“What Is The Grizzard Experience?”
August 7th, 2025
Bucs OC Josh Grizzard.
Joe gets this question a lot from Bucs fans. Some get frustrated with Joe, maybe because they had different ideas in their noggins.
What is the new offense like under Josh Grizzard?
The new Bucs offensive coordinator isn’t dumb. He has an Ivy League degree. And the Bucs offense was superb last season. Why would anyone want to change?
Grizzard sure doesn’t. But what he is doing is adding to the offense and he simplified the motion.
Joe has spoken to several players about this. The following is a nutshell of what the Bucs offense is this fall.
The base offense is the 2024 offense. There will be new tweaks. They are building off what former offensive coordinator Liam Coen built.
For example, think of a huge box. That box is the Bucs 2024 offense. So what Grizzard is doing is taking that box, and adding little boxes on top of the big box. The little boxes include new additions and new plays.
A word Joe has heard a lot from players and coaches is “diverse.” Last year, the Bucs offense was a dink-and-dunk offense, no matter how peeved Coen got at Joe for typing that. Rarely did the Bucs throw passes over 20 yards.
Grizzard, though he doesn’t want to stray from Coen’s offense much, wants more deep passes.
Grizzard thinks the Bucs have the weapons to stretch the field a little more. He wants to be able to use those if a situation presents itself.
So don’t worry. This year’s offense will largely be the same as last year’s. Grizzard just wants to add more tools to the toolbox.
What can we expect to see from the Bucs new OC, AKA "The Grizzard Experience"? ™️😂
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August 7th, 2025 at 7:49 am
The deep shots might have to wait until Wirfs gets back.
August 7th, 2025 at 8:41 am
You play to your strengths. Mike is great in one on one, so take advantage as he’s the main deep ball threat. But he’s usually doubled. While Bake has a rocket for an arm, his touch on long throws isn’t fantastic. Our fastest receiver, Palmer, is hurt and doesn’t run great deep routes. So Grizz’s deep ball plan isn’t clear to me. Maybe Emeka is physical enough to fight for deep balls like Mike?
Personally I like the Bill Walsh offense using our strengths in Bucky and White. Short passes produce high completion percentage, low risk of picks, and low risk of sacks.
August 7th, 2025 at 8:52 am
Everyone thinks you need a fast receiver to go deep. Evans, Godwin, Jalen, the rookie… Design the right play, run the right route, and they can all get open deep.
I like how Evans wasn’t about to give up too much information.
August 7th, 2025 at 8:53 am
whats the beef with liams offense?….who cares if it was dink n dunk(i dont think it was dink n dunk)…it was CONSISTENT…
baker already lead the league in INTs and Fumbles last year….
taking more deep shots will guarantee he’ll lead the nfl in both categories again…no bueno!!!!!
screw the deep shots….heavy on the runs, screens and draws!!!!!…the offenses goal should be for both bucky and white to have at least 1,200 rushing yards
GO BUCS!!!!!
August 7th, 2025 at 9:31 am
Is it pronounced Grizzerd or GrizzArd?
August 7th, 2025 at 9:36 am
Grizz-AHRD from Lizard Lick, N.C.
August 7th, 2025 at 9:37 am
What is considered a deep ball? Over 20 yds. 30? I think it is situational , and I hear the QB and OC say that a lot. You have to try to push the ball down the field or the LB’s and DB’s will cheat and try to jump the underneath routes. Unless you have an under/over throw and a safety is coming over to help it’s usually complete, incomplete or PI if it’s single coverage unless the DB make a great play on it.
August 7th, 2025 at 10:06 am
Keep the defense off balance with the threat of the deep ball – but mainly keep the offense the same. Agree that more deep shots leads to more ints, sacks, and fumbles. Don’t get cute. Play to your strengths – but have long ball plays here and there and when needed (like end of game must have scores).
August 7th, 2025 at 11:05 am
It just seemed like a lot of times last year that Baker was having to duck and dodge some defensive player flying past the line of scrimmage, it bought him some time to do a dink and dunk…. hopefully they can develop a clean pocket so long shots can happen more often this year
August 7th, 2025 at 1:00 pm
if new wrinkles means mike gets 13 or 1400 yards i’m all for it. otherwise a repeat of last years offense is fine with me.
August 7th, 2025 at 5:46 pm
A word Joe has heard a lot from players and coaches is “diverse.” Last year, the Bucs offense was a dink-and-dunk offense, no matter how peeved Coen got at Joe for typing that. Rarely did the Bucs throw passes over 20 yards.
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I don’t think that was true before Sucke was forced into a starting role, and out of necessity they had to have Baker get rid of the ball quickly – and the entire offense really seemed to take off. When they did throw deep, the issue was Baker, he’s just not accurate on longer passes – certainly not compared to dink and dunk, and frankly teams couldn’t stop the Bucs, so why change?
To be clear, regardless of success you should still take deep shots to keep the defense honest, and you should hit a few of them, but the Bucs were moving the ball at will most of the season, and probably the top drive killer was dropping back for long passes that ended up losing yards, or at least no gaining yards.
August 7th, 2025 at 6:17 pm
We obviously have the WR talent for more deep shots, but as has been noted, Baker is not as consistent on those. I think the wrinkle is this regard could be as simple as just taking another 2-3 deep shots per game, and I’m fine with that.