{"id":93029,"date":"2026-01-07T23:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93029\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:44:18","slug":"todd-bowles-buccaneers-fate-revealed-after-second-half-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93029\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles’ Buccaneers fate revealed after second-half collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brutal second-half swoon did not cost Todd Bowles his job.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old will return for a fifth season as the Buccaneers\u2019 head coach, he told the Tampa Bay Times<\/a> Wednesday, after meeting with ownership on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay (8-9) started the season 6-2 before losing seven of their next eight games. They won their regular-season finale against the Panthers on Saturday, but the Falcons\u2019 Sunday win created a three-way tie that gave Carolina the NFC South title and a home playoff date with the Rams.<\/p>\n

The Bucs\u2019 struggles reached a boiling point after a Dec. 11 loss to the Falcons on \u201cThursday Night Football,\u201d as the normally even-keeled Bowles called out his team in an expletive-filled rant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"HeadHead coach Todd Bowles of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers looks on prior to a game against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium on December 21, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s inexcusable, you don\u2019t make excuses,\u201d Bowles said after his team lost on a walk-off field goal. You gotta f\u2013king care enough where the s\u2013t hurts. You gotta f\u2013king care enough where the s\u2013t hurts. It\u2019s gotta f\u2013king mean something to you. It\u2019s more than a job, it\u2019s your f\u2013king livelihood. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow well do you know your job? How well can you do your job? You can\u2019t sugarcoat that s\u2013t. It was inexf\u2013kingcusable, and there\u2019s no f\u2013king answer for it. There\u2019s no excuse for it. That\u2019s what you tell them in the locker room \u2014 look in the f\u2013king mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bucs have a 35-33 regular-season record under Bowles over the last four years and a 1-3 playoff mark.<\/p>\n

Bowles led the Jets from 2015-18 and then joined the Buccaneers as the defensive coordinator in 2019 after he was fired in New York. <\/p>\n

In 2020, he helped lead the team\u2019s defense to a Super Bowl win over the Patrick Mahomes-led Chiefs.<\/p>\n

Bowles took over the head coaching duties in 2022 when Bruce Arians shifted to a consulting role. In each of his first three years at the helm, Bowles and the Bucs made the playoffs as the NFC South champions.<\/p>\n

He \u2014 along with general manager Jason Licht \u2014 earned multi-year contract extensions<\/a> before this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brutal second-half swoon did not cost Todd Bowles his job. The 62-year-old will return for a fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,22,319,2249,40737],"class_list":{"0":"post-93029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","14":"tag-todd-bowles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}