BSPN: Bucs’ Terrible Pass Blocking Sank Offense
September 24th, 2024
Suffocated by pass rush.
Blame it on the offensive line, says Billy Barnwell of BSPN. And this time, Joe agrees with the follicly-challenged stathead.
Joe could see Baker Mayfield dodging traffic like he was jogging down the middle of I-75 just north of Sarasota. Barnwell, no fan of Mayfield, sympathized with Mayfield because his offensive line gave him little help and it caused the Bucs’ offensive pirate ship to be drydocked.
See what can happen when you get after the quarterback?
In fact, Barnwell says stats suggest only Daniel Jones of the Giants has faced a more suffocating pass rush in a game this season.
[Mayfield] was pressured quickly on 10 of his 40 dropbacks, which was the second-highest rate for any quarterback in the league behind Daniel Jones.
His 18 dropbacks under pressure produced a total of nine net yards.
Mayfield was able to dodge traffic in Detroit in Week 2. But Sunday at The Licht House it was such a jailbreak, Mayfield had no hope.
Joe is pretty surethe Bucs tried to shade help toward backup right tackle Justin Skule so much that other lineman got exposed or out of position. It’s really difficult for Joe to comprehend how a line with Tristian Wirfs and Graham Barton, two first-round picks, could be that leaky.
But that’s exactly what it was: a flash flood.
September 24th, 2024 at 5:28 am
Joe … ‘Sunday at The Licht House it was such a jailbreak, Mayfield had no hope.’
And that was the story of the ballgame: Broncos gave Baker no avenues of escape. Whereas his 3 big runs against Detroit (12, 11, 11 yards) proved critical to our victory even though he absorbed 5 sacks, he had ZERO runs against the Broncos (and ate 7 sacks). They did a great job of containing him, and the rest of his supporting cast couldn’t pick up the slack.
The problem isn’t Baker, and the problem isn’t Rachaad or Bucky. The problem is our OLine. Every element of it is breaking down, and it’s up to the COACHES and the PLAYERS to figure out WHY. And to figure it out FAST before the season spirals out of control.
September 24th, 2024 at 5:35 am
Will say that it was a little surprising listening to Wirfs’ postgame interview, with him being very nonchalant in saying he felt the OL did a fine job for most of the day. Not certain how he felt after watching that film session though lol. Hoping we’re not seeing a different attitude or change in approach from him after cashing that lotto check. He wouldn’t be the first.
September 24th, 2024 at 5:43 am
Will say Mayfield did seem to bail early in the pocket a few times & appeared to have a bit of happy feet, instead of standing in and making a timely throw. Wirfs seemed to agree with a reporters suggestion that his QB was holding onto the ball too long as well which, while probably true, was still really surprising to hear coming from him too.
September 24th, 2024 at 6:20 am
That points out that no one was getting open, either because their routes were foreseen by the evil wizard Peyton, or their D-backs are just that good
September 24th, 2024 at 6:33 am
Atrocious. Line was always way overrated. Will submarine the season. Don’t let the hair and lack of teeth fool you, Mauch is not a good football player.
September 24th, 2024 at 6:42 am
Wirfs is one of my favorites, but he got beat badly twice around the edge. They were rushing 5 most of the time. Didn’t see them stunting much just straight-up beating our lineman off the ball.
September 24th, 2024 at 6:49 am
The entire team sucked except for CG and Bucky. So 51 of the 53 dressed players
were garbage. Congratulations Bowles. You almost had a 100% failure across the board. P A T H E T I C.
September 24th, 2024 at 7:10 am
BucU Says:
September 24th, 2024 at 6:49 am
The entire team sucked except for CG and Bucky. So 51 of the 53 dressed players
were garbage. Congratulations Bowles. You almost had a 100% failure across the board. P A T H E T I C.
^^^^^^
McLaughlin sucked? He made the only kick he had, an extra point. I don’t expect you to know that, though.
September 24th, 2024 at 7:53 am
Few things look more stupid than 5 oversized offensive linemen staring at their sacked QB after their failure to protect. I hope #67 is not too brain injured to come back.
September 24th, 2024 at 8:14 am
Meanwhile you have goofs saying, “BaKer nEeDs tO GeT rId oF ThE bALL fAStEr.” It was very evident his sub par performance was due to the O-Line under performing.
Baker will have his bad games for sure, but this past weekend was not on him.
September 24th, 2024 at 9:17 am
And appeared to make ZERO adjustments…play calling didn’t do us any favors too!
September 24th, 2024 at 9:37 am
@BucU….53 dont dress out. . Football
Much? Or just cry like a chick?
September 24th, 2024 at 9:41 am
We shall see Sunday if the Broncos totally, irreparably broke this Bucs team.
I’m a morbid 50/50.
That was the ugliest egg laid I’ve seen in years. The final score was vastly closer than the play on the field.
Why Bowles let this team high-5 each other endlessly after the Lions is beyond me. If I can see a trap game, surely the coaching staff can…yet did nothing concrete about it that I can tell.
Even Irving’s OK play is hailed as something exceptional by casuals, the rest was so stinky. Only McLaughlin was perfect. Even Carmada sucked (again.)
Tampa Bay should be mortally embarrassed by what the Bucs left on the field Sunday. The EPA should even declare a hazmat crisis at RayJay.
The irony is I got e-blasted by the Buc ticket office after the Lions. I wonder how many suckers put in a deposit last week only to see the team s#@t themselves…at home…against a winless team with a struggling rook QB.
What a mess! What a disaster!
Last week I said I might put my entire net worth on the Broncos. I might do the same on the Iggles this week. I have no faith this team has the mental strength to rise up and play to nominal NFL standards.
As far as I can see, there is no leadership on this team. None. Not Mayfield, not David, nobody. (David is a great player but he’s never been a real leader; it’s not in him.)
September 24th, 2024 at 9:49 am
I thought Jason was the trenches guru ??
September 24th, 2024 at 10:07 am
2 sacks were on baker for holding onto the ball too long, but I was disappointed with wirfs comments after the game, he said the o-line did a pretty good job and that just wasn’t the case, wirfs got beat off the edge bad 2 times that lead to sacks, the rest was on the right side of the line. 10 pressures on 40 drop backs is absolutely horrendous, which means the oline is getting pushed back as soon as that ball snaps, baker needs to be better but the oline is atrocious right now, and every one of them need to get it together including wirfs
September 24th, 2024 at 10:11 am
Quick deploy the Baker Mayfield excuse brigade.
To the presses!
September 24th, 2024 at 10:13 am
Once again whenever Baker has a bad game it’s everyone’s.faukt but him.
It’s a tired act.
September 24th, 2024 at 10:14 am
Hold the phone…
Isn’t Baker calling protections?
September 24th, 2024 at 10:15 am
Goodwin and Gilbert might not have been much when it comes to designing run blocking schemes, but we never had a better group of pass blocking lineman than during their tenure with the Bucs.
All of a sudden, this year we hire a no name Offensive Line coach, and everyone thinks that he is going to fix our run blocking, and everyone forgets that one of the strengths of our team over the last 5 years had been pass blocking.
In fact, now Wirfs is looking more human without the support of Goodwin.
Coaching matters. We will see.
September 24th, 2024 at 10:18 am
Trask fan,
I have not been a Baker apologist, and this article is on the offensive line and how bad they were last week.
You seem to be making it more about Baker than anyone else on the thread.
September 24th, 2024 at 10:19 am
The pass blocking wasn’t as bad as the Denver secondary was good.
Mayfield’s interception was a poor decision and some plays he just held the ball too long.
Bucs’ Defensive line was like a pre-season roster defensive line in 1st half and Bo Nix played great during the 1st half.
Coen was outcoached by Denver Defensive coaches and Denver’s D is legit.
Overall team loss, but they need Kancey, Vea and Winfield Jr badly.
September 24th, 2024 at 11:02 am
Bowles said we needed to get bigger and stronger in the o-line. Not sure I’m seeing a huge difference with Bredeson and Barton in there. They may be bigger than the last guys but still not seeing much improvement.
Licht seems to prefer athletic, fluid lineman but at seems to be coming at the cost of true, road-grading people movers.
September 24th, 2024 at 11:10 am
Is it possible the that maybe Wirfs and Barton aren’t as good as we thought they were. I mean that O-line was atrocious in last week’s game snd was not good against the Lions as well. I know Luke is out but come on these are NFL players starting on our offensive line right?
September 24th, 2024 at 11:41 am
Hemp 711, trask fan wants to put 100% of all the blame on baker, that’s what he does he’s a hater and he wants trask to start for the team. Like I said I can admit baker was responsible for a couple sacks because he held the ball, see what I did there I put blame on baker while also acknowledging that the offensive line was atrocious, wirfs included, who got beat off the edge 2 times 1 was a sack the other was a hit while baker was throwing, right side and middle of the o-line was very awful. You have to be willing to pass blame to everyone in a loss including baker he did not play well and he has to get rid of the ball quicker or throw the ball away
September 24th, 2024 at 11:42 am
Geno 711 not hemp 711 lol
September 24th, 2024 at 12:24 pm
There must be pigs flying.
Joe actually put some blame on the o-line for something!
September 24th, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Happy to see Mostly Pitiful Trash Man/Fan continue with his/her ( they ) victory Tuesday. Just give Trask a chance…he’ll show out like fellow redhead Andy Dalton!
September 24th, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Once more it will be on the head coach to determine what went wrong and fix it, now.
September 24th, 2024 at 4:57 pm
In Detroit and then again against Denver Baker got sacked more times than he should have gotten sacked in like five or six games. We really need to get to the QB on defense and put him on the ground the hard way, hell take fifteen right off jump. BAM get him rattled. I wish we could play lights out on defense like the way they won the Superbowl. We could have faced them 0 and 10 and probably got beat playing like that. WTF !! Come On Bucs, get Hot again, Let’s Go Bucs!!!!
September 24th, 2024 at 5:08 pm
Baker fault he holds the ball for 12days can’t do that. To be sacked 7 times is ridiculous with 5 being his fault ….5 smh
September 25th, 2024 at 3:06 am
If the starting center from last season played RT in college why can’t he play RT for the Bucs. Any body could do better IMHO