Bears 27, Bucs 24
November 8th, 2026
The Bucs offense certainly was not ready for prime time tonight.
The Bucs defense, however, delivered a heroic effort that was flushed down the toilet.
Despite Tampa Bay intercepting Caleb Williams four times — FOUR! — and forcing another turnover via a fumble, the Bucs couldn’t run up the score.
Baker Mayfield had a rough night with a pick-six and no touchdown passes. And he ate four sacks, as the Bucs’ offensive line proved its pass blocking remains a question mark.
At one point, beginning late in the second quarter, the Bucs stopped the Bears on seven consecutive drives. It just wasn’t enough until a late forced fumble by Rueben Bain and Keionte Scott (the seventh consecutive stop) gave the Bucs life. Bucky Irving marched in for a touchdown and Mayfield took care of the two-point conversion with his legs.
Then the Bucs defense collapsed on the Bears’ final drive.
Maddening but certainly not surprising for Bucs fans. It was another close-game loss that simply means the Bucs are an incomplete team, and one lacking a killer instinct.
The loss dropped the Bucs to 3-6, good for third place in the NFC South landfill. They’re tied with the Falcons but own the tiebreaker. The Saints and Falcons are both 3-5.
Joe can’t say the bye week, which comes now, arrived at a good time. The Bucs have not been good coming off a bye during the Todd Bowles regime.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Can we be sellers now ?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Glad we let the QB defraud the team out of 155M dollars……………………………………..
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Stop the false hope
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
We NEED to trade for a WR or Guard.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
50 millions for 2 picks and losing after getting 4 interceptions
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Just need a decent QB
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Great job Baker!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Inexcusable f*ng loss!!!!!!!!!!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
Unreal
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
This is on baker and another poor offensive game plan
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Baker isn’t good enough. It sucks so bad that we paid him the bag before proving it this year. He’s gutsy, tough, but not effective.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
14 points off of 5 turnovers sounds better than it was.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
The offense lost the game. How is having Baker start better than the rookie? Too many penalties on offense and the pick-6 was the nail in the coffin.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Another game closer to finally once and for all seeing this nepotism garbage coaching staff get run out of town. This has been a frustrating and terrible era of Bucs football.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Good game….D was balling! Thats probably a SB team we lost to.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Todd isn’t a prime time coach. It’s pretty clear.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Fix our pass game and we will be pretty good. Solid effort tonight.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Honestly, trade Baker
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Toilet bowles teams always find ways to lose these type of games.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Congrats Mayfield!!!
YOUUUUUUU lost the game for the team!!
You freaken suck man!!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
Time to change the OC a gave the new 2 weeks to work
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
This is on Baker, he threw a pick 6 that won the bears the game
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Bowles may have finally fixed our defense but he won’t be around bc our subpar quarterback play.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Baker doesn’t have decent WR’s
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Guy didn’t contribute to any of our wins, anyone can hand the ball off, but contributed greatly to most of the losses. Excuse after excuse. He was terrible before the injury!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Anyone who blames the defense is idiotic
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Bucs need OC – QB and WR
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Baker needs to play better. Bowles has the defense rolling. Baker can’t capitalize on all those turnovers and threw a pick 6. That was the difference in the game and it is sad.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Gotta say that we have the best def in the league right now, but our offense is horrible. Mayfield is not the same player he was for us in the past.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
I can say one thing…
Bears can celebrate all they want to, but the more intelligent Bears fans must realize deep down that they will never win a championship with that QB.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
With the help of the defense offense still put up 24 points on the best defense around. Silver lining
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
We need to trade Mayfield for a ham sandwich and get our $55 million back. We are paying him the same as Josh Allen. What a joke! He set this franchise back big time.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
We have no wrs none at all
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Coaching decisions once again dooms the team. Settling for FG way too often. No killer mentality from the offense, poor play calling from the O coordinator and passive decisions by the head coach.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
From a defensive standpoint, Bowles is putting on a clinic the past month. This defense is hummin’
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Bowles choked again
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
We fought hard and the D played a good game minus that last blown coverage. Baker, however, is not playing like his pay scale warrants imo. Tough loss but we hung with one of the best teams in the league. Could be worse.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Lewis..what team takes on Baker’s 55 million a year?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
We have no receivers, a poor passing scheme and have over-reached on Baker. Damn shame as the D has been pretty stout
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
The Bucs can win games. The INTs in scoring range and settling for FGs cost us the game.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Robinson took the game away from the running backs and OLine and Mayfield and receivers produced pick six, sacks and dropped passes.
Robinson F’d this game up.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
So either fire Zac now and keep doing our best to win a completely crappy division …
Or
Tank the rest of the year, fire everyone, hire a new offensive minded stud HC and draft Jeremiah Smith …
Whatever happens, I’m here for it, ig
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Thanks Tez.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
I don’t know what to say after that but our wrs are trash and our big money line looked like change tonight all Pennies
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
First of all, where was David Walker all game long? You started Anthony Nelson and he got 2 tackles and half a sack. I will never understand Todd Bowles as long as I am alive. Secondly, the defense plays like hungry wolverines for 3 1/2 quarters and then… At this point I am just tired of it.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
That loss is not on Todd. Baker sucked the O line sucked and the WRs sucked. We don’t know what the game plan was because nobody could execute.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
“LFGBucs Says:
November 8th, 2026 at 11:41 pm
14 points off of 5 turnovers sounds better than it was.“
Doesn’t sound good at all
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Jason Licht does not deserve another season after the mayfield signing.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Baker is hot smoldering trash
November 8th, 2026 at 11:43 pm
We played arguably the best team in the NFC and showed incredibly heart and fight. We ran the ball on them our defense proved we are legit lot of very positives JOE! Crazy that you spoil this as some kind of season ending loss. All this did was prove we are heads and tails above the rest of our division.
Use that bye week to get better on offense excited for second half of this season!
We are going be playing our best football when it matters most!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
Mayfield needs to play like a $165 million QB. He’s playing less than average.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
This not the best defense in the league. The best defense wouldn’t have a blown coverage on a critical drive
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
The defense gets 5 turnovers and they still lose.
That’s tough to do.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
At least they abandoned the Cade Otton centered passing attack game plan in the in the second half…smh
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
Only jackasses would blame Bowles for this loss…
Bowles bosses paid $165 milly for a POS quarterback!!
Simple as that!!!
Bowles has a top 5 defense in the NFL this year and the offense screws the team over. Meh playcalling tonite, dropped passes, and a crappy-a$$ QB performance.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
Don’t blame Todd. He told the team they needed to score more points than the bears.
Job done.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
What happened to Ted Hurst??
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
All you haters can stfu we lost but that was a great game. Our offense still struggles, why cant EE and CG get open more often. TJ dropped a few but had that 1 catch that led to our td. Defense played incredible. This is a BUCS fans page. If your not a fan then gtf off here and quit taking up space. That was a very respectable loss to a great team. GO BUCS!!!!!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
I would be selling but damn it is really clear now that the problem with this team is the OC and scheme and Baker. It’s a huge problem because we have all this salary wrapped up in Baker and he just sucks. Whether he can be better with a better OC and scheme who knows. But Bucky is the offense without him this team wouldn’t even put up 50 yards a game of total offense
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
I would rather have the rookie in what’s the difference
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
Get used to Baker he’s here for 3 more years at the very least.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
How do you lose to a team that gives up 5 turnovers!!!
5 !!!!! Ask the yucs. Its an embarrassing product they ve
Put on the field the last 2 seasons. And the bust master
Himself our GM was oh so timely giving faker Mayfield
155m of guaranteed money.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:44 pm
Welfare check again on Kenton Smith. His Idol with 2 more INT’s…but according to him you need a $55million QB to hand the ball off properly.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Lots of hate for Baker but I’m not seeing a lot of receivers running free in this offense. Completely a one dimensional scheme. It’s really frustrating to watch.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Hard not to put most of this on Baker. What happened to Ted Hurst? Were there any targets to Chris Godwin (the $22 million dollar man)? Cade Otton on a go route one-on-one is the decision? He’s not Mike Evans. Poor decisions (Baker/Robinson), poor execution (Baker/O-line), and overall a poor game plan by the offense (Baker/Robinson).
Last thought, don’t lose sight of the fact that every loss has been a 1 score game. I think that is important and overlooked.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Todd is a total p**** and it’s infected the entire team.
Lichtmyballs sucks.
Baker is a what Baker is.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Also, what is going on with our passing game? Its not Baker’s fault – there is NOTHING available and when he does get a pass in to an open receiver the drops are just brutal.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Starting to think Baker is a problem. What is going on? Hasn’t played a truly great game since SF last year. More than a calendar year. Yikes.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
LUKE G is a problem on oline
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Yes, Baker needs to be better. But I would love to see the end zone view of some of these passing plays. I know one sacks they showed it where there wasn’t a Bucs receiver without a Bear in their back pocket.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
It sucks we lost. Passing game sux. But dang it, the D was dominant. The S is all even at 3 wins a piece and I think the Bucs have shown the most. I mean this was one of the best teams in the league right? I just can’t understand why Otton is targeted so much more than our top 2 WRs?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
You guys just went toe to toe with the NFC Super Bowl contender ,,, moral victory,,, Would have been nice to win but we will make the playoffs and be ok
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
I see some of these remarks and it makes me laugh we did better than anyone expected tonight we kept Chicago on their Hills the only lose by three I’m impressed we did not make many mistakes tonight against probably the team that will be going to the Super Bowl representing the NFC bye week coming for the people let’s rest up look at some tape and see what the last seven is going to give us we need to continue to try to control the NFC South to get into the playoffs everything starts over there the rest of the season is very manageable
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Trade Baker to a desperate team for a 7th round pick
And we give them our 3rd as well, maybe a 4th too
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
a decent qb does not win this game. same darnold laat week vs bears looked worse then baker did and he has jsn. bowles not going for it lost this game . the team also wasnt ready to play to start the game ben johnsons team was and ben johnson knew exactly what play to call up when it mattered most a te busted coverage play a todd bowles special. collinsworth was saying all night baker has absolutely noone to throw the ball to
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
This offense is so sad baker wtf man I’m tired of this zac baker get it together you as a unit are letting down this defense baker you guy lock it the f in.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Jalon Daniels would’ve prob won this game.
Can we sit Baker again please?
He takes way too long to decide what to do back there.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Exactly 1988.
The head coach has no business for the outcome of the game..
Us fans need to show more appreciation for his talents.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Fire robinson before he makes it to the podium
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
3-6
Three and six
November 8th, 2026 at 11:45 pm
Sell Baker. He is not a franchise QB.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Billy Says…….
I second that!!
A HEAPING PILE OF HAWT SMOULDERING GARBAGE!!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Physical as hell game. The D was incredible. Gonna be a long flight home.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Zac is the problem. I’d rather beg Josh Grizzard to come back over this nonsense.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Fire Zac Robinson. Give the young coach, Chandler Whitmer, a chance to see what he can do with the offense.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Baker is not the answer. Idk. I know there are a 100 reasons why our offense sucks but I think Baker stands out. Our receivers can’t get open. We can’t win with 5 turnovers. Pitiful.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
3-6 is a dream come true. That’s how you win championships.
Wasn’t Dungy fired for doing much better while Todd fails upwards with a much worse record?????
Oh, that’s right, never mind. We can still win the fresh cow pie eating contest.
Are you not entertained????
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Any game where you have 5 turnovers is a MUST win. Totally ineffective passing game.
Baker has played like a top 10 QB for us in the past. He was great under both Canales and Coen. Zac stinks—you can’t just elevate the office intern to OC and expect the same results. We would be better off with someone off the couch who has shown they can scheme an NFL passing attack before.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Keep Jason and Todd, next year will be different right?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:47 pm
yes, it’s the pick 6 and not the two drives in the first quarter where the defense let them score, and not the last drive where they couldnt get the stop.
seems to me like there’s plenty of blame to go around for this loss-including to the offense who wasn’t able to capitalize on FIVE turnovers.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:47 pm
Lewis…answer the fukin question.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:47 pm
This is what squarely place the blame on Baker. The over throws for touchdowns. The offensive line isn’t going to give you a minute behind the line. Bench Baker. Caleb Williams played better than Baker and he has way less years in the league.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:47 pm
Can’t even be mad at Todd he had them guys making plays, disgusting we don’t have a qb who can’t take advantage of takeaways…defense legit offense is on pee wee league
November 8th, 2026 at 11:47 pm
“Buc1987 Says:
November 8th, 2026 at 11:42 pm
Baker doesn’t have decent WR’s“
Bakers’ only pass TD went the wrong way
November 8th, 2026 at 11:47 pm
Dan the Bucs Fan, the a bears are mediocre….their QB is awful.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:48 pm
Obvious, sounds like you’re one of the jackasses I’m talking about 🤷🏻♂️.
Does Bowles play defense?
NOOOOOOOOO
A backup safety blew a coverage and misread it.
Yeah that’s Bowles fault 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️..
Gtfoh bro!!
November 8th, 2026 at 11:48 pm
how bizarre…how bizarre…how bizarre…
one thing i know is…………
chicago ain’t sh!t………..overrated…………i knew it
November 8th, 2026 at 11:48 pm
ProffeserVonBrainStorm…what happened to the blowout you were predicting all week?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:49 pm
we played like sh!t the greater portion of the game on offense…
we played well for the greater portion of the game on defense
November 8th, 2026 at 11:51 pm
How could you type anything but a complete rip on baker mayfield his pick 6 is literally the reason we lost? Caleb Williams could not do anything after 15 mins
November 8th, 2026 at 11:51 pm
Years of losing or borderline performance is Bowles fault.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:51 pm
ok we at 3-6 .. look at the bright side.. we go 4-4 and it’s playoffs
November 8th, 2026 at 11:52 pm
I know that the offensive line can play (seen it), I know that Baker can play (seen it), so it’s either that our receivers are not good and the defenses don’t respect them and blitz at will or our OC sucks and his plays do not scare anyone, or a combination of both. So, do the Bucs trade for a WR, change OCs, both, or do nothing? Probably the last option unfortunately.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:53 pm
Ah….name calling. You know you’ve won the argument when you do that.
64-78.
Do you know what that is?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:53 pm
ZACS OFFENCE SUCKS .I SAID IT BEFORE ,ZAC IS NOT A GOOD OFFENCE COACH AS FAR AS PASSING GAME . WERE WAS HURST ? EBUKA? GODWIN VERY LITTLE . TEZ 2 DROPS . HE HAS NO CLUE ! 5 TAKE AWAYS ! 5 ! AND 3 POINTS ? YOUR FIRED BRO . NO DESIGHN ROLL OUTS AWAY FROM THE RUSE LIKE BEARS . HECDOES NOT WORK RECIEVERS HOWCCAN YOUVEXPECTVTO GET BETTER TIMING ? HOW ? 0 I WANT HOM GONE ! AWFUL .
November 8th, 2026 at 11:54 pm
They really should consider signing Tyreek. Sure he’s coming off the injury but he’ll definitely help open things up when he gets back. I’m sure some would disagree but a WR like him would definitely help them right about now.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:54 pm
This defense is RAW AS HELL! Once them boys figured out what Chicago was doing and LOCKED THE F@CK IN, they went into one of the toughest houses in the league and put arguably the NFL’s best offense in a damn straitjacket. SEVEN straight drives shut down. FIVE turnovers forced. IN THEIR OWN HOUSE!
And folks wanna talk about how gassed they looked at the end? NO SCH!T! Them boys emptied the damn tank, laid everything on the line, and fought their @sses off. You can question a lot of things about this team, but that defense’s heart ain’t one of ’em.
Today proved something I’ve been saying: If this offense ever gets its sch!t together and starts pulling its own weight, we can line up with ANYBODY, ANYWHERE, on ANY GIVEN SUNDAY!
This defense ain’t the problem. Give them some damn help!
GO BUCS! 🏴☠️🔥
November 8th, 2026 at 11:55 pm
How many games just like this has Todd Bowles lost?
November 8th, 2026 at 11:56 pm
Trade Baker. Fire Bowles!
The y are both to blame for all our loses.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:56 pm
You would think that our General Manager will make a move at the deadline this year because he realizes that his butt is on the line if the Bucs don’t finish strong.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:56 pm
Zac Robinson shouldn’t come out that bye week and still be coaching you can’t have a defense playing like this and have the offense looking so freaking goofy. Are you even practicing together it looks so bad baker Mayfield is walking around with a novel on his belt what is going on.
November 8th, 2026 at 11:58 pm
Licht save your job by trading Baker. Jalon won’t do worst.
November 9th, 2026 at 12:04 am
ZAC STINKS ON OFFENCE .HE GOS WITH OTTON ? HOW ABOUT HURST AND EBUKA ? GODWIN WHAT 2 TARGETS . ZAC IS THE PROBLEM . HE HAS NO BUSINESS RUNNING A PASSING OFFENCE ! HE STINKS ATCIT . 5 TURNOVERS AND 3 POINTS ? REALLY ZAC . NEVER LIKED HIM AS A OFFENCE COACH . COHEN WOUKD NEVER LET YHAT HAPPEN. ! JUST FIRE BOWLES AND ZAC AND GET PEOPLE IN HETE WHO KNOW THERE CRAP. OR BOWLES ON D ONLY .THEN HIRE A NEW HC. AND OFFENCE COACH . THIS IS NOT GOING TO CUT IT . IF WE HAD ANY KIND OF PASSING GAME WE WOUKD HAVE WON . ! THENCTHE BACK UP BLOWS THE GAME ON TOP OFVIT ALL .THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAY AND HE CRAPS IN THE BED !:😖😖😠
November 9th, 2026 at 12:13 am
Fire the OC during the Bye week
November 9th, 2026 at 12:17 am
Zack Robinson refuses to implement a vertical offense when we need it He continues to exclude our receivers from the offense in every game and is unwilling to make adjustments. His offense strategy tonight was to showcase Cade Otten and forget about Godwin & Ebuka. Another squandered opportunity tonight and loss after a great defensive effort to get us win. How does he expect to win games with that strategy. Baker is showing why he has been a journeyman as starting QB. We should play Daniels to see what we have in him it certainly can’t hurt.
November 9th, 2026 at 12:17 am
We will be saying the same crap after the Detroit game- isn’t anyone tired of this crap already?
November 9th, 2026 at 12:17 am
How many more coaches and coordinators does the NFL have to give a guy before people will wake up and see the common denominator?! No good coordinator is willing to play for Bowles or is it the guy that was almost out of the league a few years ago and been through about 10 of them!
I want Baker to be good because I’m a Bucs fan, but he’s not and some of us will have to suffer for at least 3 more seasons because we win the worst division in the game (most of the time)! Whoopdy friggen doo!!
Ugh……….
November 9th, 2026 at 12:18 am
We absolutely suck on Offense
November 9th, 2026 at 12:23 am
Our defense has been playing well- forcing turnovers – but how we go for it on fourth and a long one and the best we can do is a QB draw is stupidity when we have Bucky – Gainwell and Tucker
Dropped balls by WRs-
Pick six thrown by our QB
And don’t let me get started on our false start penalities
Does anyone else notice how long it takes for a play to come in and when we line up the play clock is already under 10 seconds? Almost always and we are hurrying to snap it –
How we even hired Robinson just shows how stupid and inept this organization is knowing what kind of offense he ran because you saw it twice a year from Atlanta
November 9th, 2026 at 12:28 am
LUVMYBUCS Says:
November 8th, 2026 at 11:54 pm
This defense is RAW AS HELL! Once them boys figured out what Chicago was doing and LOCKED THE F@CK IN, they went into one of the toughest houses in the league and put arguably the NFL’s best offense in a damn straitjacket. SEVEN straight drives shut down. FIVE turnovers forced. IN THEIR OWN HOUSE!……..
………. Today proved something I’ve been saying: If this offense ever gets its sch!t together and starts pulling its own weight, we can line up with ANYBODY, ANYWHERE, on ANY GIVEN SUNDAY!
This defense ain’t the problem. Give them some damn help!
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Easy second on that!!
November 9th, 2026 at 12:39 am
You guys blaming Mayfield are not seeing the bigger picture. Yes, the pic-6 (great defensive play) was critical, but his passing accuracy was very good otherwise (one behind-throw, but then two bread-basket drops).
Robinson’s calls — relying on deeper patterns — when protection was expectedly shaky due to pressure circumstances — took us down in the end.