So a deep and too-long dive into every NFL team’s offense yielded a bold proclamation about the state of the Bucs’ 2025 attack.
Over the course of weeks, former Bucs scout and Jets assistant coach and personnel director Pat Kirwan compares and contrasts every team’s position group on SiriusXM NFL Radio with his co-host, retired NFL quarterback Jim Miller, a former Bucs backup.
It’s exhausting. The duo grade each unit.
Yesterday, after finishing that exercise for every position on offense, the duo revealed their top-5 NFL offenses for 2025.
Undaunted, apparently, by rookie Bucs playcaller Josh Grizzard, Kirwan is confident Tampa Bay has the third-best offense in the game.
> “Underrated by everyone including me. We always kind of talk of ’em as Chapter 2 in a one-chapter book. ‘Oh yeah, in Tampa. They were pretty good.’ Well, they were better than pretty good,” Kirwan said.
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> “You start looking at where were they Top-5 in the National Football League? Well, let’s start with points. They were No. 4 in points scored. They were No. 3 in total offense. They were No. 4 in passing yards a game. While being No. 4 in passing yards, they also were No. 4 in running yards. Total complete offense — that’s how I saw them. Again, the study that we did and just putting ourselves in position of looking at them through the lens of, you know, position groups in rooms forced me to see how good they were, and how much we didn’t see them.”
Kirwan want on to talk about he might have swapped the Bucs with the Lions (ranked No. 2) if the Bucs had better offensive line depth or a more impressive No. 1 tight end. He had the Ravens ranked No. 1 overall and the Bills at No. 4 followed by the Eagles. Miller had the Bucs as the No. 5 offense.
Joe’s got concerns about Grizzard’s learning curve. As Sage JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman asks, “Can Josh Grizzard screw this up?” The answer is, “probably not,” because the Bucs are that loaded on offense.
Joe will frame it like this. If Liam Coen was returning as coordinator, Joe would wager on the Bucs repeating as a top-5 offense.