Todd Bowles Defends Benjamin Morrison
November 9th, 2025
Has rookie CBs’ back.
Joe knows a lot of Bucs fans erupted at Benjamin Morrison on social media for having been burned for a big play. Todd Bowles doesn’t want to hear the heckling.
Patriots rookie receiver Kyle Williams got just behind Morrison in the first quarter. The window to complete the pass was still tight. If Patriots quarterback Drake Maye underthrows that pass just a little bit, it’s picked by Morrison.
Maye threw a perfect pass and Williams turned that into a 72-yard touchdown.
Bowles was asked about Morrison early in his postgame remarks and Bowles pushed back on any criticism on Morrison.
“We’ve been putting him in all year,” Bowles said of the rotation Morrison has with Jamel Dean. “So the fact he gave up this play in this game, there’s no reason to single him out.
“We’re getting [Morrison] reps and Dean knows we get him reps. We have a system that we go with.
“The fact that we trust [Morrison] to make plays — he gave up a play. It doesn’t matter who is in there. If you give up a play we’re not going to give up on you.”
Bowles later said Morrison will learn from it and improve.
This was disappointing to see for Joe because, of course, the play resulted in a major explosive play, a touchdown. Also, Joe thought Morrison was making progress. Hey, he’s still a raw rookie. Morrison also looked sluggish and out of his element in over-the-middle coverage on a key fourth-quarter Patriots conversion with Dean and Zyon McCollum on the field at the same time.
Joe doesn’t agree with Bowles that it doesn’t matter who was on the field for the long touchdown reception. Are you trying to tell Joe that in an important game, it wouldn’t have been better to have your No. 1 corner on the field defending a rookie receiver?