{"id":331746,"date":"2026-07-07T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331746\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:42:38","slug":"another-midseason-bucs-nosedive-8-9-record-predicted-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331746\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Midseason Bucs Nosedive, 8-9 Record Predicted – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tAnother Midseason Bucs Nosedive, 8-9 Record Predicted
\nJuly 6th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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Prediction season is about to begin, when Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht annually fills his bag of receipts.<\/p>\n

On SiriusXM NFL Radio, Sunday was \u201cNFC South day.\u201d Joe was glued to the airwaves with a tray of Hooters wings<\/a>. Not even Erling Haaland could distract Joe.<\/p>\n

Former Pro Bowl Oilers\/Titans left tackle Brad Hopkins spent a long time dissecting the Bucs\u2019 prospects and rolled into a game-by-game prediction for 2026.<\/p>\n

Hopkins has the Bucs jumping out to a 3-1 record after losing the season opener to the Bengals in Cincinnati. Then comes a nosedive, what has become an annual losing stretch for the Todd Bowles Buccaneers. Hopkins has the Bucs limping to a 7-8 record with two games remaining. He then calls a home upset for the Bucs with a win against the Rams in Week 17 \u2014 before closing with a loss to New Orleans in Tampa to wrap the season. Hopkins doesn\u2019t see the Bucs beating the slimy Saints twice.<\/p>\n

For the math challenged, that\u2019s an 8-9 prediction.<\/p>\n

Overall, Hopkins believes the NFC South will remain the NFL landfill. Along with the Bucs, he picks the Falcons to go 8-9, Carolina to finish 7-10 and the Saints to \u201cbring up the rear\u201d at 5-12.<\/p>\n

A big part of Hopkins\u2019 feelings were tied to the NFC South facing all AFC North and NFC North teams this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Midseason Bucs Nosedive, 8-9 Record Predicted July 6th, 2026 Prediction season is about to begin, when Buccaneers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10998,10997,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-331746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}