Todd Bowles Would Survive 6-11?
June 14th, 2025
Imagine the horror of the Bucs entering their Week 18 home game against the Panthers this season with a 5-11 record.
Fans already would have set social media ablaze after a ruined holiday season.
Nearly every Bucs fan would be in disbelief over how a loaded roster with experienced coaches and a franchise QB landed in the NFL sewer. The calls to fire Todd Bowles would be a relentless chorus day after day on sports radio.
Somewhere on the streets of Jacksonville, Liam “El Serpiente” Coen would be snickering his ass off.
For the sake of this hypothetical, give the Bucs a home “W” to finish the season 6-11.
That record is good enough to guarantee a Bowles return for 2026, says Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman, the venerable JoeBucsFan.com columnist.
That’s what Kaufman told WDAE radio on Friday evening.
“Now look, if [Bowles] crashes this year, then he’ll be in trouble in 2026, as he should be,” Kaufman said. “He’s not getting fired. I don’t care what happens; I don’t think the Glazers would fire him this year even if they go 6-11.”
That was a somewhat fascinating take considering Kaufman said, as of now, he’s thinking the Bucs are an 11-win team that should win a playoff game.
Bowles’ job security has been a debate on the Ira Kaufman Podcast on and off for months. Ira and one of the Joes are convinced Bowles would survive a bad 2025 season like 6-11; the other Joe thinks they’ve lost touch with reality.
Joe is confident the Bay area would be in mourning if the Bucs limped their way to a 3-5 record at their Week 9 bye. In that scenario, an actual six-win season would mean the Bucs never snapped out of that funk following the bye. In fact, they would have played worse.
Could Bowles really survive such a horror show?