Ira Kaufman Looks At Controversial Rondé Barber Comments, Talks Inside Linebacker, Bucky Irving Changes, David Walker Realities & Mysteries, And Much More
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May 2nd, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I’m really in complete disbelief right now after listening to this podcast.
Lee and Ira are still arguing in favor of the defense not being that bad last year.
It was a complete dumpster fire!!!!
Zero punts forced in the lone playoff game. A loss as per usual under Bowles.
We lost to the F-ing Cowboys!!!! The Dixie Chicks beat us twice!!!
Kirk Cousins looked like John Elway versus our defense.
Wake up and smell what you’re shouveling!!!!
May 2nd, 2025 at 6:35 pm
I agree with the dumpster fire to those teams, what I don’t understand is seemingly playing down to opponents and then standing strong against tougher opponents. I would love to see us just win a ton of games and get better seeded at the end but in the end the goal is to get into the playoff’s where anything can happen, but USUALLY the home team prevails. I think if injuries don’t hit us last year we look a lot different, we did against Detroit and injuries did them in at the end.
May 2nd, 2025 at 7:23 pm
No, a complete dumpster fire was 2017 and 2018.
Joe never said the defense was *good.* For Joe, a “dumpster fire” really, truly is a dumpster fire.
May 2nd, 2025 at 7:49 pm
Yeah, a simmering cauldron of spit is far from a dumpster fire!
🙂 –Joe
May 2nd, 2025 at 9:21 pm
IDK. I remember how ecstatic the draft room was when they drafted JTS..
May 2nd, 2025 at 9:23 pm
ToddBowles#1 Says:
May 2nd, 2025 at 5:51 pm
I’m really in complete disbelief right now after listening to this podcast.
Lee and Ira are still arguing in favor of the defense not being that bad last year.
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Ira’s fawning over Bowles has become a complete tune-out. Some of the things he has said are nothing short of a schoolboy howler. Stopped listening a while back just couldn’t take it anymore. Title of the next podcast? Media personality Ira Kaufman: Searches for credibility lost.
Sometimes being close is too close. I take no pleasure in saying it.
May 2nd, 2025 at 10:18 pm
I don’t agree Durango. I think Ira has been in this business long enough to know what a terrible coach looks like and Todd ain’t one of them. Everyone in Bucs organization can’t be wrong, owners can’t all be wrong. Looking back at the history of this franchise I see a ton of dumpster fires, what I see and maybe what Ira sees is a team that is improving every year and a team ravaged by injury that still made the playoffs despite losing their entire secondary. I mean we were playing 3-4 stringers back there. Most people have short attention spans and want immediate satisfaction and that’s just not reality
May 2nd, 2025 at 10:22 pm
Durango 95, always read your posts, don’t always agree but can respect the views. Would you say there is a chance, with the team Bowles has had a major hand in building here, that the Bucs can win 40 regular season games in the next 4 years? I’d say yes there is. They’ve been in the running for the Super Bowl the last two years. Might we be in Super Bowl contention for the foreseeable future? I’d say it’s possible. Would you be disappointed if we win 50 games and a Super Bowl in the next 4 years? Of course not. If things work out like that, and they might, Bowles can be the winningest coach in franchise history and will be in the Ring of Honor. This league is built for parity. Winning and losing is a fine line. The other teams all have stars and great coaching. Pass defense is what most of Bowles detractors ding him on. Pass defense success takes all 11 and with injuries and money going to the offense the last several years the pass defense has taken the hit. Other teams have had to throw a bunch to try and keep up with our offense and that exposes us more. We’ve got alot more faces on defense this year and we should have better health as well as depth. Durango 95, I believe you’re wrong about Bowles ceiling as a coach. Maybe you’ll change your mind about coach someday. It’ll have to be one win at a time, exactly the way he’s been doing it.
May 3rd, 2025 at 12:51 am
Would hate to see Bucky injured but I think the season could go on. Sean Tucker is a talent
May 3rd, 2025 at 8:35 am
I think there’s some kids on your lawn you need to go yell at Durango.
May 3rd, 2025 at 11:11 am
Durango 95 is spot on.
Kenton Smith Says:
“They’ve been in the running for the Super Bowl the last two years.”
Wow, just wow. Misinformation at the highest level.
Giving up 500 yards to Kirk Cousins means you have no defense what so ever.
And 1-2 in the playoffs the last two years without going to the NFC title game means you are not a contender.
Bowles is wasting this teams potential with the lousy scheme he continues to employ.
May 3rd, 2025 at 4:50 pm
Lol…You guys are great . Some really good points responding to my criticisms of what Ira has been saying about CTB. I take no pleasure writing what I did about “The Sage” . The man is well accomplished. A very entertaining raconteur. With a tremendous wit. But I also know that Ira is not losing any sleep with anything I might say. But I call it as I see it. Like others have said, it’s hard to believe what’s being said in this podcast. It’s a different reality. Ira has just become over the top. Now, hats-off to Joe for allowing the comments. Joe could have not allowed them and it would have been understandable. Joe is running a business, and has no obligation to post anything from any of us . So fair-play to JBF. Thumbs up.
Kenton Smith..It would be great if some of things I have been saying about CTB turned out be wrong. Specifically, about him having already reached his ceiling. To me, he has. If not for the offense last season this teams W-L record would have been miserable. Last season’s team was capable of bigger things. What a waste. If not for the offense, Bowles would likely not even have this job. His failings are almost legendary. The mid-season meltdowns, The horrific attacks against this defense from middling QB’s. The near certainess that he will not have his team to ready to play under the bright lights. The defensive collapses at crucial times. The constant blaming of the back-end communications. Now that one is something he has ben saying season after season. Good grief.
Alternatively I could say a lot of good things about Todd Bowles, the man. That is not in question. But, the coach…Well he has another season to prove that he can get this team over the top., right ? That doesn’t mean he has to win the SB. But for me this stuff has to stop. If it doesn’t then how could anyone ever say that he has not already reached his ceiling.? We have all seen this movie before and we all know how it ends.
May 3rd, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Defense was below average last season, but it was also ravaged with injuries..
Winfield – missed 8 games and was clearly still hobbled when he did come back and play.
Kancey – missed 4 or 5 games
SVD – played 2 or 3 games and then missed the rest of the season
Bryce Hall – missed entire season
Dean – missed 4.5 games (and we lost all of them)
Izien, Smith, Whitehead, McCollum, Edwards and Josh Hayes all missed at least 1 if not several games each as well.
As a team, the Bucs players missed a total of 201 games last season, 7th most in the league.