Matching Brady
October 26th, 2025
Four years ago the Bucs entered the bye week with a 6-2 record. They were fresh off getting skewered by the slimy Saints after Tom Brady threw a late pick-6 and the Bucs lost 36-27 in New Orleans.
Before that, the last Bucs team to start a season 6-2 was the 2002 Super Bowl team.
Joe points this out because it’s important to understand just how special the start of this Bucs season has been. After choking out the slimy Saints today in a blowout victory, Tampa Bay stands at 6-2, tied atop the NFC with the Eagles.
The grumpy fans will poke endless holes in the Bucs, but none will be able to wipe the smile off Joe’s face.
The bye week is next, arriving at the perfect time. And then the Bucs get tested by the Patriots, the Rams and the Bills in consecutive weeks before the schedule gets pillowy soft.
Joe likes the setup. A much healthier Bucs team will get to test itself against some of the best, with plenty of time to make adjustments afterwards.
The season is setting up nicely. Now go get help before the trade deadline!
October 26th, 2025 at 8:34 pm
Jeffrey Simmons would be great!!!….but any trade is a long shot
We need to go healthy along the oline….
Season is setting up nicely
GO BUCS
October 26th, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Just remember we need pressures not performances like Mr. Nelson put on display today.
October 26th, 2025 at 8:37 pm
List is too long for help. Thought this could be the year but Grizz just is not the guy, too many injuries and really stars and highly paid people are not playing up to SB levels
Parrish is going to be all pro in years to come
October 26th, 2025 at 8:44 pm
We have no head coach, long live BM6
October 26th, 2025 at 8:44 pm
Can’t wait until we get the letter from the NFL this week saying there was no phantom whistle and Winfield’s TD should have stood. The Bucs should literally frame all the letters they get from the NFL saying, “oops our bad.”
Actually that call was so terrible the FBI literally needs to investigate. With as awful as the on-field refs are, that BS came from New York, where they overturned the play. If there was this phantom whistle, then why did none of the Saints players not stop, why did none of the Bucs players stop, how is it one person in New York heard it when no one else did.
Sort of like last week when New York ruled, for the first time in my life, that a tie on a reception goes to the defense.
Oh, speaking of New York, isn’t that the home of the five families?
October 26th, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Rod Munch I agree – this is getting out of hand.
October 26th, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Stop lolligagging get Garrett
October 26th, 2025 at 8:50 pm
Haters have 2 eat crow for 2weeks lol!!!!!!!
No one is listening to you chump!!!!!
GO BUCS
October 26th, 2025 at 8:52 pm
Aqua you were wrong about the defense and Bowles again!!!!!!!!!
Pick the feathers out of your mouth!!!!!!
6-2
GO BUCS
October 26th, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Just get healthy, when is Godwin and McMillian and bucky coming back
October 26th, 2025 at 9:04 pm
These Bowles fanbois are real school girls
October 26th, 2025 at 9:05 pm
We don’t have enough ammo to get Garrett. What are you guys smoking?
October 26th, 2025 at 9:09 pm
Bucs did what they needed to do, in spite of the continued interference by NFL in NY. Every week it seems like momentum is stolen from the Bucs thru awful officiating. I will take the win, and the 6-2 record at the halfway point. Chucky used say it was a long season and try and to break down the season into 4 quarters looking to win each quarter.
October 26th, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Garrett? The Browns aren’t trading him, not even they are that stupid.
The best hope the Bucs realistic have is getting Trey Hendrickson, in particular with Cinny losing to the Jets today. Would take another loss I think to get them to trade him, but probably wouldn’t take more than 3rd I wouldn’t think.
Obviously the one guy to go after would be Crosby, maybe a couple of 1st’s get it done, if that was the price, I’d pay it since he’s more than a rental. But the Raiders also reportedly meet with him in person to tell him he’s not being traded, so if true, that almost certainly means he’s not getting traded – where as if they just said he’s not available without the meeting, that would mean they are moving him.
October 26th, 2025 at 9:21 pm
#whistlegate = when a defense player is +700 on the moneyline for a anytime TD.
October 26th, 2025 at 9:25 pm
Someone is eating more than crow tonight lol!!!!!!
GO BUCS
October 26th, 2025 at 9:28 pm
The Bucs need to trade for a right guard badly and we need to get Goedeke back ASAP
October 27th, 2025 at 4:41 am
Wyatt Teller (RG) is the (realistic) trade I’d like to see most. Would cost almost nothing on the cap, and is a clear one year rental (so fits the timeline with Cody). Likely not a huge trade price on him either, given he’s in the final year of his deal and about to turn 31, so less teams would look at him as a long term option in trade.
Less realistic (but not bananas like Myles Garrett)? A big time edge rusher would be the obvious spot. Trey Hendrickson. There would be other (more realistic) options at the position, but not blue chips – Jermaine Johnson looks the best of them to me – 7.5 sacks in his only full season as a starter, has a not huge contract for ’26 as well. Jaelan Phillips is maybe the other guy, though he’s more expensive this year and off contract next.