Todd Bowles Seems Fully Focused On Atrocious Special Teams
October 1st, 2025
Back to the lab.
How bad have the Bucs’ special teams been through the first four games of this year? Joe’s glad you asked. [read more]

Back to the lab.
How bad have the Bucs’ special teams been through the first four games of this year? Joe’s glad you asked. [read more]

Bucs RB Bucky Irving.
Last week when Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard held his weekly press conference, Joe asked Grizzard about the number of carries that Bucky Irving was getting. [read more]

Offensive line coach Kevin Carberry.
This isn’t great, but it isn’t bad. [read more]

Walk-through today.
Late Tuesday night, Joe was scrolling through Twitter and noticed NFL columnist Mike Sando of The Athletic published an interesting video. [read more]

Update.
Yesterday, Bucs coach Todd Bowles said running back Bucky Irving was one of several Bucs players getting MRI tests. Bowles offered no additional details. [read more]

It sounds like Chris Godwin might have a lot less rust on him than some believe. [read more]
A lot of Bucs fans don’t believe Bucky Irving really fumbled Sunday against the Eagles deep in Bucs territory. [read more]

No sugarcoating this.
The atrocious Bucs’ special teams are so bad, now you’ve got people from the front office barking about it on national TV. [read more]

Rookie making an impact.
When the Bucs drafted Elijah Roberts in the fifth round out of SMU by way of Miami, Roberts was a sneaky good edge rusher. [read more]

The Bucs certainly aren’t intimidated by the world champion Eagles, winners of 10 consecutive games, including four in the postseason and Sunday against Tampa Bay. [read more]

How does this happen? [read more]

The Buccaneers officially named their top 50 players in team history this month and cornerback Aqib Talib wasn’t on the list.
He’s not happy about it. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
Joe doesn’t know what the solution is for this other than maybe to dumb down what one is trying to accomplish early in games. [read more]

Chris Godwin embraces his wife Mariah after warmups Sunday prior to his season debut.
Pretty cool column in the Players Tribune by Bucs receiver Chris Godwin. [read more]

Bucs special teams coach Thomas McGaughey.
Could this be the fall of Riley Dixon? [read more]

Baker Mayfield slings a short pass to Rachaad White Sunday.
This is sort of a Barry Bonds batting average. [read more]

Reflecting on positive.
Yeah, that game Sunday sure gnaws at Joe. It was winnable. All the Bucs had to do is block on a punt. [read more]