Calijah Kancey explains how the Buccaneers can beat the Ravens this week

Last year the Tampa Bay Buccaneers entered a Monday Night Football showdown with a Super Bowl contender hot off an incredible start to the season. History is repeating itself, or the Bucs are establishing a pattern of success, as the same thing is happening again this year.

Tampa Bay is 4-2 and coming off a 51-27 blowout win over the New Orleans Saints. Waiting for them on Monday Night Football are the Baltimore Ravens, perhaps the best team the Bucs have faced up to this point in the season.

It's going to be a massive test to see just how the Bucs measure up against a Super Bowl contender. The Ravens, much like Tampa Bay, never seem to play a normal game and have two of the best players in the league that the defense needs to stop.

Calijah Kancey points out the obvious about how the Buccaneers can beat the Ravens

Speaking with the media this week, Kancey outlined how the Bucs can stop the Ravens and pull off an upset win on Monday Night Football.

"We want to play behind the line of scrimmage. I think that's something we got to do as a defense. Just kind of stop them before they get going, just stop them in their tracks. Don't let Derrick Henry get going, don't let Lamar get going and I think we'll be ahead of them," Kancey said.

He's not reinventing the wheel here, but sometimes the most obvious approach is the correct one. So far this season the Ravens offense has run through Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry -- literally. When that run game hasn't gotten going, Baltimore has faltered.

Over the first two games, Henry was held under 85 yards by both the Chiefs and Raiders. Those are teams on two wildly different ends of hte talent spectrum, but both walked away with wins over the Ravens.

Since then, Henry hasn't had a game where he's rushed for fewer than 90 yards and Baltimore is on a four-game winning streak.

Meanwhile, Lamar is the reigning MVP and is wasting no time in reminding everyone why. The Ravens have their flaws, which were exposed in the blown lead in a loss to the Raiders, but the variable Jackson provides is so good that it can flip a game.

Tampa Bay can't allow that to happen, which is easier said than done. Kancey isn't forging any new ground in how he thinks the Bucs can stop Baltimore, but it just goes to show how important it will be for the defense to carry its weight this week and avoid any sort of stretches like what we saw in teh second quarter of last week's game.

New Orleans isn't a good team, and Baltimore won't be as forgiving if the Bucs give them a chance to pull away with a lead.

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