October 5th, 2026
Gave up on his defense?
The Bucs defense, you may have heard, was sackless yesterday.
In more ways than one.
(The Jets had three sacks on Jordan Love in Week 2, Vikings had four in Week 1.)
In his first three games this season, Green Bay Jordan Love has taken 33 quarterback hits. Playing behind a makeshift offensive line yesterday facing the Bucs, Love was hit TWICE!
With a chance to take advantage of a makeshift line and a quarterback who is clearly rattled by pressures and hits and sacks, KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles decided before the game to wave the white flag and give up.
“[The] ball was coming out in then less than 2.4 seconds, which he’s very good at,” Bowles said. “[He is] the best starter in the league at getting the ball out. So, we tried to concentrate on coverage, even though guys were trying to rush to pass hard, that ball was coming out so fast.”
Concentrate on coverage? Memo to Todd Bowles: If Love is so damn untouchable in the pocket because of his quick release — Joe saw Joe Burrow’s release Week 1 and Love’s isn’t close — then how the hell is every other friggin’ team the Packers play able to get to Love but you can’t?
You either coach it or you allow it to happen, the old football cliché says*.* Oh, Bowles coaches keeping opposing quarterbacks’ jerseys clean, no doubt. Trust Joe.
Because the Tampa Bay, with Bowles in charge of the Bucs, is where edge rushers come to die. Bowles’ tactics in pass defense are simply irresponsible and Joe’s friggin’ had it! If he won’t change, then the shot-callers at One Buc Palace need to inspire change.
And Joe believes that change will come in January.
Bowles doesn’t give a damn about an edge rush as a head coach and he never will as a head coach. So as long as he’s in charge of the Bucs’ defense, this defense will not get sacks and they will underperform as a result.
Aren’t suits at One Buc Palace tired of watching this gerbil-on-a-wheel act, year after year?