Sad record after byes.

This is not very encouraging.

Todd Bowles coming off a bye week has a terrible record as a head coach. Disturbing, actually.

One wouldn’t think coming off a bye with a rested team and extra days to prepare for the next opponent that Bowles’ teams would regularly crap the bed. It’s really mindblowing.

In the six previous seasons Bowles has been a head coach, four with the Jets and two with the Bucs, Bowles has one win coming off a bye. One.

As Bucs head coach, Bowles is 0-2 in the game following a bye. His only win came in 2015, his first season leading the Jets. So Bowles is on a five-game, post-bye losing streak.

The Bucs hit the road to face the Giants on Sunday after last week’s bye.

Here is Bowles’ post-bye-week record:

2015: Jets 34, Redskins 20
2016: Patriots 22, Jets 17
2017: Panthers 35, Jets 27
2018: Patriots 27, Jets 13
2022: Browns 23, Bucs 17 (OT)
2023: Lions 20, Bucs 6

Bowles’ loss to the Browns was one of the most galling choke jobs Joe has ever seen. Tom Brady had a chance to march late for a game-winning drive in regulation and Bowles pulled the rug out from under Brady citing the possibility Brady could throw a pick.

Tom. Freaking. Brady! The nerve!!!

To that point in the season (Game 11) Brady had a grand total of two interceptions.

And all that came after Bowles took the ball out Brady’s hands at the Cleveland 37 yard line on 4th-and-2 on a drive that could have put the game away.