It has been weeks since Tampa Bay Buccaneers possession determined to retain head coach Todd Bowles, and a few Tampa Bay followers nonetheless do not perceive why that call was made after the membership missed out on the playoffs.
For his newest mailbag, NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated was requested why Bowles wasn’t proven the door.
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“I’d say it’s based mostly on Bowles’ skill to take care of a degree of success via the transition from Tom Brady to Baker Mayfield at quarterback and to develop the younger gamers on a roster that had grown older because the workforce went all-in to pursue championships with Brady,” Breer wrote. “That isn’t to say he’s excellent, after all. However he did win the NFC South in every of his first three years, and employed offensive coordinators Dave Canales and Liam Coen, who grew to become actually good head coaches elsewhere immediately.”
Bowles’ Buccaneers survived in-season swoons in the course of the 2023 and 2024 campaigns, and Tampa Bay then entered its 2025 bye at 6-2. Nonetheless, the Buccaneers subsequently misplaced seven of eight video games. That stretch made their Week 18 win over the Carolina Panthers meaningless because it pertained to Tampa Bay’s pursuit of a playoff berth.
Todd Bowles feeling “urgency to win” after collapse?
Offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard, quarterbacks coach Thad Lewis, particular groups coordinator Thomas McGaughey, cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross, line of defense coach Charlie Robust, senior offensive assistant Tom Moore and safeties coach Nick Rapone are among the many members of Bowles’ employees no longer with the Buccaneers.
NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported on Thursday that the Buccaneers are set to rent Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Zac Robinson as their new OC. Rapoport added that Mayfield made “a major push for Robinson’s hiring.” Mayfield had Robinson as a passing recreation coordinator and quarterbacks coach in the course of the signal-caller’s cup-of-coffee stint with the Los Angeles Rams late within the 2022 season.
“So this yr, they didn’t win the division, they usually didn’t get the coordinator rent proper. It’s not loopy to present Bowles a mulligan on that one,” Breer added. “However it wasn’t achieved with out creating some sense of urgency to win, as evidenced by all of the modifications already made on Bowles’ employees.”
If Bowles’ Bucs do not win sufficient to return to the playoffs subsequent season, he could discover himself out of a job earlier than the midway level of January 2026 arrives.
