Alarming Practice Report
September 24th, 2026
Uh, oh.
The only decent starting Bucs linebacker both inside and outside missed practice for the second straight day today, as the Bucs prepare for a game against the Vikings that very well could determine the January job status for so many people employed by Team Glazer.
This scares Joe.
Josiah Trotter, the star rookie inside linebacker on a tear, sat out practice the past two days with a sore shoulder.
Linebacker play in the first two weeks for the Bucs has been just about totally dreadful, with the exception of Trotter, who has shined.
Rookie edge rusher Rueben Bain (groin) has a grand total of one sack in two starts and also has not practiced the past two days. His backup, Anthony Nelson (shin), returned to practice today but was limited. Defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson had a partial rest day, and he, too, was limited.
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September 24th, 2026 at 5:30 pm
Scared of what this thing is already a train wreak when you lose to the worst team in the league they are no longer the worst team in the league.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:32 pm
Bain does not have any sacks. I think you mean 1 tackle.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:33 pm
Looks like it’s gonna be a +really+ good week for the offense to show up big.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:33 pm
No reason to care about anything else until Bowles is fired.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:33 pm
Wait Bain has a Sack
September 24th, 2026 at 5:34 pm
I assume you mean one tackle? I don’t remember Bain getting a sack.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:34 pm
ALARMING
Front Office
Coaching Staff
Fire Fraud Bowels tonight
Hire Jon Gruden tonight!
FREAK’n decision by committee
Glazer Clan
Zero leadership from
Owners on down!
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
September 24th, 2026 at 5:35 pm
Bain doesn’t have a sack Joe… For the year he actually only has 1 tackle.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:36 pm
I don’t know why the glasiers or anyone else thought this team would be improved by bringing the toilet bowl back. This is just a continuation of last years melt down with the exception of head case baker and slow slob vitta not needing money or caring about performance. Stay home people! Make the owners pay for giving toilet another wasted year
September 24th, 2026 at 5:43 pm
One sack? Did I miss something or should it be one tackle?
September 24th, 2026 at 5:47 pm
Bucs are favored, if they stay favored I’m betting on them If points drop or Vikings are favored then I’m betting on Vikings
September 24th, 2026 at 5:48 pm
I just checked Pro Football Reference. He has one tackle, not one sack.
September 24th, 2026 at 5:48 pm
The Bucs are “cooked” regardless. See ya next year! Congrats to the Carolina Panthers for winning the garbage NFC South!
September 24th, 2026 at 5:51 pm
The Tom Brady effect is officially gone
It’s back to the days of the YUCS
Having a new HC every 2 seasons
Looking forward to the draft in October
September 24th, 2026 at 5:52 pm
Man people sure are freaking out with the Bucs one game out of first place. Maybe we should get out of the gates before we decide what we have.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:07 pm
STPETEMATT — come on, man!
is it too much to ask that the rose colored glasses fans, look at reality and say “enough”?
I’m convinced that the Glazers won’t do anything until the entire fan base refuses to buy into the hideous product they’re trying to sell.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:11 pm
Stpetematt Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 5:52 pm
The standings don’t matter this early in the season. The freak out is about the overall poor play, which can’t be sustained if they have any hope of a winning season. Fact is, there’s no reason to believe this team will pull itself out of the funk it’s been in since last season. They’re cooked. If they prove me wrong, then I’m wrong, but right now, based on the trend from last year and through the first 2 games, I say cooked, burnt, toasted, done.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:12 pm
I’m concerned but it’s way too early to be freaking out. I don’t equate last season with this one. Half our defense was replaced. Lots of positive things could still start to happen. This team has plenty of talent to compete and were a play or two from winning both games. What they need to do is absolutely hammer a couple of teams so they don’t have to get lucky at the end. That would do wonders for team (and fan) confidence.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Good thing we practice in the heat of summer for that home field advantage. We very likely could go 0-3 during this home stretch. Packers play tonight so they’ll be well rested when they come to Tampa next. It’ll also look like a home game, for them! This team needs to win Sunday.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:19 pm
Muscle Hamster, don’t be so sure. Unfortunately the stupid Saints are looking at least decent. They have done something Bowles never can, beat the Ravens. It will be a miracle if we beat the Steelers in a few weeks.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:22 pm
It’s not about how you start it’s about how you finish. To write off any team after 2 games is ridiculous. Looking at you JOE. after mid season and the standings in our division then you can start crying like most of you have. Lot of football left.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:24 pm
Stpetematt, sure dude! One big problem with your hope. We still have the same genius coach. Believe me, I want to win, but what about Bowles history gives you any hope we can pull out of this??
September 24th, 2026 at 6:30 pm
Conrad Bain might’ve had a sack in a preseason game.
September 24th, 2026 at 6:49 pm
Joe says this,”This scares Joe.” wth for? really why in hell be scared? be glad that they get fired! these “coaches” are not performing and they are fully 100% responsible for this Bucs debacle. I would throw Licht and Glazer kids in their as well. They have all fouled up the Buccaneers so badly that for the rest of our lives the Buccaneers will be known as LOSERS!
September 24th, 2026 at 6:49 pm
They had everyone healthy for last weeks practice and still went out and lost to the worst team in the nfl…so what the h#++ does that matter! TB is still coaching!
Oh, and that officially makes us the worst team in the nfl!
September 24th, 2026 at 6:54 pm
I agree with Stpetematt … way too early to be freaking out. 24-17 Bucs.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:05 pm
Way too early to be freaking out?? Loosing to injury riddled Deshawn Watson led browns is one of the worst things that can happen in sports.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:13 pm
The 0-2 start is rough, but losing to the Browns (revenge game) + last seasons full collapse = 2-9. THAT is why some many of us long time loyal fans are pissed. Bowles must go!!
September 24th, 2026 at 7:15 pm
The players and their talent level is way more important than the coach. Every coach in the NFL understands the game. Give any coach a roster full of pro bowlers and he will win lots of games. It’s the players we need to count on to pull us out of this. They need to block, tackle, throw and catch the ball.
That’s how we go on a win streak right now.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:17 pm
STPETEMATT- No. This team does NOT have the “talent” to compete. Just barely enough if healthy, to “compete” in the NFC SOUTH… And, even that is determined by weather they can get good QB-play, or not. Other than that, it’s OVER and it’s BEEN OVER. 3-10.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:18 pm
Anyone look at the schedule lately??? It is looking like a 4-13 kind of year. Todd is whistling dixie walking by the graveyard now a days.
I hope I am way off speaking about a 4-13 season, this season is shaping up the way it felt when Evans got outta doge and ran to San Fran during the free agency signing period.
I guess 4-13 is better than the multiple seasons I watched them go 2-14.
One silver lining is the ownership will be forced to bring real change. The apathetic attitude so far this season by this team, reminds me very much of the first lost decade that began with the 1983 season.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:29 pm
@ #1bucsfan says: “after mid season and the standings in our division then you can start crying like most of you have. Lot of football left.”
You have to be REALISTIC. As an owner, you have to possess the ability to access the REALITY of the makeup of YOUR TEAM, when compared to the rest of the league. You CAN’T just throw your blind trust behind a GM to tell you the TRUTH, when he is trying to protect his own JOB. The roster and the coach is just NOT good enough. This should have already been a KNOWN. PERIOD. End of Story. It is what it is.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:40 pm
I’m 90% sure Evans left for personal (non-football) reasons.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:42 pm
Linebackers come to die here. How about we try to prevent them from catching it instead of letting them catch it and then missing tackles?
September 24th, 2026 at 7:47 pm
It’s unfortunate that Bowles and staff didn’t adequately prepare the team for the season in training camp and preseason while they were healthy. Now they aren’t getting the reps needed to compete on game day. I expect the slump to continue, winning 1 or 2 games by the bye week. And we all know Bowles’ record coming off a bye. Does anyone see the Bucs pulling off a 6-win streak? Four? Even 2 back to back? I don’t.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:47 pm
Maybe Walker will get more starts
September 24th, 2026 at 7:50 pm
@ August 1976 Buc Says: “Anyone look at the schedule lately??? It is looking like a 4-13 kind of year.”
I said on the day it was dropped, that “I’m having a REAL HARD TIME, finding even ‘7-WINS’ on this schedule… I’ve tried, but I just can’t see-it.” The Packers not having Micah Parsons and Josh Jacobs helps… And, Jalon Walker and James Pearce, along with the other injuries in ATL. Hell, I think last week’s win, might have been the Packers FIRST, since Parsons went down!? They desperately NEED HIM ASAP. The Bucs REALLY lucked-out there… HE is an absolute GAME CHANGER. Literally, changes EVERYTHING.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:51 pm
Especially concerning since Todd Bowles wont adjust in anyway. Injuries happen, ask San Francisco how to handle it, they managed to go to the playoffs last year with every major position impacted with Injuries.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:57 pm
Bain doesn’t have a sack. What, are you Joe’s trying to be like the liars at One Buc? Stupid.
September 24th, 2026 at 7:57 pm
@ STPETEMATT says: “I’m 90% sure Evans left for personal (non-football) reasons.”
Then, we know for sure that’s NOT what happened (even though, I already knew that). Since, you are NEVER ‘right’ about ANY fricking thing, EVER. You are not only ‘delusional’ but also, are a LIAR. I mean, JUST freaking admit-it, Dude. It’s INSANITY. Honestly, it’s embarrassing… JUST for your own ‘feelings’ so that YOU feel better. Lying to YOURSELF, is what REALLY makes you feel better? Pathetic, Man. 90%.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:02 pm
@ STPETEMATT says: “What they need to do is absolutely hammer a couple of teams so they don’t have to get lucky at the end. That would do wonders for team (and fan) confidence.”
Oh, really… So, that’s what they need to do!? “Wonders!?” WTF, GTFOH. DELUSIONAL.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:03 pm
Buc up Buttercup, exactly! That’s why Mike is gone and why he went to 49ers. 3rd & 28!!!!!!!
September 24th, 2026 at 8:05 pm
That’s my whole issue with Bowles: he keeps trying to turn players with elite traits into Swiss Army knives instead of building the defense around what those players already do best.
**Bain was a dominant, hand-in-the-dirt 4-3 DE at Miami** because his leverage, burst, power, and hands let him attack the line of scrimmage and wreck plays. Now you’re asking that same guy to stand up, read space, drop into coverage, and do linebacker assignments instead of letting him pin his ears back and destroy tackles. If you watched him against Ohio state the Tackle was much bigger than him he had no issues…. Same philosophy with JTS, Logan Hall, and others: instead of maximizing the player’s best trait, make him learn five different jobs so he fits the scheme he wants to run.
**Great coaches make the scheme fit the players strengths; Bowles too often makes the players fit into his scheme.**
September 24th, 2026 at 8:08 pm
@Melvin, please explain your punctuation and capitalization strategies.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:12 pm
@ Wyoming Joe Says: “I agree with Stpetematt … way too early to be freaking out. 24-17 Bucs.”
Oh, there he is now… Been MIA. And, I believe it’s the first-time EVER, I’ve seen him comment on something else, that was NOT about “Baker” (though, kind of don’t blame him for trying to stay as far away as possible, from that one…SHEW) LoL. Finally, came back out from hiding.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:14 pm
@ SkunkApe – What the hell is TO YOU. And, I already have. I mean, is that ALL YOU’VE GOT!? An obsession with how “I” write, (&/or) TALK!? GTFO
September 24th, 2026 at 8:18 pm
Is it really going to make a difference?
September 24th, 2026 at 8:20 pm
You sure are an emotional little girl, Junior.
And yes, I stand by everything I said 100%.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:20 pm
More and more people at grocery stores are asking for paper bags. Huh…..
September 24th, 2026 at 8:22 pm
Stpetematt Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 6:12 pm
This team is always a “play or two away” supposedly. That’s what people say when they go out and lay a steaming turd against awful teams. Fact is, if they play like crap, week after week, and then console yourself with “a play or two away” from victory, you’re ignoring the fact that this has been a consistent thread for quite a while with this team. This should not be happening with good teams and veteran head coaches.
Looking back into last season, even from the beginning, they were horrible… probably the worst 6-2 team I’ve ever seen. They were lucky to come away with victories in half of those games. The incompetency was evident and only through heroic acts of Baker did they manage to win. When was the last solid game they played? Maybe Seattle last year. That’s a long period of sucking.
If you’re happy being patient and waiting for the turnaround and a few victories and another sub-500 season, that’s your business.
At some point realism sets in and the team no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt. They’re going to have to show me first. I’m betting I won’t see a good team magically appear this year. I’d love to be wrong.
Cleveland was supposed to be low-hanging-fruit, an easy win in a stretch of string opponents. I think we’re looking down the barrel of 0-5.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:22 pm
Bain has a sack? Now Joe is shilling for the Bucs.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Rueben Bain does not have a sack yet. He hasn’t even breathed on the QBs, at all.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:26 pm
What should really scare Joe is that the defense – especially the Bucs’ defensive line looked so good in camp – going against the Bucs’ offensive line.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:28 pm
There are no easy wins in the NFL (especially if you start believing there are!), and there are no sure losses. We’ll know the real record soon enough…
September 24th, 2026 at 8:31 pm
3-13 since the 6-2 start last year! Let that sink in folks!
September 24th, 2026 at 8:31 pm
Did we or did we not say a defense full of rookies would take a little while to gel? The offense is underperforming primarily because Bredeson is underperforming. Hopefully that can be corrected. Everyone has made mistakes including Baker. When a team loses by a play or two they are unlucky a lot of the time. When they win by a play or two they are lucky. That’s why I’m saying they need to beat the tar out of a couple of teams to get their mojo back. Allowing luck to be a factor isn’t working out for them at all right now. As far as Bain having a sack I’m sure that’s a typo or oversight. At least Walker has one… I hate that we lost to Cleveland too. That game was really needed so we have to make it up elsewhere against a tougher opponent now.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:32 pm
My bad, 3-10!
September 24th, 2026 at 8:32 pm
@ fitethecannons says: “I would throw Licht and Glazer kids in their as well. They have all fouled up the Buccaneers so badly that for the rest of our lives the Buccaneers will be known as LOSERS!”
@ Lakeland says: “The Tom Brady effect is officially gone.”
That’s been loooong gone, Lakeland. Since, last season. We still had a shot at keeping it going though, had w they just promoted COEN. They have just reverted BACK to “who” they always WERE, before Brady had arrived and immediately changed the ‘culture’ of the entire organization. 93-106… LICKT’s career 13-YEAR record as Bucs GM. Which not only includes the “Brady-Years,” but also of having the luxury of residing in the miserably, pathetically WEAK NFC SOUTH Division. Now, let that just sink in for a moment, and then THINK… That’s called the REALITY.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:41 pm
@ STPETEMATT- You are NOT “unlucky” when you are 3-10 in your last 13-GAMES. You are just a BADDDDD Football Team. PERIOD. End of Story. There’s NO sugarcoating it. It is what it is… And, you are who you ARE. The play of just ONE Guard, has absolutely nothing to do with it. I mean, that just ABSURD. “You” are putting the play of THIS “OFFENSE” on the shoulders of ONE GUARD!? Please. Just GTFOH. Listen to YOURSELF.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:57 pm
MelvinJunior Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 7:50 pm
@ August 1976 Buc Says: “Anyone look at the schedule lately??? It is looking like a 4-13 kind of year.”
I said on the day it was dropped, that “I’m having a REAL HARD TIME, finding even ‘7-WINS’ on this schedule… I’ve tried, but I just can’t see-it.” The Packers not having Micah Parsons and Josh Jacobs helps… And, Jalon Walker and James Pearce, along with the other injuries in ATL. Hell, I think last week’s win, might have been the Packers FIRST, since Parsons went down!? They desperately NEED HIM ASAP. The Bucs REALLY lucked-out there… HE is an absolute GAME CHANGER. Literally, changes EVERYTHING.
Optimistically 5-6 wins will be a monumental effort, which so far, no evidence of effort, just a team going through the motions, very much in the image of what Todd Bowles projects on the sideline. I have watched every season of this team, like others on this site, and the Bucs players look like it just does not matter, collecting paychecks baby. Yeah just like from 1983-1996 era. If this keeps up, the bags will be back on fans before the season is over. 0-5 or 1-4 start is staring this team in the face now. This team is on life support now.
September 24th, 2026 at 8:58 pm
StPeteMatt
You have 0 credibility.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:04 pm
BTW, as a reminder for those watching TNF… turn off the garbage TV angle and watch the Prime Vision feed. I wish they had this for every game – it allows you to see the whole field, coverages – really interesting stuff if you have an IQ over 60 and like football. But hey, if you’re commoner, the TV angle is available too, but the game is so much more interesting when you can see what is happening.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:06 pm
Trey Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Rueben Bain does not have a sack yet. He hasn’t even breathed on the QBs, at all.
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OH NO HE’S NOT AN ALL PRO BY HIS 2ND GAME HE SUCKS TIME TO CUT HIM AND MOVE ON
Dummy.
Also he was literally in the QB’s face on the first play of the Browns game.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:06 pm
Hello darkness?
September 24th, 2026 at 9:07 pm
If Atlanta wins tonight on TNF your Bucs will be dead last as the only team in the NFC South at 0-2. Bowles even losing when he isn’t even coaching
September 24th, 2026 at 9:07 pm
Man a lot of posters on here need Lithium or Prozac or something. It’s 2 close football games. I still think this team fundamentally has quite a bit of talent. Will their record reflect that by the end of the season? I’m not sure, but a strong game like we had vs. Seattle last year (on offense) would really help. A good defensive effort showing solid fundamentals for 60 minutes would help too.
Get it together, Bucs. It’s time…
September 24th, 2026 at 9:08 pm
So, let’s be generous here, and give them a 2-2 (.500) ‘split’ in their next 4-games… That would make them a 5-12 Football Team. Now, has anyone EVER looked at the ‘standings’ before, and seen “5 and fricking 12,” and then said to themselves or to ANYONE ELSE, “That Is One Mighty-Fine Football Team!?” HAIL NO. You would say without any hesitation, that “THIS TEAM SUCKS.” And, deservingly so. You definitely wouldn’t be saying anything about any “LOADED” ROSTERS, either. And, it’s probably going to be more like, 3-14. It’s the REALITY.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Stpetematt Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 9:07 pm
Man a lot of posters on here need Lithium or Prozac or something. It’s 2 close football games. I still think this team fundamentally has quite a bit of talent.
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they’re 1-6 over their last seven, and if one player played better, they’d literally be 7-0 over that period. All the loses were close games where Baker managed to choke when it mattered most. If Baker is just a low-end middling QB, it would be a big improvement, and the Bucs will start winning a bunch of games. The issue is Baker isn’t even playing to that level. But if he heats up, and stops singlehandedly losing games, everything turns around quickly.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:19 pm
All the Bucs need to do is win 9 out of the remaining 15 games and the NFCS is theirs. Simply sweep the NFCS and pick up another 3 wins. Easy piecy, nice and easy. Same odds as winning the Powerball and Mega millions in the same week.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:20 pm
Rod. I’m watching the game. Surely we’re better than these chump teams. Robinson is the best player in our division.
Anyway, I have an IQ over 60 and like football. I read the part about turn off the garbage tv angle yada yada and decided to read that part to the wife.
I decided the regular tv angle is just fine. Unless one of the grandkids come by that’s how it’s going to be.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:27 pm
Kenton Smith – You do know if your IQ was under 60 you wouldn’t know it, right?
Did you actually try the Prime View? Literally no one who has tried it in here, after listening to me hype it, have turned it on and then went back. If you actually enjoy watching football, the behind the QB over the shoulder view is fantastic. No more wondering if the defense was in zone or man because of the dumb TV angle, you can tell in real time. Every game should offer this for men – then they can have the crippled TV view for simpletons and women.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:28 pm
@Melvin, the capitalization and ridiculous punctuation choices are a distraction and quite annoying to read. They don’t help you make a point.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:29 pm
This Buc squad has fully inherited the Bowles’ mentality which we see on the sideline; passive, unresponsive, slow to react and very unlikely to adjust. This team just mailed in their home opener, they played with no heart or passion. For all that Baker crowed about being disrespected and allegedly playing with a chip on his shoulder, he is playing like a bad version of Jameis. There is no leadership on this team, who is going to rally the team, not Bowles, it seems like everyone has checked out on him already. So, Baker is diasappointing, he does not have Mike to bail him out anymore (Mike would have caught that ball Hurst dropped in the endzone on Sunday). On defense Anzalone is a major liability but you know Todd will not bench him. Vea is out of shape, there is no pass rush and also, where is Antoine Winfield? The only time I have heard him mentioned is that it was likley his blown assignmnet which allowed that no name tight end to acore Cleveland’s winning TD. Plus, one things the Joes pointed out in Ira’s podcast: the Bucs get a quick stop on D and the Browns punt, the Bucs get a long FG and the Browns get the ball back, but who was absent for several plays on D? Kancey and Vea! They are on the sideline while the Browns churn up yards with Roberts and Nacho in the game. Vea and Kancey finally re-enter the game when the Browns are in FG range and the Bucs do makea stop but why is Bowles keeping Kancey and Vea out????? It was not fatigue, seems like another Bowles’ blunder. I am relauctantly agreeing with MelvinJunior; this Buc’s team could win 5 games which will probably keep them just outside the window where the generational players will be drafted by the 2, 3 and 4 win teams. With the 7th pick in the 2027 NFL draft the Tampa Bay Bucs select the next Gaines Adams/Broderick Thomas/Vernon Hargreaves III/Mark Barron etc. It’s a Bucs’ life.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Optimistic Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 9:19 pm
All the Bucs need to do is win 9 out of the remaining 15 games and the NFCS is theirs. Simply sweep the NFCS and pick up another 3 wins. Easy piecy, nice and easy. Same odds as winning the Powerball and Mega millions in the same week.
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Stop being such a drama queen.
The Bucs are tied for the 3rd most Super Bowl wins this century.
You can tell who the people are who only started watching when the Bucs started winning, vs those of us who sat through over a decade of losing 10 or more games.
This team would be on an 8-game winning streak right now, would have made the playoffs last year, if just one player played better. That’s also the entire reason to have hope. If Bum Baker just improves to being middling, the team will start winning. If he got on a hot streak, the Bucs will beat good teams.
It’s not a lost cause, it’s one player holding back the entire team.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:32 pm
Rod Munch Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 9:14 pm
Stpetematt Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 9:07 pm
Man a lot of posters on here need Lithium or Prozac or something. It’s 2 close football games. I still think this team fundamentally has quite a bit of talent.
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they’re 1-6 over their last seven, and if one player played better, they’d literally be 7-0 over that period. All the loses were close games where Baker managed to choke when it mattered most. If Baker is just a low-end middling QB, it would be a big improvement, and the Bucs will start winning a bunch of games. The issue is Baker isn’t even playing to that level. But if he heats up, and stops singlehandedly losing games, everything turns around quickly.
Sorry Rod, lifeless effort after lifeless effort, its not just Baker playing like sh*t, the defense over all is having problems fighting its way out of a wet paper bag.
St Pete, its the Upper mgt needing all the lithium and Prozac they can get their hands on after signing Baker and Vita, and the team looks like collecting paychecks is all its about, with lifeless looking play.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:35 pm
Munches overtly. Simpleton it is.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Kyler Murray will fumble a snap, throw a pick or two. Special teams are primed for a big defensive play. Baker rights the ship with a 105 passer rating.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:38 pm
Austin Hooper is back with the Falcons
September 24th, 2026 at 9:39 pm
I’m not sure we can even beat the Falcons. How long Glazers must we suffer?
September 24th, 2026 at 9:40 pm
When we all wake up tomorrow, we will be the only winless team in our division…
September 24th, 2026 at 9:41 pm
Only the Moisty Boyz “think” things will get better because Bowles loves Mayfield and they never go against their god
September 24th, 2026 at 9:41 pm
The Packers are playing like the Bucs but with the Bucs 2025 special teams. Looks like the Bucs will be in the basement soon if the Pack do not wake up.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:42 pm
Want some more bad news….Falcons are beating the Packers 17-7 at half time
Thursday night game……Buc’s will be all be themselves in the cellar. B. Robinson
has 125 yards in the first half….SOB….we are so screwed!
September 24th, 2026 at 9:48 pm
I think the Bucs are the worst team in the NFC South
Maybe they can turn it around against Minnesota
September 24th, 2026 at 9:48 pm
Mike in Mo, do the Glazers even care? They certainly ignored tus fans at the end of last season. Sure we can boycott the etam but Packer and Steeler fans will still go to RJS and they will get the TV revenue.
I think the Glazers are more interested in how Mun U performs because that is their cash cow, look at the revenue stream. ManU is expected to win, when they are mediocre, the Glazers and their partners replace their manager, Ruben Amorim, after just over one season. With the Bucs, it seems like mediocrity (2022-bye week 2025) to being awful (3-10 skid) is acceptable to them, else they would have launched Bowles in January.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:48 pm
Let em bake Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Kyler Murray will fumble a snap, throw a pick or two. Special teams are primed for a big defensive play. Baker rights the ship with a 105 passer rating.
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More like Mayfield throws for 105 yards, misses a 12 passes in a row, then hits a 1 yard screen pass and the Baker Boi(s) chant MVP MVP MVP.
Anywho, I do hope you’re right. But 105 passer rating really isn’t anything special in 2026, in particular when you’re just throwing a bunch of high percentage screen passes. Let’s hope its more like 125 passer rating, and 300+ yards and 3+ TDs. That would, at least for a week, make people feel a lot better about that contract.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:51 pm
Watching an energetic Falcon team playing in Lambeau…it’s pretty clear to me now.
Tampa is currently the worst team in the NFC South.
Baker is currently the worst QB in the NFC South ( even Penix looks better ).
It started with retaining Bowles ( who’s retaining blubber ) and his turnstile defense
Next…Evans leaving ( which at the time I was ok with…not so sure now with no reliable receivers left…McMillian is a shadow of his former self ).
Signing a petulant/pouty VV to a raise/extension was mind blowing.
The 11th hour signing of Baker will set this team back years…literally.
He was a great QB at $5 million…a decent one at $33 million and an awful one at $55 million thru 2029.
September 24th, 2026 at 9:56 pm
August 1976 Buc Says:
Sorry Rod, lifeless effort after lifeless effort, its not just Baker playing like sh*t, the defense over all is having problems fighting its way out of a wet paper bag.
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Yes, it’s literally just Baker.
The defense gave up 16 points to the Bengals when the offense didn’t hand them the ball on the Bucs side of the field. Additionally they scored 7 points. That’s 9 net points given up vs a top offense.
Vs the Browns, the defense gave up 20 points when the Bucs offense didn’t give the Browns the ball on the Bucs side of the field.
That’s 14.5 points per game if the offense stops screwing up. Even Baker Mayfield can lead a team to more than 14.5 points a game. If he does that, and stops turning it over, the Bucs win.
The idea the defense has been a problem is fake news. On defense there is one problem, his name is Analzone. Everyone else on defense has been doing their job. If you remove that dummy from the field, put in just a low end starter, and the Bucs are probably closer to 10 points a game given up.
The issue with the team is Baker. Period.
Week one, Baker singlehandedly lost the game, gave the Bucs no change to win.
He was responsible, personally, for a 17-point swing.
Week two, not only did Baker keep missing guys who were wide open – not just deep passes either, but all over the field – Baker had a very easy throw by NFL standards to a wide open WR, a throw every single QB in the NFL is expected to make every single time – and if Baker just makes that throw, the Bucs win the game. That doesn’t even take into account all the passes he missed and where he left points on the board.
Baker is not giving the team a change to win, it’s all on him. And, as I said, the good thing about that is if he just plays better, the team will win.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:00 pm
FortMyersDave – I wish the Glazers were disinterested. If they were, they wouldn’t have personally stepped in and did the deal with Baker after Licht was clearly perfectly happy letting Baker play out the season before deciding what he was going to do.
Again, even if you wanted to keep Baker, think of the discount you’d get right now if you did an extension. The Glazers meddling has already cost them tens of millions of dollars. That’s what you get when owners won’t stay disinterested.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:08 pm
people need to relax at this point…
we should be 1-1 now…but we are 0-2…
it’s not the end of the world……….quite yet….
0-3 can be a real problem tho…
let’s watch the game sunday and maybe we grab a big win…
it’s still very early people
September 24th, 2026 at 10:11 pm
Sorry Rod say all you want about whatever with this soft paper tiger defense, constantly lining up so far back and just gifting first downs. Whatever happened to press coverage, instead of scared pus*y football. Dean for years played so far back like he was afraid of his own shadow, and this year we see the same soft crap, gifting first downs again. During this 3-10 streak last year and now, they play lifeless. Mike Evans could not stomach anymore of this crap and left for San Fran, yeah 4th and 28, and Mike chucking his helmet pist off lifeless crap defense. And the icing on the cake is Baker playing like Sh*t. 0-5 or 1-4 is staring this team in the face now, thats the cold hard reality for Buc fans.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:15 pm
August 1976 Buc Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 10:11 pm
Sorry Rod say all you want about whatever with this soft paper tiger defense, constantly lining up so far back and just gifting first downs. Whatever happened to press coverage, instead of scared pus*y football. Dean for years played so far back like he was afraid of his own shadow, and this year we see the same soft crap, gifting first downs again. During this 3-10 streak last year and now, they play lifeless. Mike Evans could not stomach anymore of this crap and left for San Fran
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While I generally agree on the corners being aggressive, the Bucs WAY overperformed in week 1 vs the Bengals.
Last week, again, they gave up 20 points – the other 3 was a FG when Baker gave the Browns the ball already in FG range.
We all know this isn’t he 2002 Bucs defense – and the team was literally built to win on offense, and right now they’re getting nothing from their incredibly high paid franchise QB. If they any sort of production out of him, they’re 2-0 right now.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:22 pm
wow atlanta laying it on green bay
September 24th, 2026 at 10:23 pm
Rod, I think the point is that the Bucs will make money for the Glazers even if they are 2-15 with Baker as QB and Bowles continuing to coach the team. The profits are there for all 30 NFL ownership groups to share including bad ones like the Glazers. Extending Baker was a mistake but so was Vea, it seems like an act of laziness by the Glazers to simply give them their sack of loot so I disagree with you in that the extentions do indeed show disinterest/ineptitude or perhaps sheer stupidity might be a better term. If the Glazers did their homework and did not just follow the suggestions of whomever at OBP told them that retaining Baker and Vea were crucial to the franchise, the team would be better off. They followed the wrong advice which to me seems that they are getting advice from the wrong people if they want a winner. If they just want to keep getting the TV revenue money, well they will if the team is 12-5 or 2-15, no different. They probably also know that the team’s performance will not affect the stadium renovation issue. Tampa wants to host another Super Bowl as well as more NCAA playoff games and that alone should get them their stadium upgrades even if the team is 0-17.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:28 pm
LACK OF LEADERSHIP!!!!! LIFELESS LOOKING CRAP!!!!!
How many times has Joe referenced the lack of Leadership?????????
YES THE TEAM VERY MUCH MIRRORS THE HEAD COACH, this has been going on for the 3-10 streak, not just the first 2 weeks.
FortMyersDave Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 9:29 pm
This Buc squad has fully inherited the Bowles’ mentality which we see on the sideline; passive, unresponsive, slow to react and very unlikely to adjust. This team just mailed in their home opener, they played with no heart or passion. For all that Baker crowed about being disrespected and allegedly playing with a chip on his shoulder, he is playing like a bad version of Jameis. There is no leadership on this team, who is going to rally the team, not Bowles, it seems like everyone has checked out on him already. So, Baker is diasappointing, he does not have Mike to bail him out anymore (Mike would have caught that ball Hurst dropped in the endzone on Sunday). On defense Anzalone is a major liability but you know Todd will not bench him. Vea is out of shape, there is no pass rush and also, where is Antoine Winfield? The only time I have heard him mentioned is that it was likley his blown assignmnet which allowed that no name tight end to acore Cleveland’s winning TD. Plus, one things the Joes pointed out in Ira’s podcast: the Bucs get a quick stop on D and the Browns punt, the Bucs get a long FG and the Browns get the ball back, but who was absent for several plays on D? Kancey and Vea! They are on the sideline while the Browns churn up yards with Roberts and Nacho in the game. Vea and Kancey finally re-enter the game when the Browns are in FG range and the Bucs do makea stop but why is Bowles keeping Kancey and Vea out????? It was not fatigue, seems like another Bowles’ blunder. I am relauctantly agreeing with MelvinJunior; this Buc’s team could win 5 games which will probably keep them just outside the window where the generational players will be drafted by the 2, 3 and 4 win teams. With the 7th pick in the 2027 NFL draft the Tampa Bay Bucs select the next Gaines Adams/Broderick Thomas/Vernon Hargreaves III/Mark Barron etc. It’s a Bucs’ life.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:37 pm
There’s just no urgency from anyone…staff…players…none.
Dead, lifeless zombie Bucs.
September 24th, 2026 at 10:57 pm
^^^ i’m seeing the word zombie ^^^
this is when i get worried…
when the bucs start seeming like todd zombies i get rally concerned…
it happens……duke lulls them into a zombastic state of zomblasphamy
September 24th, 2026 at 10:57 pm
i get really concerned*
September 24th, 2026 at 11:22 pm
FortMyersDave – completely ridiculous to claim extending Vita was a bad decision when he’s been a top player for years. Also the Bucs are 4th in rushing defense right now.
What I will say is the defense looked tired at the end of the Browns game. If they want to do something, stop letting them retreat to the air conditioned Glazer tent because it’s sprinkling outside or it’s hot. If anything, it looked like the Browns dealt better with the heat than the Bucs did on Sunday.
Yet, again, for all the complaining, the Bucs win the game if Baker makes a simple pass. Not a hard pass, not something where he’s under pressure, just a regular old pass any NFL QB is expected to make every single time. And he blew it. The whole game came down to that, and Baker blew it.
Not to mention the countless deep shots he missed, and middle shots he missed, or all the times he had guys open and instead checked it down to a RB for 1-yard, or just held the ball and tried to run.
Baker was awful. Everyone should be mad him at and Analzone, those are the only two bums on the team so far this season.
September 24th, 2026 at 11:25 pm
I blame Bowles for everything…including Baker’s mishaps.
September 24th, 2026 at 11:26 pm
St Pete Matt is just a delusional Baker backer.
He said Baker was a top 5 QB.
Kid is just clueless. Completely and utterly clueless.
Keep waving the Baker pom poms.
September 24th, 2026 at 11:34 pm
Fanofdabucs Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 11:26 pm
St Pete Matt is just a delusional Baker backer.
He said Baker was a top 5 QB.
Kid is just clueless. Completely and utterly clueless.
Keep waving the Baker pom poms.
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That’s nonsense, he just said yesterday that he’s not a Baker backer, and is fair and balanced when it comes to talking about Baker. It’s just all us Baker haters want to focus on all the things he does wrong, and all the missed throws, bad throws, turnovers, etc – and we never look at all the good stuff he does, like how he completed 7 of his 8 passes behind the line of scrimmage to his RBs – that’s an 87.5% completion percentage – way better than Tom Brady’s overall career passing percentage. See, you leave that out, because you’re just a hater.
September 24th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
@ August 1976 Buc Says: “Anyone look at the schedule lately??? It is looking like a 4-13 kind of year.”
I said on the day it was dropped, that “I’m having a REAL HARD TIME, finding even ‘7-WINS’ on this schedule
I was the first one on this page to call for 4 wins but now I see Bucs losing both the Falcons games as well. Crazy to say but I just reviewed the schedule again and I see 0 wins on the season.
September 24th, 2026 at 11:49 pm
Literally Baker is capable of beating any NFL team…. He’s also single handly capable of losing to well the Browns soooooo ANY GIVEN SUNDAY LMAO…
September 24th, 2026 at 11:52 pm
Rod Munch what is your evaluation of Bowles? FWIW I thought Bucs were better off giving Baker the tag if needed next year. I saw absolutely no reason to sign him. Now getting another head coach is impeded by Baker being contracted through 2029. Baker does not make Tampa look more favorable to a new head coach. thoughts please.
September 25th, 2026 at 12:12 am
packers looked like trash tonight…love was very inaccurate…
their next game is at ray jay vs our bucs…
they have a long time to prepare…but they look like crap rn
September 25th, 2026 at 1:21 am
2-2 would make them 2-4. Your math is messed up. Last season is over. And they are going to need to start going 3-1 or better now.
September 25th, 2026 at 2:13 am
firethecannons Says:
September 24th, 2026 at 11:52 pm
Rod Munch what is your evaluation of Bowles?
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I would have fired Bowles years ago and kept Coen.
This last offseason I said not to fire Bowles, because Baker was on the last year of his deal, and I never thought the Glazers would personally start meddling with the team and extend him when he’s been awful for nearly a full calendar year now. The point was, if Baker was bad – then you’re firing Bowles, and Baker is gone, and you got a blank slate so you can hire anyone you want.
But, with Baker here on a huge new deal – if Bowles is getting fired, it’s because Baker never snapped out of it. So what coach, with any other options, is going to want to take over a team where the QB is on a huge money deal, you can’t move him, and in the last two years he got his entire offensive staff fired, then got the entire coaching staff fired.
But, if Baker bounces back and plays well this year, then Bowles isn’t getting fired, because they’re tied at the hip.
In any case, I don’t really care what they do with Bowles, I’m just sick of the low effort dullards that just yell and scream about him. This week, Baker was put in a position to win the game, by the coaches, and he failed. Period. Yet 90% of the stories area about the defense, which gave up 20 points, which is well below the NFL average, and the coaches – when Baker is 90% of the story, and the other 10% is Analzone.
September 25th, 2026 at 2:41 am
@ Vinny – “The 11th hour signing of Baker will set this team back years…literally“
Inexplicable. And, Rod is right… All it would’ve taken in every one of those games, would have been for BAKER to have stepped up JUST ONCE. Easily. And, had made JUST ONE PLAY. At the very end of almost EVERY ONE of those games. And, THESE OENERS did this. At the 11th-Hour even!? It’s just SO mind-blowing. I mean, not a single thing about it made a lick of SENSE. It’s just STUPID. Real Sad.
@ STPETEMATT- it’s still basically the same damn TEAM for the most part… So, STOP. Only weak egos and insecure ‘emotions’ try to make, or invent EXCUSES.
September 25th, 2026 at 3:19 am
WOW!
It’s CLEAR who the 6% trolls were on the “Bozo Bowles is an Idiot polls”. Not the brightest of goobers and “they Definitely Don’t Know Winning Football”! But at least you’re GUARANTEED to find them on the short bus. Especially on the weekends….
Funny that they don’t seem to get that they live under a bridge…
It is a stone cold lock that Bozo has admirers just like murders do. It doesn’t make intelligent sense to 95% of the world but to the brain damaged 5/6% of the humans on the planet it’s the norm to have seriously Poor Taste and say a Whole Lot in Poor Form.. Can’t read a room to save their own lives, and ALWAYS jump on the sword for the wrong cause… And shinny things dazzle them like all dum fish.
It’s STUNNING I know, but let’s face it. Without these dumb fish… What other low hanging fruit would there be to gorge on so easily?
Duh er aaa Bozo’s my friend. And he’s So fart that I know he’s fart like me! Or is that Fat like me? Bozo for world leader!
GO BUCS!
September 25th, 2026 at 7:51 am
Firethecannons; The Bucs have a 2-0 record in super bowls and have the trophies in the display case and they were under the Glazers tenure, they and the team will not forever be thought of as losers! Hell, one was in 2020, not 1965…Got to try a different angle of hatred
September 25th, 2026 at 7:53 am
Ask Bills fans if they would take ONE of those Lombardi Trophies, let alone TWO
September 25th, 2026 at 8:14 am
I used to be a Bills fan. I’d trade Josh Allen for a Lombardi right now. And the Bucs have 2 in this era!
September 25th, 2026 at 8:20 am
Thanks Matt for agreeing with me, I know people are pissed right now, but the knee jerk reactions on this site are hilarious
September 25th, 2026 at 9:45 am
They certainly are way out of proportion with reality. The Bucs have made the road ahead more difficult, but it’s certainly still doable. Losing 2 games you probably should have won just means we need to win 2-3 games we probably should have lost. And of course win the rest of the games we should. Beating the division is huge.
September 25th, 2026 at 9:47 am
Baker did step up Jr. He hit Ted Hurst right in step, right in the chest to win the football game and he didn’t catch the ball!
September 25th, 2026 at 10:42 am
Munch said this: So what coach, with any other options, is going to want to take over a team where the QB is on a huge money deal, you can’t move him, and in the last two years he got his entire offensive staff fired, then got the entire coaching staff fired.
this is true, Bucs may be end up with multiple more seasons of mediocrity with Baker and Bowles. Bucs would have to hire someone so desperate to coach in the NFL that they agree to take on Baker and Bucs sht show. No experienced worthy coach is going to look at Tampa with serious consideration.
September 25th, 2026 at 10:46 am
Kidfloflo Says:
September 25th, 2026 at 8:20 am
Thanks Matt for agreeing with me, I know people are pissed right now, but the knee jerk reactions on this site are hilarious
Sure Buddy Bucs got this in the bag, lets talk playoffs