Mike Evans: Sunday Was Like Bucs Upsetting The Steelers In 2014
September 23rd, 2024
A 10-year memory is in Mike Evans’ head.
So 10 years ago in Week 3, the Bucs cruised up to Atlanta for a Thursday night game and found themselves trailing 56-0 after three quarters.
Joe will never forget it.
The dome was unbearably loud and the Bucs were unbearably bad, and Joe was in the awkward position of sitting all game directly in front of then-newcomer general manager Jason Licht and a few members of his staff.
A week later, the winless Bucs went on the road to face a strong Steelers team in Pittsburgh and shocked the NFL with a 27-24 victory.
That stunning victory in Pittsburgh was on Mike Evans’ mind tonight during his visit to the Buccaneers Radio Network.
For Evans, what Denver did to the Bucs yesterday, outworking them in every way in Tampa for a win, is what the Bucs did to the Steelers years ago when Evans was a rookie. Evans recalled how hungry and focused his 2014 teammates were every day after that loss in Atlanta, and they found themselves in Pittsburgh playing harder and hungrier than a strong Steelers team.
Simply put, Evans isn’t worried at all about his current team and their letdown yesterday. It happens, he said, even though it shouldn’t.
Evans believes the roster will bounce back and a valuable lesson was learned Sunday against Denver.
Joe is sure the proof will come Sunday against an Eagles team hungry to beat the Bucs in Tampa, where the Bucs humliated Philadelphia in mid-January to end their season.
Prime Mike Glennon was something else dawg pic.twitter.com/afLTFuldeY
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September 23rd, 2024 at 7:04 pm
Blah, blah, blah. I don’t care what these players say. It’s what they do on the field that us fans pay to see. They all need to shut up and perform! Take some damn pride in what you’re doing instead of just cashing a big paycheck.
September 23rd, 2024 at 7:05 pm
I’m not falling for the “valuable lesson learned” nonsense anymore. That lesson wasent learned last season when we started 3-1 and ended up 4-7??? We had to claw our way back to barely win the division. Newsflash. The falcons and saints are a lot better than they were last year so far and panthers look way more dangerous now with Andy dalton. 3 games in and it’s already looking like what happened to us last year and our schedule dosent get any easier.
September 23rd, 2024 at 7:13 pm
Simply put, Evans isn’t worried at all about his current team and their letdown yesterday. It happens, he said, even though it shouldn’t.
If you’re not worried about that loss that is the first problem. You let 0-2 team with a rookie QB come in and beat you on your own field. Not beat but completely dominated on every side of the ball. There should be major concern here until proven otherwise. What is this teams mentality??????
September 23rd, 2024 at 7:16 pm
i have this philosophy…in regards to when the nfl played an even 16 game season – and what makes a team a great team – and what makes a team have a great record…
and that standard great record would be a 12-4 season…
ok here goes…
your best teams in the league will generally go about 12-4…
possibly 11-5, 13-3, or even 14-2…but 12-4 would be the standard record of a great team…
#1 – most great teams will lost 1 to another great team during the season…
#2 – they will also drop 1 to a completely mediocre team…
#3 – and they will get shocked and lose 1 to a totally crap nfl team as well – where they didn’t get up for, or prepare properly, or simply slept on a bad team – in a trap type scenario…it happens to the best of them…and every sh!tty team has their own personal superbowl type game of their season…
4 – and then they lose a 4th game where they just totally crapped the bed…had something like 3 ints and 2 fumbles…or major injuries etc., just a game where everything that can go wrong basically does go wrong…a game where the ball just doesn’t bounce your way on that particular sunday at all…it happens…every team is guaranteed to play one really bad game every season
yesterday’s loss probably fits into scenario #2…at this point – sort of too early to tell…
even tho everyone kind of assumed denver is a #3 scenario type team…
they’re not…denver is not that bad…everyone underestimated them…they’re like a .500 type team…
even last year with the 1-5 start, and all the russell wilson drama and locker room issues, payton got them to pull together to win 7 of their last 11 and stay in the playoff hunt until the final weeks of the season…
they’re not that bad – they just couldn’t score points last year…the defense is good…and payton is good…any team with sean payton at the helm is going to be pretty darn good or better on any given sunday…
you can’t sleep on denver, and coming out to play like the zombies of last season’s early to mid-season spiral, made the bucs puddy in payton’s hands
#YouAreWhatYourRecordSaysYouAre
September 23rd, 2024 at 7:27 pm
WHAT’S SUPER INTERESTING …
Last week Glennon said, “Baker isn’t elite.” Wasn’t a diss but it was a bold statement considering Baker last year’s Pro Bowl MVP and tops the MVP race two games into the season.
Baker absolutely got exposed on Sunday.
Look who has the big brain now.
September 23rd, 2024 at 7:55 pm
I didn’t realize Mike Glennon played enough games in his career for any part of it to be considered “Prime”
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:05 pm
it took 8 changes from the 1 yard line in the last minute to beat Pittsburgh. yesterdays game was over in the 1st quarter.
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:18 pm
RIP V-Jax
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:28 pm
Dang Joe, Evan’s reflecting all the way back to his rookie season this early in the season. Thats low hanging fruit for you is it not. Put haps you got concussed banging your head on the keyboard.
How about a hand for all these great articles JBF spits out for us to enjoy and have fun on!!!
Let me help you on this one.
Father Time…
The End
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:30 pm
The Bucs will beat Philly and go on to win the NFC South
Again
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:40 pm
It was just an unofficial bye week.
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:54 pm
Guess to many inexperienced youths on the team
September 23rd, 2024 at 8:56 pm
Give me a break! Denver will win a lot of games this year. The two teams that beat them are undefeated. This is the NFL. Try as you might, when you beat a team like Detroit in a circled game you are ripe for a letdown. I love this Buccaneer team but this loss was predicable.
September 23rd, 2024 at 9:12 pm
Baker didn’t get exposed, this team is mediocre just like our gm.
Mike Evans my favorite buc all time but that sorry excuse is what’s wrong with this team. They have to get embarrassed to focus. HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO BE EMBARRASSED IN YOUR CAREER DUDE. This mentality is why no one takes this team seriously. That’s your team captain there he’s not worried about being remastered at home yet again. Licht you think you can build a team with a bunch of school boys but at some point you’ll realize you need a hole playground bullies on your squad before you get to the next level.
Draft me a ndamukong suh clone, someone we love but everyone else hates because right now the only hated guy around the league on our roster is baker and that’s wired
September 23rd, 2024 at 9:47 pm
24hrs has passed, time to turn the page. Right the wrongs this week in practice and get ready for Philly
September 23rd, 2024 at 9:49 pm
A quote by Mike Glennon is someone’s go to. That’s the stupidest go to anyone could have. Shut the front door. Baker took responsibility for the offense not preforming at all. I would not matter if Baker won 4 superbowls in a row. Damn hater and going to hate him. Go support a different team frickin a-hole every damn one you. PERIOD
September 23rd, 2024 at 10:18 pm
If Todd actually assumes head coaching responsibilities as his title implies he has, what is he going to do to make sure the offense doesn’t suck like that again, coach up scrubby O-linemen, and then…..the elephant in the room…..if you can’t stop Bo Nic, what on earth makes anyone believe you can stop Jalen Hurts?
It’s getting late early this season.
September 23rd, 2024 at 10:45 pm
Man did the Bucs get lucky facing the Redskins in week 1. If they faced them tonight they’d have lost by 70.
September 23rd, 2024 at 10:55 pm
Ole brittle below avg hatin on Bake not-elite glennon .. there ya are lol
September 23rd, 2024 at 11:02 pm
Munch, you 100% correct!!
Jayden Daniels is BALLIN’ tonite…
I saw 2 long passes to 17 that were money throws…
The TD at the end when he got hammered was perfect !!!!!
He’s gonna give other teams in our division FITS!!
I look forward to seeing that, haha!!
Go Bucs!!!
We’ll be better this coming weekend.
Hopefully this Denver game was a wake-up call.
September 23rd, 2024 at 11:20 pm
Logic would dictate the Bucs will be better than last week, but the level of ineptitude, lack of desire and unprofessionalism makes you wonder if they can.
September 23rd, 2024 at 11:32 pm
You guys, I think we’re all missing the big picture here… the team is RELAXED now. Isn’t that really what football is all about? Being relaxed, laughing, winning Mario Kart races, etc.
They were just too stressed out before when their former QB demanded excellence and attention to detail.
September 23rd, 2024 at 11:57 pm
melatonin was to blame…everyone drank a delicious melatonin laced guava milk shake in the cafeteria with team breakfast…and within an hour they were all pacing the one buc corridors like zombies…
in fact devin white was spotted in the hallways too…hands out in front, doing the young frankenstein walk
September 23rd, 2024 at 11:58 pm
Right, Buddha, I remember all those times MJ had a predictable letdown after a big win and just phoned in the next game.
Oh, wait, actually I don’t. Maybe it’s not something that champions do?
September 24th, 2024 at 12:51 am
Evans is just trying to make lemonade out of lemons. The problem is that this team, with Bowles as head coach is quite adept of either playing down to the level of an inferior opponent (Bucs-Steelers) or even getting boat raced by said bad opponent (on Sunday and that 21-3 loss to Carolina). Sure Bowles says that everyone is accountable but it seems like he takes forever to make someone accountable; just look at how long he allowed Devin White and Ryan Neal start last year?!?!?! On offense, he will defer to the OC just as he did with Canales and Leftwich so hopefully Coen got the memo and makes some changes to his schemes before the Bucs drop 6 of 7 like they did last year. Bowles had some of us fooled this year, but it was a mirage, he is still complacent and the team has no fire, it is a reflection of its docile coach who is so slow to act and make changes. Collectively, this L was earned by most everyone on the roster, hardly anyone showed up but this continually happens to a Bowels’ coached team. Anyhow, Bowels has proven that he cannot beat Payton and the Bucs have not won a week 3 game since 2020 and that is unacceptable, especially this past loss.
September 24th, 2024 at 3:15 am
Bowels is a position coach at best without BA’s hand up his back. BA’s 30ppg offense made Todd’s 23-24ppg allowed look brilliant.
Now Todd gives up 26 which could have been 38 easily — to the worst QB in football. Meanwhile he apparently doesn’t weigh in on the offensive game plan until after the game. A real head coach might have intervened if he didn’t like it rather than throw his guy under the bus. Weak sauce, Toad.
ROFL
September 24th, 2024 at 5:32 am
Thank you so much for the great video and memories of Vincent Jackson too.
Hoping Evans is right and they bounce back this weekend for the win. Go Bucs!
September 24th, 2024 at 7:01 am
“”They have to get embarrassed to focus. HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO BE EMBARRASSED IN YOUR CAREER DUDE. This mentality is why no one takes this team seriously””
Inexcusable mindset from the whole team. A complete utter failure across the board.
September 24th, 2024 at 10:07 am
Not going to do much without a pass rush or with a QB that can’t throw in between the hashes
September 24th, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Same old story. Same old song and dance. I was there when Evans went into the tunnel early at half time. That was a sign. Evans was the first one to roll up the tent, and cop an attitude. Dean should have been benched after the first half, along with R White. Dennis played hard with a few bone headed offside penalties. Dean was playing 13 yards off the receiver the entire game. He played so conservative they just carved him up the entire game. This same crap happened last year. The only way they can turn around in a week is if they can put the fear of God in these players. Everyone has been paid. So it’s a long shot. Sean Payton has no fear of the Bucs. He knows they can be paper tigers. Unless the truly play above their pay grade.