Edgeless Sacks Party For Tampa Bay
September 15th, 2025
First-career sack!
Joe loves sacks.
They’re drive killers. They get in quarterbacks heads. They jack up a defense and change games.
Sacks get Joe so fired up because they matter so much.
Edge rush? The Bucs have a weak edge rush. It’s just how it is. Overall, the 2025 outside linebackers unit isn’t special. Joe still has high hopes for Haason Reddick, but he has much to prove after two games.
Getting sacks without an edge rush, however, Todd Bowles is good at that. Every year the Bucs are among the sacks leaders, always in the top-10.
Tonight against the Texans, the Bucs got a sack from safety Tykee Smith, the first of his career. Smith bull rushed former Bucs running back Dare Ogunbowale.
Lavonte David disguised a blitz beautifully and shared a sack with Bucs rookie defensive tackle Elijah Roberts. A thing of beauty.
Defensive tackle Greg Gaines? He got a sack the old fashioned way. He beat his man and took down Texans QB C.J. Stroud for a critical eight-yard sacks late in the first half that pushed the Texans’ back to the Tampa Bay 48 yard line.
Those were the Bucs’ three sacks, things of beauty after just one last week.
Third sack on the day for the Bucs defense 💪
📺: #TBvsHOU on ESPN/ABC pic.twitter.com/P0y1k9ubGr
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) September 16, 2025