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“You fumbled, Bake, and these guys are killing me.”
Buccaneers playcaller Liam Coen had a magical season.
A couple of huge voices in NFL media think he closed his campaign with a major mistake. [read more]
Tight with Todd Bowles.
Todd Bowles doesn’t seem to get very sentimental about football players, at least not in front of the local pen and mic club. [read more]
Calijah Kancey
Bucs fans have various assessments of head coach Todd Bowles. [read more]
An assistant coach weighs in.
So what was the key to beating the 2024 Buccaneers defense? [read more]
Staying put?
Joe predicted early this past season that Liam Coen was doing such a good job as the Bucs offensive coordinator, he’d be a head coach somewhere in 2025, NFL or college. [read more]
Still a beast.
For the national media, the game Sunday night between the Bucs and the Commandos wasn’t so much Washington vs. Tampa Bay or even Jayden Daniels vs. Baker Mayfield. [read more]
Bucs playcaller Liam Coen.
Now this got Joe to ask for another draft beer at Hooters. [read more]
This kind of stuff happens, especially when the highest tiers of Bucs management fail to clear the air. [read more]
One sad note to the Bucs’ division-winning season was star safety Antoine Winfield, Jr. having an off year.
It happens. But Joe’s real sadness is thinking about how Winfield injured his foot in Week 1 with the Bucs’ victory already locked up. [read more]
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Graded in and out of Bucs headquarters.
Forget Mike Evans, Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has his own streak. It’s finding quality offensive lineman at schools big and small. [read more]
No true offseason.
Joe reads this a fair amount from commenters on this here corner of the interwebs. [read more]
Not good enough. [read more]
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“Liam, think about it: If Urban Meyer couldn’t work with Trevor Lawrence, what shot do you have?“
If Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians was the quarterback whisperer, then Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen is the Baker Mayfield whisperer. [read more]
Clock management and timeouts.
Is Bucs coach Todd Bowles the perfect coach? No. His lack of aggressiveness with his offense at certain points leaves Joe’s mouth agape. [read more]
Recognition.
Joe doesn’t think it is crazy to suggest that if not for Bucky Irving, the Bucs wouldn’t have made the playoffs. [read more]
A major change seems inevitable for Baker Mayfield and Joe’s not sure Mayfield knows how to handle it successfully. [read more]
Shoutout from Todd Bowles.
Teams change, teams grow and teams take steps back during a season.
That’s why the regular season has so much drama. A team could look like the 2020 Bucs in the season opener and end up looking like the 2011 Bucs at season’s end (minus Albert Haynesworth, of course). [read more]
Bucs GM Jason Licht.
Joe loves hearing crying out of NFC South cities not named Tampa. [read more]
Jamel Dean
Do the Bucs have a good tandem of starting outside cornerbacks?
Todd Bowles seemed to deliver a simple answer to that question on Tuesday: [read more]
