Todd Bowles Defends Benjamin Morrison
November 9th, 2025
Has rookie CBs’ back.
Joe knows a lot of Bucs fans erupted at Benjamin Morrison on social media for having been burned for a big play. Todd Bowles doesn’t want to hear the heckling.
Patriots rookie receiver Kyle Williams got just behind Morrison in the first quarter. The window to complete the pass was still tight. If Patriots quarterback Drake Maye underthrows that pass just a little bit, it’s picked by Morrison.
Maye threw a perfect pass and Williams turned that into a 72-yard touchdown.
Bowles was asked about Morrison early in his postgame remarks and Bowles pushed back on any criticism on Morrison.
“We’ve been putting him in all year,” Bowles said of the rotation Morrison has with Jamel Dean. “So the fact he gave up this play in this game, there’s no reason to single him out.
“We’re getting [Morrison] reps and Dean knows we get him reps. We have a system that we go with.
“The fact that we trust [Morrison] to make plays — he gave up a play. It doesn’t matter who is in there. If you give up a play we’re not going to give up on you.”
Bowles later said Morrison will learn from it and improve.
This was disappointing to see for Joe because, of course, the play resulted in a major explosive play, a touchdown. Also, Joe thought Morrison was making progress. Hey, he’s still a raw rookie. Morrison also looked sluggish and out of his element in over-the-middle coverage on a key fourth-quarter Patriots conversion with Dean and Zyon McCollum on the field at the same time.
Joe doesn’t agree with Bowles that it doesn’t matter who was on the field for the long touchdown reception. Are you trying to tell Joe that in an important game, it wouldn’t have been better to have your No. 1 corner on the field defending a rookie receiver?
November 9th, 2025 at 6:25 pm
He’s more worried about getting a rookie reps than winning the game.
Extra sensitive because Morrison is his friend’s boy.
That’s the way this reads.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:26 pm
Someone better defend someone. Bowles is headed fast to his coveted .500. It is his natural habitat.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:33 pm
He’s a rookie, he’ll learn and get better.
Do the people here with goldfish memory not remember the complete disaster that was the Bowles defense in early 2019 with the young corners, Dean, Davis, SMB, getting burned all the time, but by the end of the year they were playing pretty lights out. Well Morrison missed a bunch of time, this was what, his 5th or 6th game with a lot of playing time, with no preseason? He’ll get better.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:34 pm
I heard the old Godfather on WDAE. Making excuses. Didn’t make a whole lot of sense basically saying that IF it hadn’t been Morrison in the game at the time, then it would’ve been someone else, who would’ve given it up instead. Now, do what!? :/ okaaaayyy, gotchaaaa. Pffft.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:34 pm
The whole team looked like crap today. The defense is way healthier than the offense so, I’m extremely disappointed by that showing by our defense. I’m afraid we need a major overhaul on that side of the ball next year. This is not a championship level defense by any measure.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:35 pm
He sounded a lot more hurt on the radio than offended. More disappointed. He LOVES that kid. The Godfather.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:37 pm
He got burned last week but it was overthrown. So Dean has his best season but let’s bench him for a rookie with no camp time or preseason. Makes sense.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:45 pm
One bad play or one bad game does not mean anything.
Even the great Ronde Barber had a rough rookie year.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Zyon had a bad game
GO BUCS
November 9th, 2025 at 6:48 pm
He’ll get better. So will JTS, Braswell, YaYa, Dennis. Did YaYa play? Nelly covering receivers, Dennis misfitting caps. Got to coach it better, play it better. Wish I had a dollar for everytime Bowles has said that. Morrison, Dennis are his pets. Nothing is going to change. Bowles has taken this team as far as he’s capable. Don’t expect better.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:48 pm
Does ANYONE NOT think Dean is gonna get hurt and miss multiple games? When has that NOT happened? Makes sense to get his backup up to speed
November 9th, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Weak coaching
November 9th, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Benjamin Morrison had coaching at Notre Dame…here not so much.
November 9th, 2025 at 6:58 pm
DEI Coaching for another L
November 9th, 2025 at 7:08 pm
Lost a winnable game, a norm for any and all Todd Bowles coached teams
The lack of fire in the HC shows up several times a year and today is one of them
Offense was abysmal again, D can’t stop the run…
Yuk
November 9th, 2025 at 7:16 pm
Kick the XP in 3rd quarter = 1 point
Kick the 57 yd FG with 13 mins left on 4th and 3 = 3 points
Kick the 44 yard FG with under 2 minutes = 3
Points
7 points we apparently didn’t want. Lose by 5. Nobody is worse at their jobs than football coaches.
November 9th, 2025 at 7:27 pm
Bowles is straight garbage and waster our chance with this roster.
November 9th, 2025 at 7:44 pm
This is a Bowles loss. I know you guys at Joe Buck’s Fan World Headquarters love to defend him. But let’s be honest he can’t develop a pass rusher and his corners get beat all of the time. Let’s call it what it is this is a good team that’s carried a crap coach.
November 9th, 2025 at 7:54 pm
Mark my words, Morrison is going to be a good corner in this league, and I can’t stand Notre Dame!
November 9th, 2025 at 8:09 pm
Where was wnderboy, AWJ, our safety net? He had exactly 1 more tackles than me today
November 9th, 2025 at 8:55 pm
This team is simply not as sharp at home, as opposed to the road.
November 9th, 2025 at 8:56 pm
Why are things that are so easy for everyone else to see so difficult for bowles to see? Everything is a struggle with him. You don’t give a rookie reps when you’re playing a 7-2 team and your starter is (almost unbelievably) having a darn good season. If the ownership group, GM, and coach think we have a super bowl contending team this year, I’ve seen NO EVIDENCE of it. No trades to shore up a badly injured team with holes even at 100% (NO upgrade to Dennis available???), getting rookies reps at the expense of performance, the absolutely STUPID Reddick deal (did we learn nothing from the Randy Gregory situation?). It’s like everything is tilted to future seasons. I will alter my expectations to match theirs, first round exit, here we come!
November 9th, 2025 at 9:16 pm
there was no real need to break in morrison today…dean and zyon are fine…no need for morrison to be in there getting fried up by a top tier team…
and he was fried big time
November 9th, 2025 at 10:34 pm
Yeah. It’s the NFL. You put your best players in especially against an opponent like the Patriots. Morrison can get reps in during garbage time when the game is in hand. idk. Using TB logic, he should have put Teddy Bridgewater in to spell an obviously injured Baker. BM has not been himself for at least 3 games. And I get he wants to be ion the game. I’d like to think that Jamal Dean wants to be in too. But Baker is obviating with something and it’s hurting the team.
November 9th, 2025 at 10:58 pm
I Remember 21 Says:
November 9th, 2025 at 8:56 pm
Why are things that are so easy for everyone else to see so difficult for bowles to see? Everything is a struggle with him. You don’t give a rookie reps when you’re playing a 7-2 team and your starter is (almost unbelievably) having a darn good season.
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He’s the third corner, he’s not starting over anyone.
November 9th, 2025 at 11:25 pm
I was iffy on him from the beginning. Hopefully he does work out.
November 9th, 2025 at 11:33 pm
It absolutely matters, and if you’re going to rotate him with anyone- it should be Zyon. Dean has been our best corner by a mile this season, but genius Bowles wants to take him off the field…
Rotating cornerbacks… laughably dumb.
November 9th, 2025 at 11:34 pm
@TB92 – 💯
November 10th, 2025 at 12:07 am
@TB92
It’s been what I’ve been saying all along. All these coaches think they need to go by analytics when really it’s gonna come back & bite you in the end. It’ll backfire at some point & it really is destroying the sport because you don’t need to be gambling all the time. If you need to kick the FG or punt the ball then do it because what these teams & coaches must be forgetting is when you go for it & don’t get it you’re basically giving the other team momentum now. Especially if all you had to do was kick the FG or punt it. Look at that playoff game with Detroit & SF like the year before last when Campbell just went for it on 4th down constantly & passed on all those FGs & if they would’ve kicked them they would’ve made it to the Super Bowl instead.