Great effort.

So Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers, wearing their blue Powerpuff jerseys (Joe loves them), want to play big boy football with the NFL. Old school Big Ten. Smashmouth.

Well, the Chargers just met the new bully on the block.

The Bucs came to the avocado-eating, wine-sipping Lipstick City of Los Angeles and not only punched the Chargers in the mouth, they stomped on their heads for giggles and giggles and threw their lunch money into the general public Towards one of the many homeless colonies in the area.

When was the last time the Bucs had such an impressive win? The Chargers appeared to be a playoff team.

They love to play physical ball, and when necessary, their star quarterback will be happy to set up defense. The Bucs simply ran with the Chargers’ own formula.

And the Bucs’ 40 points more than doubled the Chargers’ average points allowed per game.

You want physical ball? As always, Lavonte David was all over the field, with 12 tackles, 1.5 sacks, a tackle for loss, three quarterback hits and a tackle on Chargers receiver Ladd McKonkey, who otherwise had seven points.

Do you want to run? The Bucs had their thunder and lightning, Bucky Irving and Rachaad White.

Do you want the dagger? The Bucs woke up Sunday to find that they still had the best offensive player in franchise history healthy. Mike Evans is him.

Evans blew up the Chargers today. His 35-yard touchdown caught a bullet from Baker Mayfield, man, Joe could just hear Gene Deckerhoff yelling, “Is that a dagger?”

Was Mayfield perfect? No, but he threw a perfect pass to Evans in the third quarter that, if anyone was paying attention, shook up the NFL.

That game, today’s game in Los Angeles, was the most impressive win of the season. In Joe’s eyes, even more than the win in Detroit. The Bucs were almost at full strength in Detroit. The Bucs pulled guys off the couches today to play it safe and were without Chris Godwin.

It was as impressive a win as Joe has seen with the Bucs in a few years, let alone since Bucco Bruce Arians was around.

Every Bucs fan deserves to have a huge hangover tomorrow!

Merry Christmas!