Pressure is on.
Now this is impressive.
Two years ago when Dave Canales came to Tampa Bay to replace Lunkhead Leftwich, not once did the Bucs score a touchdown on an opening drive. Not once.
That’s hard to do.
Other than that, and his fetish for slamming a subpar running back up the middle time and again, somehow thinking Rachaad White was Mike Alstott, Canales turned out to be a pretty good coordinator towards the final weeks of the season.
Canales’ replacement, Liam Coen, had no issues marching the Bucs downfield on opening drives to score, or at any time in the game.
In fact, Coen had little difficulty leading the Bucs offense to the end zone at all.
The following would have been unheard of when Father Dungy was here or when Mike Sullivan ran the offense for former Bucs commander Greg Schiano. Or, yeah, even in 2002 when Lunkhead was running the show on offense.
Last year the Bucs had 38 touchdown drives of 70 yards or more. Yes, 38! That seems like a lot.
Only Detroit and Baltimore had more, per noted football handicapper turned stathead Warren Sharp.
Joe is going to guess if new Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard can keep the Bucs with at least 30 touchdown drives of 70 or more, the Bucs will be in good shape this fall.
> 70+ yard TD drives last year:
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> 46 – DET4544 – BAL434241403938 – TB37363534 – BUF3332 – WAS, PHI31 – CIN30 – IND, ARI, NYJ292827 – KC, LAR, ATL, MIN26 – SEA, SF2524 – GB23 – JAX, DEN, CAR22 – TEN, MIA21 – NO, NYG, LAC20 – PIT, LV, DAL19 – NE18 – CLE
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> 17…
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> — Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) [June 16, 2025](https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1934620334067519947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)