Todd Bowles Explains His Week 1 Defensive Pride
September 9th, 2024
Was Todd Bowles, the Bucs’ defensive guru head coach, most excited about rotational inside linebacker SirVocea Dennis making a couple of big plays?
Was it safety Christian Izien thriving as an emergency backup outside corerback who hadn’t played there since high school?
Nope.
What about the bottom-of-the-roster Bucs defensive tackles getting a stunning amount of work? Nahh.
Bowles was asked on SiriusXM NFL Radio today about what he was most excited about defensively in his team’s 37-20 throttling of Washington on Sunday.
Co-host Jim Miller sort of led Bowles after mentioning Joe Tryon-Shoyinka’s strip sack and Dennis’ play, but Bowles went in a different direction.
“The biggest thing was — I mean I still think we need some tackling work — we let two plays out of there but the ball didn’t go over our head,” Bowles said. “So I was proud about that because with [Terry] McLaurin and Dyami Brown and those guys, they can easily run by you..”
Fans might remember Jamel Dean getting beat deep left but the throw was off target, not even close. Hey, that’s football. Dean certainly had a solid game.
Bowles emphasized that rookie Commandos quarterback Jayden Daniels running wild went sort of how Bowles expected.
“I hope I don’t have to play him anymore,” he added.
September 9th, 2024 at 7:41 pm
Britt let the cat out of the bag on more then one occasion. I think that’s why he was replaced by Dennis. Did anyone ask Bowles if Dennis is the new starting MLB?
September 9th, 2024 at 7:42 pm
Britt is so slow
September 9th, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Well that one miss was on Britt forsure. Yeah would have been nice if Lavonte put Ekeler down by himself, but Lavonte laid a solid hit and Britt did not put himself in position to finish the job whether he thought Lavonte had him or he just took a bad angle and the bounce off the hit sent him out wide but still inexcusable. Same with JTS trying to win inside early and Daniels heads out for a long run.
They better have learned some lessons for Baltimore. Edges, no inside move to open the edge and LBs/Nickle better be dialed on Andrews Likely. Take those things away and Ravens are in tough.
September 9th, 2024 at 7:50 pm
The reason why Dean was beat so badly was because he stayed in his back pedal too long. He was still back pedaling when dude ran past him. We got very lucky on that play. It was td all the way. Lucky for us Daniel’s hadn’t learned how to pull up on his run and throw it instead. Kind of like the difference between a still standing jump shooter or one who jump shoots by pulling up on the run.
September 9th, 2024 at 8:32 pm
Spot on David99.
And, I agree SVD should start. He was impressive. Britt can be the spiritual leader of the defense.
September 9th, 2024 at 8:54 pm
Hodad … Admittedly Britt is slow, but Bowles seemed to be rotating the 2 of them, probably situationally (Britt in on more of the runs vs passes?). Todd won’t switch to Dennis though as the starter after just 1 game. He’s historically been slow to pull the plug on guys (even Neal from last year).
September 9th, 2024 at 9:08 pm
CJ Brewer stout physical, standing out making splash plays as a back up.
September 9th, 2024 at 9:31 pm
Bowles emphasized that rookie Commandos quarterback Jayden Daniels running wild went sort of how Bowles expected.
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That was mostly on Britt. Get him off the field, the running slowed down once he was out of the game and Dennis came in.
September 9th, 2024 at 9:36 pm
Defense Rules Says:
September 9th, 2024 at 8:54 pm
Hodad … Admittedly Britt is slow, but Bowles seemed to be rotating the 2 of them, probably situationally (Britt in on more of the runs vs passes?). Todd won’t switch to Dennis though as the starter after just 1 game.
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I’m waiting on the ALL-22 to be posted – but from TV it looked mostly like Britt was playing early, if he came out he was being replaced by a DB – I didn’t really see Dennis until the 2nd half, which might have been injury related with all the corners going down. But whatever it was, Dennis was a dramatically better.
However, you’re correct, Bowles will wait until Britt loses the Bucs a couple of games – like he did with Neal – before bothering to make a change. Doing something early would be an admission that he was dumb to have put Britt in the starting line up to start with, and you can’t have that.
Although I have a much better idea. Trade for Devin White and his fairly cheap contract. Then, if Dennis is truly the answer, great, White’s deal is up at the end of the year. But they can not rely on Britt – even though I’m sure they will, and I’m sure it will cost them at least one win.
September 10th, 2024 at 7:54 am
Rod Munch,
The 2020 Devin White is gone. Certainly, White has more speed than Britt but my gosh did you watch last year and how many bad angles he took.
He is actually worse than Britt at this point. That is not to say that Britt is good. It is just to say that White is dog sh*t.
If you want a trade, maybe think Bobby Wagner of Washington who might become available before the trade deadline.
I feel like Devin White is your new Jameis Winston and your 3-year claim that Winston was going to be good for another team.
I will use this analogy. It is ok for little boys to have hero’s. But sometimes when you grow up, you will realize that your hero’s really are not hero’s.
Time to grow up.
September 10th, 2024 at 8:32 am
I agree: Bucs do not need nor want D. White back. I also noticed that Bowles backed me, a mere loyal fan, up. He does NOT want to play Jaylen Daniels again. No kidding. Washington builds their team around Daniels, it will be a whopper. He’s a young Michael Vick, only smarter and quicker, and he’s a rookie!
September 10th, 2024 at 9:12 am
The week leading up to this game the comments here were predominantly “Cut DVD he’s a waste of a roster spot” This week, “SVD needs to be the starter!”