Can't go to England if you can't find the end zone

No need to book those flights to England. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren't going.
That's how it looks now, even though the NFL has yet to announce the two teams who will play in England next season.

Word out of San Diego is it will be the Chargers and New Orleans Saints, with the Saints giving up the home game. That New Orleans will play only seven times inside the Superdome next season is good news for fans of the other NFC South teams.

The NFL picked the Saints and Chargers because of their ability to score. San Diego was ranked fifth in the NFL in 2007 with 25.8 points a game. New Orleans was 12th with 23.7.

The Bucs were 18th with 20.9.

If you are trying to promote the NFL overseas, you'd want to do it with a high-scoring game, not the 13-10 snooze-fest the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins played this past season in London.

Considering how a trip to England can knock a team off its game for a couple weeks, all those trips inside the red zone that resulted in field goals for the Bucs in 2007 might prove to be a good thing.