Todd Bowles Has A Brutal Record Coming Off Byes
November 19th, 2024
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.
November 19th, 2024 at 2:18 am
But, his Great Defender will step in to correct everyone as to why results are wrong and deflection, slight of hand and a lot of words are correct.
November 19th, 2024 at 3:10 am
The start of the questionable/costly decisions. At least he has been consistent with his decision making and over confidence in his defense. He is what his record says he is. Not much room for error left for this season that has been full of errors. Up to the players at this point. Go BUCS!
November 19th, 2024 at 3:14 am
“Todd Bowles Has A Brutal Record Coming Off Byes”
Most of our coaches did.
November 19th, 2024 at 3:16 am
To be fair, his Bucs teams have played harder after the game after the bye 😉
November 19th, 2024 at 4:19 am
If we lose Sunday, he has to go. There’s no excuse. I don’t care about injuries, Liam Coen is doing just fine, why can’t the defensive guru mastermind do just as well? I expect a dub, won’t be surprised if we lose tho.
November 19th, 2024 at 4:58 am
Wow, stats don’t lie. Disappointing memories. 2015 looked good for the Jets though. Maybe, just maybe, this will all change this time around and we will win the next four to six games. From the other Joe posts, Bowles is making some changes. Unfortunately, if there are limited wins after the bye, I guess hard decisions will have to be made by the Glazers.
November 19th, 2024 at 5:45 am
We have seen enough of Bowles to pass judgement ! Poor clock management , not aggressive , takes his foot off the gas & not a winner ! Two straight seasons with mid season slumps ! Pathetic coach . He’s never gonna be more than a mediocre.500 leader… his track record is proof !
November 19th, 2024 at 5:50 am
I am amazed the Bucs are favored by 5 points, considering that Bowles is the head coach and he is awful coming off of a bye and makes back up quarterbacks look like Kurt Warner on the ’99 Rams. If, Bowles manages to lose on Sunday, it is pretty much the end of the season and the Glazers can start putting their new head coaching search into overdrive though Tampa will have plenty of competition for candidates: Saints, Jags, Bears, Jets, Dallas, possibly Cincy and Cleveland, so thee Bucs may not be the least desirable open position (New Orleans due to the cap, Jags or Browns for ownership and GM issues?) but it will not be the most coveted either.
November 19th, 2024 at 5:55 am
The Bye week does not matter much because we have seen Coach Bowles wont make adjustments in his ideas and plans. He wont change. We have seen it and if you listen to his words he does not think his philosophy, his scheme, his plans are wrong. He thinks the issue is that we just dont make a couple of plays or a couple of tackles every game. So he wont change his approach and that makes the Bye week irrelevant.
I think we have seen what a Bowles coached team is in these 2 and a half years.
8-9
9-8
And we probably be around that record again. Mediocre.
His game management and clock management are bad.
We have not see any progression. We are in a similar situation like last year.
Started good enough then have a run of losses and in close games that we could have won with better decisons. Yes we could have made some plays but the decisons were bad, he coaches scared.
We see the same things over and over again. That means no progression. That is the issue. Resolts sometimes can come down to details and can go either way. But when you constantly make bad decisions over and over again, when you constantly doing the same things over and over again even when you see they are not working then there is a problem.
I cant expect much from this team. We will have some good games, we will have some bad. We will win some we will lose some. But i dont see any progression, i dont see this team getting better and getting stronger.
Go Bucs
November 19th, 2024 at 5:56 am
I’ve been thinking about it lately and this is a fine roster, I didn’t like The idea of Bill Belichick being our coach, but the more I think about it, he would be perfect to instill discipline and install his defense for our team as long as we keep Liam Cohen. I’m sure he could help us win and keep our defense in line.