Todd Bowles: “Frustrated” Is A Good Thing
November 11th, 2025
Yes, Baker Mayfield is quote “pissed.”
Is everyone on the Tampa Bay roster?
Todd Bowles says they should be.
Bowles was asked on his official team radio show about Mayfield’s expressed frustration with the teams’ shaky execution and poor attention to detail. The head coach expects Mayfield to have company, if the Bucs roster if filled with the kind of players Bowles wants.
“Most of our leaders should be [frustrated]; if you’re not frustrated after a loss, you’re probably in the wrong game,” Bowles said.
“You’re in the wrong game. [Mayfield] is a winner, he wants to win. You get frustrated over the little things that we gotta execute that we know we’ve executed in practice, that we did not execute in the game. We can prepare better and we can play better. So their frustration is well devised ((yes, Bowles said ‘devised’)) and Mayfield should be as well as everybody on his team, including the coaches as well. So we gotta get better from there going forward and we will.”
Earlier in the broadcast, Bowles talked about how he and Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht invest a lot of time into studying player character, practice habits and work ethic before putting them on the roster.
Joe’s very intrigued to see how the Bucs show up in Buffalo, where Sunday’s kickoff forecast is for rain, wind and 43 degree temperatures.