“Everybody Needs To Take A Hard Look In The Mirror”
November 23rd, 2025
Lavonte David
“Everybody needs to take a hard look in the mirror. I’ll tell you that,” said Lavonte David in the somber Bucs postgame locker room tonight.
Todd Bowles had a response that Joe didn’t like.
Joe gets what David was saying. And the Bucs’ iconic linebacker explained further on the Buccaneers Radio Network, saying players need to decide what kind of players they want to be.
Bowles was told of David’s comments and suggested veterans need to help young players do that if they need help. Frankly, Joe thinks the veteran Buccaneers probably need more of a gut check than the young guys, and it might be time for Bowles and his coaching staff to take over the failing leadership of the roster.
Any examination that involved a mirror should have happened for Bucs defensive players last week. That didn’t happen, it seems, because players, including David, were certain they were on the right track.
Something dreadfully wrong led to a truly heartless performance tonight against the Rams.
The Bucs rolled over in so many ways. The team will need a lot more than a mirror to pull out of this ditch.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:00 am
I see no smoke for Jason Licht. Everyone roasting Browles. What about this weak front 7?
November 24th, 2025 at 12:00 am
You can look in the mirror in one hand and crap in the other…
November 24th, 2025 at 12:01 am
They have quit
They have tuned out Bowles.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:01 am
Starting with the Cheap ass Glaziers. Only reason they resigned Toilet Bowel was he was cheap and no one else would sign him. 3.5 mil a year for a head coach!!! Lol!!!!
November 24th, 2025 at 12:01 am
You have my email, why don’t you respond and let me know what I’m doing wrong that has posts disappear because the vast majority of the time it’s just valid points with no cursing, so I do not get it at all
November 24th, 2025 at 12:02 am
It’s certainly not DAVID’S fault. It’s the lack of bringing in the RIGHT PLAYERS and making good decisions on how to COORDINATE THE DEFENSE.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:02 am
Winning the division doesn’t look good tonight.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:03 am
Sincerest thanks for all your stellar play over the years and always leaving it all out on the field Lavonte. You reached the Pinnacle, but always deserved better all those other seasons; including this one.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:04 am
A new HC and a real DC would be a great start.
Otherwise this is far from rock bottom.
We are now the laughing stock of the NFL.
They should have saved everyone time and anguish and just forfeit the game.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:06 am
People who STRONGLY WANTED Bowels to pan out focused entirely on what they wanted to see and ignored the red flags that so many of us were trying to spread awareness…. Hopefully now the players and the owners see true reality that the Bucs are in grave NEED for a quality winner as HC!
November 24th, 2025 at 12:07 am
Well Todd needs to coach it better but otherwise his players are always doing it wrong.
They don’t execute, they don’t communicate properly, they get bored and now the vets aren’t providing the proper leadership.
Weren’t any mirrors around last week before heading into an NFC primetime game!? Probably going on 3 weeks without a padded practice cause of the flu bug. Team is soft.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:07 am
Lavonte was with the green dot tonight. Is that new? I thought it was Dennis the responsible for D calls
November 24th, 2025 at 12:07 am
Again, they always lose this game, and they always look awful – doesn’t matter if they win a SB or not, this game is always a disaster.
Some things are just the way they are.
In 2002, it was the late season MNF game vs the Steelers where the Bucs got manhandled and lost.
In 2020, it was the week 9 SNF game vs the Saints where they looked complete inept and got blown out.
This is just what the Bucs do. Every time. Good or bad.
Just don’t let it become something bigger. Go get the win next week, then we’re 7-5 and everything will look fine once again.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:08 am
Remember last year when the Lions had 18 players on IR and the team quit on Dan Campbell? Neither do I.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:08 am
Realistically guys, it just doesn’t look good from here on out. Baker will be out at least a couple weeks, possibly depending on what the MRI says. If he does come back, if won’t be at full. Teddy is certainly not the answer. What do we do about QB position? There’s only a few games left.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:08 am
“Everybody…” well at that point it’s a top to bottom issue. Let’s start at the top and replace Bowles and his coaching staff. The “old” veterans taking a lot of cap space money and not performing or leading need to go. The team needs a leadership rebuild. Especially on defense. If Bowles is the coach next year, I will expect at best that the Bucs barely get into the playoffs and are done in one game or have a losing season. Glazers have to see that we are not improving and maybe that’s what’s needed to make the leadership change.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:13 am
Stallworth Says:
November 24th, 2025 at 12:08 am
Remember last year when the Lions had 18 players on IR and the team quit on Dan Campbell? Neither do I.
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You mean the 15-2 Lions that lost to Tampa, and then got blown out in their home playoff game? Those Lions?
November 24th, 2025 at 12:13 am
So let me get this straight. The team quits on Todd Bowles and he is helpless to fix it. His solution is that the vets need to right the ship? What kind of leadership is that? Every time the TV pans over to him he is just standing on the side lines watching the game. Not talking to anyone, not trying to fire anyone up, certainly not coaching. At this point he is just a spectator like you and I.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:14 am
Boowles cannot change who he is. Lavonte David has been around long enough to know when a team is tuning things out. Maybe that is what he saw tonight, guys who are not fully invested. Now that could be due to the fact that Bowles is dialing up schemes that simply cannot work with the current level of talent (e.g. no pass rush) or put players in situations where they cannot succeed like getting Nelson and YaYa to drop backi in coverage. Perhaps the D has quit on Todd and LVD knows it. As for the O, well Baker is busted up and Bridgewater was not the answer….. The OL was a sieve and Grizzard made so many questionable calls. Special teams were not special either.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:15 am
Rod Munch Says:
November 24th, 2025 at 12:13 am
Stallworth Says:
November 24th, 2025 at 12:08 am
Remember last year when the Lions had 18 players on IR and the team quit on Dan Campbell? Neither do I.
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You mean the 15-2 Lions that lost to Tampa, and then got blown out in their home playoff game? Those Lions?
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They lost but they didn’t quit on the field. Tonight, the Bucs threw in the towel at half time.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:18 am
You saw what I saw Stallworth but everyone in the know say Bowles is totally different behind the scenes and is a lot more animated but what can he do after this train wreck? Looks like his team is resigned to losing and if he were to make changes, he should have done it after the Pats game. Maybe his personnel decisions (like putting Morrison out there when Jamal Dean was far better) have rubbed the players the wrong way, playing favorites. Your guess is as good as mine……
November 24th, 2025 at 12:21 am
Bucs were far out-prepared for this game. The Rams were also clearly more talented across the board, but why the we have slow LBs trying to cover much quicker receivers? You know they can’t cover these guys, so at least let them blitz.
November 24th, 2025 at 12:27 am
Stallworth Says:
They lost but they didn’t quit on the field. Tonight, the Bucs threw in the towel at half time.
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The Lions lost a home playoff game, coming off a 15-2 season, to the Redskins by 14 points. The same Redskins the Bucs had beat until Baker fumbled the ball and lost the game.
If the Bucs had lost by 14 to the Redskins, everyone would have said the team quit, and was gutless, and awful, and fire everyone.
Just saying I’d never hold up the loser Lions as an example that you’d ever want to follow. Been around forever and the Bucs have an infinity amount more Super Bowl championships than that loser franchise has. Screw them, our old NFC Central cellermates. The Bucs went on to have success – win two SBs since then, while the Lions have done nothing.