Todd Bowles Ready To Roll With Rachaad White And Sean Tucker
October 4th, 2025
Sean Tucker
While Bucs coach Todd Bowles today admitted rookie Josh Williams is green as grass, Bowles himself is not sweating having to go to the bullpen with Rachaad White and Sean Tucker as the main options in the run game.
Of course, Bucky Irving is out with a messed-up foot.
Bowles was asked today about attacking Seattle’s defense with White and Tucker.
“Rachaad [White] and most of them have played before, other than Josh [Williams] — he has not played before,” Bowles said. “Everybody else we have played with before, we think [they] can do a hell of a job, so we feel good about them playing.”
Then, Bowles addressed using Tucker more often, as Joe wrote earlier after pressing Bowles yesterday on Tucker’s usage.
Tucker usage is tricky because when when he is on the field the Bucs are pretty much tipping pitches, which most sane offensive coordinators hate to do.
Tucker struggles in pass protection The last thing the beat-up Bucs need to do is geet Baker Mayfield beat up more. That is a real danger if Tucker is asked to pass block.
Would Joe like to see Tucker get more carries? Sure, on running downs.
October 4th, 2025 at 12:55 am
So, I guess every other RB playing throughout the league, are all great at pass blocking then!? I am not saying that Tucker is “great” at anything, but that just sounds like another BS excuse to me. If he’s good enough, then he’d been ON the field, and they’d find a way. Bottomline… Bowles just coaches way too scared. There is ALWAYS some lame ass excuse that he will find.
October 4th, 2025 at 1:33 am
Tucker will be our 1st 100-yd rushing game of the season.
I’d love to see him take home another NFC Offensive Player of the Week award too.
October 4th, 2025 at 1:35 am
Tucker is our fastest and most explosive RB with the most big play potential.
Facts
October 4th, 2025 at 1:56 am
If any back gets a hondo it’s Rachaad.
October 4th, 2025 at 2:47 am
Tucker got some stats vs a Saints team that quit, and people think he’s a good RB. Meanwhile, did any of you people actually pay attention to what he did after that Saints game when the Bucs tried to feed him the ball more? And no, not talking about some 4th quarter runs when the Bucs were down by 28 vs the Ravens, talking about games like vs the Giants, where the Bucs are in obvious running situations with the lead and Tucker doesn’t do squat, well, unless you like fumbling on the goal line.
Tucker is the 3rd back for a reason, he’s nothing special. With that said, even a guy like Ke’Shawn Vaughn (who is clearly a tier below Tucker to be sure) could get you a 100 yards on a given week.
But the Bucs will hopefully be giving White a lot of carries, since he’s clearly, by far, the 2nd best runner on the team.
October 4th, 2025 at 3:13 am
Captain Obvious
“Rachaad [White] and most of them have played before, other than Josh [Williams] — he has not played before,” Bowles said. “Everybody else we have played with before, we think [they] can do a hell of a job, so we feel good about them playing”
What a weird quote, Todd.
October 4th, 2025 at 4:56 am
Put them both on the field at the same time, as they did with White and Bucky last year….
October 4th, 2025 at 6:09 am
Game blocked in my area again. So I dont care. NFL blackouts are irrational.
October 4th, 2025 at 6:36 am
Williams might be the best of the bunch.
October 4th, 2025 at 6:58 am
I like Tucker. Too bad he is lacking in the all important role of pass blocker. Seems that shortcoming could be fixable as it’s not an inherit talent. It’s something that’s learned.
With all our injuries this week, the most troubling for me is Morrison. He was oft injured at Notre Dame and missed the whole of preseason and Week 1.
And now he’s injured again.
I have trouble defining the true meaning of “injury prone.” Is it someone with a string of bad luck, or someone who declares themself unfit to play with little nicks and minor injuries—— injuries that might have a stronger willed player force the coaches into making them sit out.
“If I can walk I’m playing,” verses “Ouch, I hurt my finger coach. Better sit this one out.”
Dean, in spite of his improved play, comes to mind as a guy who cannot play a full season. Is it bad luck, or is he a guy who wants out when suffering a minor injury? As for Morrison, who knows?
October 4th, 2025 at 7:16 am
Tucker is our fastest and arguably the best north-south runner in the entire RB room. It’s not like we haven’t seen that potential in the preseason for 2 years now, and it’s not like we haven’t seen him show how different he is from Bucky & White. Now we’re looking to use him out of necessity, because our “bell cow” was in a walking boot and crutches this week.
Sane OC? Give me a break, Grizz has gotten rushing reps out of 3 WRs on 4 running plays for a total of 20 combined yards with the long being Egbuka for 9 yards. Bucky is averaging 3.3 yards a rush on 71 carries and we’ve mostly been using White in 3rd down, you know? The down where it’s obvious we’ll need a pass protector.
We’ve been fooling nobody on offense, so this talk of tipping our hands means nothing and and even if that were the case, give Tucker those scripted early game runs. Hell, we just saw a botched flea flicker last Sunday, and this offense is struggling to generate big plays on the ground. Might as well exhaust ALL of our resources. It’s not like teams are going to be game planning to stop Tucker, and leaning on White with Bucky hurt would be more of the same that got Bucky banged up to begin with.
What’s that thing about doing something the same way and expecting different results? Grizz would probably look a little better making sure he’s splitting the carries and approaching the usage of our RBs differently.
October 4th, 2025 at 8:00 am
if you think he’s tipping run go slant that play baker won’t get hit. he makes two tight end sets interesting too. TE could actually get a catch. it’s just like tipping pass when white is in there because defenses know he excels as pass blocker so they lean deeper shot.
October 4th, 2025 at 8:02 am
if bowles realizes he could be tipping runs to tucker he should notice us tipping blitzes. we do that too much. need to be sneakier with body language.
October 4th, 2025 at 8:42 am
Is Feeney going to get a shot at RG? He has had a couple of weeks now to get with the program. He might be more successful there than Merle Haggard’s grandson.
October 4th, 2025 at 9:10 am
Tipping runs?! LMAO who have we fooled on offense?! Sounds like a bs reason in place of no good reason to m
October 4th, 2025 at 10:37 am
Tipping runs is the key to a play-action passing game. It only works if the defense finds a run credible; if they think it’s certain, they’ll sell out, leaving receivers uncovered.
October 4th, 2025 at 11:11 am
Give it a rest already Erik. Looks like we will find out this week about Tucker?
October 4th, 2025 at 6:30 pm
I think Sean Ticker is fully capable of taking over a game if given a healthy Bucs offense line and majority of the carries. Sean is getting either tomorrow. Im rooting for dominant showing from him regardless of the obstacles. Now is your time Sean, show everyone!! Go Bucs!!
October 5th, 2025 at 9:51 am
Tucker is a good outside runner .DONT KEEP SLAMING HIM UP THE MIDDKE GIZ. GET CREATIVE !