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Bucs playcaller Josh Grizzard.
It smells to Joe like Todd Bowles wants to see his offense coached and called differently.
Below are a few quotes Bowles delivered on his official team radio show this week about the offense:
> “The quick-screen game, the quick passes have worked. The screen game, people are starting to catch on to a little bit,” Bowles said.
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> “We gotta alter some things that way probably in the things we’re doing. But at the same time, it also plays as a running play for us. So it helps us get to the edge a lot quicker and it opened up the run game a little bit more.”
Asked about passing game woes overall, Bowles replied.
> “It’s a little bit of everything. I mean that’s coaching included,” he said.
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> “I mean we gotta have a better play call. We gotta execute the plays when they’re called and we gotta understand what we are trying to do. So we gotta understand that part and we gotta tie it into the run game. So it’s all inclusive; it’s everybody. It’s just not one thing. Like I told them in the locker room, this is a team game and whether it’s offense, defense or special teams, we gotta play well in all three phases. So when you talk about the passing game, you include the play calling, you include the quarterback, you include the offensive line, you include the receivers. So we have to do a better job as a collective, as a group going forward.”
The Bucs throwing short of the first-down markers is a pet peeve for Joe, and it seems Bowles is over that, too.
> “Oh, we gotta do better on third-and-five or less,” Bowles said. “You know, they’re sitting on routes right there. We gotta execute a lot better and maybe not go to the sticks as much. We gotta go downfield a little bit more.”
Joe heard all that and thought the head coach sounds like a guy not ready to give his offensive coordinator high grades.