Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be in the NFL playoffs in 2014 if…

If: The pieces come together quickly for an offense with some very familiar names as well as a few new faces.

This past season, the Buccaneers gained the fewest total yards in the league and were dead last in the NFL in passing as well. Tampa’s offensive unit scored only 28 touchdowns while only the Jacksonville Jaguars (247) and Houston Texans (276) totaled fewer points than Tampa Bay (288).

One of the issues was the absence of talented running back Doug Martin. A 16-game starter and Pro Bowlers as a rookie, the team’s second pick in the first round in 2012 ran for 1,454 yards as a rookie. This past season, he missed the final 10 games and obviously saw his rushing production (454) cut by nearly 1,000 yards. His healthy return, along with the presence of Bobby Rainey (team-high 532 yards rushing in ’13) and Mike James and the addition of 2014 third-round draft choice Charles Sims bodes well for the ground attack.

Veteran Josh McCown is the new man behind center and familiar with Smith from both men’s days in Chicago. The journeyman signal-caller had a quite a 2013 filling in for Bears’ quarterback Jay Cutler, throwing 13 touchdown passes and just one interception in eight games this past season. McCown will have quite an array of targets to throw to in veteran Vincent Jackson, rookie wideout Mike Evans (the team’s first-round pick in May) and a pair of tight ends in Brandon Myers (from the New York Giants) and 2014 second-rounder Austin Seferian-Jenkins.

Of course, the Bucs didn’t stop there. With free-agent additions such as left tackle Anthony Collins (Cincinnati Bengals) and center Evan Dietrich-Smith (Green Bay Packers), the team’s new-look offensive line with feature just one starter (right tackle Demar Dotson) from Week 1 of 2013.