“Gotta Give Our Offense A Solid ‘C’ Right Now”
November 13th, 2026
A Buccaneers legend illustrated how brutal he believes the team’s 2026 passing offense has been.
Rondé Barber, the Hall of Fame Bucs cornerback, lives and breathes Tampa Bay football and works for the club breaking down film for the official team website.
Barber also hosts a weekly show that bears his name in partnership with WFLA-TV.
“I gotta give our offense a solid C right now. And I’m sorry. That’s probably going to offend some people,” Barber said on this week’s episode.
“Look, this an A+ run game; I don’t know what grade to give them in the pass right now. Can’t score when there’s a dominant defense taking the ball at a record clip right now.
“And clearly Zac Robinson in his first year still figuring out what to do.”
Ouch!
Imagine giving the Bucs an A+ for their run game (well deserved) and then a C for the offense overall. That sure smells like an “F” for the passing game.
“There’s nobody that scares you in the wide receiver room,” Barber added. ” … We have not seen Baker [Mayfield] yet be the guy that he once was.”
Barber noted Mayfield had several shots to win games this year — aka put the team on his back — and didn’t.
Did Barber grade Mayfield? He punted that to his brother Tiki Barber, who was a guest on this week’s show. “
“Because I don’t want to get in trouble, I’m going to let you grade our quarterbacks,” Rondé Barber said.
November 13th, 2026 at 9:14 am
The planet I come from is Earth.
Here on Earth a “C” means average.
An NFL offense that has the worst QB is not an “average” NFL offense.
If we DID have an “average” NFL offense we would be 6-3 not 3-6…
November 13th, 2026 at 9:17 am
Sure, the run game has been great. But the passing game, play calling/sequencing, game planning, and play discipline (avoidance of mental errors such as pre-snap penalties, drops, and blown line calls) have been dreadful.
Between turnovers, penalties, bad play calls, and blocking gaffes the offense has been largely ineffective in six of the nine games. They were functional against Dallas and Carolina – two terrible defenses – and against Atlanta in a monsoon.
This sounds like a “D” performance to me.
Yes, there have been defensive breakdowns such as the coverage bust on Chicago’s last drive, or the TE left uncovered that lead to Cleveland’s winning score. I’d give the defense an A-, special teams a B-, and coaching a D.
The defense and special teams have played well enough that with an average offense, and replacement level coaching the team would be 5 and 4, or 6 and 3.
November 13th, 2026 at 9:18 am
Gotta take the run game into account I guess. Passing game is an ‘F’
November 13th, 2026 at 9:25 am
During the Todd Bowles regime 3-6 is spun as the best record in the NFC.
A SB contender that every team should be frightened to play. Not so much.
The vaunted Bowles defense crumbled in the biggest moment of the game last Sunday night.
The $165 million dollar man had zero TD’s and two interceptions including a pick 6. I guess you can say it’s a TD pass????
It’s really sad how low the bar is in Tampa these days. Losing equals winning.
We showed we belong!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
November 13th, 2026 at 9:32 am
Bring in BA NOW!!!!!!!
November 13th, 2026 at 9:35 am
@ LFG
In the land of the NFL – Passing > Run game…
November 13th, 2026 at 9:38 am
yes our offense get’s a generous C……for COULDA, shoulda, woulda…
or a C for bucky…….CHURNING and burning dudes all over the field…
actually bucky get’s an A or A-
November 13th, 2026 at 9:40 am
LOL
I think the world of Ronde.
He’s is grading on the old HCC Freshman English curve on this one though.
Go Bucs!
November 13th, 2026 at 9:41 am
C for “can’t pass”
November 13th, 2026 at 9:55 am
Even though our OC stinks, we can’t pass protect, BM has regressed, we have no offensive creativity, can’t really complete a forward pass, and commit way too many penalties, I would say our offense is average so lets give my Buccaneers a “C”….
November 13th, 2026 at 10:01 am
We should have got tet McMillan instead of ee2
November 13th, 2026 at 10:09 am
i’ve coined a new phrase…it’s called:
reverse-blossoming
let’s use it in a sentence kiddies…….
The eggman came into the league and lit it up fast, but ever since then duke is reverse-blossoming.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:10 am
Reverse bloosming is just dying
November 13th, 2026 at 10:10 am
reverse-blossoming = heavy regression
November 13th, 2026 at 10:11 am
I give the offense a solid W for “WTH is this!?” Like someone said above, if the offense was average this team would have won more games. Not sure what Ronde is looking at on game day.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:16 am
“I give the offense a solid W for “WTH is this!?”
Gran Turino offense
November 13th, 2026 at 10:25 am
Tiki knew his Bucs offense score would offend Bucs fans more so than Rhondes.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:28 am
Yeah, a “C” just reminds us Rondé is on the home team.
No problem.
But the truth is, this offense gets an F.
Licht gets an “F , for fired. He watched this garbage all season- and Did nothing to fix it. We don’t have a single NFL caliber receiver. Not one.
That’s an Epic Fail.
We Have the Worst WR room in Foitball.
Worst passing blocking line in The NFL
Sub par Receivers at TE.
We need to fire Licht. Fire Robinson.
Draft a WR, Center, and still need to get a Pass rusher! Still, after 6 years!
This isn’t a Surprise. This was exactly what a few of us said in April.
I said the line and WRs sucked
I predicted 5-12. Looked at the Schedule..
Yup, 5-12 would still be the bet.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:29 am
We once again saw what a conservative running offense gets you last night.
Absolutely embarrassing that the Giants gave up that win. Wash territory, up 4 and you run run run punt.
How did taking 2 timeouts and 35 seconds away from them work?
Be aggressive, get a first down, win the game. Harbaugh has obviously been doing a great job but that’s the stuff we have seen under Bowles time and time again. It’s infuriating, scared football.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:36 am
El Hefe..
You do realize the Tet was already drafted when the Bucs drafted EE??
Of course you didn’t
November 13th, 2026 at 10:44 am
I see some people want Bruce arians.. but he’s the reason we’re in this Todd Bowles mess. So let’s say, we rehire Arians.. in 2-3 years he has to retire because he’s 74.. then we get stuck with another person in his staff.. like we did Bowles because that’s what Arians did. No thank you.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:44 am
“C” for Can’t Coordinate Catches
November 13th, 2026 at 10:45 am
El Jefe, what fan of said. We almost certainly would have drafted him had he been available.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:55 am
A “C” is comical. Rhonde is employed by the Bucs and he is trying to be politically correct.
Baker the Faker is stealing money from the org. Just like his father did from him. The fruit never falls to far from the tree.
November 13th, 2026 at 10:57 am
“Baker the Faker is stealing money from the org. Just like his father did from him. The fruit never falls to far from the tree.”
Oh damn you just connected dots I didn’t even think to connect, family full of scammers.
November 13th, 2026 at 11:08 am
Baker appears to be washed. He was terrible before the thumb and it hasn’t improved. He bluffed the Glazers and they bought it. They’re so lucky to have lucked into Arians and Brady. If not this team would’ve continued the be the laughing stock of the league.