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Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Sunday's matchup against the Carolina Panthers will be the biggest game of the year for the Bucs. A loss could do irreparable harm to their hopes of defending their NFC South crown, but there's no need to worry about that according to DE Simeon Rice. "I guarantee a victory -- write it down,'' Rice told the Tampa Tribune. "I'm not sure of the score, but it's on Warren [Sapp] and [Anthony] McFarland's back. If they ball, we're going to win, period. It's all over. Then it will be on my shoulders, and I'm running it through. It's over once they do their thing.'' Rice's promise of victory may hold up since RB Stephen Davis, who rushed for 142 yards in their earlier meeting, is listed as questionable with an ankle injury.

Jacksonville Jaguars: RB Fred Taylor apparently doesn't have a very high opinion of Indianapolis Colts S Mike Doss. Taylor said Wednesday that when he faces the rookie this week that he intends to "bust his a--." Taylor is upset because he said Doss pushed his head to the ground after he fumbled in this season's first game between the teams in Indianapolis. "I told every media outlet they got," Taylor told the Florida Times-Union. "I hope he got the message. I'm going to punish him. I told them to tell him I'm going to keep telling him that. He better bring his game. If he hits me, fine, but if I catch him, believe me, I'm going to get the better shot. Best man is going to win, plain and simple."

New York Jets: Team doctors are concerned that WR Wayne Chrebet could be suffering from post-concussion syndrome after being knocked unconscious in Sunday's game against the New York Giants because. Since the injury he has complained of fatigue and malaise, and the consensus is to hold him out of Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders. Chrebet will see an independent neurologist and take additional tests before doctors decide if he can return. "I don't know if Wayne is postconcussed or not," Dr. Elliot Pellman, the chairman of the Jets' medical department and the chairman of the National Football League's subcommittee on brain injury, told the New York Times. "But the fact I don't know makes me a little nervous. I think it's time for Wayne and me and everyone in the organization to take a deep breath and figure out what's going on."

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