Todd Bowles Liked One Result From Friday Night
August 14th, 2026
Mental toughness.
Joe has but two goals when dealing with a worthless preseason game.
The first one is paramount: Stay healthy.
The second is for younger players to improve.
KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles decided to go with a youth movement tonight, sitting all the Bucs starters and key veterans. The Bucs were down 10-0 but rallied back for a 24-16 win that will likely be lost to history by the end of next month, if not by Labor Day.
Bowles came away with at least one good resulte: His players, his young players, didn’t get flustered when they fell behind by two scores early.
“Just developing mental toughness,” Bowles said of his first impression from Friday. “You know, a lot of young guys got to play for the first time under the lights and referees and live bullets.
“[They had] their little jitters in the first half. They came back out and settled down, and they closed the game out and they started communicating.
“I thought they played decent in the second half.”
Decent is better than bad. Improvement is a goal.
Joe can’t get too excited about this win, as nobody knows what was seen tonight will become a total fluke in two weeks. But at least tonight it showed the backups have backbones and maybe the Bucs found a decent backup corner and special teams help.
August 14th, 2026 at 11:01 pm
So, it was a worthless game until it wasn’t…
August 14th, 2026 at 11:07 pm
REALLY JOE ,NOTHING ABOUT HOW JALON DANIALS HAD A NIGHT ! WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ?
August 14th, 2026 at 11:10 pm
Well basically the backups looked like backups and got shoved around the Jets starters, but when the Jets brought in the backups, what we saw was the Bucs have better backups. Which is what you’d hope for.
August 14th, 2026 at 11:20 pm
wow rookie qb daniels also looks like the real deal…in the sense that he should have a spot in this league…
he’s short, but everything else in his repertoire seems to be working well
August 14th, 2026 at 11:22 pm
yes i came on here looking for a daniels’ story as well, but nothing…weird…
he looked good and …………POISED
August 14th, 2026 at 11:24 pm
i saw some camp meat out there for sure….but daniels doesn’t look the part of camp meat particularly…
seemingly strong arm too
August 14th, 2026 at 11:28 pm
Daniels is 6’4” 210lbs according to the tv. He ain’t short. He’s got a good arm too. Couple nice passes were dropped.
August 14th, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Hurst getting the ball knocked out in the endzone is perfect! What a time to have that happen–incredible learning experience for this rook. He played great even with Bazelak throwing the ball 5 yards behind him. He is an ascending talent. Love this draft. Pybuk got 2 sacks this was a good game. We got a pick six and another interception–it was alotta good stuff and alotta good learning. Daniels was great!
August 14th, 2026 at 11:59 pm
Off topic, but if you want a little light reading head over to your favorite Falcons chat room.
It’s beautiful. LOL
August 15th, 2026 at 12:27 am
Drunk Bucs Fan:
Got any websites in mind? Asking for a friend who’s had a few shots himself.
August 15th, 2026 at 12:34 am
TV measurables on Jaylin Daniels were INCORRECT!!
He is only 6’1” not 6’4”
Says 219 lbs
Ran 4.65 forty time and a rocket for an arm…
Love his mobility…
Bucs really may have a future star here if he gets more quality playing time to develope,..
He’ll be backup QB by next year then whoooo knows..
August 15th, 2026 at 12:35 am
This was a huge win. First game of the new season, send a message. Beat one of the AFC darkhorses. Everyone played great.
Extend Bowles now.
August 15th, 2026 at 12:35 am
Drunk Bucs Fan…..
Drop us all the Falcons chat room…
I need a good laugh 🙂
August 15th, 2026 at 1:24 am
I swear I just said this on another post the other day I told you we are not a first half team honestly never have been anytime. We’re hot in the beginning. It’s almost for sure we’re probably gonna lose, but that was the past as for now we are a second half team. That’s looking party good
August 15th, 2026 at 2:49 am
SB bound!!! Todd Bowles is a guru!!! 17-0!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
August 15th, 2026 at 3:28 am
Jack Pyburn is an LSU player. They are good!
Pyburn is 6-4 and 260 Ànd ranked as a top 10 EDGE player against the run last year. In the SEC. He started his career at Florida.
À UF/LSU UDFA? I love it.
Pyburn is already beating out Braswell.
I hope we can hide Pyburn on the practice squad.
He’s a legit young talent.