Todd Bowles Owns Opening Day
September 8th, 2024
Joe has to give Todd Bowles a standing ovation.
Nobody can say Bowles doesn’t know how to prepare his team for opening day. In fact, after today’s beatdown of Washington 37-20, Bowles is now undefeated (3-0) as a Bucs head coach on opening day. He’s 6-2 on opening days dating back to his tenure as Jets head coach.
Preseason has become more and more irrelevant and practice time in pads has been cut, but Bowles is not struggling to adapt. He’s thriving.
No, the Bucs weren’t perfect today, but tackling blunders and some dudes not knowing how to line up are typical Week 1 issues.
Now the Bucs have to seize the confidence they built today and take it up to Detroit to shock the NFL world.
Yes, Joe expects Bowles to have the team prepared. They may not be good enough to match up, especially if they’re down the three cornerbacks lost today: Zyon McCollum, Josh Hayes and Bryce Hall.
September 8th, 2024 at 7:51 pm
I’m very happy for coach Bowles.
I’m happy he’s our coach.
Go Bucs!
September 8th, 2024 at 7:52 pm
Yeah the Bucs were ready to go, both sides of the ball, some penalties but many teams had worse
September 8th, 2024 at 7:54 pm
offense looked great , defense not so sure goff will be great test next week.
September 8th, 2024 at 7:55 pm
Congrats Coach Bowles!!
He is greatly underrated!
September 8th, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Licht will go out and get a coner.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:03 pm
I was dead wrong about this game. Kudos to Bowles. He had the Bucs ready.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:03 pm
The thing that jumps out is how many games until Bucky is RB1?
September 8th, 2024 at 8:04 pm
Hard to know how much Kancey was missed in terms of slowing down Daniels.
We’ll get to learn as the season progresses.
Today however, given the injuries on the D I give the Bucs game A+ for the first game of the year. Obviously there was that series where it looked like chaotic, wasn’t that mostly Palmer though.
At any rate couldn’t have asked for anything more. Made a few $$$ too thanks to the disrespect being griped about. The line and the over under were easy pickins.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:05 pm
Injuries are obviously a concern, but I saw a lot of promise from the relief. It looks like we can wear teams out. There’s too much offensive talent, and the defense looks like it will hold it’s own until we’re 100%
September 8th, 2024 at 8:05 pm
Dean was perfect.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:07 pm
Anybody knows how Cousins did today???? lol
September 8th, 2024 at 8:11 pm
Our younger players contributed today…,,Barton, Braswell, Smith, McMillan & Irving all played….
YOUNGRY
September 8th, 2024 at 8:13 pm
Looks like we have an OC, but you you know what happens to good OCs.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:17 pm
I’m excited!
September 8th, 2024 at 8:18 pm
Cousins was amazing in his return. 155 total yards. 1 TD and 2 INT. Just amazing how bad it was.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:20 pm
Three cornerbacks……
September 8th, 2024 at 8:21 pm
Cousins looked bad. He got almost every snap from the pistol. Apparently the coaches don’t think he is ready to take snaps under center. That messed up most play action stuff. That team needs work. The only reason that the Falcons were in that game at all was because the Steelers kicked 6 field goals. They had no TDs.
September 8th, 2024 at 8:25 pm
And the refs took away two Steelers takeaways and missed a face mask helmet strip on a Steelers 3rd down play .
September 8th, 2024 at 8:33 pm
the team is looking good early with a lot of room to improve and gel…
a lot of things to tighten up, but very nice early performance…
go into detroit and win…and come home and wallop sean payton’s broncos and let the chirping begin 🙂
#ThisGroupHasPotential
September 8th, 2024 at 8:41 pm
Don’t say you fry, that loser talk
September 8th, 2024 at 8:43 pm
Congratulations Coach!!
September 8th, 2024 at 8:43 pm
The lions will still own us. Calm down……it was the skins. Jv league.
September 8th, 2024 at 9:03 pm
he definitely generates advantages in the start, needs to do well the next 6 weeks to follow. if you win early, you usually prevail. if you get the lead in the first third, you usually win.
a competitor who is behind burns through their energy just catching up.
these are statistically proven advantages, others are reach (not height), lefties quite often, good captains
September 8th, 2024 at 9:36 pm
Yup, preseason is so irrelevant that now guys crumble like a stale cookie the first time they face any contact. See: Hall, Kancey, McCollum, Hall, etc…
But hey I’m sure having 1/3 of your defensive starters injured after week 1 won’t matter too much…
September 8th, 2024 at 9:57 pm
One big difference from this time last year, Baker looked in mid season form in the 1st game of the year. Hopefully he stays that way
September 9th, 2024 at 1:51 am
This team was the Evolved Todd referenced through the offseason, on offense. Bucs threw the rock all over the yard, all day. Great offensive gameplan, playcalling, and surprisingly stout execution for game 1.
Now the challenge is the team that beat us in last year’s playoffs, who just scrapped their way back to a win after nearly blowing it to the Rams.
Tough challenge.
If the Bucs can beat the Lions in their crib…….whoa. Sky is truly the limit.
All eyes on injury watch. How bad is it? Early read says it’s bad.