Payne Durham Talks Josh Grizzard’s Offense
July 23rd, 2025
Peek at new Bucs offense.
This stands to reason, but rest assured Bucs fans, it doesn’t appear new Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard plans to tinker with success all that much.
Joe doesn’t care who a new offensive coordinator is, he’s going to be a different guy than his predecessor, a different coach. Of course, he’ll have his fingerprints on a new offense to some degree.
Joe spoke with Bucs tight end Payne Durham after practice today. He needed a few brief moments from the meat locker the Bucs have beside the practice fields to cool off. Durham was gracious with his time and Joe asked Durham how much change is coming to the league’s fourth-highest scoring offense from 2024.
“You can tell the coaches have been grinding,” Durham said, adding, yes, there will be changes. But Grizzard sure doesn’t want to wander far from last year’s success.
Joe asked Durham if it would be fair to suggest the 2024 offense will be Grizzard’s base offense. Durham said that is a fair assessment.
July 23rd, 2025 at 11:10 am
The biggest change I would like to see: LIAM COHEN FAILING BECAUSE HE’s A BUM.
July 23rd, 2025 at 11:33 am
This is what I’ve been saying. The “system” is overrated. I’d rather have a bad system and a good coach than the other way around. The coach is the system.
By everything we’ve heard and read, Grizzard is a bright offensive coach. Seems to me the growing pains will be based on how fast he can get used to calling every play every game. I kind of expect a few delay of games early in the season.
July 23rd, 2025 at 11:43 am
He may turn out to be a good player for the Bucs.
July 23rd, 2025 at 11:53 am
Liam was a very good OC for Tampa so I don’t see him as a failure in Jacksonville. The Jax don’t have the receiving core like the Bucs, so it will be interesting to see how they perform.
Will they perform like the 2024 Bucs or improve over the 2024 Jax. I see them as an improvement year over year.
July 23rd, 2025 at 11:58 am
Since Grizzard was a 3rd down specialist why not have an offense where first down is approached with a 3rd down mentality?
July 23rd, 2025 at 12:08 pm
I hope Grizzard don’t go conservative when the game is in it final quarter. I don’t know if Coen didn’t trust Baker in the 4th quarter. But it seems like he would always run the ball more with the game on the line. I hope Grizzard will be more aggressive with the game on the line.
July 23rd, 2025 at 12:16 pm
@Allen—-
Hope you are correct on the Jacksonville receiving corp.
Personally, I think that 1 – 2 punch of Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr is going to be a stud receiving group for years.
July 23rd, 2025 at 12:32 pm
Geno I agree.
Thomas Jr was my favorite receiver last year and Hunter is stupid talented.
If Coen can’t get Lawerence to perform now, nobody can.
Hoping he does well, regardless of what he did to us.
We are better off for it.
July 23rd, 2025 at 1:05 pm
Grizz had a bigger hand in last years offense than is let on I believe, he certainly knows that system inside out and has put his own tweaks into it. I see him as Carroll Shelby putting together the race car that beat Ferrari, a great big loud-a** 427 big block GT40 Bucs offense.
July 23rd, 2025 at 1:10 pm
There’s really no way to know how the new offense will perform until the regular starts.
July 23rd, 2025 at 4:51 pm
Continuity in system is fine, but Grizz better change enough that it’s still fresh. The league catches up in a hurry and I don’t want another Leftwich situation of resting on last year’s playbook.
July 23rd, 2025 at 7:12 pm
Baker talks about the offense changes in his interview with the Kelces.
SUPER INTERESTING STUFF:
>Grizz was a coach in Miami.
>Grizz helped develop the motion concepts that got Hill wide open.
>Grizz is developing similar concepts for Evans
This becomes especially interesting because Evans torched guys in practice today. It’s also interesting because Hill petitioned to become a Buc during the offseason.