Report: Bucs To Play Rams In Thanksgiving Nightcap
May 12th, 2025
Considering WDAE radio host Pat Donovan sent this directly Joe’s way, and considering Donovan is employed by the Buccaneers Radio Network, Joe is taking this to the bank.
This evening, Donovan dropped via X that the Bucs will play Thanksgiving night at the Rams.
The fourth Thursday in November just got a lot better!
Of course, Thursday night games are brutal for the road team, and a cross-country trip is never ideal. However, Joe did hear a little chatter last week from important people that perhaps the NFL will schedule the Bucs’ game at Seattle immediately before or after the Los Angeles game, so the Bucs can have an option to spend a full week on the west coast and avoid multiple long trips.
The official 2025 schedule will be released Wednesday night at 8 p.m.
Donovan is likely to share a little more tomorrow on The Pat And Aaron Show.
I have a trustworthy friend who’s got a source telling him it’s going to be @Buccaneers at @RamsNFL as the nightcap on Thanksgiving! #Bucs #WeAreTheKrewe #RamsHouse pic.twitter.com/qhRsNBLRpJ
— Pat Donovan🎙⭕ (@PatDonovanRadio) May 12, 2025
May 12th, 2025 at 8:35 pm
Hope this Seattle game happens the week before.
Go Bucs!
May 12th, 2025 at 8:35 pm
Any given Sunday (Thursday). We thought the Charges game was going to be rough and we steamrolled them.
May 12th, 2025 at 8:43 pm
‘Thursday night games are brutal for the road team, and a cross-country trip is never ideal.’
Add to that the Bucs seem to implode on national stage, and they have the same disappointment as DC, SO, a LOT of challenges between them and a win!
May 12th, 2025 at 8:51 pm
So not only a West Coast night game on a short week, but there’s a chance they spend Thanksgiving week away from home? Ugh.
May 12th, 2025 at 8:54 pm
Tye, they don’t implode, they just play against better competition in nationally televised night games. I can;t remember one game last season where the team imploded. Maybe the coaching staff but not the players.
May 12th, 2025 at 9:08 pm
Well, that’s an L.
I figured that regardless the Bucs will lose vs the Rams, since that’s just the way things are, at least this takes care of a west coast road game, Thursday night game and prime time game all in one sweep, all games the Bucs tend to do poorly in.
May 12th, 2025 at 9:12 pm
Yeah that stinks if true, IMO. We suck in prime time as it is, but a short week cross country trip? Oof.
Hopefully the Seattle game is the previous Sunday so they can stay out west and then have extra time to rest afterwards at home.
May 12th, 2025 at 9:19 pm
The league seldom does us any scheduling favors.
May 12th, 2025 at 9:25 pm
If I could pick a night game, I’d take it in LA. Bucs in recent history (last 6-7 years) have had decent success in LA. 2 wins against the chargers and tight games vs the Rams.
May 12th, 2025 at 9:25 pm
@Rod – if this holds, that means Bucs are getting 2 Thursday night games this season. Turrible
May 12th, 2025 at 9:25 pm
Break the trend on night games against the Rams… have we beat the Rams in an evening game since the Shaun King and Warrick Dunn first down. Will it be a mustard and ketchup game for the late night turkey sandwich
May 12th, 2025 at 9:29 pm
All of their games need to be either 1:00 or 4:00 because they seem to go to sleep from 8:00 on. Seriously it’s like they all just go to sleep because yeah they very rarely do anything during a primetime game. It’s like they’re a bunch of birds or something. They must go to sleep when the sun goes down.
May 12th, 2025 at 9:47 pm
All them high character Christian boys, they ain’t used to being up late
May 12th, 2025 at 10:04 pm
there are a few things the books need to do to make themselves a great team instead of just a good team of wins 10 games and a deal for division.
1. Play much better defense against the pass… of course
2. 6 – 0 in NFCS for once
3. Have a very good home record
4. Win the close ones agains teams with a winning record
5. Be well over .500 in week night and Sun evening games
6. Win 12 games min
I realize it’s a tough list to hit on all six but we need to hit on most of this list to truly be considered great… good health is pretty much mandatory.
May 12th, 2025 at 10:05 pm
… and we really have to avoid that mid-season slump we’ve been doing for a couple years.
May 12th, 2025 at 10:39 pm
Baker at so-fi…. Win in rams debut. Crush Denver as a ram in that building. Crush chargers too. I think bake gets fired up to play in so if.
May 12th, 2025 at 11:49 pm
The day after Baker asked for his release at Carolina Sean McVay had him on a plane to LA. After the Rams crushed Denver 51-14 – Denver had the 3rd best defense in the NFL that year- he was all over the media talking about it being way past incredible what he’d witnessed in 3 weeks. He knows Baker very well and he knows very well with the offense Baker’s bringing to SO-FI that he’s the underdog. At Home. He will have no problem convincing his team that they are the underdogs. No matter. Just another rock in the road. Can’t wait to see Kancy and Reddick and Vea and YaYa zero in on Stafford. 35-14 Bucs. I love Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday. Is this a sign?
May 12th, 2025 at 11:59 pm
Loss for the Bucs. Prime time game and Mcvay is too much for Bowles.
May 13th, 2025 at 12:04 am
Off topic, but the Bengals aren’t communicating with Hendrickson.
They are only obligated to pay him 15M this season. Seems to me he’d play for 25 somewhere else if that’s all they’re gonna do.
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May 13th, 2025 at 12:24 am
Puro RAMS
May 13th, 2025 at 12:25 am
Puro rams…gonna b tough…
May 13th, 2025 at 12:26 am
From the OC
May 13th, 2025 at 12:27 am
RAMS
May 13th, 2025 at 12:28 am
Just sayin
May 13th, 2025 at 12:42 am
Chalk it up. Bucs come out flat and seem bewildered that Stafford throws for 420 yards and 4 touchdowns while completing 43 passes. The Rams never punt. But Todd is proud that his defense only allowed 85 yards on the ground.
May 13th, 2025 at 2:03 am
Was literally just thinking the exact same thing, at this exact same moment, right before reading your comment, Jmarkbuc!”
May 13th, 2025 at 5:59 am
The good and the bad here.
Ouch! A night road game on a short week. That hasn’t exactly been a strong point for us over the past few years.
On the other hand, year after year of watching the Cowboys and the Lions on Thanksgiving day is about as exciting as watching a couple of mules fightin’ over a turnip.
May 13th, 2025 at 6:43 am
I know we tend to have a history of doing poor on specific days and time frames, oh yeah, what uniform we are wearing…smh. Prime time games have not been kind to us either, nor Holiday games. That beings said, at some point, it would be nice to have a team that’s going to rise to these moments, I know we all want that, Brady gave us a taste of it. I think it’s that in a close game, even when this team wasn’t stacked with talent, he simply refused to lose. This team just doesn’t feel like that.
At some point, for us as fans it would be nice for us not to chalk up a loss prior to the season even starting. I get where you guys are coming from, hell JBF and other Bucs support sites do the same thing…and so do I. But do you think the Bills, Ravens, Chiefs, Eagles, Lions look at a schedule and actually see a loss when their schedule drops? I mean they may see a dog fight coming, but a loss? Lions don’t think they can lose any game in their house.
I hope this team is building toward that kind of swagger, I just hate not knowing what team is going to show up on game day.
May 13th, 2025 at 6:47 am
Bucs win. Easy. I’m not even addressing all of the doubt on here from supposed other Bucs “fans.” New year, new team (mentally).
May 13th, 2025 at 7:26 am
This sounds great! The coaches will have our players ready for it.
May 13th, 2025 at 7:51 am
heyjude, this team keeps getting more exciting. Big reason is as you say “The coaches will have our players ready for it”. What happens next with this kind of team is that the players will take accountability to be “ready for it”. Good coaching promotes just that. This team has been a pleasure to watch even though we’ve come up short these last couple of years. We’re getting better faster than anyone right now. I think this team is going to make some Tampa Bay history these next 5 years and you and I know- we have a hell of a coach.
May 13th, 2025 at 8:14 am
And to think, A full week on the West coast used to sound appealing to this fan. I would describe that trip way differently thses days.
Go Bucs!
May 13th, 2025 at 8:43 am
Hopefully puck prone Staford shows up and our pass defense is better than last year if those 2 things happen it will be a long night for the rams!!!
Go Bucs!!!
May 13th, 2025 at 8:43 am
Pick*
May 13th, 2025 at 9:22 am
California needs to break off and fall into the sea.
May 13th, 2025 at 9:24 am
It would be nice to have a bye before Thursday night game(s)…..