Let’s Be Real: Bucs Are Not A Good Team
November 24th, 2025
Bucs are a bad team.
Since all the injuries to the offense mounted and defenses began respecting Emeka Egbuka, and since the Bucs defense started playing as if Mike Smith returned to coach them, this Bucs team has turned bad.
In fact, the way the Bucs are playing, they are not looking anything like a playoff team.
They look like a team with a top-10 pick in the draft.
Since the bye, the Bucs’ defense is getting lit up like a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. Every week it seems like a quarterback has a career day or sets personal records. First it was Drake Maye. Then Josh Allen. Sunday night it was Matt Stafford’s turn.
The Bucs offense is in disarray. The Bucs defense is an unholy sieve. Chris Godwin’s return helped but by the time it seemed the Bucs offense got into gear, the game was over. Baker Mayfield hitting Tez Johnson was the lone Bucs touchdown.
Getting chain-whipped tonight, the Bucs had little choice but to deviate from the run game.
Once Emeka Egbuka was moved to No. 1 receiver by necessity because of injuries, the passing game waned and Egbuka has gone from Offensive Rookie of the Year leader to being suffocated by defenses.
Bucky Irving wasn’t running the ball well when he got hurt but he was dangerous in the passing game.
Simply put, the Bucs are not a good team right now. They are playing like a team hellbent on a top-10 draft pick, not a team that two months ago had Super Bowl aspirations.
There is very little good this team is doing.
Joe thinks if the Bucs really do have good coaches, they will find a way to snap this team out of its funk. And they better find a way fast. Otherwise, when the cavalry does show up (Mike Evans, Bucky Irving, Calijah Kancey), it will be too late.
The Bucs simply do not look like a playoff team the past three weeks. They look closer to one of the wretched Bucs teams during the Lost Decade.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:09 am
“The Bucs defense is an unholy sieve.”
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Well. not to be picky. But if the sieve is unholy then how can it be considered a sieve? It’s the holes that make the magic happen. So to speak.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:11 am
Without magic comebacks the first three weeks… this is a 3-8 sinkhole of a team. This shows just how much Liam Coen meant to this team and Baker Mayfield. Im smelling a musky draft and these owners need to clean house. Bowles, Grizzard and Licht need to go. A freshness needs to be brought in the Bucs head shed…
November 24th, 2025 at 1:12 am
Nothing changes if nothing changes, we need a new defensive coordinator.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:13 am
I see a 7-10 record in our future. Or 8-9 tops
We suck.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:15 am
I agree with Joe, lately this looks like one of the worst teams in the NFL.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:15 am
A few games of tape on Grizzard was all it took. He is not the answer. Our studs are either out hurt or playing hurt or playing old. Our Oline is incomplete and porous. Our QB is our most consistent runner and now hurt. This team has no identity.
But I don’t think they’ll get rid of Bowles without a solid plan to replace him. So it’ll be on Licht to fix the defensive front seven and on Bowles to find another new OC.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:16 am
I do not think Bowles knpws how to fix the D, else he would have.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:18 am
I guess once again we have to watch them showboat when beating up on lesser teams when Bowles pretends beating losers means they turned the corner and fixed things AGAIN. 3 years in a row and all we get is the year but because apparently it’s a hot take to call Bowles a bad coach
November 24th, 2025 at 1:29 am
Tall qb,s make a difference. Tall receivers are bigger targets.
Egbuka is not Tall and stellar Mike Evans.
Just like the NBA, it’s about height and athleticism at the qb and wr position.
We don’t have to worry about a Baker Mayfield 55 million dollar contract next year. He is simply to short..
Add a a few TALL WR’s like Evans and we’re good.
Good luck.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:33 am
Let’s be honest 100%…. Todd Bowles is not a ” Defensive Guru .” He lacks in so many ways that the exposure has come to light. Time and time again the Buccaneers defense were bought and paid for by the Rams today but this has been the case for several weeks now. Get another head coach. Baker Mayfield deserves better help.
November 24th, 2025 at 1:33 am
I was there to the bitter end. The Rams fans were at least nice about it. Shame that was my son’s first live football game. He asked me why we couldn’t do what the Rams were doing. I didn’t have any excuses to offer. Even before Mayfield left, we just don’t look like a capable team. My son said it looked like JV playing varsity. I hope they turn things around. Go Bucs!