Bucs Avoid International Game
May 13th, 2026
Feel free to exhale.
The Bucs won’t be playing overseas this year.
It’s a safe bet only a tiny percentage of Bucs fans want to endure a 9 a.m. football game while their beloved team’s routines are massively disrupted — just so NFL owners can make more money and still raise prices on fans.
The NFL finalized its foreign 2026 slate today and the Bucs aren’t on it. Among the NFC South teams, the slimy Saints will play the Steelers in France and the Falcons head to Madrid to take on the Bengals.
The Bucs beat Seattle in Germany back in 2022, but the team was bad after the bye week that followed the win. Tampa Bay resumed play two leeks later and lost to the bumbling Browns in Cleveland. In all, the Bucs were 3-5 that season following the overseas trip.
In 2019, the Bucs were humiliated by the Panthers in England. And the Bucs lost in 2009 and 2011 in England, as well. The team was never the same after the England trip of 2011, losing their next nine games to close the season.
The NFL’s nine-game international game slate for 2026 is here.
Jacksonville won’t be home much in October.
One day, each week of the NFL calendar will have a game on foreign soil. pic.twitter.com/wntkHtsZ0S
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) May 13, 2026
May 13th, 2026 at 10:52 am
The NFL wants to build its brand internationally. A big way to tarnish it would be sending the Bowles train wreck to some massive fancy stadium to be utterly uncompetitive in all three phases again and lose 37-3 to the Cowboys. No doubt the schedule makers laughed if they even discussed putting the Kit Kat eater on full display.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:00 am
Thanks for more dazzling insight. Maybe you could go back to your Saints fanpage now?
May 13th, 2026 at 11:05 am
Was there for the humiliation in London all 3 time 🙁
At least they won when i made the trip to Tampa – gonna have to save up and do it again some day!
May 13th, 2026 at 11:06 am
So the farthest the Bucs will have to travel is a 2 hour & change flight to Dallas this season
Yet Mike Evans – who admittedly hates flying and long flights – has to travel across the entire country for many of his away games AND the one trip to Australia might be more flying hours than the Bucs have to do all season (not liking that up, but the sentiment remains)….
And for Brock Purdy as your QB? And far less pay and far more taxes? And for a team the Bucs beat without Evans even playing?!
Yea something ain’t adding up, ain’t right in Mike’s head or in someone’s head around him. Something is up and/or just not right here with Mike and his “reasons”
May 13th, 2026 at 11:14 am
Great news, expect the Saints and Falcons to be worn out the week after their international games. Not having an international game will keep the Bucs focused. I like it, now if we could just get Carolina to join them.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:15 am
Mike left to be the number 1 receiver instead of 1A, 1b, or 1c. He wants way more targets to lock in the hall of fame. It’s as simple AS THAT. He was thinking about playing a few more years so was probably quite unhappy we drafted Egbuka in the first round too.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:15 am
Plus just living in San francisco. One of the last larger cities I’d ever want to live in.
Beautiful city in general but it’s the mentality, govt, local economy and earthquakes you can’t see coming that make it a no-go for me. I won’t even get into the next door power plant. LOL
I find it very funny that the Jags are playing in England twice. I wonder how that will affect their season? I’d be pissed if I was a fan of theirs.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:34 am
lol. California has the fourth largest economy of any COUNTRY in the world. San Fran, LA, and especially San Diego are beautiful.
Jacksonville’s owner is a short-sighted profiteer. If the NFL wants a NFL Europe then establish it separately and keep our games in America!
May 13th, 2026 at 11:49 am
The NFL Europe experiment has already been run. Didn’t work out very well…
May 13th, 2026 at 12:16 pm
glad we caught a break lol
as far as mike, he went to a contender that won 12games last year despite a roster full of injuries…
and Brock didnt choke in DEC like baker lol
wish you well mike!!!!…we’ll see you in the playoffs!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!
May 13th, 2026 at 12:36 pm
Have fun in Australia and Mexico City week 11 too jerk.
May 13th, 2026 at 1:00 pm
With that schedule (49-ers), and with all the positive progress the Bucs made in the offseason, I wonder if Mike Evans has any regrets?
May 13th, 2026 at 1:06 pm
@Not A Good Look…
It appears Mike wants targets and yards and TDs. He was tired of the OC carousel in Tampa and the battle for targets like other WR1s get. On top of a soft D you couldn’t win with.
Shanahan will get him 6-10 targets a game. I don’t love that they open in Australia but Evans TD is a prop I will be gambling on early and often.
May 13th, 2026 at 2:37 pm
Not A Good Look…
you do know Mike left before he knew the schedule right?
May 13th, 2026 at 2:40 pm
I think Mike suffered a severe concussion when he hurt his collar bone.
May 13th, 2026 at 2:44 pm
jacksonville got the double whammy
May 13th, 2026 at 2:46 pm
will mike take a boomerang to the neck from crocodile dundee…
that is the real question