Falcons Beat Rams; Second Hurdle Added For Bucs Playoff Clinch
December 29th, 2025
Spoiler alert.
Things had gotten so ugly for the Bucs, they were in danger of finishing with a worse record than Atlanta if the Falcons beat the mighty Rams at home tonight.
And that’s exactly what happened.
On Monday Night Football, the surging but sad Falcons (7-9) beat the Rams 27-24 after nearly blowing a 21-0 hafltime lead.
As a result, Tampa Bay (7-9) lost a guarantee of the NFC South crown with a win against the Panthers (8-8) on Saturday at The Licht House. Now all three teams can finish 8-9 if the Bucs beat Carolina and the Falcons beat the surging Saints (6-10) in Atlanta. The Saints have won four straight games and Atlanta has won three in a row.
This is how far the Bucs have fallen.
Sadly, Joe knows there is a loud sect of Bucs fans hoping the Bucs miss the playoffs, a scenario that just got a lot more likely.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:11 pm
Bye Todd
December 29th, 2025 at 11:12 pm
Hilarious
December 29th, 2025 at 11:12 pm
Bowel movement initiated
December 29th, 2025 at 11:12 pm
Stafford in the MVP conversation after that? How is it not easily going to Maye?
December 29th, 2025 at 11:12 pm
7 dash 10 coming next weekend!!
BLOWWWWWW THIS SHIZNIT THE HELL UP!!!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Frulk the Rams..weak
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
All these bucs fans that have been complaining should be very happy with this result. Thank you losers.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Damn you’re fast Joe! The game just ended and I clicked on JBF and you already posted!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Excellent.
Suck on it, Belowszo.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
There is a 0% chance the Falcons beat the Saints next week. We’ve seen the same act over and over again.
The game on Saturday is still for the playoffs.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
Stafford losing tonight should help Baker move up close to frontrunner for MVP now right?
December 29th, 2025 at 11:13 pm
one more week in the season and the Bucs probably would finish 4th in the division
December 29th, 2025 at 11:14 pm
Cousins still messing with us without even playing us….lol, YOU LIKE THAT!!!!
Never would even be at this point without todds stupidness and losing the D locker room.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:14 pm
Punting on 4-1 from the 50 yard line!!!!!! With your season on the line fire Todd!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:14 pm
BUCDADDY Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:12 pm
Stafford in the MVP conversation after that? How is it not easily going to Maye?
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Stafford looked like MVP Baker tonight choking with the game on the line.
Well actually he looked way better than Baker has looked in two plus months. Heck give the Bucs that version of Stafford and they still win 3 of the last 4.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
Bucs are the worst team in the worst division in football.
Tell me again how the GM isn’t responsible for that?
December 29th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
if the bucs win its all in the hands of the saints who are objectively a worse team than the falcons this is probably the nail in the coffin but who knows anymore.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
Start the the search the saints will not be the Falcons PERIOD.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
A loss Saturday, and Bucs lock in a third place schedule next year. Oh, how the mighty have fallen..
December 29th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
It doesn’t matter, no way the Bucs beat the Panthers anyway as long as the Belowszo is still standing on the sidelines promoting full regression.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:15 pm
Ahhh we might be back to being the yucks but atleast with some new leadership the
Rebuild will be more fun then this season turned out to be.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:16 pm
The Bucs don’t deserve to go to the playoffs. There’s no reason to believe the Bucs can beat Carolina so it really doesn’t matter. Fire Toilet Bowels Saturday night before he leaves the locker room.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:16 pm
You retards celebrating the Bucs not making the playoffs are assuming the Falcons won’t fall flat on their faces vs the Saints. If you’re not an idiot, you already know the Falcons will lose that game. Sorry so-called Bucs fans who are rooting for the Bucs not to make the playoffs, the game on Saturday will still decide who makes the playoffs – not the dumb Falcons.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:17 pm
Shutup rod, you’re inbred low iq dna is shining….you somali by any chance?
December 29th, 2025 at 11:17 pm
Are you allowed to forfeit a game in the NFL. It would be a travesty for the Bucs to be in the playoffs with a loosing record regardless of what happened tonight.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:17 pm
🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
It’s looking bad in Yuc Yuc Land 😝
December 29th, 2025 at 11:18 pm
By by Bowles and take your trash quarterback with you!! He shouldn’t have been the starting quarterback anyway. You gifted Baker Mayfield the starting job in 2023 and look how it ended for you. Lol 😂😂 your favoritism is why you are about to get fired coaches like that always lose at the end.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:18 pm
This scenario is hilarious on multiple levels. Not only the straight up nonsense for Bucs / Panthers fans if the Bucs win, but the fact that the NFL set this Saturday gave figuring the Rams would win, and the winner of the only game at 4p on Saturday would be the NFC South champ, and now that’s no longer a foregone conclusion.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:18 pm
You know he’s getting fired now.
You control your own destiny and you put in the hand of another team.
WOW what a collapse.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:18 pm
Now way we beat Carolina anyway. Good teams get better. Bad teams (which the Bucs are) fall flat on their asses. If Bowles survives this then the Glazer’s are gutless.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:18 pm
I dont see anything exciting about a 1 and done playoff trip.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:19 pm
i want the bucs to make it i just know that out of the two games the falcons had coming up this is the one they should have lost now its looking grim. yes they may end up losing but lets not forget the bucs have looked like a bottom 3 team in the nfl over the 2nd half of the season this is on them and the coaching staff. HISTORIC COLLAPSE
December 29th, 2025 at 11:20 pm
Thing is joe no one has to hope for it bucs are doing it all on their own.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:20 pm
No way.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:21 pm
3rd and 28……….never, ever forget
December 29th, 2025 at 11:21 pm
That’s gold, gold Jugheadfla2!
Obviously I want Bowles gone but not like this. I would have gladly watched a win Sunday and a Bucs playoff game. Maybe that wasn’t gonna happen but this sucks.
I will be cheering for the Bucs and Saints this weekend, foolish as it may seem to some of you. Sadly, I probably have more faith in the Saints than the Bucs.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:22 pm
Nelson from the Simpsons:
HA! HA!
Bucs are a bunch of weak-*** posers who deserve exactly what they’re getting.
We’ll see more quitters quit on Saturday.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Of course there was 0% chance the Falcons would beat the Rams either.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
Oh wait, the Baker Boi(s) were rooting for the Falcons to win, so when Baker chokes for the 5th game in a row, they can claim the Bucs were already out of it, so it doesn’t count and wasn’t his fault. Now it makes sense.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
so if they all finish 8-9…who goes in again…???
the panthers or the falcons…?
December 29th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
oh well
December 29th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
3rd & 28 – 4th & 14
Bye Todd!
Jason -you’re on deck meathead
December 29th, 2025 at 11:24 pm
Watching this game, SF/CHI last night and other games the last few weeks have shown me just how bad this Bucs team really is in all phases. Sad sad team. Only LV and the Jets MAY actually be worse. Maybe.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:25 pm
I definitely don’t like the losing mentality of our fans and wishing we don’t make the playoffs. I just don’t get it and it’s sad to operate that way. Anywho Go Bucs!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:25 pm
Awwww snap.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:26 pm
this also takes whatever luster there was for that saturday game away from it its not even a play in game anymore its a hope the bucs can squeak by a below average team and then pray that tyler shough can lead the saints past a falcons team that just beat a super bowl contender.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:27 pm
DBS Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:23 pm
Of course there was 0% chance the Falcons would beat the Rams either.
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Says who? I had the Rams losing to the Panthers, then the Panthers losing to the Saints – and thought this was like a 60/40 game for the Rams.
But the Falcons losing to the Saints? That’s a 100% lock. Take the moneyline bet on New Orleans – who by the way, have been playing the best football of anyone in the NFC South for the last month.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:28 pm
I can’t believe this.
Ain’t no painfreak lol. Patron for the rest of the week it is
December 29th, 2025 at 11:28 pm
@ChuckysBucs, PLEASE bring us the Rod Munch Report this weekend with him saying over and over that there is 100% chance the Saints beat the Falcons or 0% chance the Falcons win. That way even if the Bucs make the playoffs and Todd is still here next Monday, we can smile.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:29 pm
BUC4L Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:25 pm
I definitely don’t like the losing mentality of our fans and wishing we don’t make the playoffs. I just don’t get it and it’s sad to operate that way. Anywho Go Bucs!
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It’s a bunch of jerk-ffs who are convinced if Bowles goes away the Bucs will magically be in the Super Bowl next year. Meanwhile, they’ll be a 6 or 7 win team again next year and all these idiots will be calling for the new coach to also be fired. It’s part of the low-IQ life style.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:29 pm
For us fans that have been here for the long haul understand how bad this is about to be. Losing the division and not making the playoffs is back to the lost decade. Which sucks cause losing games every year is not fun and that’s where this franchise is heading.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:30 pm
Ugh, so the Bucs now are probably playing a meaningless game. Well, let’s see if that helps or hurts the team… If the Bucs think it is meaningless, they may light up the scorebpard like bad teams do in garbage time. However, it will also cost them some draft positioning in April for the new head coach…. On the bright side, maybe Artie Blank decides to give Rah one more year if he finishes 8-9 and that will be one less team the Bucs will have to compete with to get a decent replacement for Bowles.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:31 pm
Kyle Trask is enjoying this Big Time
He’s the Falcons 3rd string QB, cheering on the squad
😋😋
Keep these Yucs out the playoffs
December 29th, 2025 at 11:32 pm
If Im making a smart business decision,
I am not signing a check for a ceiling of 8-9 and maybe winning the NFC South if everyone else loses less. Only to get smoked by LA Rd 1 like it’s the end of the 90’s
December 29th, 2025 at 11:33 pm
@RodButtMunch, I have not seen one person say if we fire Bowles we will be in the Super Bowl next year. Quit drinking and typing.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:33 pm
Bucs players bags are packed and golf clubs ready for that extended vacation. Bucs will have an entire squad that will be on the injury report for Saturdays clown show. (With hurt feelings). Look tor the Bucs to get rolled at home.
Time to start the rebuild project, starting with a new HC, OC, and the not so special teams coach. Time to flush the Bowles era!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:34 pm
I’ll never root for the Bucs to lose, and I’ll never say it’s a waste of time going to the playoffs. Fake-ass fans do both of those.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:34 pm
Ian Crappaport just posted that:
Calijah Kancey just sat on his nuts trying to take an ASJ sized dump.
He has been ruled out for Saturday’s game.
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Jamel Dean will be at Claire’s in Gulf View Square Mall getting another nose piercing.
He has been ruled out for Saturday’s game.
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Vita vea and Winfield Jr. just aren’t feeling it this week.
They are questionable….
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Good Greek moving & storage has staffed up and feeling great.
They will be a full participant after Saturday’s game.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:35 pm
The day the Bucs tanked vs NO for the first pick? One of the saddest days in Bucs history. Never root for your team to lose, especially against a div. rival.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:35 pm
Would be an absolute shocker if the Glazers keep Todd.
How and for what
December 29th, 2025 at 11:36 pm
Rod, no one thinks they’ll be in the Super Bowl the first year Bowles is done. BUT… every year Bowles stays definitely pushes any deep playoff run deeper into the future.
END THE BOWLES ERA!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:36 pm
Mock draft time lol
December 29th, 2025 at 11:36 pm
Rod, dont try to play with the big dogs yet, your balls haven’t dropped.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:36 pm
@ElioT, good one!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:36 pm
The way the rest of the nfc south is getting better like we should have been doing if we dont upgrade our coaching this year and pray its not 2 late we will be the bottom feeder of the NFC SOUTH for sure come next season
December 29th, 2025 at 11:37 pm
Chances are getting smaller for Bucs to make the playoffs.
The vast majority of Bucs fans want Bowles fired.
But keep in mind that Licht is equally. culpable for this mess.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:37 pm
I think the Bucs are going to walk Todd Bowles out Monday morning
December 29th, 2025 at 11:38 pm
UKBuccaneer,
Nah, some of us are playing the long game. This team isn’t going anywhere with Bowles as the head coach. There’s no reason to root for us to make the playoffs if there’s a chance it lets Bowles stay.
TIME FOR A NEW BUCS ERA!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:38 pm
Lakeland,
If the Bucs somehow win the division they make keep Bowles another year. UGH.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:39 pm
Love Todd Bowles.
We just need a new DC; and unfortunately HC. If we wanna compete at all.
Not rocket science
December 29th, 2025 at 11:39 pm
Told You Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:33 pm
@RodButtMunch, I have not seen one person say if we fire Bowles we will be in the Super Bowl next year. Quit drinking and typing.
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And you think all these dummies who literally call for everyone to be fired and cut when we lose in week 2 of the preseason, that these same idiots won’t be calling for everyone to be fired again next year at this time? It’s the same thing, over and over and over again.
Just firing people to hire more middling coaches doesn’t do anything – and with Baker’s $42M guaranteed deal, and an aging roster, but also one that you can’t do a full reboot on because of the Baker contract, who is coming here? Another middling coach is the answer. I’d rather eat one more year of Bowles and Baker and then do a proper reboot when you can do a real reset. Or, who knows, maybe Baker really was injured and when he’s better, the Bucs win all these games and they’re a legit threat. But the ‘behind door number 2’ nonsense is just dragging things out.
I’m still hoping the Bucs win on Saturday and the Falcons lose and the Bucs make the playoffs. But then again I’m an actual Bucs fan as opposed to 99% of the idiots posting here who actively root against the team.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:39 pm
Hopefully they elavuate Licht and walk him out Monday afternoon
December 29th, 2025 at 11:41 pm
I totally understand the folks concerned if we make the playoffs, Todd stays. I do. I just can’t wish ill on my team. I pray no matter what happens, the Glazers have eyes and fire Todd even if we make the playoffs. It is hard to see us beating Carolina, let alone the Saints beating the Falcons. Nonetheless, Go Bucs!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:43 pm
@Simeon, ive been on it (yet another benefit to picking higher in the draft.
LB Sonny Styles
Edge Kenyatta Jackson jr
TE Michael Trigg
QB Sawyer Robertson
….still working
December 29th, 2025 at 11:43 pm
It’s primetime game Bucs usually lose those and Baker is typically is trash in primetime, especially in the Bowles era. I think a lot of folks are just tried of seeing teams that are suppose to be bad, play better than the Bucs. It’s looking bad for TB whether Bowles is fired or not, this team is trending the wrong direction.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:43 pm
“ It’s a bunch of jerk-ffs who are convinced if Bowles goes away the Bucs will magically be in the Super Bowl next year.”
Man, it must suck living in your head. Constantly creating these false narratives nobody said, and then spending 10 hours a day on a message board fighting against these make-believe narratives.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:45 pm
What a trash final half of the season. The falcons….cmon!!!!! Really? Bye bye Bowles
December 29th, 2025 at 11:47 pm
2 months ago we were #1 in Power Rankings and it was Bake for MVP.
And Kay was in Love. We just needed the Bye to get healthy.
What in the
December 29th, 2025 at 11:47 pm
I don’t believe the YUCS will see the Super Bowl for another 20 years
That’s the norm in Yuc Yuc Land
December 29th, 2025 at 11:47 pm
Love the Styles pick
December 29th, 2025 at 11:48 pm
I got an idea to make everyone happy…
How about this, all the jerko– Rams fans on their message boards tonight are all yelling about how McVay is awful and overrated he needs to be fired. The Bucs should call the Rams right now and offer up a couple of 1st rounders to get him. I don’t know if the trade deadline is a thing for coaches, but try anyways, figure out the rules later.
That I can live with – and he’d love to come here because he knows Baker is the REAL NFL MVP!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:49 pm
HeartyDickerson Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:43 pm
“ It’s a bunch of jerk-ffs who are convinced if Bowles goes away the Bucs will magically be in the Super Bowl next year.”
Man, it must suck living in your head. Constantly creating these false narratives nobody said, and then spending 10 hours a day on a message board fighting against these make-believe narratives.
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Next year at this time when the Bucs have 6 or 7 or 8 wins, you’re telling me all the overly emo j-offs in the comments won’t be calling for the new coach to be fired? Come on. They’ll literally be doing it after a week 3 loss.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:51 pm
We were #1 in power rankings with no top 3 WRs and down Mauch.
And Miss Adams was our biggest fan.
And then our night game winning HC led us to the Morris destiny controlling finale
December 29th, 2025 at 11:52 pm
Making the playoffs and keeping this coaching staff would be the only thing Sad at this point. “Sadly”, you’re the one who can talk for the fans and still thinks this team should go to the playoffs lmao…
December 29th, 2025 at 11:52 pm
Baker Mayfield is the Most Valuable Problem,
That’s as close as he will ever get to MVP
December 29th, 2025 at 11:53 pm
Its so hard to trust
There’s so much to hate
hanging on to hope
when there is no hope to speak of
and the wounded skies above
saying it is much much too late
so maybe we should all be praying for change
December 29th, 2025 at 11:53 pm
Todd Bowels is the worst HC in the NFC South and the Bucs are the worst team. I think the funniest and most apropos thing that could happen is Bucs limp to a win on Saturday, and then the Falcos beat the Saints to send the Panthers to the playoffs. That’s what this division deserves and certainly what this lifeless Bucs team deserves.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:55 pm
Rod Munch Classic:
Rod Munch Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 8:39 pm
Let ‘em bake Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 8:24 pm
Thx Todd. Don’t let haters off. These same girls will hibernate next week when baker goes off for 3 tds, 350 yards on on the Carolina kittens.
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Baker threw for over 360 yards and 2 TDs last week and everyone is hating on him, he basically single handedly kept the Bucs in the game! He had everything under wraps and the victory sealed up, but Chewbacca was jealous of his greatness so he let the Dolphins player get through completely untouched to rob Baker of the greatness he’s due. If everyone would stop plotting against Baker, his true final form could then be achieved. The fact the cheap Glazers are only paying him $42M next year for what will be his first of many MVP seasons is insane, and Baker should tell the team he’ll never play here again and demand to go play somewhere, even Canada if he needs to in order to make the point that he’s the best!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:55 pm
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THAT’S HOW PATHETIC THIS BUCS TEAM IS, AFTER LAUGHABLE LOSSES TO THE SAINTS, FALCONS AND PANTHERS, THEY DON’T EVEN CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY EVEN IF THEY WIN THIS SUNDAY.
PATHETIC FN LOSERS!!!!!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Clev
Jets
Tenn
Raiders
Giants
Bucs.
This will be Black Monday.🤙🏾🤙🏾
December 29th, 2025 at 11:57 pm
So rod, you and the others here, jumping on us for being ready to move on….you think something will magically change and todd and D get it together? And you mock us and laugh and name call us?
Its a war out here you kiddos! Theres certain hills you retreat from when you’re outnumbered and outmatched in order to survive to fight another day in the future. If you cant figure that out already, then good luck getting gunned down while running through blindingly blazing.
December 29th, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Rod Munch…
U obviously know nothing about football or the NFL, because the Falcons will beat the Saints next week and Baker Mayfield is the one of the only reasons to have hope for this teams future!
Please stop posting until you learn objective reasoning about the game instead of ignorant bias. You probably were a Kyle Trask supporter too!
December 29th, 2025 at 11:59 pm
Legit question for those who ‘want everyone fired’…
What is your expectation for next year?
I give my word I will not bash you for you comments, I’m just legit interested in what people think will happen next – obviously with very little to go on at this point. It’s OK to be wrong, we’re taking wild swings at an uncertain future – but I’m wondering what the expectations are in terms of wins next season.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:01 am
Todd Bowles is not the guy…
He’s was a below .500 coach before he became HC in Tampa; inherits a Super Bowl team only to be sitting right.500 4 years later as the Bucs HC. He’s a super duper nice guy that’s not a good HC. The fact of the matter is we’re regressing;; good coaches don’t lose 8 or 9 games a year. Continuing to roll with Todd is like putting a bandaid on a bullet wound and wondering why you’re bleeding out. Please Please Please Fire! him we can do so better…
December 30th, 2025 at 12:01 am
I’m more afraid of what’s going to happen to the team if the coaching isn’t replaced.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:02 am
A better product on the field. Way too many mid season collapses.
U lose to the falcons, saints Carolina Miami
Come on seriously.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:05 am
Rod Munch Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:59 pm
Legit question for those who ‘want everyone fired’…
I am ready for a rebuild it’s time. Bowles will not ever win a Super Bowl. Baker is a mid-tier QB. Licht and his scouts honestly can see legit talent and built this mess. Rip the band-aid off.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:06 am
*can not
December 30th, 2025 at 12:06 am
MadMax – It’s more about what happens next. I think Bakers guaranteed money next year severely limits what the Bucs options will be at coach, and I think that leads to a middling candidate. What I’ve said, what I keep saying, is because of that deal, and because of the older roster, I’d rather have one more year of Bowles, and then blow it up after next season when you can start a proper rebuild and can hire a hot prospect. I legit don’t think that will be an option this offseason – and I don’t want to get stuck with another middling coach for 4 years as they get a mulligan next year, then you’re rebuilding with a guy who was there really just to fix the team for 2026. It’s by far an endorsement of Bowles, I fully expect him to fail, but it’s about limiting the fallout to one year vs multiple years.
Also there is the small possibility that maybe Baker is the QB from 2024 and injuries really did limit him this year. If that’s the case, then you’d get a huge bounce back next year in the same offense that he exceled in in 2024. Again, I don’t think the ‘Baker is injured’ nonsense is real – but if it is, keeping the same OC for 2 years in a row, for the first time in his career, is that a bad thing?
And I have said if Bowles was to come back, and I’m the Glazers, I’m forcing him to give up the defensive play calling duties – and I’m putting a fine in all the coaches contract if the Bucs are in the top half of teams playing zone defense in 2026.
I’m laying out my ideas – yet I never really see people saying what they want, they just yell, ‘fire everyone’ – so if that’s the case, then what?
December 30th, 2025 at 12:08 am
Rod: It’s pretty obvious that the whole team is demoralized.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:09 am
C-spann4 Says:
December 30th, 2025 at 12:05 am
Rod Munch Says:
December 29th, 2025 at 11:59 pm
Legit question for those who ‘want everyone fired’…
I am ready for a rebuild it’s time. Bowles will not ever win a Super Bowl. Baker is a mid-tier QB. Licht and his scouts honestly can see legit talent and built this mess. Rip the band-aid off.
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Fair enough, but how do you start the rebuild with Baker still here? The Bucs aren’t drafting high enough to get a QB, and they won’t have the money to bring in any real competition. Yet Baker is also, at times, good enough to still get you 6 or 7 or even 8 wins, in which case you still won’t be high enough to draft a new QB. Baker’s deal next year, fully guaranteed $42M cap hit, is a much bigger issue than I think people realize.
Anywho, I appreciate the response – and I too am for a full rebuild, just in 2027, not 2026.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:10 am
I’m calling 34 – 7 Bucs beat Panthers…our BEST game in all 3 phases the season….Then THUD…face first into door closing when ATL snot rockets the Saints..what else do we expect from the Bucs this year…Barf out.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:19 am
@Rod Munch use Baker as a Bridge QB and draft a kid like Drew Allar or whom ever the Offensive coach wants to develop. The biggest priority is build the trenches on both sides of the ball especially on Defense. The signed talent in the WR room should be enough to be effective offensively. At this point any defensive scheme other that Bowles would work especially with upgraded talent.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:27 am
I will take Matt Jones right now if we trade away Baker to the Raiders or the Jets. Let thier rookie quarterbacks sit for a year that are going to draft. Then Kubiak when would be my choice in that scenario. Steelers will need Qb you have to make bold moves. I not impressed with any of these quarterbacks come out this year. I know Bker will be our qb next year,then give a true play caller. And a fn coach with some spirt.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:30 am
@DBS
The Glazers pretty much are gutless. Watch he’ll probably end up staying & they want to spend as little $$$$ as possible. They don’t wanna spend the $$$$ or make any changes but they expect all these changes to happen somehow. Fans should boycott the team then maybe they’d get the message.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:34 am
Why is the Saints beating the Falcons a lock? Are you people all insane? It’s a divisional rivalry with two teams on win streaks who hate each other! A toss up at best!
We probably won’t even do our part, so it will be irrelevant.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:37 am
@ the end of day we love our Buc from all
Across the country. I can’t watch this uninspired
Coach , Coach this team again. Lvd is gone find, me a center
and move Barton to guard what can we get for Winfield, he’s fine in a two safety look
Single high no range.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:38 am
Saints are not beating the Falcons.
December 30th, 2025 at 12:52 am
Black Monday is coming. Fans wiil lose thier minds
When it leaks that the first interview will Mike McArthury
December 30th, 2025 at 12:54 am
If you attend the game this Sunday, you simply don’t hate this trash team enough.
December 30th, 2025 at 1:01 am
Rod Munch is delusional.
The Saints/Falcons game is 50/50 next week.
It could go either way.
I think there’s prob a 20-30% chance that we beat the Panthers anyway.
The Panthers don’t usually lose 2 in a row and they lost this week, so the odds are not in our favor to beat them.
December 30th, 2025 at 1:06 am
Great post Rod, I admire that….and you werent name calling :).
I just finished a 12 hr shift and going in for 12 more in about 9 hrs. from people taking vacation time and stuff. But I’ll try to be quick about it….
I saw this after todd was made HC and in his scheme as DC, and his personality and just everything, he just doesnt have it…(btw, saw that too with Grizzard but wanted to give him a chance).
Now, you want to see us go as far as we can, get in the playoffs…. well duh, that was the goal for all of us. And theres a part of me hoping this has all been done on purpose to not show our hand too much since todd likes to be so conservative once he gets a 3 point lead. But you start paying attention to that and his scheme and his stupid clock management and everything stupid about it and just get tired of it. We have some talent to build around, so if we get the right ones in place, we can make some noise next year and then the next.
It doesnt automatically mean we’re only going to win 3 games because we have a whole new staff and some new players, in which you stubbornly keep referring to.
Are you using chat gpt now or something? because you all of a sudden transformed into someone with some logical reasoning without name calling and putting people down….you’re weird or just a complete troll. But keep up this latest version and you might have some actual intelligent interactions with people, including keeping your emotional intelligence in check.
Trust me, we have a nice foundation of talented players to build on here. We just need to find the right ones who can play to their strengths, figure out the other team’s weaknesses that we play, figure out how to not make stupid mistakes and stupid decisions….and all of that bowls down to Bowles in the end.
December 30th, 2025 at 1:39 am
Im done with Bowles
*secretly rooting for Atlanta this weekend.
December 30th, 2025 at 1:42 am
This team can only beat itself.
December 30th, 2025 at 1:43 am
Falcons just beat the rams but they’ll never beat the Saints?
lol whatever dude. someone clearly needs/wants attention.
can’t believe half of you guys waste your time responding to
that dude.
December 30th, 2025 at 2:08 am
^ i know, and i rarely do
December 30th, 2025 at 2:25 am
Well the good part is both these teams on Saturday won’t know their fate. Carolina certainly won’t take the game lightly hoping for Atlanta to beat New Orleans. The Saints are playing very well and they would be happy to eliminate the team depending on them to lose. Who does the league prefer in the playoffs. Tampa Bay because it’s a larger market than Carolina.
The embarrassment is possibly another 8-9 team making the playoffs. It’s never going to change because the league won’t penalize a team winning it’s division. The only way fair way to do it is a computer driven program that awards playoff spots based on strength of wins and schedule. Fans might not be happy about it. They would say it’s not their fault that the NFC South is always a bad division.
It’s like the NBA. They should reseed regardless of conference. The best teams should play the best teams. How about simply making an exclusion in the pro football where no team that isn’t above .500 not get in the playoffs. Sorry if you win your division. Go 9-8 or go home.
December 30th, 2025 at 2:30 am
Jason licht is trash…