Todd Bowles Talks Major Change Being Realized
August 9th, 2026
Intriguing stuff from Todd Bowles after today’s underwear football practice at One Buc Palace — Day 9 of training camp.
Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman, the venerable JoeBucsFan columnist, asked Bowles to talk about the “overall impact” of the new players added in the offseason.
Bowles dove in head first, not even hesitating to note that a game has not been played or a practice held with another team.
“It’s huge. I mean, It’s night and day,” Bowles said of the change within the Bucs.
“With the veterans that came in and with the rookies that’s come in, just from a leadership standpoint, an attitude standpoint, a mentality and study habits, they’ve kind of lifted us a great deal as far as mentally and being mentally tough. I mean, from [Kenny] Gainwell to [Alex] Anzalone to A’Shawn [Robinson] to [Josiah] Trotter to [Rueben] Bain, all these guys that’s come in, it’s been a breath of fresh air to see and everybody gravitates toward them. They’ve not stopped being who they are and guys understand that and they know what type of team we want to have, so it’s been good to see.”
Joe found it eye-opening to hear Bowles say the team is “night-and-day” different in a great way after losing Mike Evans and Lavonte David. Joe thinks Bowles’ enthusiasm for the subject is very, very telling.