Josh Grizzard: Offensive Players Not Rattled By Losing
December 24th, 2025
“Ready to rock.”
Many Bucs fans grow angrier by the week. And Joe cannot blame them.
At one point this season, the Bucs were 5-1. The No. 1 seed in the playoffs looked like a real possibility. The NFC South appeared to be a cakewalk. Baker Mayfield was in the running for MVP.
Then the floor caved in.
Mayfield has imploded. The Bucs are on the cusp of watching the playoffs on the couch just like you and Joe. The team is in shambles and disarray. The Bucs have now lost six of their last seven games since the bye and seven of their last nine games.
Bucs fans are outraged and demand change. Joe cannot blame them one bit.
To hear Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard talk today, losing is not affecting the offense. On face value, that doesn’t seem to be a good look. However, Grizzard said, the reason offensive players aren’t triggered by the losing is they don’t have time to dwell on the losses.
Almost immediately, Grizzard said after the Bucs return to One Buc Palace after a game, the next week’s game is in full focus.
“When you come out to a practice on a Wednesday or a Thursday, you don’t really feel the loss from the [previous game],” Grizzard said. “We’re going through the next portion of the gameplan [for the next game].
“So the juice is up. … These guys have a lot of juice. There is a lot of veteran leadership on this team. We’re ready to rock.”
Joe doesn’t know how to take this. Joe gets what Grizzard is trying to say. Players have to lock in on the next game and push away the memory of a loss.
Then again, as Bucs coach Todd Bowles famously said a few weeks ago in an f-bomb-filled rant after the loss to the Dixie Chicks, until the Bucs feel the sting of a loss, feel the hurt of a loss, they may not be passionate enough and not detest losing enough to prevent losing the next game.
What Grizzard described is sort of the vibe Joe got in the locker room Tuesday. Joe didn’t see anyone hollering or cussing or throwing a chair. No one bitter (that Joe could see) over choking away another game, this time to Carolina.
Business as usual. We’re on to Miami.
And maybe, that’s the problem with the Bucs.
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December 24th, 2025 at 1:41 pm
That is called apathy and it is rampant on the Bucs.
They don’t care if they win or lose as long as they get paid.
Todd and Jason created this culture through their leadership or lack thereof.
Drafting nice guys and not holding anyone accountable created this team.
December 24th, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Loser’s mentality these bucs are puppies
December 24th, 2025 at 1:46 pm
Jason would never have drafted Warren Sapp or traded for Keyshawn.
Dudes are maniacs and held their teammates to the highest standard on the field. You may not like them, but they would transform this lazy and soft team in a second.
The more I read on Jason and Coen. You get the feeling Jason did not want Liam around cause that would have been the end of the road for Licht. Coen is an alpha that Jason fears.
December 24th, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Are they pissed? Is anyone beside Evans fighting right now?
December 24th, 2025 at 1:53 pm
Extend Baker now ,,, I was thinking 3 year 50 mil a year 2 months ago,,, now I’m thinking 3 year , 40 mil,,, so basically baker lost 30 mil due to Bowles
December 24th, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Not rattled because most don’t give a @#$%
December 24th, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Jason Licht’s choir boys are a bunch of losers.
What GM takes 33% of draftees off the board bc feelings?
None. JL put this mess together and he gets the blame.
December 24th, 2025 at 2:02 pm
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I guess they are used to it
1-6
December 24th, 2025 at 2:10 pm
“So the juice is up. … These guys have a lot of juice. There is a lot of veteran leadership on this team. We’re ready to rock.”
By veteran leadership, that doesn’t include him. Pretty much everybody but he and the rookies.
December 24th, 2025 at 2:11 pm
YES WE CAN SEE THAT!
December 24th, 2025 at 2:15 pm
What’s going on with the Bucs players, coaches, front office and owner? I don’t see anything changing, just silence and mouthing platitudes.
Mayfield was being called out as MVP but is now nothing more than an afterthought on a floundering team.
The real story is not being told. Sad to see such potential falling apart.
December 24th, 2025 at 2:27 pm
I too miss some of the a$$holes we used to have on this team. I would always watch Sapp and Brooks before the game tossing the ball back and forth. Both threw decent passes and caught each pass typically with one hand and I always marveled at their athleticism and though Brooks was all business on the field, he was a tough player. Sapp? We all know what he was. Intimidating. Fast. Tough. Trash talker. Backed it up. We haven’t had anything resembling that since. Suh and jpp. And now we’re getting an older, neutered jpp at the end of the season as if that’s going to make a difference. The falcons took a gamble on James Pearce in the first round of this year’s draft. It was a gamble based on his attitude, not his production. So far that has paid off for that. We need some attitude on this team, particularly on the defensive side. Really hoping Walker makes some kind of impact next year.
December 24th, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Grizzard is not qualified to be OC. What a horrible game planner and play caller. It shows in the red zone when he chooses to run in the middle against a stacked box three or four times in a row.
I blame both Bowles and Licht for promoting this guy. They should have hired Gruden as OC for a year. Just stupid that the fans are subject to game calling worse than my high school HC. At the end of the season no matter the outcome, the entire coaching staff and GM should be immediately fired.
December 24th, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Clearly.
It’s the Bowles way.. stand and stare.
December 24th, 2025 at 2:37 pm
These players have no fire in them
They accept losing as it’s a part of their culture
December 24th, 2025 at 2:59 pm
No heart no discipline sloppy in December no adjustments and you have ronde saying be careful what you wish for as the house is falling down all around really? Hmm ok guess the bucs are the definition of a good team just shhh ronde.
December 24th, 2025 at 3:01 pm
Today I’ll blame the division. It’s so weak that why even bother to play hard, we can still make the playoffs, we don’t need no stinking winning record. If we needed a better record we could have easily won the last 3 games. Bowles and Mayfield are geniuses. They have been setting this up for years with all the bad coverage and int’s to lose the game.. Now they are going to flip the switch and rock the world. Go Bucs! Fire over confident mistake prone clueless opposing qb loving Bowles! Immediately.
December 24th, 2025 at 3:41 pm
“We’re ready to rock.”
We know – rock bottom.
Ass.
December 24th, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Give me a break! Why weren’t they ready to roll after the break! Another loss in Miami Sunday!
December 24th, 2025 at 3:51 pm
Where’s the “juice” in an actual game! I want a coach that has fire in his belly for perfection! Everything is just about the money anymore, no pride in any craft, anywhere!
December 24th, 2025 at 3:53 pm
Don’t need them to be rattled Grizz. But we do need them focused.
And we do need game plans that get Baker and the recievers touches early. And stop riding Bucky so much while ignoring RW’s. Keep the defense guessing at least a friggin little bit. Play action on 1st down occasionally?
December 24th, 2025 at 4:20 pm
They’re already playing in their vacations. Fire Todd
December 24th, 2025 at 4:49 pm
They should be practicing on Tuesday- not Wed or Thur. No urgency. Vacation club