Haason Reddick Talks About His Bucs Debut
September 7th, 2025
The Bucs got a huge drive-killing, third-down sack from their new edge rusher today.
What a sweet thing of beauty it was. Haason Reddick is officially in the house, and he matched his sack total for all of last season with the Jets.
“I felt good, man. We got the Dub,” Reddick told Joe after the game.
On Reddick’s pass rush day, Joe thought Reddick missed a couple of sacks and the veteran seemed to agree. “I felt like it was ok, speaking on my pass rush. I gotta watch the tape, I probably could have had a couple more,” he said.
Overall, Reddick said Week 1 is its own animal and it’s important to understand that for any defense.
“First game, we all got things to work on. Especially the way this game went I can tell,” Reddick said. “It’s just about now getting out there and making the corrections in practice and getting better on game day.”
Joe and many Bucs fans saw Reddick playing off the line of scrimmage quite a bit in the first half. Joe’s not sure Reddick prefers that, based on his body language, but he’s saying the right things.
“It was cool,” Reddick said of playing off the line several times. “I’m just doing what the team asked me. No problem. I’m comfortable with it if that’s what I’m asked.”
On the Falcons 18-play, 91-yard drive that ate nearly 9 minutes and ended in a late fourth-quarter touchdown — and nearly gave Joe a stroke — Reddick acknowledged it was a wild series.
“Just crazy. A lot of time. A lot of referees in the way,” Reddick said. “But I guess that’s the way the game goes.”
September 7th, 2025 at 6:06 pm
The pass rush was pretty bad
September 7th, 2025 at 6:06 pm
While the pass rush overall wasn’t great, Reddick’s lone sack was easily a 4 point play forcing the field goal. Looks pretty good looking at the final score
September 7th, 2025 at 6:07 pm
maybe he’s not all world but certainly serviceable and a huge upgrade from jts. defense did great except for that long drive in the fourth, they can be even better next week, i don’t think anyone got hurt
September 7th, 2025 at 6:08 pm
he’s on par to have 17 sacks!! lol
September 7th, 2025 at 6:10 pm
Pass rush definitely got better later in the game. When you need it to. Great win.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:10 pm
A bunch of them were in there several times, but didn’t finish. They could’ve had 3-4 sacks. Overall, it was pretty good, great against the run.
Coverage was decent but way too soft towards the end.
Zion should’ve had an INT. That has got to change.
The offense wasn’t bad for a makeshift line thrown together before the game, but Baker, as accurate as some passes were, missed a bunch of throws as well.
But, a lot of positives and a lot of things to work on.
Missing receivers 2 & 3 and half the line… I’ll take the W.!
September 7th, 2025 at 6:10 pm
Loser……..Fire Bowls
September 7th, 2025 at 6:11 pm
What was there three gifts from the Refs keeping Falcon drives alive by penalty calls.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:11 pm
I agree with his ref comments. He is a veteran and a cool head, being careful to avoid retaliaton by the league.
The league needs to cool it with some of these dubious calls
September 7th, 2025 at 6:15 pm
The D overall didn’t have a very good game. He was up against a backup all day and really didn’t dominate like he should have. Yaya had his sack taken away and Vea and Kancey had some good push. Hopefully they take a big step forward here in week 2.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:15 pm
Bro is gonna get fined now lol. Was one play I think both the edge almost sandwiched penix, but he ran forward. He disappeared at times imo, but that was the pass rush in general TODAY. Was hoping for more heat, too comfortable. Hoping he keeps building off this
September 7th, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Pennix was just dumping it to Robinson really quick whenever we got pressure.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:18 pm
He was invisible the rest of the game. The defense is bad
September 7th, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Yes Reddick is a big upgrade over JTS.
He played the run very well. His pass rush applied pressure several times & yes he left at least 1 more sack out on the field. Bucs defense absolutely played better than last year. ATL took the opening kickoff and scored in only 3 plays. Then the defense settled in and played above average for the rest of the game (dropping at least 2 interceptions) until the referees awarded ATL with 5 extra plays in the end.
Holding the falcons to 20 pts on the road is so much better than what we witnessed last year. BUCS will only get better if we are light on injuries this year. Damn good pick up JL!
Go BUCS!
We Beat Atlanta
September 7th, 2025 at 6:22 pm
Diaby should have had a sack too if not for Dean’s stupid face mask penalty.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:23 pm
They were prepared for the pass rush today. I don’t know the timing but Penix unloaded the ball very fast all day to avoid the rush. those slants are almost impossible to defend, unless you have the ref’s in your pocket. JK. I have to give Atl credit, Pennix got the ball out a split second before the rush got there consistantly. Buc’s need to work on that.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:24 pm
Pass rush was fine for its first game together as a full front 7, but the ball was coming out to the first read and fast. That’s expected with an offense play with men down on their OL.
I personally didn’t expect this front 4 to be at its peak out the gate, liked some of what they showed and betting they improve the more they play together.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:33 pm
Truthfully, holding calls and Atlanta’s tackle moving ahead of the snap were never called….Baker was hit in the head on one play not called…the offiating was clearly one sided and Bucs still found a way to win in spite of that mess…well done.
I still don’t know how they were able to put time on the clock after another play had been run….I think they put it back to 21 seconds in the 4th quarter.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Looked like a typical Bowles defense—keep bending and then finally break. A 19 play drive that ate up most of the 4th quarter resulting in a ATL TD? Even after the Bucs go ahead TD in Q4, ATL moved the ball way to easily for a tying field goal try. It’s not good defense if a great kicker misses a 44yrd game tying kick. It’s mostly luck; but, Bucs are entitled to some luck once in awhile.
Mayfield will have to throw 3 TD’s each week to compensate for what remains a very bad pass defense.
September 7th, 2025 at 6:57 pm
Miller5252 … ‘The D overall didn’t have a very good game.’
Kinda depends what measuring stick you’re using. Last season a 20.0 PPG Allowed would’ve ranked us between #7 and #8 defensively. However, today the Falcons’ offense gained 358 total yards versus our 260 total yards, with them having 71 plays to our 56 plays. Falcons TOP was 35 minutes to our 25 minutes. Fortunately we kept them off the scoreboard (and they helped by keeping themselves off the scoreboard).
Falcons’ offense impressed me, and it’ll get better very quickly this season. And their defense really impressed me. They’ll be trouble for us this year.
September 7th, 2025 at 7:17 pm
Agreed QB6. There was movement back off the line by the RT before the ball was snapped the entire game. I kept wondering why the line judge was missing the call ? Also there were a number of times Atl’s Dline was using hands to the face. never called….
September 7th, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Fire Bowles !!!!
September 7th, 2025 at 7:46 pm
Outside of letting them get into FG position on the last drive I thought the defense was much improved.
September 7th, 2025 at 8:05 pm
Not impressed at all.
September 7th, 2025 at 8:15 pm
A lot if referees in the way. Damn straight!
September 7th, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Well, we did have another sack by Diaby called back due to a stupid penalty down the field. There was some pressure at times, but not like what I saw from the Falcons against us. We need a lot more pressure than what we got today.
September 7th, 2025 at 9:00 pm
D.R.
I agree and was going to post a version of your take. Perhaps not quite as strong but I do agree the Falcons and Raheem have talent.
My view is that many fans are so ingrained with hate for the opponents they can’t give credit and an honest assessment. I think Rah is a much better coach than most here believe. He had the Falcons fired up.
But the Falcons like the Bucs had ‘first gameitis”. Both teams played as if many of their starters skipped the preseason entirely…oh wait that’s exactly what they did and it showed at times. Both teams had the excuse of patched together OL’s and both teams survived.
All in all this was a great win! Yes it was an incredibly UGLY win but that’s how you know a team is good, when they start winning the UGLY games. The stupid Dean penalty, Chase McLaughlin’s uncharacteristic misses, the two roughing penalties, Baker’s inconsistency…the Bucs made their share of mistakes but they also made some nice plays.
ON TO HOUSTON!!!
September 7th, 2025 at 10:01 pm
His stats were slightly better than Micah Parsons, at 1/3 the price
September 7th, 2025 at 10:01 pm
Atlanta might hire Trask as a backup. Both he and Penix are pocket passers.
September 7th, 2025 at 10:51 pm
Have to be realistic about this game. The defense for whatever reasons allowed ATL to possess the ball for 19 plays eating up 9.5 minutes before they score. After Baker rallies the team for a score, the defense allows Penix to move the ball quickly into field goal position. Dean allowed Hodge to be open in the end zone for the winning score and Hodge didn’t pick up a catchable ball. Finally, Koo a reliable kicker misses a game tying field goal at the buzzer. The defense was poor ,again, when it mattered. Bucs were lucky to escape with a W. Don’t see a greatly improved defense with the exception of having a health Winfield Jr.
September 7th, 2025 at 10:54 pm
There were some outstanding plays on both Offense and Defense today.
They won. In Atlanta. Which they did not do last year.
I choose to focus on the good.
September 7th, 2025 at 11:16 pm
Totally agree with everything buc4evr and QB6 said- Plus a couple times in 1st half play clock was 0.0 for Falcons, not called.. Plus, falcons “tight coverage” got there a tad early more than once, never called! And Vita’s “roughing the passer” call was patty-cake; he kept his helmet up, put his two hands out on Pennix shoulder pads to lessen the blow, come on man!? If that was Suh a few years ago Pennix helmet is in his own end zone, and he’s knocked out! I admit to being an OG Bucs “Homer”, but officiating today was super one-sided. They got the dub anyway, and they’re only going to get better. Go Bucs!