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Pewter Report’s Scott Reynolds answers your questions. @PewterReport Twitter accounts are added to the Bucs Mailbag weekly. Submit your questions to the Bucs Mailbag weekly via Twitter using the hashtag #PRMailbag. Here are the Bucks questions we chose to answer in this week’s issue.
Question:CI can’t believe I’m hearing this, but is Todd Bowles the best coach in this division? Or, more accurately, isn’t he the worst coach in the division?
answer: The answer is yes. You can express your questions freely. Like it or not, Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles is the best head coach in the NFC South. Technically, he was the best head coach last year, going 8-9 and winning the division, while the other three NFC South teams were all 7-10. And considering all of each coach’s records with their current teams, he’s still the best head coach in the division.
Bucs head coach Todd Bowles – Photo by Cliff Welch/PR
Bowles posted a 12-14 (.462) record in his 18 months with the Bucs. This compares to New Orleans’ Dennis Allen, who had a 12-15 (.444) record in his one and a half seasons with the Saints, and 18-26 (.409) in two and a half seasons. He is slightly better than Atlanta’s Arthur Smith. Spent half a season with the Falcons. Frank Reich of the University of Carolina is 1-8 (.111) in his first season leading the Panthers.
Bowles is definitely not without his flaws, flaws, and flaws. However, the Bucs ended their losing streak with four wins and are now 4-5 on the season, still only half a game away from first place in the division. They are behind 5-5 New Orleans and just ahead of 4-6 Atlanta, which has lost three games. A straight game. Let’s see how he, and the rest of the NFC South’s head coaches, fare going forward. As discussed in a recent article, there is no doubt that at least one, and possibly three, NFC South coaches will be fired after this season. Pewter pulse video.
question: Will a district title and playoff win allow this team and coaching staff to remain intact into 2024, or have the Glazers seen enough?
Bucks GM Jason Licht, co-owners Darcy Glazer Kassewitz and Joel Glazer, head coach Todd Bowles, and senior football consultant Bruce Arians – Photo by Cliff Welch/PR
answer: I think the important condition is winning in the playoffs.The Glazer family wants to see progress going forward. tod bowles this year. Bowles won the NFC South last year with an 8-9 record. If they win nine games and qualify for the playoffs this year, they will either repeat as division champions or make the playoffs as a 9-8 wild card team.
But I think what the Glazers are looking for this year is a playoff win. Bowles was 8-10, including a 31-14 home loss to Dallas in the wild-card round. Tampa Bay is expected to make the playoffs for the fourth straight season. I don’t think the Glazers are delusional enough to think the Bucs are a strong contender for this year’s Super Bowl. But winning a home game in the playoffs is not an unreasonable request.
The real question is whether the Glazers will give Bowles another season if the Bucks finish with nine or 10 wins but miss the playoffs for some reason. Raheem Morris went 10-6 in 2010, just missing out on making the postseason. That bought him some more time. The same thing happened in 2016, Dirk Koetter’s first year as head coach, when Tampa Bay’s 9-7 record wasn’t enough to make the playoffs. As a result, Koetter was given three years instead of the usual two seasons for head coaches hired by Glazer to prove themselves.
question: A win is a win, but the product on the field still doesn’t look great. With winnable games in the second half of the season, could the Glazers fall for fool’s gold and stick with the status quo in 2024?
Bucks GM Jason Licht and co-chairman Joel Glazer – Photo by Cliff Welch/PR
Answer: Technically yes. They had done the same thing before, when the Glazers thought general manager Mark Dominick and head coach Raheem Morris were heading in the right direction after a 10-6 season in 2010. was there. They made few changes to their coaching staff and roster. Because we thought they had a core of really good players.
But the fact that the Bucks came from behind to win in the fourth quarter over the Bengals, Browns, Rams and Cardinals (all of which were downtrodden teams at the time) definitely created a smoke-and-mirror effect. If these games had gone the other way, Tampa Bay could have easily gone 6-10. As a result, the 2011 Bucks went 4-12 the following year, and Morris was fired.
I think the Glazers learned from that experience. Also keep in mind that the Glazers fired Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden, the team’s most successful head coaches in terms of combined wins. Dungy was fired after making the playoffs three consecutive times since 2001, and Gruden was fired despite missing the playoffs with a 9-7 record. And the Glazers had just given Gruden a lucrative multi-year contract extension earlier in the offseason.
So even if Todd Bowles has a winning record, makes the playoffs, or even wins a playoff game, the Glazers have the right to change head coaches if they feel the team is not heading in the right direction. I have reservations. They’ve proven it before.
question: Will this win point the Bucks in the right direction for the rest of the season?
answer: It’s too early to say that. Sunday’s win over the Titans only ended the losing streak at four and allowed the Bucs to regain some ground in the division, as the Falcons and Saints also lost. A daunting trip to San Francisco awaits this weekend, with a potential loss to the 6-3 49ers. That would put the Bucks at 4-6 and almost need a win to make the playoffs.
Sunday’s win over a Titans team that is currently 3-6 was certainly a treat for home fans who had seen the Bucs lose three home games before the win against Tennessee. But Tampa Bay has a lot of work to do after the San Francisco game. They will probably have a chance to win the district at 9-8 if they win at least five of their final seven games to advance to the playoffs.
question: I wasn’t able to watch the entire game, but did the defensive game plan change after the first drive? Finding themselves in a lot of soft zones, they easily drove down the field, but their defense was strong for the rest of the game. I tuned in one last time and saw a lot of electricity.
answer: not much. They played zone on a few plays, but Todd Bowles actually blitzed safety Antwon Winfield Jr. off the edge on the first play of the game. The Titans did a good job running the ball down the field. They got two first downs on some gimmicky plays. One was Tyje Spears, who was playing keeper from the Wildcats when the Titans used Misdirection. The second was a play-action pass to tight end Josh Whyle, who pretended to be blocking and slipped behind middle linebacker Devin White for a first-down catch.
The Bucks defense was pretty aggressive throughout and I think it certainly settled in after the first series. Tampa Bay’s defense allowed a field goal on that drive, but only allowed one more field goal the rest of the game. I thought the Bucks defense was pretty solid and aggressive throughout the game.
question: I don’t know if it’s just me, but I think YaYa Diaby should redo Joe Tryon Soyinka. The front four are having a hard time hitting the rush, but I feel like Diaby will energize the D-line.
Bucks OLB Yaya Diaby and Bills QB Josh Allen – Photo courtesy of USA Today
answer: I agree with you and believe it’s time to give the starting job at the expense of Joe Tryon Soyinka and reward Yaya Diaby, who has two sacks in the last three games. Diaby, Tampa Bay’s best edge rusher, will start opposite veteran Shaq Barrett. Perhaps this is the wake-up call JTS needs to maximize his potential as one of the league’s most athletic pass rushers and make the most of his limited snaps.
At the same time, Diaby defeated Tryon Soyinka 27-24 on Sunday, with the rookie taking four more snaps than Anthony Nelson (23). So maybe Sunday was a step in the right direction. Diaby outplayed Tryon Soyinka in the game with two tackles, two tackles for loss, two QB hits, and one sack. Tryon Soyinka recorded two tackles, one of which resulted in a point.
Diaby just needs experience. He needs snaps. He needs someone in charge. Diaby was a bit of a late bloomer as a pass rusher at Louisville, but As a junior with the Cardinals, he recorded just 1.5 sacks and three tackles for loss, but as a senior he recorded nine sacks and 14 tackles for loss.
question: Servosia Dennis was a big hit in the preseason, but Devin White was injured and KJ Britt was used in his place. Does it have something to do with Britt being a better soccer player now, or does it have something to do with his ability to call defensive plays?
Bucks ILB KJ Britt and HC Todd Bowles – Photo by Cliff Welch/PR
A: Devin White appeared to be hobbled in the first quarter and missed one snap Sunday. In fact, he was replaced by third-year linebacker KJ Britt. Bucs head coach and defensive play-caller Todd Bowles has confidence in Britt, who has been in the system since being a third-day pick in 2021, making him the first inside lineman taken off the bench. That’s why I’m a backer. He has limited experience on defense, but more importantly, he knows the calls.
That’s not to suggest that rookie Sarvosia Denis can’t play. Dennis missed the final two preseason games and the start of the season with a hamstring injury. As such, the coaching staff did not have much understanding of what Dennis could and could not do in match situations. As a result, Denis’ growth stagnated.
That’s not to say the Bucs’ coaching staff doesn’t believe in or trust him. That means Bowles has more confidence in Britt at this point until Dennis can see some on-field snaps in the defensive game. Unless it’s a few garbage time minutes or injuries to White and Britt, that’s not going to happen.
