's franchise record and be just the second 1,500-yard campaign in team history.

Most Rushing Yards, Single Season, Buccaneers

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*Martin hasn't been carrying the ball alone, however. The Bucs have found a dynamic backfield combination with their lead back and second-year player Charles Sims, who has a combined 738 yards from scrimmage. In fact, the Buccaneers have the most productive pair of running backs, in terms of total yards from scrimmage, in the entire NFL, and it's not particularly close.

Most Yards from Scrimmage, Top Two RBs, NFL, 2015

Though they count just the same for the purposes of the chart above, several of those tandems are not really 1-2 backfield punches but rather situations in which one player has taken over for another injured player. That has primarily been the case in Pittsburgh, and to a lesser extent in Atlanta and Chicago. *
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