The Todd Bowles Buccaneers have won two of their last 12 games.
Back in 2018, Bowles won three of his final 12 games with the New York Jets and got fired. In fact, Bowles never had a 2-10 stretch in his four-year stint as New York head coach.
It’s that bad in Tampa.
The Bucs haven’t been 0-3 since the 2014 season, Year 1 of the Lovie Smith nightmare regime.
Bowles had his defense very ready to play today, but the offense wasn’t. And the special teams were a nightmare [as Joe detailed](https://www.joebucsfan.com/2026/09/vikings-23-buccaneers-16/).
Joe doesn’t even need to hear what Bowles has to say tonight. What’s coming is some version of, “We gotta coach it better, and we gotta play it better.”
At this point, Joe isn’t sure what Team Glazer is clinging to with Bowles. Is there a scenario in the owners’ heads in which Bowles becomes a Super Bowl head coach?
All that’s left is hope — hope that the Bucs can win next week against the Packers and right the ship. This is the NFC South, after all, a division where hope takes a long time to die.
Bucs fans, including Joe, will be irate all week. Their next gift is a stadium half full of Packers fans a week from today.
The game is almost sold out despite the cheapest seats being over $200, including tax. That means a hell of a lot of cheeseheads to make your gameday experience annoying.
Bowles won’t be fired this week, so stop fantasizing.