Todd Bowles Delivers A Profanity-Laced Rant
December 12th, 2025
Tonight Todd Bowles channeled one of his mentors, Bruce Arians.
Whoa!!
Joe would say tonight’s postgame rant from Todd Bowles came a few weeks too late. Joe also now understands another aspect to why Todd Bowles and Bucco Bruce Arians are such great friends.
Tonight, after the brutal choke job against a bad and sloppy Falcons team in Tampa, Bowles let down his guard at his postgame news conference and fans saw the fiery competitor behind the mask.
“Inexcusable. You don’t make excuses. You gotta fuc*’n care enough where the sh*t hurts,” Bowles said. “
You gotta fuc*’n care enough where the sh*t hurts. Gotta fuc*’n mean something to you. It’s more than a job; it’s your fuc*’n livelihood. How well do you know your job? How well can you do your job? You can’t sugarcoat that sh*t. It was in-a-fuc*’n-excusable. And there’s no fuc*’n answer for it. No excuse for it. That’s what you tell them in the locker room. Look in the fuc*’n mirror.”
The tough talk sounds nice, but the message hasn’t been getting through.
Joe agrees with Bowles. Inexcusable! And it sure sounds like Bowles has far too many players who don’t care enough. Joe’s not saying the players don’t care, just that they collectively are softer than they need to be.
For those who wish to hear Bowles, it’s here on X.
December 12th, 2025 at 12:53 am
Too little, too late Todd.
December 12th, 2025 at 12:54 am
Yeah needed that last year…
December 12th, 2025 at 12:54 am
To be fair, it’s 3 years too late to show that kind of angst. Wayyyy past too late, Roderick. Time to work on that golf game big dog
December 12th, 2025 at 12:54 am
Roderick*
December 12th, 2025 at 12:54 am
Sadly, the last play is a microcosm of the defense. You should know where the first down marker is..and do your job. A well coached back up should know that in their sleep.
December 12th, 2025 at 12:55 am
Fire Bowles
Fire Licht
Fire Rod Munch
Fire Chris Godwin
December 12th, 2025 at 12:55 am
Its gotta suck and it’s not like hes a bad guy, but that kinda shows he doesn’t have any answers imo and kinda damning himself when even he admits guys don’t care enough….
December 12th, 2025 at 12:56 am
Kinds sounds like a guy who knows he might be out of a job soon
December 12th, 2025 at 12:56 am
6 weeks too late, you Bozo.
Time to flush the Toilet Bowles for good.
December 12th, 2025 at 12:57 am
I think this is what happens when you draft too many “good guys”. Not enough Dawgs in the locker room.
December 12th, 2025 at 12:57 am
Not falling for the performance coach
December 12th, 2025 at 12:58 am
Let’s not let the offense off the hook here……yes we had the lead and the defense gave it up……but we were driving for a FG after getting the ball on the 40 and threw the pick….
Then we weren’t able to make a couple of first downs to run the clock……
So….the offense had a chance to close it out and didn’t.
Profanity doesn’t work unless you raise your voice….Todd!!!
December 12th, 2025 at 12:58 am
Hey Jason Licht,
Where’s, “That Man.” When is, “That Man,” going to show up?
December 12th, 2025 at 12:59 am
I appreciate his candor for once, but those are meaningless words when none of them are directed at him. That is his team out there that he has been coaching for years.
If they aren’t in the correct position then they either weren’t coached to be in the right position or they don’t respect their coach enough to make sure they’re in the correct position. Damning either way.
December 12th, 2025 at 12:59 am
If todd bowles gets fired.. jason licht needs to be fired as well.. you build in the trenches, and the dline has one guy
December 12th, 2025 at 1:00 am
Let’s not act like his coaching has been phenomenal Todd is a bad coach. He keeps trying to show us.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:00 am
🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
December 12th, 2025 at 1:01 am
941 I would assume Bowles gets a lot of sway with how defensibe side goes in draft and free agencyz including who they’re picking. I wouldn’t be super quick to pin that on licht
December 12th, 2025 at 1:01 am
He knows his job is all but lost like this season is now. A sad display all around tonight, during the game and postgame
December 12th, 2025 at 1:03 am
“And there is no [ ] answer to it.” That’s right Bowels. You have no answer. Now go away!
December 12th, 2025 at 1:03 am
It’s a young man’s game. And an offensive game. Ppl thought the lambs were insane to hire a guy who was 29. They were ahead of the curve in the respect.
The players aren’t responding to the guy that was supposed to be the culture guy.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:04 am
I hope Todd’s including himself in that looking in the mirror comment. During the postgame locker room interview it sounded like he took no responsibility for his awful defense…he said the scheme should have worked, but the players didn’t execute. Either way, it’s his job to have the correct scheme and have his players execute it correctly.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:05 am
And yet our Special Teams Coach is still employed. Nice one, Todd.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:05 am
Want to fix the team, rehire him as the HC, move Bowles back to DC.
Can we make it happen? Heck I’d even accept that worthless piece of garbage Leftwich back as OC if that was to happen.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:05 am
If I were the Glazers I would be furious at this profanity from a man who is clearly out of and a coach who has lost control of this team. Football is marketed as a family friendly sport and there is absolutely no place for this kind of profanity laced language from a man who has said how his team is molded as a values oriented group. Mr Bowles shame on you. You owe us all an apology before you turn in your resignation.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:05 am
It’s all Bakers fault ask Rod Munch.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:06 am
Oh but you are such a nice guy. You gave them an entire week off . That backfired.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:06 am
It’s not all on Bowles it’s most on licht. Draft character guys vs. players. Dawgs.
I bet everything that licht would never draft ray lewis
December 12th, 2025 at 1:07 am
Even his delivery of the rant was like his coverage scheme, Too Soft!
December 12th, 2025 at 1:07 am
Oh boo hoo. He used curse words.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:07 am
That’s the sign. He’s gone
December 12th, 2025 at 1:09 am
Lights been hiding for years. Before he lucked into Arians, he was voted o e of the worst Game in the league, and was about to be run out…
We need winners here, smart ones. No posers and bad coaches.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:09 am
Did Arians address the team? This is what they should be hearing, in particular Mr MVP himself.
I mean Arians can chew out Brady for a bad throw, and yet Baker chokes two games in a row with 1st place on the line, and he’s still handled with kid gloves.
Get Arians out there in his face, I actually think Baker would respond great to it.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:10 am
Munch
You’re high.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:10 am
Really? Too bad Todd Bowles let that out for the world to see and hear. I know he’s infuriated, but you have to maintain a certain amount of control and set a good example.
Go Bucs !!
December 12th, 2025 at 1:10 am
Buc1987 Says:
December 12th, 2025 at 1:05 am
It’s all Bakers fault ask Rod Munch.
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4th quarter lead, throwing a terrible INT, then getting the ball back, still with a chance to win the game, and making more bad throws and taking a sack, knowing that if you punt, you lose the game.
Yes, it was 100% on Baker, 2nd week in a row it was 100% on Baker.
If your MVP QB has the ball in his hands, chance to win the game or put the game away, you expect them to do that. Instead, he failed. Two weeks in a row, with 1st place on the line.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:11 am
Adrnagy which defensive player has improved much recently under Bowles? It seems every time we think a defensive player is good he regresses or never develops further
December 12th, 2025 at 1:12 am
28pts should have been enough in this one
December 12th, 2025 at 1:16 am
Don’t need to listen..he’s trash & his players & scheme is too..fire him
.reset , how the f do you lose to a team that just committed almost 20 penalties in a game !!!..gtfoh !!!!!
December 12th, 2025 at 1:17 am
The defense had a chance to STOP them. They let them drive right down the field. 3 times in a row
December 12th, 2025 at 1:18 am
3rd and 28, 4th and 14.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:18 am
Is he mad at himself? Otherwise, who else called the same soft zone he always loses with..
December 12th, 2025 at 1:23 am
Bruce sold us this bag of horse manure. I think he needs to take responsibility for this crap. Time to clean out all of the coaches including Arians! What a way to crap on our 50th season. Glazers and Licht I have appreciation for. Time to show we mean business and cut the obvious who just aren’t cutting it. I don’t need to se how this season unfolds. Also us quickly jumping the gun on defensive players…I think we have great talent but the scheme sucks! Time to make a move Glazers! You know! Go Bucs!
December 12th, 2025 at 1:26 am
NOPOBucsfan Says:
December 12th, 2025 at 1:12 am
28pts should have been enough in this one
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True, but 28 points does win the game if Baker doesn’t throw that 4th quarter INT.
When Winston was here every single article and comment would be blasting him for losing the game. But since it’s Baker, and he makes funny TV commercials, and he’s a ‘dawg’, it’s not his fault.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:26 am
Y’all notice all the touch back end zone kicks by our illustrous leader
December 12th, 2025 at 1:30 am
Even if you win that game somehow on a missed field goal, it’s the same tendencies that got that game to where it was. This is officially the worst loss. Worse than to the browns in ‘22 (the very game I knew Bowles should be cannon balled into oblivion, professionally), same kind of in-game circumstances. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS WE DIDNT HAVE A 14 POINT LEAD IN THE 4TH QUARTER
December 12th, 2025 at 1:35 am
@FlushBowles
That’s what I was thinking. He should probably be doing the same thing.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:39 am
We know that Todd cares, but how many of the players do? He has lost his locker room, it is obvious. Now the question is why? Is it a misjudgment of character by Licht and Bowles or did the players on defense realize Todd cannot coach effectively or is it that they are untalented????? That is a question for the new head coach to sort out.
December 12th, 2025 at 1:50 am
The only reason he was cussing is because his job is on the line! Other than that he’d be standing on the sidelines with his finger stuck up his butt as usual!
December 12th, 2025 at 2:00 am
The Bus Station is thattaway Todd……
December 12th, 2025 at 2:04 am
I think Bake is hurt and they can not put Blooper in to take over. Blooper is that bad. Blooper Bilgewater is so bad it is a certain loss. Our Guru got him out of High School Coaching to replace Trask.
December 12th, 2025 at 3:15 am
Todd, with all due respect and sincerity, its your scheme dude! You’re a nice guy, i dont hate you, but i hate the way you scheme the D and the way you coach….im not trying to be mean, i respect you.
December 12th, 2025 at 3:57 am
I hope he chokes in a donut. Get his ass out of the building right now. Fat slob can’t coach to saves his life. Worst defense in the league. Licht needs to be fired too. Keeping Bowles over Canales and last year Coen might be THE worst decision a GM has ever made. He only won with Brady and because of Brady.
December 12th, 2025 at 4:25 am
Rod munch. I agree 💯 percent bro I’ve never seen so many excuses for Baker Mayfield and I gave him his credit when he decerved it. Good quarterbacks with this many weapons would have been closed this game out early in the 4th quarter. And the funny part is that Baker has a way better team than Jamies had top to bottom.
December 12th, 2025 at 4:27 am
HC. Baker is healthy enough to play and win this game stop with the excuses!! Baker ain’t it and as long as he stays we ain’t winning nothing.
December 12th, 2025 at 4:33 am
The refs had some bad calls, and some non-calls. That fumble was ours and so much more. It was a heart-breaker. Mike, Chris, Izien, and others were awesome. With all the penalties that the Falcons had, they should not have won. There were a lot of positives. And seeing all the Bucs fans at the stadium was awesome to see.