Five Things
September 29th, 2025
Baker Mayfield scrambles against the Eagles yesterday. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)
What a bummer of a game. It was bad enough seeing that invasion of Eagles fans. Joe’s good friend Rock Riley, who has been covering the Bucs for some three decades, said it was the largest contingent of visiting fans he’s ever seen. The Sage of Tampa Bay sports, Ira Kaufman, thought 40 percent of the crowd was Eagles fans. Joe thought that was a conservative estimate. Joe remembers in 2023 Lions fans coming out of the woodwork to fill The Licht House. And back in 2010, the Terrible Towel-waving Steelers fans took over the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway. Yesterday was right up there.
Walking up to the stadium, Joe briefly thought he was transported to Philadelphia. The place was that green.
But enough of that. Let’s look back at what may have been yesterday and how that impacts the future.
Atrocious Special Teams
Joe doesn’t know what can be done as October creeps closer and the Bucs begin preparing for a flight to Seattle to play the scrappy Seahawks. But Todd Bowles better spring into action and do something or this is going to Pearl Harbor the Bucs’ season.
The Bucs special teams is downright atrocious.
It’s hard for Joe to type that on the very same day kicker Chase McLaughlin set an NFL record for the longest field goal outdoors, and a Bucs franchise record for longest field goal at 65 yards. Somehow horrible special teams play overshadowed such a magnificent moment in Bucs history.
The blocked Bucs punt on the opening drive ended up dooming Tampa Bay.
Special teams each week has cost the Bucs points: blocked field goal, blocked punts, punting a ball in a close game late right to a return man which sets up a score.
Football people holler about turnovers but you tell Joe which is worse? Special teams screwups that costs a team points or a pick?
This here website has been up and running for 18 Bucs seasons, including all of the putrid Lost Decade. That includes really, really bad coaching. Really bad. But even through those dark days and longer nights, where Joe tried to purge the memories with copious amounts of alcohol, not even in those awful seasons did the Bucs have p!ss poor of special teams play like they have now.
Sure the Bucs had bad kickers, but they didn’t cough up touchdowns every game.
The Bucs hope to make noise in the playoffs. But the only noise folks are on track to hear will be neighbors screaming about the Bucs’ special teams costing a playoff win.
Joe doesn’t know what Bowles has to do to fix this. Maybe he needs to personally sit in on meetings and workouts to resolve this or the Bucs may have to launch backups gagging on special teams and bring in new people off the street.
This pathetic display must end or the Bucs’ season will come to an end — a helluva lot quicker than anyone realizes in late-September.
There is no way the Bucs can battle the injury bug, battle the Dixie Chicks and battle their own special teams and expect to win games.
Baker Mayfield’s Interception Tipped
Joe has often said this and will remind folks: those watching on TV and those watching at the stadium are watching two different games.
Often, folks at home watching on TV get a lot more intel and see a lot more. For example, at the stadium Joe does not always have access to audio of televised games. And TV screens in the press box are difficult to see (think smaller TVs 10-15 feet away in the bright sunshine). And Jumbotrons don’t show everything.
So around midnight someone Twittered Joe and said, “It’s like Bucs fans are reacting like Baker Mayfield’s interception wasn’t tipped.”
It was tipped? Really? That was the first time “this Joe” heard that, even after being in the Bucs’ locker room. Sure enough, the pass was tipped. Barely.
Joe doesn’t know if the tip really meant anything. Chris Godwin was very well covered. The only way Godwin may have been able to catch that ball is if Mayfield threw it so far wide right that Godwin would have had to dive to dig it up.
And no, Joe is not going to rag on Mayfield for that costly pick. If not for Mayfield, the Bucs easily could be 0-4 right now. Sorry, but Mayfield has a lot of street cred built up.
This tipped pass is another example of how when fans watch a game on TV, it’s a different game than at the stadium.
A Bucs Player Makes History
OK, Joe got off the horrid Bucs special teams rant. But all was not terrible.
When Chase McLaughlin lined up for a 65-yard kick, it didn’t kick in (pun intended) the significance of that attempt. Joe did hear Ira Kaufman yelp, “65?”
Joe had binoculars trained on the goal posts. Joe had read where folks think kickers’ footballs are juiced this year so Joe wanted to see how far the kick cleared the crossbar.
Joe initially thought the kick was just a hair short. But then saw the zebras raise their arms. Whoa!
Then later the Bucs sent out a Twitter through their media relations Twitter account. McLaughlin, as it turned out, had the longest outdoor field goal in NFL history.
There is only one field goal longer than McLaughlin’s, Justin Tucker’s kick for Baltimore of 66-yards. That was done in Ford Field, a dome.
Brandon Aubrey of the Cowboys also kicked a 65-yarder last year, but his came in Jerry’s World, which is a dome.
So in the 105 years of the NFL, only one guy has a longer field goal than McLaughlin and that came indoors. That’s pretty cool.
Joe and Ira chatted with McLaughlin in the locker room. Ira told him about the outdoor record. He had no idea. He thought Ira and Joe were pulling his leg.
Anyway, it is pretty cool knowing a Bucs kicker has an NFL record for something good. How many years during the Lost Decade did fans suffer with a steady revolving door of stiffs masquerading as kickers?
What A Difference A Year Makes
Last year the Bucs converted 50.9 percent of their third-down attempts. That was very impressive. So much so it led the NFL.
That’s a good reason why the Bucs had such a good offense. So what we saw on Sunday seemed, well, foreign to Bucs fans. The Bucs converted only 3 of 13 first downs.
That’s a paltry 23 percent. Baker Mayfield and Charlie Heck, among others, bemoaned how the Bucs couldn’t move the ball and score in the first half.
That’s true. The Bucs had but two field goals, one an NFL-record setting 65-yarder. The reason why the Bucs had to settle for those field goals is they couldn’t move the chains.
Joe spoke with Heck and Cade Otton after the game. Both, while strongly complimenting how tough the Eagles defense is, said the Eagles didn’t surprise them with anything. They just played strong defense and too often, the Bucs didn’t match the Eagles’ level.
When a team is not converting third downs, it drives will likely stall and be kept out of the end zone.
Vita Vea Makes Big Impact
Lost amid the angst of the Bucs falling short to the Eagles is that Greg Gaines, Calijah Kancey’s backup, suffered a pec injury. Those are often season-ending injuries. Gaines did and has done a solid job replacing Kancey.
This injury hurts.
The good thing yesterday was that Vita Vea was on fire. Vea had the fifth game of his career with two sacks. So Vea stepped up with a huge game when the Bucs needed him.
His previous two-sack games came at home against Atlanta in December 2021, at home against the Rams in November 2022, at the slimy Saints in October 2023, and at Kansas City in November 2024.
Only the Chiefs game last year and the Eagles game yesterday were losses when Vea had two sacks.
Bonus: Joe wrote last week’s “Five Things” before hearing game audio from the Buccaneers Radio Network. Last week, long-time radio voice of the Bucs, Gene Deckerhoff, missed the Jets game with a health issue. Deckerhoff, 80, was back behind the mic yesterday.
In Deckerhoff’s place last week was Bucs sideline reporter T.J. Rives. While nearly everyone (including Joe many moons ago) thinks being a play-by-play guy is a cinch, it’s actually much, much more difficult. In the clips Joe heard of Rives, he sounded like a seasoned pro.
That is especially impressive because Rives isn’t a regular NFL play-by-play guy, And he came off the bench cold. So Joe doffs his cap to Rives for a solid job in a pinch.
After the Eagles blocked a punt for a touchdown against the Buccaneers, Nick Sirianni ran down the sideline yelling, "I told you, I told you!"
Here is what I think the Eagles were studying and how attention to detailed helped them scheme their way to a blocked punt pic.twitter.com/IHRr4UXCau
— Shawn Syed (@SyedSchemes) September 28, 2025
September 29th, 2025 at 5:28 am
Good recap on a tough game. Special teams have improved in field goals and punt returns. McLaughlin is money. Punting is horrendous and after that shank, not sure I’m interested in hearing anyone talking about directional punting. The blocking is terrible and the punter’s release seems to be slow. That has to be fixed. Kick returns bit the team as well.
Not too upset with Baker’s interception. The read was great. Had room to the right and I missed that the throw was tipped. Godwin was rusty as heck but clearly Mayfield has confidence in him.
Thought Braswell got a sack but apparently I’m delusional. Hopefully the Bucs will do to the Seahawks what the Jags did to the 49ers yesterday.
September 29th, 2025 at 5:44 am
3 blocked kicks in 4 games, 2 of them returned for TDs.
Changes need to be made. NOW
September 29th, 2025 at 5:50 am
So you’re saying that Gaines injured his pec too? So our starter and backup have pectoral injuries? If so that’s absolutely wild…
September 29th, 2025 at 5:51 am
The eagle secondary was grabbing the Bucs wide receivers jerseys on every single passing down. It was just a question how courageous the refs were to call it. Not very.
September 29th, 2025 at 5:58 am
The interception was an ill conceived throw. It happens. Didn’t bother me a bit. Don’t care whether it was tipped or not. What bothers me is the defense turned around and stuffed them and got us the ball back and again we couldn’t do anything with it. That one hurt. You don’t see many teams not be able to hang 200 total yards and their star running back being stuffed to 20 yards rushing and still winning. We are the better team and we lost. I bet the team is pi$$ed off. The next 3 weeks will tell us alot more. I’m still all in.
September 29th, 2025 at 6:09 am
My five things:
1. Todd Bowles needs to seriously think about making some adjustments on Special Teams including canning the coordinator. The number of blocked kicks seems up across the league but the Bucs have had more than their fair share among other issues.
2. I do not think it was in Todd’s gameplan to get boat raced 24-3 during the first 29+ minutes of the game, yet they the Bucs were. The O did not get traction until after halftime. Ditto for the D, last week, they went turtle on D in the 4th, this week they did not wake up until halftime.
3. CB Dean is hurt as predicted, now time for that K-State kid to put him on the bench as he finishes out his career as a Buc.
4. Most people would take 3 dash 1 before the season started and at least the Bucs did not lose to the Giants like the Chargers did or the Niner’s losing to the London Jaguars.
5. The refs called a sloppy game yesterday, it does seem the Bucs do not get the calls and have not since TB12 was QB but I also know Detroit, Cincy, and other small market fans who say the same. 5a. The injury bug has not just hit the Bucs, look who got banged up on the Niners, Chargers, Giants, etc….. It is a tough sport and while the Bucs have had some bad luck, so have other teams.
September 29th, 2025 at 6:11 am
“The Bucs yesterday converted only 3 of 13 first downs. That’s a paltry 23 percent.”
We converted 4-13 last week in a win, this isn’t new it’s been a thing through 4 games. It’s only a thing now, because we lost. We were also kept out of the endzone last week, only scoring 7 points as an offense and only doing enough to kick 5 of 6 FGs. 7-26 combined the last 2 games, that’s 26% conversion. I don’t even have to look to know those are bottom third numbers leaguewide.
“This tipped pass is yet another example of how, when folks watch a game on TV, it’s a different game than at the stadium.”
This is cop out, when you’re struggling to score AND turning the ball over you’re not just shooting yourself in the foot, you’re putting the blunderbuss in your opponents hand. Before yesterday’s game we ranked 29th in redzone scoring for TDs only converting 36% of redzone trips to scores. Playcalling decision making and execution are lacking. Rookie OC & Vet QB, Bowles needs to sit down with both these guys and figure out wtf is going on, cause they’ve been cheeks throughout 4 games. Don’t give me the late game heroics spiel either, as the heroism is partly salvation from themselves.
We’ve got more to fix on offense than we do on defense, which is kind of no
September 29th, 2025 at 6:54 am
There is one big issue-the coaching.
September 29th, 2025 at 6:59 am
the silence surrounding the futility on 3rd down is telling. maybe one of the grizzies can come up with an explanation. i mean super griz can suck playcalling every down except 3rd and we could chalk it up to the fact that he doesnt know what he is doing, cause he never had before. 3rd down i thought would be fine. seems like no.
come on grizzildas, lets have some excuses.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:03 am
It DOES matter that the pass was tipped and it was tipped a “little” because it completely changed the trajectory of the throw, and when you say god was well covered, I call baloney because it is very rare that anyone runs freely. You give your best receivers a chance. This same rule applies to back shoulder fades, 50/50 balls and the such. Bakers likely plan was to put the ball low and outside in the corner of the endzone so that only Godwin had a chance. The tip by Blankenship was simply a better play. There are other plays that had a far more material impact on the outcome. I do AGREE however that in hindsight mayfield could’ve ran for about 5 yards or threw it away. In hindsight. Mayfield however got us to 3-0 by being exactly who he is so yeah, this is akin to getting laid off from your job but having enough money in the bank to last you for two years. He’s earned more than enough equity
September 29th, 2025 at 7:08 am
If Baker dumps the ball off to Bucky who was wide open to his left, he only had one guy to beat to the endzone. I like Bucky’s chances there. I thought Baker waited to long sometimes for a big play down field, when a check down was the right play. Today should’ve been more 2 quick reads, not there dump it off. Three dropped passes that would’ve been first downs was also a problem.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:17 am
The INT happened on first down-just freaking throw it away.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:23 am
The line is getting absolutely blown up on special teams. It happened on all three blocked kicks and even the ones that weren’t blocked. The easiest fix is to put starting o-linemen in there until the backups show they can actually block somebody.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:23 am
It truly is disgraceful that people who are Buc fans for 15 weeks of the season turn on the Bucs when the team where they are from comes to town. Dont root for the Bucs at all we don’t need you or want you.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:25 am
Very sad state of afairs when Native Tampa fans will not or can not support the team. Glazers?
September 29th, 2025 at 7:30 am
I will be surprised if the Bucs still have the same punter next week. Let the auditions begin.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:35 am
I’m at wits end with Otton, not only can’t he block but he can’t seem to hold on to the ball. Payne Durham is garbage. Where is Devin Culp? Special teams coach should be canned. I watched our special teams center on blocks in Texans game n he is garbage. We need to make some changes ASAP. Our rush n pass defense balled out yesterday. Secondary had multiple breakups. When no one’s open, Baker’s got to either run the ball or throw it away. He’s thrown into tight coverage several times since game one but the defenders dropped potential ints. He’s also fumbled without being touched but we recovered it. I’m tired of Dean n can’t get enough of Jacob Parrish, he’s the total package. Let’s give Charlie Heck credit, he played decent.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:36 am
There is a hugh Philly fan base in all of Florida. Today people came out to see the world champs, not the NFC South champs.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:48 am
“That includes really, really bad coaching.” Looking at you Mike Smith.
September 29th, 2025 at 7:54 am
It’s because Philly sucks … in the winter, gray snow abounds.
They love their team and the city so much, so what do they do? They moved to Tampa… or some other much better Florida location. There’s A-holes out on the road that are completely inconsiderate and think their time is more important to yours? A decent percentage of them are probably from Philly (or NY).
Gotta love the northerners and they’re strong team loyalties but they can’t wait to get out of their crappy cities.
Seventh generation native here, so my family is probably been here longer than 99% living here, unless you’re a descendant of the Mocoso or Tocobaga tribes. Never lived out of Tampa bay, I’ve never rooted for a team outside of Tampa Bay other than the Orlando Magic. Bucs are my primary team. No plans of moving to Philly, NYC, Boston, Detroit, Chicago any other horrible place up north (I’ve been to them all).
If Philadelphia has a 4 -13 recordast season and has multiple losing seasons, there’s about 90% less green in Raymond james. This is the Michael Jordan effect, I never saw a Bulls fan anywhere until Michael Jordan started praying for them and winning championship. Suddenly everybody’s a Bulls fan. Bandwagoners are the worst. A bigger number then you would guess of Philly fans probably aren’t really from Philly. I know a guy who’s a big Philly fan who has the loosest connection to Philadelphia through an uncle or something. Pretty sad really. If you’re a fan of a team from the city you’ve never been to, you’re pathetic.
September 29th, 2025 at 8:07 am
“””3 blocked kicks in 4 games, 2 of them returned for TDs.
Changes need to be made. NOW”””
Don’t worry Todd Bowles said he’s going to fix it. After hearing that we’re F’ed.
September 29th, 2025 at 8:14 am
A couple of add-ons to the 5 things:
1. Ya Ya needs to play better. I don’t remember a single impact play from him.
2. I hate to say this but, Lavonte’ needs more help and is slowing down decisively. I’ve seen more tackle whiffs from him in the last 2 games than I have seen in the last 2 seasons prior.
September 29th, 2025 at 8:50 am
We saw a lot of creativity from the Eagles coaching staff. Then they also got a massive boost from the officials. The amount of missed false starts, pass interference, and holding calls was impressive.
Bucky was down and that wasn’t a fumble. It was crazy that they showed a replay that clearly showed his shin was down before his wrist hit the ground. His forward movement had also been stopped as well. If we don’t like either of those rules though a player is down by contact once any body part other than their hands or feet touches the ground. Once down by contact the ground can no longer cause a fumble.
The Bucs need to look at adding some guys through trade or FA.
September 29th, 2025 at 8:58 am
Hodad, agreed.
Seems like we’ve thrown that swing pass 70 times.. except the one time it would have worked.
On another note… Grizzard has had his “preseason”. Time for him to step up. We are abysmal in the first half.
September 29th, 2025 at 9:01 am
All I can say is what ever conversations happened in the locker room at 1/2 time, needs to happen at the beginning of the game LOL! TBH I checked an “L” in the column for this one at the beginning of the season. However was pleasantly surprised the Bucs indeed made a game of it. Even with all the (once again) sloppy officiating a couple of bounces going our way the Bucs woulda had a W! I think we will see the Eagles again this season 😉 Hopefully a lot of the kinks will be worked out by then…
September 29th, 2025 at 9:01 am
Special teams fix starts with the punter. We have to replace him NOW!! Sure there are issues with the blocking that needs to be addressed but better blocking is not going to help a punter who shanks half of his punts. Also don’t we have a better option at right guard. Whatever happened to Michael Jordan. Is he out for the season? What about Feeney? Klein? There has to be a better option then this bum.
September 29th, 2025 at 9:08 am
Logic says it’s time for a new special teams coach! Sorry man, you’re not getting it done!
September 29th, 2025 at 9:35 am
Sure up the punting,, Get Mike and Luke back and we will be more than fine.
3-1 is a good start ,, need to go 500 for a little stretch until we hit the easy part of the schedule at the end of year
September 29th, 2025 at 10:04 am
Most disappointing is lack of burst from Bucky running ball. He has made up for it in catching the ball as he is one of the top receiving backs in the league. His 3.1 yard per rush is almost half of his rushing average compared to last year. The Eagles knew when he was getting the ball and were bring him down after 2 yards. This running game is too predictable. Bucky’s longest rush this year is 16 yards. Also the quick horizontal wide receiver screens to Ebuka were worthless yesterday. Jet sweep when you need 1 yard to convert a first down and get nothing?
Play calling isn’t catching opponents by surprise. Eagles were playing close to line of scrimmage. Only when Baker scrambled and bought time did the Eagles get surprised and were beat deep by Ebuka and Irwin for long TD’s. Bucs have to do more to get respect from D coordinators to make them play back further.
All the passing to the right and left sides of the lines of scrimmage isn’t getting them anywhere. Seeing no slants or tight end seam routes. Offensively the Bucs are miles away from Liam Coan’s playcalling. Grizzard needs to step up and get this offense closer to the execution it had last year. McMillan’s speed is missing, sucks that he is out for 4 more games.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:26 am
3rd down pass to #2 was dropped. Would have been a 1st down and a fg opportunity. The punt block was the next play.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:27 am
The Eagles consistently play dirty, frequently get away with penalties, and yesterday their defensive coach *literally* sent players back out onto the field to fight. How is this not being pointed out or discussed? If you watch closely, the coach clearly tells his players to re-enter the scuffle. Multiple players should’ve been ejected for that. Honestly, the Eagles’ coach should be suspended or even banned — that behavior is completely unprofessional, unsportsmanlike and completely unacceptable to be teaching the kids its ok and encouraged to do watching the game at home…
It’s becoming obvious that the referees — and maybe even the league — are protecting them, just like they did with the Chiefs, Rams, Patriots, and yes, even our Bucs during the COVID year with Brady.
The entertainment value of the NFL is quickly diminishing. No one outside of Philly likes the Eagles — not just because they win, but because of *how* they play and *how* their fans behave. Chiefs fans were at least fun and good-spirited. Eagles fans are just loud, rude, and toxic.
And to be clear — Baker went **3 for 13 on third down**, but there were *at least* five (id argue more) obvious defensive holding penalties that weren’t called. That completely changes the outcome of the game. The refs let the Eagles get away with blatant holds all night. Offensively and Defensively.
The NFL needs to start calling games fairly — or at the very least, stop pretending it’s not rigged. The Bucs win that game easily if penalties are called even remotely evenly.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:28 am
“Play calling isn’t catching opponents by surprise. Eagles were playing close to line of scrimmage“
They know offensively we can’t threaten them with the long ball. Midway through the 2nd quarter it was painfully obvious we were throwin pssses Philly to sit on them and make the tackle as the catch was being made.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:49 am
Having just broke down the ALL22 of the Mayfield INT, Godwin had 10 yards space from his defender when Mayfield threw the ball.
Godwin was not covered.
My Twitter account has screen captures. I might suggest holding declarative statements until reviewing the film.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:50 am
Those “BAY’ chants were really loud on TV. The place was full of fake fans of both teams. They live in the area, pay their taxes here, raise their families here, but have some dumb tie to a northern city they abandoned years ago. They were probably in Eagles gear chanting “BAY” for every Bucs first down.
Losers.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:55 am
Joe, while I agree, I simply cannot believe how many blocked punts and FGs I’ve seen in the first 4 weeks of the NFL season.
September 29th, 2025 at 10:55 am
“ They know offensively we can’t threaten them with the long ball. “
I guess the 77 yard TD to EE and the 72 yard TD were checkdowns.
September 29th, 2025 at 11:23 am
“The interception was an ill conceived throw. It happens. Didn’t bother me a bit. Don’t care whether it was tipped or not. What bothers me is the defense turned around and stuffed them and got us the ball back and again we couldn’t do anything with it”
This has been a theme through 4 games. All that cardiac Bucs garbage it is, this team is sporadic at best. Jets game people talk more about a handful of 4th qtr plays on offense rather than worrying about how we got in that position to begin with. You can literally comb through our 16 quarters of football and see where the offense disappeared, sure we haven’t been hampered by having a bunch of the turnovers, but we’re literally top 10 right now in punts for. So yea stat sheet looks good, but the scoreboard has always told the TRUTH.
It’s not just injuries, don’t give me that BS and some of you were relentless when our defense was hurt and constantly giving up the booty, until they didn’t and when the offense faltered a lot of you just blamed the defense for the offenses problems.
Some of you did it in the Jets game, “oh they let the Jets score in the 4th quarter” while I’m sitting here thinking we scored 7 on offense, 7 on defense and the rest was off Chase. That’s not a sustainable scoring outlook to win football games in the NFL, maybe at your local HS or some junior college somewhere running the power-I, buf not in the NFL.
“I guess the 77 yard TD to EE and the 72 yard TD were checkdowns”
Busted plays genius, furthermore you’re the last person anybody on here is engaging for Xs & Os, you mention Bowles so much you type like a Pokémon talks
September 29th, 2025 at 11:30 am
thats where you’re wrong joe!!!!!!!
you have to rag on baker for that INT!!!!!!
his INT cost us the game…simple as that!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!!
“Other Joe” here. Yes, horrible decision on first down in the red zone. Rookie dumb. But it did not cost the Bucs the game. The Bucs got the ball back again with six minutes left, a mountain of time but the drive wasn’t good. The loss was a lot more than one interception, especially one that didn’t hand the Eagles points. –Joe
September 29th, 2025 at 11:55 am
““Other Joe” here. Yes, horrible decision on first down in the red zone. Rookie dumb. But it did not cost the Bucs the game. The Bucs got the ball back again with six minutes left, a mountain of time but the drive wasn’t good.“
Throwing an INT 11 yards off the line to score, is as bad as fumbling a jet sweep immediately after your defense makes a goal line stand. Saying the offense got it back and did nothing with it is just as bad as the INT, but not worse at all.
September 29th, 2025 at 12:22 pm
I liked the Bucs Band. Sounded like a college atmosphere a little, at times! They should lean more into it and play even more songs throughout the game! Why the hell not!? Be ‘different’ than everyone else. I think it’s a good fit for Tampa Bay, and the whole pirate/buccaneer life!!!!
September 29th, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Our REDZONE Offense is ATROCIOUS. Went from Top-5 in the entire LEAGUE last season, to probably Bottom-5 through our first 4-games this season. Seems-like, we haven’t even been there enough to begin with, to even have the ‘opportunity’ to score a TOUCHDOWN. Just lots AND LOTS of FG’s. And, didn’t we seem to usually ‘cashed-in’ with TOUCHDOWNS on our opening drives last season!? This season… It seems-like, not so much. GOT TO get Bake into an early RYTHYM. TEMPO. FAST PACE. LET’S GO.
September 29th, 2025 at 12:52 pm
NO, not checkdowns….They were scramble drills and hero ball.
NOT successful due to play call, design or execution. 🙄
September 29th, 2025 at 1:03 pm
The thing that is most hurting the Bucs is the lack of a consistent line-up. Players get used to each other through repetition. No such thing is occurring this season. Amazing how the coaching has held it together. The special teams is facing the same type of turmoil. Hopefully the team can hold it together during this upcoming tough schedule.
September 29th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
The arrogant but at least ignorant buffoon obviously thinks very highly of herself. Congratulations, she has a fan group of one.
What a toad.
September 29th, 2025 at 1:14 pm
KABucs….
A-Freakin; -Men!
September 29th, 2025 at 1:38 pm
goneGator is right. the two long shots were nice but especially the one to EE was lucky to not be a pick in to double coverage.
September 29th, 2025 at 1:44 pm
But it did not cost the Bucs the game. The Bucs got the ball back again with six minutes left, a mountain of time but the drive wasn’t good.
thats why i say that INT cost us the game…at that point in the game we were battling not only the eagles but the clock too…
bakers INT didnt result in any points but it allowed philly to chew clock…which is exactly what they did
but whatever, im on to SEA!!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!
September 29th, 2025 at 2:02 pm
And if you had been pulling his leg, I’m sure the refs would not have thrown a flag in this game ………
September 29th, 2025 at 2:12 pm
TJ Rives is a shoe in for the replacement of the greatest play by play radio announcer in the history of the NFL. He deserves a bust in radio broadcast HOF right next to Harry Carey.
September 29th, 2025 at 3:16 pm
They lost because of horrible start and blocked kick. NO TDs in the first half. Had a chance late and had a fumble and an INT.
Like we have heard since elementary school- special teams and turnovers.
I am not worried about the offense, they will get healthy and dominate. The defense made adjustments, blanketed receivers in the second half and did dominate.
I am worried about Seattle though.
September 29th, 2025 at 3:51 pm
I’m not worried about Seattle. Bucs played a game there when Seahawks were red hot and SB bound. Glennon was the Bucs QB. Go look the video recordings up. Bucs won that one, and Pete Carroll (HC) admitted it. Bucs are suffering from injuries, and another greenhorn offensive head coach. They have had 4 in 5 years. That’s nuts. The reason they are 3-1 are the team and its coaches. Except the head offensive coach. He’s a rookie for Pete’s sake. Serious fans know what I’m talking about. Plus, anyone checked out the latest on the Panthers?
September 29th, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Dmatt… wits end with Otten? He caught 3 of the catchable balls thrown to him. His miss was a bad pass. And he’s been blocking well. Durham garbage? 0 targets this year. That’s on Griz. Check out the difference in Coens play calling for the TEs last year. Culp? He’s been inactive until this week and can’t beat the other 2 out. You want him? You should start watching the games or at least have your wife explain what’s happening to you.