Leonard Fournette waved a white flag at his former head coach, the leader of Fournette’s beloved Buccaneers.
The man known as Playoff Lenny played with the Bucs for three seasons (2020 through 2022), the last of which was led by Bowles. Fournette also was at One Buc Palace this summer interviewing Baker Mayfield, Tristan Wirfs and Chris Godwin. So Fournette is not a disconnected talking head.
Yesterday on his Fourth And South podcast, Fournette said he doesn’t know if Todd Bowles is still fit for his job as head coach.
“We all know the standard. To me, I just feel like maybe the time is up,” Fournette said of Bowles. “Just being real. It’s time for Coach Bowles to wrap it up and move on. Now if they go, 0-3, bring the alarm because we all know, even despite when [Tom] Brady left and Baker [Mayfield] came in, you still had a hell of a good season. Man, I don’t know what to say at this point.”
Yes, it’s that bad. The Bucs losing in Week 1 followed by the Bucs getting worse in Week 2 and losing to a garbage Browns team has a lot of fans ready for a new head coach.