{"id":411014,"date":"2026-09-26T04:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411014\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T04:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:50:32","slug":"tampas-d-stinks-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411014\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tampa’s D Stinks” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\u201cTampa\u2019s D Stinks\u201d
\nSeptember 25th, 2026 <\/p>\n

\"\"Former Bucs QB Chris Simms was a special guest in the Team Glazer suite last December and is a well-known figure in franchise history \u2014 in part because he nearly died on the field 20 years ago this week.<\/p>\n

Now and NBC Sports Xs and Os guru, Simms spoke publicly this week about his spleen after a hit in a Bucs uniform. He also talked about the sad state of his beloved Buccaneers.<\/p>\n

Simms is no fan of Zac Robinson\u2019s offense and he doesn\u2019t see Baker Mayfield snapping out of his funk soon.<\/p>\n

But he saved his harshest words for the other side of the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cTampa\u2019s D stinks,\u201d Simms said<\/a>. \u201cIt stinks. It\u2019s not good. The front-4 is a huge letdown. They\u2019ve been non-existent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years ago, Simms and NBC colleague Devin McCourty, the former Belicheats defensive back, torched the Bucs defense in great detail as one that does not adjust to opponents and they together pointed a finger of shame<\/a> at Todd Bowles. That\u2019s counter to most national analysts, which continue to laud Bowles defenses even when they\u2019re bad.<\/p>\n

All Joe can do his hope with fellow Bucs fans that a magic fix is coming soon.<\/p>\n

Simms picks the Bucs to lose to the Vikings on Sunday, 28-17, and drop to 0-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTampa\u2019s D Stinks\u201d September 25th, 2026 Former Bucs QB Chris Simms was a special guest in the Team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10998,10997,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-411014","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\/411014","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=411014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}