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Bucky Irving And Production After Contact

June 23rd, 2025

Leader of YAC.

One thing that drove Joe nuts about Rachaad White’s running (or not running) was his lousy YAC numbers.

White was dreadful at breaking tackles and seemingly worse at avoiding defenders. He’d miss a wide-ass open hole Joe could drive his Bill Currie Ford F-150 through to get decent yardage.

(In the open field on pass plays, White was dynamite.)

Bucky Irving had no such issues. It seemed he thrived on bouncing off defenders and making dudes miss. In fact, per the crowd at The 33rd Team, no back was better at YAC than the talented Bucs rookie.

Bucky led the NFL with over four yards per carry after contact. That’s impressive for such a smallish dude.

Joe is stoked for what Bucky could do behind such a good offensive line after a year of experience.

This Bucs offense ought to be a lot of fun again.

 

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One Response to “Bucky Irving And Production After Contact”

  1. Rod Munch Says:
    June 23rd, 2025 at 1:31 am

    White improved his yards after contact from 2.3 to 3.1 – it helps when you’re not just running up the middle in predictable situations.

    Really cannot overstate how good that Coen scheme was. Lets just hope boy genius is as smart as everyone says he is and doesn’t break the offense the way Leftwich broke the offense after Arians retired, as Byron was going to show everyone how smart he was and how Bruce was holding him back.

    To be clear I’m not down on Gizzard at all, just concerned with the media fluff around him talking about how he’s a genius – young guys in that situation get themselves in a ton of trouble since they think they got something to prove. Hopefully that’s not the case, and I certainly think Bowles will be all over that – regardless of my issues with Bowles awful zone defense, he’s been pretty amazing at picking OCs.

 

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