Todd Bowles: Playing With A Lead Fueled Pass Rush
December 25th, 2023
Last night after the Bucs beatdown of the Jags, Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence admitted the Bucs had a nasty pass rush that got to him and Jacksonville had no answers.
In fact, Lawrence said, when the Bucs got a big lead, the Jags had no choice but to throw. The Bucs knew it and Lawrence said the Bucs pass rushers simply pinned their ears back. They were coming after him.
In his day-after presser this afternoon, Bucs coach Todd Bowles pretty much agreed with Lawrence’s assessment.
“Getting up in the score usually doesn’t happen for us,” Bowles said. “We are usually fighting tooth and nail. When we get up and get ahead, we can be even more aggressive. So that allows us to take advantage of some things.”
And boy oh boy did that happen last night. The Bucs had four sacks and five quarterback hits on Lawrence and his backup C.J. Beathard.
A pass defense’s best friend is a pass rush. Especially a pass defense that had been struggling of late.
December 25th, 2023 at 2:04 pm
An Achilles tear ussually takes 2 years to completely recover your speed.
Shaq is looking faster last few games.
And adding Yaya to the mix has really improved our Pass rush.
Which really improves our secondary!
December 25th, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Pass rush is still non existent without a blitz and that barely gets thru most of the time especially on 3rd down because we keep running zone
December 25th, 2023 at 2:32 pm
““Getting up in the score usually doesn’t happen for us,” Bowles said. “We are usually fighting tooth and nail.”
=>That’s because you told your offensive coordinators to keep wasting our first and second downs running between the tackles!
“Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence admitted the Bucs had a nasty pass rush that got to him and Jacksonville had no answers.”
=>That’s because we kept JTS sorry, weak, soft, useless as on the bench 😂
December 25th, 2023 at 2:53 pm
Bowles sucks as a HC. I’m sorry. Every quote, thought, comment is worse than the last m
December 25th, 2023 at 3:01 pm
SlyPirate Says:
December 25th, 2023 at 2:53 pm
Bowles sucks as a HC. I’m sorry. Every quote, thought, comment is worse than the last m
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If Bowles sucks as a HC then why are we on a 4 game winning streak and first place in our division? Oh, and don’t forget about the winning record without Tom Brady 🫢
December 25th, 2023 at 3:13 pm
Bowels is probably secured for at least one more year. Win another game and the division title and it’s guaranteed. As much as I’ve hated on him, I’m ok with that. I love being proven wrong when I’m predicting destruction of my Bucs. Just keep winning. Go Bucs!
December 25th, 2023 at 3:18 pm
If we keep playing like the last 2 games, certainly do not change a thing. Then draft hogs on both sides of the line in the off season.
December 25th, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Well if they stopped with the Pop Warner offense and the soft cover defense that they run, then yeah, you probably wouldn’t be trailing as much as you did. I still worry about the secondary against some of these high powered offenses but we will cross that bridge when we get there. Lets hope that they keep this momentum and make a little playoff push !!
December 25th, 2023 at 4:14 pm
Thanks to fans, players family members, stakeholders, members on this site, and other fans on social media platform, Bowles is coming out his shell n starting to listen to the folks who impacts his destiny. He knows that previously he has shown a lack of aggressiveness over the past year. Therefore, he knows that fans are doing some barking n it’s his job to put the bite in teams’ arse. Let’s get this ball going n rolling from the 2020 get “hot at the right time” season.
December 25th, 2023 at 4:57 pm
Fun stuff!
The roughing call on White was pretty turrible.
Team has a nice roll going!
December 25th, 2023 at 5:44 pm
With Keep Tryon no longer tip toeing thru the tulips, the rush is far more fierce and consistent.
December 25th, 2023 at 5:55 pm
Joe, I just thought about something. When we won the Super Bowl, every team that we played in the postseason beat us during the regular season. Is that some kind of record or has it happened before? Actually, we were zero and five against the teams that we met in the playoffs Because the Saints beat us twice during the season
December 25th, 2023 at 6:24 pm
@ATLBUC Nah man we whooped the packers earlier in the season and never played the commanders. We only beat the saints and the chiefs
December 25th, 2023 at 6:40 pm
There were some interesting dynamics going on yesterday in terms of our offense & defense (some might even view it as COMPLIMENTARY FOOTBALL?) …
o Drive 1: Bucs’ offense march 69 yds after receiving opening kickoff for FG (3-0 Bucs).
o Drive 2: Bucs’ offense gets ball at Tampa 44 after defense made INT & march 56 yds for a TD (10-0 Bucs).
o Drive 3: Bucs ‘offense gets ball at Tampa 42 after Jags missed FG & march 45 yds for another FG (Bucs 13-0).
o Drive 4: Bucs offense gets ball at Tampa 35 after defense made INT & march 65 yds for a TF (Bucs 20-0).
o Drive 5: Offense had only 1 play (kneeldown) to end the half.
o Drive 6: Bucs’ offense gets ball at Jags’ 37 yd line after a fumble recovery & drives 37 yds for a TD (Bucs 27-0).
o Drive 7: Bucs’ offense gets the ball at the Tampa 40 yd line after our defense held them on 4th down & they drove 60 yds for a TD (Bucs 30-0).
After that it got boring. Until then however there was some impressive COMPLIMENTARY FOOTBALL going on at RayJay. Our defense took the ball away 4 times, and each time our offense parlayed the excellent field position into points. Football at its finest.
December 25th, 2023 at 6:41 pm
Earth to Todd – when you come out throwing on first down and use downfield targets instead of behind the line dumps, it tends to favor more early points. We all know you don’t like offense because you thought it tired out your defense. Hopefully you’ll favor the Packers / Jags type of offensive gameplan and continue the level of aggression. Please.
December 25th, 2023 at 6:44 pm
DMatt … ‘Thanks to fans, players family members, stakeholders, members on this site, and other fans on social media platform, Bowles is coming out his shell n starting to listen to the folks who impacts his destiny.’
Or MAYBE it’s just taken this long for the groundwork that he & Canales laid earlier in the season to start paying off? There’s been a LOT of ‘learning on the job’ going on this season me thinks.
December 25th, 2023 at 6:46 pm
PS – Diaby is the real deal.
December 25th, 2023 at 7:12 pm
Idk if it’s the ground work on offense. The offense to me looks efficient now, maybe they simplified things or something? The defense benefited in these past two games because the offense wasn’t going three and out and we built an early lead.
December 25th, 2023 at 7:13 pm
@ATLBuc. The Buccaneers beat the Packers 38 to 10 in the regular season. I’m not sure that we even played Washington.
December 25th, 2023 at 7:14 pm
And yes Dave I agree though I hate to count my chickens before they hatch but Diaby looks like he will be at least a good player. I am excited for the future of the defense of the young players can continue to grow this season and next.
December 25th, 2023 at 7:22 pm
Defense Rules Says:
December 25th, 2023 at 6:44 pm
Or MAYBE it’s just taken this long for the groundwork that he & Canales laid earlier in the season to start paying off? There’s been a LOT of ‘learning on the job’ going on this season me thinks.
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Nah, it’s definitely from Todd Bowles stubborn as finally taking us fans advice to:
1. Throw it to Chris Godwin more
2. Stop forcing our OCs to waste first and second downs running between the tackles because he wanted to be a run first team
3. Take more calculated risks instead of playing like a coward
4. Stop calling that weak as, soft zone cover 2 defense
5. Bench JTS sorry, weak, soft useless as and start YaYa Diaby
December 25th, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Godwin in the slot, screens and cross routes for Reschaad White and Baker being more confident in the pocket and more accurate on his passes is what has fueled the last two games. Cornales has changed up his calls except the runs up the gut on consecutive plays at times. He needs to stop it with that it keeps putting us in too many 3rd & longs making an impact between a td and fg
December 25th, 2023 at 7:56 pm
No. It wasn’t just a pass rush . Trevor is just a trash qb worst than Baker. I am glad Toilet Bowl and Baker defeated this over rated qb.
December 25th, 2023 at 7:57 pm
No. It wasn’t just a pass rush . Trevor is just a trash qb worst than Baker. I am glad Toilet and Baker defeated Trevor
December 25th, 2023 at 8:23 pm
Canales is getting on the same page with his offensive players. He’s been drawing up throws to ME13, CG14, RWhite, and the TEs starting with Otton. BM and the OLine have been talking to him, too. BM is not only feisty, he’s smart. You usually see it in the second half, but it exploded in the first half. He knew the Jags D formations. Next Sunday will be something else. That will make it 5 games in a row-Bucs best. Wowsers!
December 25th, 2023 at 8:40 pm
David Says:
December 25th, 2023 at 7:56 pm
No. It wasn’t just a pass rush . Trevor is just a trash qb worst than Baker. I am glad Toilet Bowl and Baker defeated this over rated qb.
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Thank you, Little Mr. Positive! Let me guess, your 2 Dads are Rod Munch and Oneilbuc.
December 25th, 2023 at 8:42 pm
Is Bruce Arians involved the scenes with this offense suddenly??
December 25th, 2023 at 8:43 pm
Behind the scenes
December 25th, 2023 at 8:45 pm
I hope toilet bowl and trash Baker defeat another trash qb, Derek C.
December 25th, 2023 at 8:46 pm
I hope toilet bowl and trash Baker defeat Saints with trash qb, Derek C.
December 25th, 2023 at 11:56 pm
You have to run the ball early in order to run the ball later, right? If you don’t run early, the opponent run defense won’t be tired later on. It doesn’t look pretty, but you have to run with small gains to keep the running weapon on the table for when everybody is gassed…unless you’re way behind on the scoreboard.
December 26th, 2023 at 5:13 am
Todd must have read my post from the other day. Finally!
LOL
Any coach will tell you it is a big plus to be able to turn the pass rushers loose with a lead.
Go Bucs!
December 26th, 2023 at 12:50 pm
And don’t forget the Bowles problem with “time outs” management.
He seems to finally “be over” running on every first down no matter what. But the lack of “end of the game skills” is still there; closing-the-deal is still Shakey.
The wins are great and giving credit to the coaching is a natural reaction, but the problem is that the improvements are based on “what Bowles -isn’t- doing anymore,” way more than what he and Canales -are- doing on the innovative/new approach side of things.
The players are doing the winning. Why does there have to be all this PR Campaign discussion, suggesting that “See, Bowles was right all along.” Uh, no, he wasn’t right all along, he just “let up” on a lot of the horrible decisions trends he’s been making all year; and the team is finally reaching it’s potential because of it and doing the rest.
90% credit to the players, and we’ll give Bowles/canales 10%
for the excellent improvement in low penalty-calls lately, how’s that?
It’s been a great pleasure for four straight games, watching impressive drives NOT being derailed by “call-back” holding, etc., calls.
Remember Rachaad’s seam-pass touchdown with that “shift” at the end? No flag! for a change, awesome!
And the Saints didn’t look too good against the Rams, whoa.
December 26th, 2023 at 4:12 pm
David says holy s:::t who is not trash as far as u r concerned Lawrence is trash,Carr is trash baker is trash these guys r making 30&40 mill a year except baker why is it u know more than every team every coach & every real bucs fans WTF did u r parents do to u growing up oh yes u never grew up u sir r a genuine turd big nasty turd