Chris Godwin: Bucs “Have To Go And Compete A Little Bit Harder”
December 28th, 2025
It’s strange how Bucs players are talking about needing to play harder after a winless December.
Shouldn’t that have been ironed out weeks ago?
Joe talked to Chris Godwin in the postame locker room after today’s embarrassing loss to the tanking Dolphins.
Joe asked Godwin to answer a common fan question, “What’s gone wrong with this team?”
The Bucs have plummeted from 5-1 to 7-9.
“I don’t know,” Godwin replied. “I think for us the important thing is to just focus on what we can control at this point. Right? And we still have a chance next week and we just have to do everything we can to just pour into that game so we can have the outcome that we’re looking for.
“Execution, communication, we got strain a little bit harder. That seems to be the theme over the last however many weeks. Once we’re able to get over that hurdle. I think we’re going to like the results. … We’re in our own way. And we just have to go and compete a little bit harder, just to go ahead and get over that hill.”
Hmm, “compete” harder, “strain” harder. Where hath the Tom Brady Effect gone?
Joe also asked Godwin if the routine would change this week like players-only meetings or something to rally as a group.
“There’s nothing like that going on. You know what I mean? I don’t even know if a change of routine is something that we need,” Godwin said. “We have to execute better all across the board. We have to be accountable for our actions and go ahead and put a better product on the field.”
Hopefully status quo doesn’t turn into status woe next weekend against Carolina for the division title.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:01 pm
How about a QB that doesn’t single handedly lose you four games in a row, that would help.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Bruh! CG, you’ve been gone most of the season and you’ve lost your wheels too!!!!!
…….dudes cannot be saying anything if they haven’t shown anything!!!!!
December 28th, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Fans on the run…,..,
GO AWAY CRIS
Fans on the rrun
December 28th, 2025 at 5:03 pm
FANS ON THE RUN
December 28th, 2025 at 5:04 pm
This whole team can go F themselves
December 28th, 2025 at 5:05 pm
If Atlants wins tomorrow somehow and beats Saints next week Carolina wins the division via the 3 team tiebreaker and our game is rendered meaningless correct?
December 28th, 2025 at 5:06 pm
Hey Joe can we get a post about punting on 4-1 on the 50 yard line? Talk about growing a pair inspiring the team. That was so weak your playoff lives on the line smh . I knew we’d lose right then and there.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:06 pm
Baker throwing at the ground in front of Godwin for 2 weeks in a row. Maybe an accurate QB would help?
December 28th, 2025 at 5:07 pm
Joe they lost to the ‘tanking fish’ Wat is wrong with you? How can we take u seriously….do you work for BOWZO?
December 28th, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Bee Says:
December 28th, 2025 at 5:06 pm
Baker throwing at the ground in front of Godwin for 2 weeks in a row. Maybe an accurate QB would help?
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Baker is playing injured, if he was healthy, he’d make every throw ever!
December 28th, 2025 at 5:09 pm
Who cares at this point? Personally, I am just tired of it. All of it.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:10 pm
@ MAC
Atlanta has already been officially eliminated from the playoffs……please stop spreading this lie with bogus information
December 28th, 2025 at 5:11 pm
I feel bad for Godwin and Evans. It’s too late in their careers to be dealing with this type of hell. I’ll never forgive Baker for destroying Evans 1000 years seasons either.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Not the same team that started the season! The coach has lost the team but all that being said excuses are for losers! So if that’s your mantra as a player then cut it!
December 28th, 2025 at 5:15 pm
Maybe the players are sick and tired of the kayfabe.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:15 pm
TheBucsAnthem Says:
December 28th, 2025 at 5:10 pm
@ MAC
Atlanta has already been officially eliminated from the playoffs……please stop spreading this lie with bogus information
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It’s not the Falcons making the playoffs – it’s them causing a three way 8-9 tie in the NFC South, that would flip the tie breaker to the Panthers. The Bucs only win the 8-9 tie breaker in a head-to-head matchup with the Panthers.
That is the correct info, go look at the ESPN Playoff Machine and run the scenarios yourself.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:17 pm
Mac Says:
December 28th, 2025 at 5:05 pm
If Atlants wins tomorrow somehow and beats Saints next week Carolina wins the division via the 3 team tiebreaker and our game is rendered meaningless correct?
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That is correct, and I’m shocked it’s not common knowledge.
I mean it’s still very likely the Rams, still playing for 1st place in the NFC overall, will beat the Falcons tomorrow, but if not, the Bucs do not control their own destiny and would need the Saints to beat the Falcons.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:17 pm
Bowles = Lovie
Baker = Winston
Grizz = Hot Garbage
McGaughey = Worst in NFL
Winnie lose next week, the Bucs need to make changes
December 28th, 2025 at 5:18 pm
Chill our Bucs Anthem. I know Atlanta is eliminated but if they win out they have the same record as us if we were to win next week causing a 3 way tie and someone posted on here last week that if that was to occur the 3 way tie goes to Carolina. So we need Atlanta to lose tomorrow night to make sure that isn’t a possibility next week.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:22 pm
If Atlanta wins their next 2 games
Carolina clinch the division, doesn’t matter if they lose to the Yucs
December 28th, 2025 at 5:25 pm
Bowles is TRASH!
December 28th, 2025 at 5:26 pm
In a 3 way tie
The first scenario is the record amongst the 3 teams
Carolina is 3-0
Tampa Bay is 1-2
Atlanta is 1- 3
December 28th, 2025 at 5:27 pm
Chris is saying what we want to hear. Good game Chris. Kill em next year.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:28 pm
Compete harder? There’s one more game! What have you done the first 16 games if you weren’t competing as hard as you could???
December 28th, 2025 at 5:31 pm
@ Mac
Bruh,
No…..we need the Bucs to lose next week in order to get higher draft picks and a new coaching staff!!!!
………the Bucs will do NOTHING in the playoffs……they’re that bad and the whole NFL knows it!………I’m think about next season, not next week!
December 28th, 2025 at 5:43 pm
We used to have a lot of good players on defense, and now we do not, is where it has gone
December 28th, 2025 at 5:43 pm
If that’s the case BucsAnthem why did you flip out saying I was spreading misinformation when indeed I was not. I want Bowles gone but losing next week apparently isn’t changing that cause it’s already come out from several credible sources he is back next year and his seat is not hot.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:45 pm
Two short qb’s that lead the NFC South lost today.
December 28th, 2025 at 5:48 pm
When no one knows the answer, the problem is coaching.
December 28th, 2025 at 6:39 pm
If Bowles is retained next year this city will have an absolute mutiny. I for one refuse to watch another Bucs game with him as head coach and it started after the loss to the Panthers. Didn’t watch the game today and won’t watch next week. It’s a waste of 3 plus hours of my Sundays.
December 28th, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Outrigger Says:
December 28th, 2025 at 6:39 pm
If Bowles is retained next year this city will have an absolute mutiny.
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Depends on what they do vs the Panthers – if they win, make the playoffs, then play well in the playoffs and don’t embarrass themselves, then Bowles will be back. It’s all about that Baker fully guaranteed money next year, it’s going to be hard to get a hot coaching prospect interested when they’re coming to a team where they’re stuck with a QB who is on a massive losing streak and just got his coach fired. You’re going to have to commit to another middling coach – and at that point, just wait one more year, then fully clean house if they fail yet again.
December 28th, 2025 at 7:49 pm
Buc’s have to compete a little bit harder??????? Come on man!!! The Bucs are playing at 50% all out effort. The other teams playing them are playing at 90% all out effort!!!!! This is a formula for a loss no matter who the opponent is!!
The other team is gang tackling!! Taking the ball away!! Moving people at the line!! The Bucs …not so much! McMillan just stood there while the guy who cut his route and intercepted the ball gets up and runs 30 or so yards up field. He didn’t even down him by touching him yet alone chase after and tackle him! And McMillan was one of the few guys actually putting an effort into this game. He just took the later half of the play off!! Like so many others on the field!!
December 28th, 2025 at 8:15 pm
that second quarter was soul crushing as a fan
I see guys not finishing tackles and missing plays and having their hearts ripped out on 3rd down nearly every drive
hard to know where to start
can’t convert on 3rd and short?
so many losses and so much hopelessness
full reboot coming in 1 week (maybe 2)
December 28th, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Hey Rod, it’s simple: A new staff comes in and makes everyone compete at every position and then roll out the starting line up and ink them in 1,2,3. Don’t like it? Play harder, I’m the coach. Start kicking peoples A** and you’d be surprised by the results. When people fail in their regular you and me jobs we lose our jobs. You think players aren’t labeled when they leave a team and GM’s talk about their character? They’re signed as fodder to see if they’ve turned the new leaf over and if they haven’t well then see ya. The business is to win, period. And ya gotta want to win to do it, period.
December 28th, 2025 at 8:43 pm
When the players see the same results from the ineffective plays being called (offensive and defensive,) who can blame them for quitting after the first quarter? Execution? Communication? How about communicating to the coach that his ideas just don’t work?
December 28th, 2025 at 8:44 pm
It should not take Canales to whup BOWZO to git rid of him. Done with this mess.
Fan on the run.
December 28th, 2025 at 10:05 pm
Adam….what a stupid thing to say. Evans won’t get 1000 this season because he was injured. Not due to Baker.
December 28th, 2025 at 10:38 pm
The team is lifeless. This isn’t coach fault GM or glazers like some of yall are bellyaching. Players don’t look motivated or hungry. Their sleep walking there’s no urgency.