July 18th, 2026
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The NFL has shared sacks-allowed stats for the Buccaneers.
Teams don’t like to share negative stats. Drops and missed tackles, among other negative stats, aren’t part of a box score or stats pages on NFL.com. The league prefers not to formalize those kinds of numbers.
Joe assumes it’s part of an agreement with the NFL players union, or it’s an effort to spin everything to help fans lean positive.
However, within a recent Buccaneers season video preview on the NFL YouTube channel, sacks-allowed numbers were shared.
They’re in the NFL screenshot below:
Zero sacks by Luke Goedeke in 11 games looks amazing! But it doesn’t mean he was a perfect pass blocker. For example, sometimes a Goedeke fail leads to a sack made by a guy being blocked by Graham Barton or Tristan Wirfs. The opposite can be true and sometimes a sack is/was simply Baker Mayfield holding the ball too damn long.
Perhaps that’s another reason these kinds of stats rarely are highlighted. They can be deceiving.
Backup guard Dan Feeney earned the nickname “Dangerous Dan” from Joe for a reason. Too often his work got Mayfield hit. Michael Jordan? There’s a reason he has no job at 28 years old in a league starved for offensive line depth.
Those guys combined to start 19 games! Did they only lead to a combined eight sacks, per the graphic. Joe will take the over on that.
The health of the Buccaners offensive line very much will determine the success of the 2026 season, Joe believes.
And some of that is just about resources. The Bucs have four premium draft picks on that O-line. No team wins when four premium picks have down years like those linemen did last year.