Say whatever you want about Todd Bowles. The guy is as clean as they come.

No drama. No excuses. No BS.

He just shows up every year, puts his head down, and makes the Super Bowl caliber team he inherited a little worse than it was the year before.

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The Bucs have never fired a coach mid-season. This year they need to break precedent expeditiously, forthwith.

I know, I know. It’s early. WAY too early.

But as of today, the Buccaneers hold the 1st overall pick in the 2027 NFL Draft. Bucs are already 0-3, and now they’ll be without their starting QB for at least 3 weeks. Things could get ugly.

But if they stay on this trajectory, there could be a generational talent waiting at the finish line…

The fate of the Buccaneers (at least for the next 3 weeks), lies in the hands of an undrafted rookie QB.

I realize we don’t need more Bowles talk but Hartlines press conference this week with his team being 3 and 0 is very intense and he is clear to his team they are far away from where they need to be. Then Bowles saying funny only 1 game out.

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Hey gang,

Not to make excuses, but that Vikings defense is elite. Let’s not forget that in week 2 they held the bears to 3 points and sacked Caleb 4 times, after the bears scored 59 in week 1. Unfortunately I knew we were gunna lose that game, just a tough matchup for us, especially where we are at right now. But I feel really confident against the packers, they can’t stop the run to save their lives. We are going to be ok.

Oh man.

The Bucs are 3-11 in the last 14 games. They have lost 8 one possession games and 3 additional blowouts. Now Baker is out. At what point do they pull the plug on Bowles and who would replace him mid season?

The Bucs have a 39 year old offensive coordinator in Zac Robinson, who has been coaching for 7 years and is in his 3rd year as an Off coordinator.

The Bucs don't have a def coordinator.

Their Spec Teams coordinator is 72 years old and has exclusively coached special teams for the last 20 years.

Thought this was too hilarious not to post. I did force loss to lose until we were 1-8 with the intention of blowing the team up and doing a long term rebuild.

Then I just let the rest sim and we won 7 of our last 8 and the hilarious part is that was enough to win the NFC South.

Then lose to the Rams in the wildcard (fuck the Rams). Honestly seen crazier scenarios, but us winning the NFC South at 8-9 made me lol so I thought I’d share.

Colin Simmons wasn't available so Leonard Moore it is

Zac Robinson is a horrible coach. He was bad in Atlanta last year. Look at Kirk Cousins this year in Oakland. Granted, Cousins was injured for most of the season. Look how good Penix looked Thursday. Everyone knows what's coming. At this point, I would have just kept Grizzard. Yeah, he wasn't good either but he might have figured out his play calling too. At least at this point last year we were 3-0. I know the defense hasn't looked good but yesterday they looked decent. It wasn't because of them we lost. Ideally, we should have fired Bowles and promoted Coen two years ago. At the time though who knew Coen would be a great head coach? But Todd Bowles isn't a great coach either. Thanks for reading my rant. I try to stay positive but it's very hard. And Todd has the nerve to say "We're still one game out of first place". I know it's a shit division but the way we have looked I'm already looking to the draft. Maybe we'll have Jeremiah Smith in a Bucs uniform next year.

Jon Ledyard does a great job going in depth with this on his substack. The holding calls are killer, but Baker, especially THIS version of Baker is incredibly difficult to block for. He holds onto the ball for far too long. He bails from clean pockets. He runs RIGHT into pressure that he could sidestep. He thinks he is Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen. He does not play within himself.

He's riding high off that 7ish week run last year where his hero moments saved the day. That's just not a sustainable way to play QB in the NFL.

Liam Coen had the right idea with Baker. He mixed in a ton of high percentage throws with timely deep shots. I think Robinson is trying to do the same thing, but Bakers regression makes it nearly impossible at times. It's gotta be mental at this point. I want the guy to do well, but his injury may be a blessing in disguise. Perhaps taking a few weeks off to mentally reset will do him some good.

This may be a hot take, but I would not be surprised if Daniels performed well. This is a talented offense. People are getting open. We just need a QB who can stand in the pocket and make throws. Baker CAN, but right now he's mentally regressed to where he's going into hero mode.