{"id":636142,"date":"2026-05-11T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:25:08","slug":"i-loafed-a-little-bit-and-i-didnt-like-what-i-saw-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/636142\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Loafed A Little Bit And I Didn&#8217;t Like What I Saw&#8221; &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\u201cI Loafed A Little Bit And I Didn\u2019t Like What I Saw\u201d<br \/>\nMay 10th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ramsdefensewinfielddavid.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-389259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ramsdefensewinfielddavid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yeah, it got ugly at times last season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Todd Bowles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2025\/11\/lavonte-david-playing-like-he-is-25-buccaneers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wouldn\u2019t admit it<\/a>, but the film didn\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lavonte David was struggling in what turned out to be his final season. An all-year knee problem helped turn the Buccaneers legend into a player he no longer wanted to watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In David\u2019s most candid talk to date about his March retirement decision, he admitted he was no longer Lavonte David.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThere was a couple times in that season, man, I loafed a little bit and I didn\u2019t like what I saw on film,\u201d David told the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-set-with-t-stead\/id1882806958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Set With T. Stead<\/a> podcast. \u201cAnd it was one of those things like, \u2018Nah, I ain\u2019t going to go out like this, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David added that he entered the 2026 offseason without a firm training plan and realized he no longer had the motivation to be the player he expected to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David and others on the Bucs often stress the importance of leadership and how David was a great leader. Perhaps David was a great leader. However, perhaps David\u2019s leadership impact slipped last season as Bucs players saw him struggle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe wonders whether David addressed his loafs with teammates and how he did it, and whether he was called out by coaches in a group setting or was given a pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI Loafed A Little Bit And I Didn\u2019t Like What I Saw\u201d May 10th, 2026 Yeah, it got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5961,5960,349,99,1824],"class_list":["post-636142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}