{"id":712505,"date":"2026-06-19T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712505\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:12:13","slug":"todd-bowles-suggests-2025-buccaneers-took-plays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712505\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles suggests 2025 Buccaneers took plays off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Buccaneers blew a big lead on a Thursday night against the Falcons, he <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/todd-bowles-lets-the-expletives-fly-in-post-game-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">let the expletives fly<\/a> regarding the team\u2019s in-game deficiencies. Recently, Bowles provided a less profane assessment of the factors that doomed the Bucs from turning a 6-2 start into a sixth straight playoff appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Via JoeBucsFan.com, Bowles recently addressed the team\u2019s 2026 prospects in an interview with Sports Day Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can prepare and we can execute, and we don\u2019t look at the names on people\u2019s helmets, and we can play the same every week and learn how to finish off games and close games out \u2014 instead of getting a lead and just <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/06\/todd-bowles-talks-about-bucs-just-taking-plays-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">taking plays off<\/a>, or not having a lead and having to come back late,\u201d Bowles said.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not a direct admission that the team took plays off, the context makes the message clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just want to play four quarters and you want to go out there,\u201d Bowles added. \u201cAnd I think we have those types of alpha dogs on our team right now that will make this team to elevate to that. When they start coaching themselves and don\u2019t need too much coaching on the sideline, that\u2019s when you know you\u2019ve arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers are in one of the weaker divisions in the NFL, but that could be changing. The Panthers are better. The Saints are improving. And the Falcons could be onto something.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it\u2019s hard for any NFL team to succeed if they take plays off. And that seems to be one of the things the 2025 Buccaneers did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Buccaneers blew a big lead on a Thursday night against the Falcons, he let the expletives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-712505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712505","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=712505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}