Father Time Sacks The Bucs
October 20th, 2025
Bucs fans were painfully forced to watch franchise legend Mike Evans, the 32-year-old Hall of Fame receiver, struggle to walk off the field tonight with a broken collarbone and a head injury.
Minutes later, 31-year-old Haason Reddick was peeled off the turf and taken to the locker room on a cart, which likely drove by hobbled Chris Godwin watching on the sidelines.
It’s been a very rough season for the old Bucs. And Joe has very little hope of any of them bouncing back strong in 2025.
Reddick hasn’t done much, so Joe’s not sure whether he qualifies for a bounceback. Perhaps it’s still the Jets’ fault?
Joe would love to be a fly on the wall of Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht’s office this week. The Bucs need receiver help and the NFL trade deadline is Nov. 4.
Sure, one could argue the Bucs don’t need the receiver help and Evans and Godwin probably will return late in the season. But Joe’s goal is a top seed, not just making it to the postseason and hoping for the best.
An MVP quarterback needs weapons to be an MVP. The Bucs probably need to find one in a hurry.
An edge rusher would be nice but, well, receiver is probably much more important given the Bucs’ history.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:11 pm
The only time I heard Reddicks name was when the said he was injured and left the field. Other than that I wouldn’t have known he was on the field.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:11 pm
Naw we have the WRs we need more dline and LB help. Go make a trade for something Licht. You can do it! Go Bucs!
October 20th, 2025 at 11:12 pm
We are fortunate to have a shot of youth….Egbuka, Tez, JMac & Bucky…and a few on defense, Morrison, Tykee, Zion & Parrish..
October 20th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
The Mayfield MVP talk will calm down after his poor performance tonight. How many open receivers did he overthrow. He’s been amazing until tonight, not a good game by Mayfield.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Enough with the MVP stuff, especially after tonight!
October 20th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Don’t think Licht will do anything. It will remain a run what you brung season.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
I wish we would’ve got George Pickens
October 20th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
Time to trade with Arizona for Marvin Harrison Jr
October 20th, 2025 at 11:16 pm
Bubba Jason is not aware the Bucs have personnel issues.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:16 pm
How bad does that meaningless preseason injury to McMillan look now?
October 20th, 2025 at 11:19 pm
A swing tackle instead of a swinging door at RT would probably help the most.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:19 pm
WRs are coming back. Keep the picks or get a real pass rusher.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:22 pm
It’s time to move on from Mike.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Mike came to play, caught most everything thrown his way.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Pass rusher please!!!!!! And start Dion Jones instead of Dennis!
October 20th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
More than anything they need 2 veteran offensive linemen to protect mayfield from the harassment he endured tonight. A linebacker also wouldn’t hurt.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
More than anything they need 2 veteran offensive linemen to protect mayfield from the harassment he endured tonight. A linebacker also wouldn’t hurt.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:33 pm
We take for granted Evans’ longevity and consistency. Football Gods may have said we gave ya the record breaker last season…but you’re on your own now.
I don’t expect Godwin back in any meaningful capacity either. He’s clearly hobbled and nowhere near ready for live action anytime soon. Credit to him for pushing himself so hard though.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:35 pm
So by Nov. 4th, this incredibly deep, talent-rich, Superbowl-bound team only needs to trade for a WR, MLB, OLB and OT? Got it.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:37 pm
They should not let Dean walk. Seems like we always lose good corners.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:50 pm
Biggest need that is realistic to improve is a Guard. They can’t continue with the Jordan/Hagrid/Klein/whatever nonsense. Especially when they have to be next to Heck.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:51 pm
It was blatant less interfence on the Lions. Still, wide receivers are landing on their shoulder with defenders draped on them all the time. What made this an injury? Sort of reminds me of Kancy ‘s pec.. it was just an ordinary tackle.
October 20th, 2025 at 11:56 pm
0.01% Chance of a Trade
don’t expect any changes or at lease any meaningful trades. In his entire career Licht has acquired 1 player in a mid-season trade.
Steve McLendon – 2020
October 21st, 2025 at 12:15 am
I had Egbuka for OROTY before the season even started. He was pretty much gonna have to go in & start right away with all the WRs hurt & he’s definitely gonna be counted on now with Evans gonna be out now. It really wouldn’t surprise me if both Evans & Godwin really did consider retiring after this year. They’re constantly injured now.
October 21st, 2025 at 1:08 am
Resigning Godwin was a gamble that we should’ve passed on. The injury was just too severe for him to return to his old glory anytime soon.
October 21st, 2025 at 1:26 am
We’re witnessing the final year for Mike in Tampa.
He’s now an injury prone, old receiver and his next Bucs contract should reflect that but another team will over pay.
October 21st, 2025 at 5:34 am
Mike will be back. He has come back many times and will not want to leave as injured. He doesn’t give up.
October 21st, 2025 at 6:08 am
Joe … ‘But Joe’s goal is a top seed, not just making it to the postseason and hoping for the best.’
All Bucs’ fans are probably hoping for the same thing Joe (a top seed), but even with a 5-2 record that looks to be very wishful thinking. I’m more concerned now with us even making the playoffs. We’ve still got 5 division games to go, and in case no one’s noticed, Atlanta & Carolina are each only 1 loss behind us. And both of them look to be in a LOT better physical condition right now than we are.
Bucs’ offense has sustained some unthinkable losses: Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Jalen McMillan, Bucky Irving, Luke Goedeke, Cody Mauch. That’s 6 key players right there who’ve missed half the season or more to this point, and will surely miss a lot more. Our losses aren’t nearly as bad on defense (Calijah Kancey, JJ Roberts, David Walker), but the reality IMO is that our defense isn’t nearly as robust as our offense. Virtually every defensive position group needs ‘beefing up’.
Bucs have 10 games left, and winning 6 of those, even with a badly depleted roster, SHOULD be feasible. That’d put us at 11-6 and HOPEFULLY allow us to win the NFC South. The playoffs are a whole different ballgame as we saw in 2020 … anything can happen.
October 21st, 2025 at 6:29 am
Reddicks best play was when he pushed the lineman into Goff and Dean picked it off. Other than that he’s been alright, but we need to be better off the edge. The Bucs defense came to play tonight which is what we’ve been waiting for. If it wasn’t for them we get blown out. Baker will bounce back and we will be fine, we need to have faith in the rookies. If anything we could go get Lockett
October 21st, 2025 at 6:41 am
“We have receivers coming back.” – says a commenter. Nice man. Who? You mean like Chris Godwin? Who promptly got hurt his first game back? You mean like Mike Evans? Who couldn’t even make it a HALF? You DO know Jalen McMillan isn’t coming back anytime soon right? I swear you guys show more loyalty to guys you do not know than to your own wives. It’s incredible. If you think a continuing revolving door is sustainable then that’s delusional at best. Fans are worse than players than knowing when it’s time to move on, it’s quite incredible – and even advocate cutting nose despite face by handing out legacy contracts that does nothing more than to stunt the future of the team and you buy in to the notion that optics somehow galvanizes the locker room
October 21st, 2025 at 6:56 am
Welcome to 1 Buc Place. Home of the elderly and affirmed.
October 21st, 2025 at 7:36 am
If Evans wants to, he can easily come back from this. A broken clavicle is pretty common. Aside from broken fingers, it’s one of the most commonly broken bones. I’ve had my clavicle broken and it’s not that big a deal. He’s definitely not playing this season and not sure if he’ll be back for the playoffs or not but he could play next year if he actually wants to enough. It’s up to him.
October 21st, 2025 at 8:03 am
Convert Watson to Oline where we need the help. Right now I feel like the WR’s we have need more reps and targets. Young, healthy and fast. Where were the Kam Johnson and Ryan Miller targets? They took out Egbuka from the game plan so those guys needed touches. We threw over 50 times and ran 11 or 12. Never a good sign. Grizzard will learn from this one. We’ll be alright
October 21st, 2025 at 8:34 am
Watched the game again.
Biggest problem was the Oline.
Aiden Hutchinson owned Wirfs, Heck.Bredeson , and company.
We missed a lot of our wounded last night,
But none more than Mauch and Goedeke.
Couldn’t run, no time to pass.
Our line let Mayfield take a beating last night.
We can’t afford another game like that. Mayfield is the one loss we can’t work around.especially with all of our starting WRs sitting on the sideline.
October 21st, 2025 at 1:11 pm
i mean heck what can you do but i will say i have never seen this many injuries to major players to one team/ one season