Cody Mauch Has A Knee Injury
September 17th, 2025
Right guard Cody Mauch
Oh, boy.
Ironman Bucs right guard Cody Mauch is injured. Todd Bowles confirmed this afternoon that Mauch has a bad knee and he missed part of practice today if not all of it.
Bowles said it’s unclear if Mauch can play Sunday in the home-opener against the Jets at The Licht House.
The official injury report, as required per league rules, will be issued this afternoon.
Joe is in need of therapy.
It’s obvious right tackle Luke Goedeke and left tackle Tristan Wirfs won’t play Sunday, and Graham Barton and Ben Bredeson already are not in their usual positions. Damn, if second-year man Elijah Klein starts for Mauch, then the Bucs’ offensive line, the jewel of the franchise, won’t have one cog in its rightful place against the sorry Jets.
September 17th, 2025 at 12:38 pm
yikes
September 17th, 2025 at 12:41 pm
I watch the game again and I saw him limping not surprised by this report.
September 17th, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Run the ball! Keep Baker healthy. They can beat the Jets that way but even if the Bucs go vanilla and lose three straight the easy schedule at the end can bail them out.
September 17th, 2025 at 12:43 pm
Going to have to scratch and claw for this one.
Wirfs for sure not playing? Will they test out chunkimura or however you spell it?
September 17th, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Let’s look at our opponent. Justin Fields, QB for the Jets, is listed as questionable.
September 17th, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, 🥴
September 17th, 2025 at 12:49 pm
When it rains
It pours….
September 17th, 2025 at 12:55 pm
Eff
September 17th, 2025 at 12:55 pm
If Mauch misses multiple weeks that turns the offense into a 4-alarm fire. I saw enough of the backup group in preseason to know the Bucs won’t be making chicken salad out of that chicken s**t.
If they claw out a win on Sunday that might be the last one until the starters come back. Following the Jets are the Eagles, Seahawks, 49ers and then the Lions.
The Philly defensive front facing *any* makeshift offensive line will be a problem no OC will have answers for. Following that I wouldn’t bet against Mike McDaniel and the Seahawks coming up with some nightmare for them either.
It’s early, but this is the last game before the teeth of schedule hits, so they need to find a way to hit 3-0 doing whatever it takes.
September 17th, 2025 at 12:56 pm
Begs the question that even though injuries happen is there a reason why the Buccaneers apparently have more than the average?
September 17th, 2025 at 12:56 pm
It always seems like the depth of one particular unit for this team gets tested early each season, and frustratingly enough, it always seems to be the thinnest of the team. Last year it was the secondary, before Licht & company wisely shored it up this past draft.
September 17th, 2025 at 12:57 pm
Sit him, we don’t want the same thing happening to him that happened to Goedeke last week and Evans last year where we played them when we shouldn’t have and instead of of just missing the one game, they got re- injured and missed multiple ( if the reports on Goedeke are true).
September 17th, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Players didn’t miss games at this rate the early 2000’s or even 90s. No one plays in preseason anymore, hits in practice anymore – this is what happens. As a result, the actual QUALITY of the product goes to shi. The Bucs will run the ball 40 times, Mayfield will get sacked 5 times anyway and it will be a punt fest. Outstanding, can’t wait for such elite level of play
September 17th, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Oh boy is right.
Don’t need early MVP chants for Baker right now, need to rest him and play Teddy behind this line!
Barton – Jordan – Brederson – Klein – Heck/Chukwama
Yikes.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:02 pm
Man! We can’t catch a break! Now I really wish we had somehow been able to keep Hainsey and Skule. Get the helmets strapped and get ready to go Klein and Chukwuma. Any decent FA help available? Dang it man! Has anyone seen Opeta? Is he healthy enough to play?
Go Bucs!
September 17th, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Anybody who pays attention to details saw that Mauch was limping pretty badly in the 2nd half of the Monday night game…..
Cody played through it – so I expect he will play again next Sunday…..
How much are his abilities compromised by the sprained knee? – is the question I guess……
Goedeke tried to play on a hurt foot Monday night and made the injury worse – now expected to miss “multiple weeks”. I hope the same thing doesn’t happen to Mauch if he insists on playing this week…..
September 17th, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Could we move Heck to guard and Chukwuma to right tackle?
September 17th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Gofortheface… I tend to agree.
The hard part to quantify is those 90s guys and early 2000s were probably taking months off in the offseason partying etc. The around the calendar body work wasn’t happening by most guys then. Athletes have only gotten bigger, stronger, faster in the last 30 years.
A lot of factors that make a reason for these injuries tough to pin down. It’s certainly a problem and the league has not had a better product the last 10 years.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Man, they need to be real careful with how use baker the next two games. Id rather lose one or two of these being cautious than risk having baker get murdered. Nobody wants to see a fully season of Teddy throwing murder balls.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:19 pm
this news sucks but relax people….
its the Jets lol…i know, “on any given sunday” but c’mon, its the Jets lol…
i think Barton – Jordan – Brederson – Klein – Heck/Chukwama are good enough for us to beat the Jets…
GO BUCS!!!!
September 17th, 2025 at 1:20 pm
Heck is 6’8”
If he’s at guard Baker can’t see over him.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:25 pm
@813bucboi
Yeah I agree, it’s the Jets so we’ll probably (hopefully) come out with a dub.
That group you just listed though, man, I wouldn’t call them ‘good enough’ to do a whole lot.
Feel for Baker man, and the big boys in the trenches. Hopefully with a full week of practice in the gameday positions (if we can somehow escape with no more damage) they will get better.
The burning question on my mind though: Will Cade Otton make use of his brick hands and play some OLine (I’m aware I was high on the Otton hype train, I have since hit the film room and changed my tune)
September 17th, 2025 at 1:29 pm
All backup offensive line. Baker is going to be running for his life.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:29 pm
It’s ridiculous how many players are injured. Good luck on Sunday. They’re going to need it.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:31 pm
Pretty insane we’ve been winning with such massive o line hits and changes. The lines done decent given all that. I believe in Licht. I think it’s time the defense creates some turnovers / help carry the team a bit more this week
September 17th, 2025 at 1:33 pm
The Bucs oline was incredibly healthy last season so its not surprising this is happening these things go in waves- hopefully this group can hold it down well enough to find a way to win no matter how ugly, and in a few weeks we see Wirfs back ( and Goedeke later), and, of course, avoid any additional injuries in the interim.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Klein is not bad. Rest Mauch and perhaps he comes back next week. Jets are not world beaters!
September 17th, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Look at that head. He doesn’t need knees. Block with your head.
September 17th, 2025 at 1:43 pm
Take the under for sure…
September 17th, 2025 at 1:52 pm
I feel like when we’re a little thin in a positiongroup, that is the position that gets injured like crazy. Watch, Dean and the rest of the secondary will be perfectly healthy all year. Now we’re getting killed in the trenches.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:00 pm
COACH OF THE YEAR: KEVIN CARBERRY, OL Coach
With Mauch in, the Bucs had 1 of 5 OL starters playing in position.
With Mauch is out, the Bucs have 0 of 5 OL starters playing in position.
Yet, the OL keeps doing okay. Great job, coach!
Won’t surprise me if the Bucs draft 2x OL next year.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:05 pm
The #1 trait for Super Bowl success is health.
:sigh:
September 17th, 2025 at 2:06 pm
This is where Carberry earns his money and respect. A lot of teams go through position changes at OL and injuries, it just usually isn’t an entire OL. Keep protections simple if they’re not up to it, limit swings, etc. Whatever it takes to make sure Baker has time. Griz has to have screens, checkdowns, and tempo changes to make up for this deficiency. This is all about coaching as long as you have above average play from the OL.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:10 pm
Time for Bowles to resign Trask just so he can bench all the starters and play nothing but backups to keep Baker healthy.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:14 pm
Seems like the Bucs need to load up the practice squad with more D and O linemen . Wonder if Desmond has lost any weight? lol.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:15 pm
We need our bye week now lol
September 17th, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Saskbucs Says:
September 17th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Gofortheface… I tend to agree.
The hard part to quantify is those 90s guys and early 2000s were probably taking months off in the offseason partying etc. The around the calendar body work wasn’t happening by most guys then. Athletes have only gotten bigger, stronger, faster in the last 30 years.
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Seriously, dude, STFU. You are so uneducated on the subject but still feel the need to insert your worthless opinion. Athletes have been getting bigger, stronger, faster at an exponentially faster rate since the 70’s. Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, and Bruce Smith were just some of the freakish athletes of the 80’s that could have competed and dominated in any era. The 1985 offensive line for the OSU Buckeyes averaged 300 lbs across the board, this after the 1966 NFL Champion Green Bay Packers barely had anybody over 250. Nobody would have known how clueless you are until you opened your mouth. Thanks for clearing that up for us.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Seriously, if you’re down three starting offensive lineman – don’t play Baker this game, and don’t play Evans or DoubleE with Teddy ‘Hospital Ball’ Bridgewater out there.
I’m not even joking. People thinking the Jets suck, and they’re a JV team – well not on defense. Putting Baker out there behind a train wreck line like that would be irresponsible.
If the Bucs do end up in this situation, they had better just plan on handing the ball off, and if Baker throws, it needs to be from shotgun and every play needs to be designed to get the ball out in under 2.5 seconds – no holding the ball, no running around, just dump the ball off before he can get blasted.
Man, I’m still really hoping maybe Wirfs surprises the world and is ready to go. BTW, if Wirfs is ready to go, do you keep Barton at LT and put Wirfs back at RT for a game or two?
September 17th, 2025 at 2:16 pm
Unfortunately not surprised…saw this man jogging/running on the field a few times throughout the game and he looked like he was fighting some serious pain
September 17th, 2025 at 2:20 pm
Sask – disagree. The avg weight of both defensive lines and offensive lines are about the same, in the 2000’s and 2020’s by like a pound. Society in general may be bigger because of evolution and processed commercialized food, so kids and young adults nowadays are generally fat pieces of crap. But that’s beside the point – athletes in the 90s still lifted religiously doing the major compound lifts. Squats/deads/bench – exercises btw that are still the most effective by far to this day. Tom Brady’s book is a bunch of snake oil BS. ANYway, if using your example of athletes partying more back then were true, then it stands to reason that they would be more susceptible to injury. The key difference is that bodies are hardened by being “football ready” with actual hitting. 2 a days, tackling drills – things the good ol players union negotiated out. Same thing is happening int with the NBA with the fairy loader management stuff – it is literally having the OPPOSITE effect of keeping players healthy
September 17th, 2025 at 2:26 pm
I feel like the whole training camp updates and podcasts rumblings on how BAD the 2nd string was, was a foreshadowing. A sick twisted foreshadowing
September 17th, 2025 at 2:28 pm
The question is which back-up O-line is the better choice?
Chuckwuma at LT or Klen at RG?
Chukwuma looked pretty solid at LT during the preseason.
Klein also played Center during preseason.
Maybe let Klein start at Center. Move Bredeson back to LG and play Jordan at RG?
OR – Play Chukwuma at LT and move Barton back to Center. Bredeson plays LG and Jordan plays RG…
It will be interesting to see how this all works out this Sunday.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:29 pm
It could be worse that was a hard fought game on Monday.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:35 pm
at this rate might need to fly in some sumo wrestlers.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:39 pm
Marine Buc – Klein looked terrible in the preseason, I’d be very very worried for the safety of Baker if he’s in there playing next to Heck. I’m not even joking, I’d sit Baker for a game over putting him behind those two. I’m not giving up on Klein, the Bucs were trying him out of position at center when he clearly wasn’t ready – just giving him reps I think to try to speed up his progress – but he did not look good.
I don’t know if the Bucs can resign Majors yet since they did an injury settlement, but based off the preseason play I saw, if they can bring back Majors and he’s ready to go, I’d put him at center, move Bredeson back to guard, and flip Johnson to the other guard. That still leaves Heck at RT, but maybe with some more reps he’s better this week, and it’s worth noting Heck looked OK in preseason games vs Klein who looked terrible in preseason (but again, he was out of position).
September 17th, 2025 at 2:46 pm
Not Johnson, I meant Jordan…
Who, BTW, was put back on the practice squad after the game? Huh?
I’m not sure what trickery is going on with the roster, but that’s an odd move, he just played the entire game and in theory someone could pick him off the Bucs PS – although I think the Bucs do have the chance to sign him in that case. Anywho, just an odd move, but probably just some technical reason for doing it.
For those that care, Jordan had the highest offensive lineman rating for the Bucs on PFF, while Heck had, by far, the worst rating.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:47 pm
Whew this is getting bad
September 17th, 2025 at 2:47 pm
Once it happens it is hard to recover….I have had one for 50 years….it was never the same again…wish him luck.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:48 pm
MikeBuc always wondered about that….
September 17th, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Munch I also thought Jordan did well.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Looking at some more of the PFF stats…
White was tied with Jordan for the best pass blocking score (80.3) while Buck was the worst on the team in pass blocking (8.2).
Heck had a 30.4, which is really bad, but at least he was pretty consistent, being awful at both pass blocking and run blocking, although getting a better run block score.
Barton had a rough game according to the stats, and that lines up with what my eyes saw.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Regarding your last line Joe, 2 things came to mind when I read that …
1 – If we play Klein at RG to go with Barton, Jordan, Bredeson & Heck … and win … we’d probably have done something that no other team has done in, oh maybe forever. FIVE OLinemen out of position, with 3 being backups?
2 – Keeping Heck, Klein & Chukwuma as the 3 backup OLinemen when we cut down to the 53-man roster seems short-sighted now doesn’t it. Heck has the most experience by far, and he’s struggled big-time. Klein has gotten a total of NINE offensive snaps in TWO full years with us. Chukwuma has ZERO offensive snaps & is what was always termed ‘A PROJECT’.
At this rate Joe, you won’t be the only Buc fan in need of therapy.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:54 pm
This is getting ridiculous right now.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:56 pm
Chukwuma to LT, then move Barton back to Center and slide Bredeson to the RG spot.
September 17th, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Yikes – what’s Demar Datsun doing?
September 17th, 2025 at 3:09 pm
SlyPirate Says:
September 17th, 2025 at 2:00 pm
COACH OF THE YEAR: KEVIN CARBERRY, OL Coach
With Mauch in, the Bucs had 1 of 5 OL starters playing in position.
With Mauch is out, the Bucs have 0 of 5 OL starters playing in position.
Yet, the OL keeps doing okay. Great job, coach!
Won’t surprise me if the Bucs draft 2x OL next year.
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Ssssh. I don’t want any recognition for Carberry. I about threw my beer at the TV when they showed him on the broadcast talking about him. We do not want this guy getting poached.
September 17th, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Not surprised, saw him in pain late in the game.. hope hes okay
September 17th, 2025 at 3:26 pm
@ Rod
I agree.
I am not thrilled with starting either Chukwuma or Klein but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I liked Majors at Center in the preseason but I highly doubt the Bucs will re-sign and make him our starting Center this Sunday…
Like I said – it’s going to be interesting to see how they handle this situation.
September 17th, 2025 at 3:33 pm
“MikeBuc always wondered about that….”
Hey at least it takes time to run around a sumo wrestler.
September 17th, 2025 at 3:37 pm
Jags already tried to poach him and the Bucs put the kabosh on that. He is under contract and they gave him more money. He can only be signed away by way of a promotion to (head coach , OC,DC ) and of course more money so not worried about him.
September 17th, 2025 at 3:42 pm
if he was so baanged up then he would of come out last game when the injury happened, especially now as we really need him
September 17th, 2025 at 3:45 pm
At this point I think its best to move guys back to their original position. Barton at C, Bredeson at LG, Put in Chukwarma and Hack at each tackle spot and have Micheal Johnson at RG if Mauch is injured.
September 17th, 2025 at 3:53 pm
Well, if we go to the Superbowl, no one can claim we did it the easy way.
September 17th, 2025 at 4:12 pm
ATT this point we should just plug Klein into RG making the least change.
September 17th, 2025 at 4:16 pm
Joe said in his opening statement the Jets are Sorry. We may all feel this way BUT….Our 100% for sure win is starting to lose a little luster. Hell Yes, I’m worried. This backup Taylor guy at QB does the unexpected, and he can run.
And it seems like every day I wake up, we’ve got another injury. I smell a trap game if we don’t take these guys really seriously. Please hurry up and get here Sunday before we have yet another injury.
September 17th, 2025 at 4:17 pm
My crystal ball sees lots of 2 & 3 tight end sets…..
September 17th, 2025 at 4:25 pm
I’m sure a plan is already in place. I’m concerned about how serious Cody’s injury is and whether or not he will require surgery ? If Cody is sidelined the Bucs may have to sign an additional O lineman or 2 !!
Go Bucs !!
September 17th, 2025 at 4:32 pm
Marine Buc – Like I said, I don’t even know if they can sign Majors as it was an injury settlement, and they can’t be resigned for a certain number of weeks, but based on the preseason I’d 100% sign him off the street and start him over playing Klein. But, again, to be fair to Klein they mostly played him out of position at center, but man, he was pretty bad – but if he does play, being back at guard, hopefully we see some big time improvements. Also, something I should keep in mind, is how incredibly bad Cappa looked in preseason in his second year when he was being counted on to start – he was terrible, but once the games were played for real, he turned out to be really solid, so perhaps that’s what they see with Klein as well.
September 17th, 2025 at 4:55 pm
BUCS HINT THAT MAYBE THIS WILL BE THE WEEK THEY REVEAL RYAN JENSEN’S ACTUAL INJURY.
September 17th, 2025 at 5:37 pm
Only the Bucs can go from one of the best youngest O-Lines in football to after only 2 games have everyone of them playing different positions with back ups everywhere!! Least we’re 2-0 at this point…got to dig deep and pull off another miracle late game win, and hopefully by Eagles game some come back, Wirfs being most important
September 17th, 2025 at 5:40 pm
Time to give Chukwuma the keys and let him play so you can determine what you have……….
September 17th, 2025 at 5:42 pm
Hainsey is rocking a 77 pff through two games
September 17th, 2025 at 7:03 pm
I care about making the playoffs. Do that and THEN we can start talking about SB’s.
Currently the Bucs are in the catbird seat. Only 2 games in though and that could disappear. Health seems to be the MAJOR issue!
Figure a way to lie, steal, cheat, whatever to scrape by a pathetic Jets team also challenged by injuries but super motivated by a good young coach. Win that game and then plan for survival until the Bye week.
That comes with only two more games against “favored” teams on the road at Buffalo and LA. The remaining five are all winnable games. They won 6 of 7 lasst season with a weaker team…well depending on where injuries leave the Bucs.
Bottom line BEAT THE JETS!