“Got To Be Aggressive”
December 7th, 2025
Talks game-winning stop.
YaYa Diaby is starting to rise to the occasion.
The Bucs’ edge rusher has a sack in each of the Bucs’ last two games. He now has six this season. With five games left, if YaYa isn’t careful, he may just hit double-digit sacks.
Naturally, it would help if the rest of the defense played on fire like Diaby seems to most of the time. The big problem with the Bucs losing three straight and registering a flaccid three-point win over a garbage team like the Cardinals is largely because the Bucs’ defense was, well, sad throughout the month of November.
Bucs coach Todd Bowles seemed fed up when he unloaded on his defense just before they took the field on Arizona’s final drive last week.
The Bucs got a rare four-and-out and it was time for the victory formation.
YaYa said the film of last week’s win showed him a major difference in play on that final stop.
“Everybody wanted it,” YaYa said. “That last drive, we knew we had to get that one. Watching the film [of the final stop], you could tell how bad everyone wanted it.”
Joe heard Bowles challenged the Bucs’ defense on that last stand. YaYa had a different version.
“Got to be aggressive, that’s all,” YaYa said of Bowles’ message. “Not to let them come back. That’s all it was, aggressiveness.”
Well, Joe hopes the defense is as aggressive against the slimy Saints today as it was the first time the teams played this season in Lincoln’s Tomb. The Bucs offense struggled that day but the defense sure didn’t.
The defense dominated so much in that game, Antoine Winfield had two touchdowns stolen from him by the zebras and still the Bucs locked down New Orleans.
Seeing that same defense return today would be welcome.
December 7th, 2025 at 12:46 am
So he could see the difference on the LAST drive? Does he not see that that’s the actual problem?
December 7th, 2025 at 1:11 am
So basically, the entire rest of the game, the defense didn’t want it?
Only at the last drive of the game when they get chewed out is when they wanted it?
This team has issues man.
December 7th, 2025 at 1:29 am
So, Yaya is telling everyone that he and many of his fellow defenders did not want “it” through the first 58 minutes of the Cards’ game. That is telling. I guess the talks by Baker and LVD were tuned out by Yaya and his crew. Yaya should be balling out 110% each play if he wants to get that big pay day like his buddies Zyon and Winfield have. Of course, both have played well below their potential since getting the fat contract, so I hope Jason thinks long and hard before he rewards anyone on the D with another contract extension.
December 7th, 2025 at 4:45 am
Putting Zion and Winfield in the same category is unfounded. Winfield is
is where he is supposed to be making sacks,getting Int’s and as Joe pointed out robbed of td’s. Zyon usually isn’t. When I see Ya Ya way downfield near the endzone with Zion trying to cover a receiver I ask myself how and why does
Ya Ya have to cover a receiver on the opposite side of the field.
December 7th, 2025 at 6:19 am
“Everybody wanted it.” Sounds like that is the exception and not the rule.
December 7th, 2025 at 7:26 am
Maybe this is week that Braswell starts “shocking the world.” Signs point to No.