Todd Bowles Says To Work In The NFL, You Have To Roll With The Changes
February 28th, 2024
Adjusting is critical.
So yesterday when Bucs coach Todd Bowles met with the Tampa Bay pen and mic club before he took to the podium to address the #NFLMedia at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis, Bowles was hit with a blunt question:
How is he dealing with the prospect he could lose his starting quarterback, best receiver, best linebacker and best safety.
“It’s difficult when you put it that way,” Bowles laughed. But Bowles added that coaching in the NFL, if one is stuck in his ways a coach won’t laugh. Bowles has been coaching in the NFL since 2000. So he has learned to adjust along the way.
“You coach enough in this league you learn to change with the times and the situations that change,” Bowles said. “Obviously you want to hope for the best for everybody. You want them all back. Realistically you know that’s not true.
“You prepare for what you have, what you can get back and what you can expect. So regardless of what happens, you have to make that adjustment.”
Fortunately for Bowles, the way it sounds and looks, he won’t have to do much adjusting. It seems reasonable to expect the Bucs’ Big Four free agents should return.
At least, Joe hopes.
February 28th, 2024 at 11:03 am
Gawd! I could never live the coaching life
February 28th, 2024 at 11:07 am
Get it done
February 28th, 2024 at 11:08 am
Its amazing how much my best friend favors Todd. He’s about 4 years older than him but they could pass as brothers. Thats my casino ride or die. BTW, I put a 20 on us to win the nfc….600 payout. eh, you never know.
February 28th, 2024 at 11:13 am
Get-r-did, Jason.
February 28th, 2024 at 11:23 am
Is this a round a bout way of saying he should of called time out? I see what you did there, Joe.
February 28th, 2024 at 11:35 am
That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard! -Lovie Smith probably.
February 28th, 2024 at 11:40 am
“You coach enough in this league you learn to change with the times and the situations that change,” Bowles said
BULL$H!T if Bowles learned to change with the times then he wouldn’t still be forcing us to be a running team, wasting our first and second down running up the middle to no where just to punt the ball because we couldn’t convert on third and long, especially when our team is built to be a passing team and the NFL is now a passing league. I call horse crap
February 28th, 2024 at 11:41 am
“So regardless of what happens, you have to make that adjustment.”
With the exception of making our two overpaid CB’s that are better suited to press man coverage come out of the god awful “lay back and keep it in front of you” defense. Nope – don’t dare adjust that.
February 28th, 2024 at 12:04 pm
“Todd Bowles Says… You Have To Roll With The Changes”
Kevin Cronin from REO Speedwagon said the same thing 40+ years ago….
“the Bucs’ Big Four free agents”
If you don’t think re-signing McLaughlin should be among the highest of priorities – then you…. feel free to insert your own insult here…
Its Big FIVE Joe. Big FIVE!
And we just ‘saved’ 5 Milly against the cap by cutting Shaq – so there’s the kicker’s $ right there….
February 28th, 2024 at 1:12 pm
“…you have to make that adjustment.”
Now if he could just learn how to do this within a game, especially at halftime
February 28th, 2024 at 1:21 pm
With that said.
“…he wouldn’t still be forcing us to be a running team, wasting our first and second down.”
While I believe that is Bowles offensive philosophy, I also acknowledge that I was Canales’s offense and being the yes man-does-evwrybody-like-me personality he is, Canales simply yielded. Why else do you think a 1st yr Coordinator who led a meh offense so highly coveted by Tepper? It surely wasn’t for his strong opinions
February 28th, 2024 at 1:59 pm
Sign everybody! And we’ll throw in eliminating your school loans too!
February 28th, 2024 at 2:22 pm
Bowels needs to focus on the offense scoring points rather than time of possession and the run game ‘balance’. This past season, the threshold of about 20pts in a game scored really helped our win %. Tell Coen to focus on points rather than sticking with a run game that doesn’t work.
For the past TWO seasons, the offense was not good at all in 1Q and 3Q. Running the ball too much in those quarters?
February 28th, 2024 at 3:38 pm
I’m surprised NFL coaches don’t move to college. A good college program pays the same or more than the typical NFL job and the players aren’t prima donnas.
Sweeny (Clemson), Smart (Georgia), and Lanning (Oregon) earn $10M a year.
Todd Bowles makes $3M.