Bill Parcells Says He Has Weekly Bucs Talks With Todd Bowles
July 13th, 2026
Todd Bowles
If you’re a wise Bucs fan and watched Raise The Flags: 50 Years Of Buccaneers Football on Amazon, you learned — or re-learned — about Team Glazer’s obsession with having Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells coach their team.
The Parcells tension was wild back in 2002. Would he come out of retirement to coach the Bucs after Father Dungy was fired?
Fast-forward to last month. Parcells, who turns 85 next month, was at Saratoga Race Course in New York with his much younger girlfriend. (No, he’s not in Bill Belicheat territory, but there could be a 40-year age gap.)
Parcells was interviewed by Sal Licata and was asked the following:
Sal Licata: Do you still get the joy watching these games? Do you watch from afar thinking what you could do to make things better?
Bill Parcells: With Sean [Payton’s] team, Todd Bowles, the Tampa Bay coach, I try to. Yeah. Because I know I’m going to talk to them the next week.
So Parcells is still at it as a guy who will get in Bowles’ ear. Bowles told a Jets podcast 15 months ago that he’ll hear from Parcells regularly if he’s got something to share about the Bucs.
Joe was intrigued to see the short June interview of Parcells, who doesn’t do many chats with media, though he did talk to Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman last summer. Parcells quick wit was on display. Man, Joe would pay good cash to hear what Parcells had to say about the Bucs’ collapse late last season.
July 13th, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Wonder if he goes on double dates with Belidunce?
July 13th, 2026 at 4:17 pm
Fascinating
Never bad to have the Big Tuna in your ear raining down his knowledge. Dude is one of those few unparalleled!
July 13th, 2026 at 4:21 pm
Kenton is such a tool he’d rather have Bowles than Parcells or Belichick.
Clearly Toad Bowels doesn’t listen to anything Parcells has to say.
At what point do you decide a coach can’t get the job done?
Two seasons in four years of below.500 football. In a division with nobody’s.
Just imagine if the laughing stock was in a good division. He’d have been run year two. If not sooner.
Steaming pile of dung > Toad Bowels
July 13th, 2026 at 4:29 pm
Who cares! Next article
July 13th, 2026 at 4:47 pm
Is this more evidence that our head coach doesn’t listen?Or is this just a lack of talent on this team? Or do we just have to play it better and coach it better? I HOPE this year is better than the last. Go Bowles?
July 13th, 2026 at 4:51 pm
Raise The Flags: 50 Years Of Buccaneers Football
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I watched it on NFL Network when they ran it for a week, and the last two episodes (Friday) ran in their entirety with messed up audio. I guess no one was in the studio to fix it. Just load the tapes, hit play, and leave.
You could hear all of the background audio and music, but not the main track with the principles being interviewed. I suffered through episode 9, hoping that it was the only one affected. Nope. Both episodes that day were ruined.
July 13th, 2026 at 4:55 pm
Either the Tuna has lost his touch or Todd is ignoring his advice
This defensive scheme, SUCKS!!!
July 13th, 2026 at 4:56 pm
Heck I would pay money to gear Parcels assessment of the Bucs CB position. I would also like to hear how Bowles explains to Parcels his assessment of McColumn and Morrison whom at this point in my opinion are a huge weak link to the team.
I know I scratch my head .
July 13th, 2026 at 4:56 pm
We are stuck with Bowles for ‘26. We can cry about it everyday or hope for the best. If we stumble or fall, Bowles will be on the hottest seat ever heated. I, for one, hope for the best but am a realist expecting another 9-8 season. I won’t be happy with that unless that means a division title and us getting to round 2 minimum.
3.28 and Lynchmob – we get it and most feel the same as I do, but please cut us some slack with your constant complaints.
We are all on the same team wanting the best for our Bucs. We are waiting and watching Bowles. You have increased talent now on D so you had better succeed or I’ll pack your bags for you.
July 13th, 2026 at 5:06 pm
It was a lack of *healthy* talent on the team. I expect far better this year. That is, if they don’t get injured again. Let’s hope not.
July 13th, 2026 at 5:42 pm
Bill Parcells is wasting his time.
July 13th, 2026 at 5:48 pm
He calls him every week?!?!? Yep with the same question every week. Please STOP HAVING YOUR EDGE DROPPING BACK FOR COVERAGE!!!!!!
Is he ever going to get it?
July 13th, 2026 at 6:01 pm
‘74 Bucs Fan Says:
“3.28 and Lynchmob – we get it and most feel the same as I do, but please cut us some slack with your constant complaints.”
In a word: No
We will never relent, we shall never surrender, until the human KitKat bar is sent packing.
Go back and watch the defenses under Kiffin. Those were championship caliber squads that were absolutely relentless in their efforts.
That is the standard. Nothing less is ever going to be enough. Once you create a standard of excellence you should always strive to maintain that level.
Not just settle and be happy with years of regression.
July 13th, 2026 at 6:05 pm
from one big tuna to the other
July 13th, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Biggest losers are those who give up…. Worse yet are the losers that try to convince others that they’re wrong to have optimism.
July 13th, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Let’s see. Parcels jilted the Bucs twice. Is he still doing it by giving bad advice to someone who can’t see through it?
July 13th, 2026 at 6:23 pm
Yeah, but what do they talk about?
It’s certainly not relinquishing the DC Job and just be the HC!!! That is for sure!!
July 13th, 2026 at 6:35 pm
With Bowles as HC, I have zero faith in the upcoming season. This organization is going to have to earn my respect again. Not going to be easy.
July 13th, 2026 at 6:46 pm
I wonder what Tuna said to KitKat after 3rd and 28 and the loss to the Dolphins?
“Drink heavily. Then retire”. Would have been the best possible advice for Tdod. What we need are more articles about Bowles losing his touch, losing the players, Mike and the other veterans leaving.
July 13th, 2026 at 6:49 pm
Mikes over the hill, chill
July 13th, 2026 at 6:57 pm
PARCELLS would have fire Bowles……….. after the collapse …..
Parcells would cut players mid season or whenever if they deserved it…
July 13th, 2026 at 7:17 pm
Parcells, like the majority of NFL coaches and FO people, likes Todd. He’s obviously harmless and affable. He’s classic Peter principle – promoted to his level of incompetence. He has vast football knowledge and contacts all over the league. He just doesn’t have what it takes to be a winner. Sad to say. We’re stuck with him at least another year and it’s hard not to whine about it. Doesn’t even make you feel better.
July 13th, 2026 at 7:29 pm
Win In The Trenches: Great point. If Bowles would’ve cut some of the loser loafers in his first couple years as Bucs HC, he wouldn’t have the problems he did last year. They think they get a free pass to loaf, after Devin White.
July 13th, 2026 at 7:39 pm
So what! Lynchmob and 328 are joined at the hips! Kissn Cousins!!
July 13th, 2026 at 7:41 pm
So when they talk, do they talk about football and coaching?
July 13th, 2026 at 8:20 pm
At what point does somebody aside from other commenters say something about the name calling of players and coaches? Is it really cool to have obvious trolls referring to our HC as less than a steaming pile of dung etc in practically every one of their dozens of comments every day.
Joes, it’s one thing to let these guys have a voice… It’s another to let them repeatedly fill up every article with personal attacks on coach and “attempt” to intimidate the objective or optimistic fans. At this point the trolls are writing more than you even if it is the same comments repeated endlessly.
July 13th, 2026 at 8:54 pm
Simple T: “Wahhhh someone said something bad about Todd Bowles!!!! Wahhhh”
July 13th, 2026 at 9:24 pm
What a waste of Parcel’s time. CLEARLY…. They aren’t talking about football because if so, like I said, what an incredible waste of Parcel’s valuable insight and limited time.
Then again, I’m assuming that Parcels isn’t looking to LHFAO…! Maybe he is looking for a hilarious joke and from the outside it’s got the whole league rolling on the floor laughing their rear ends off at the mention of “the bozo the clown defensive laughathon” and how it’ll stop ANY rookie or stop ANY defense from scoring At Will!
You know who wasn’t laughing? THE TEAM that got Tired of Him! And I know quite a few fans of the team who AREN’T LAUGHING EITHER!
To give you a hint as to how serious it is… ALL the team leaders have left the organization given the choice. The ONLY ONES that are left are those that owe to the contract, and are Forced to continue. Why do you people think that our BEST cornerback was willing to take less than half of his ALREADY GURANTEED MONEY to play last year? Well… DUH! It was so that he could TAKE CONTROL of his future and get FAR AWAY from here! Less than half of his already guaranteed money! You know, like Mike Evans doing the VERY SAME to get away from the clown show and go to teams that are serious about Winning Lombardi’s!
The ONLY REASON Brady didn’t leave sooner (he d@@m sure tired) was that he was under contract! Business Only…
We WON’T SEE high end talent “deciding with an actual choice” to EVER COME BACK to Tampa Bay “until” the Cancer has been REMOVED!
Tampa Bay Buccaneers….. NOBODY fears us anymore.
I and ALL THE OTHERS have the RIGHT TO SAY SO AS MUCH AS WE PLEASE whether the followers from elsewhere, “ancient as dust” pom pom gals loaded with lipstick, and bad hair do’s, or goofy in the head lemmings, LIKE IT OR NOT!
Cancer MUST BE REMOVED before happiness and harmony WILL EVER return!
July 13th, 2026 at 10:18 pm
It always seems that there is an undeclared race to be the first to post something negative about our coach, no matter what the topic is.
July 13th, 2026 at 11:06 pm
Well it sure as hell aint helping
July 13th, 2026 at 11:31 pm
Only a simpleton thinks a 15 minute phone call from Parcells is going to fix the problems with the Defense.
July 14th, 2026 at 12:10 am
Criticisms about The Great Regressor are all results based, earned-through-performance observations. He oversaw the complete collapse of a team that started 6-2, that got healthier after the bye. He did this by watching as all three phases of his football team decomposed in the gutter. All he could do is say “I’ve done everything I can.”
And he was retained.
Mike Evans couldn’t take it anymore. Go Mike.
Simple Jack and his girlfriends on the Pom Pom squad should be censored for mindless pablum that sucks energy from the universe.
Go Bucs. Fire Todd .
July 14th, 2026 at 6:17 am
“”Criticisms about The Great Regressor are all results based, earned-through-performance observations. He oversaw the complete collapse of a team that started 6-2, that got healthier after the bye. He did this by watching as all three phases of his football team decomposed in the gutter. All he could do is say “I’ve done everything I can.”””
So where is he wrong here folks? Seems pretty accurate to me.
July 14th, 2026 at 8:08 am
and Bowels still doesn’t get it !
July 14th, 2026 at 4:33 pm
If Toad Bowels could have Bill Walsh, George Halas, Tom Landry, Joe Gibbs, Don Shula, Vince Lombardi, Curly Lambeau, Dan Reeves, Bill Parcells, Chuck Noll and Dan Reeves all in his ear weekly and it wouldn’t Matter. Kit-Kat is over his head and stuck in his ways. Once a mediocre coach, always a mediocre coach. He is High School caliber at best!