Player Comments Clash With Team Glazer Read
June 17th, 2026
YaYa Diaby recently said 2025 Bucs film reveals a team with players lacking juice and/or a love for football.
Diaby’s take made Baker Mayfield’s new comments about the 2025 defense more interesting.
Joe soaked it all in and talked about it with Sage of Tampa Bay sports Ira Kaufman on his recent podcast. Kaufman noted how Team Glazer told Joe the following in April.
“You see week in and week out, this team plays hard for Todd [Bowles] and nobody lays down,” Buccaneers co-owner and Raise The Flags co-star Joel Glazer said at the NFL owners meetings in April. “You’ll have the odd game where things don’t quite go your way, but every game til the final whistle, these players are fighting, fighting, fighting.”
So why was Team Glazer seeing a fight-to-the-finish roster and Diaby was not? And if ownership was so proud of the warrior mentality of the roster, why did Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht emphasize getting tougher this offseason?
Joe thinks the questions are fair. Bucs fans learned from the fantastic Raise The Flags documentary — edited and produced by Team Glazer — that Bucs owners are firmly involved in decisions that chart a course for the franchise.
So if Team Glazer really thinks the Bucs played hard for Todd Bowles throughout last season, and Bowles’ evaluation included that perception, Joe would consider that problematic.
Perhaps Team Glazer is in the Diaby camp and was simply publicly backing the head coach.