Offensive woes on him.
Look, Joe thinks KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles has done a poor job since the Bucs’ bye week last week.
The Bucs are 2-11 in their last 13 games and haven’t covered one of them (last week’s game was a push), a modern NFL record. If that doesn’t scream “underperformance,” Joe doesn’t know what does.
And when you are 2-11, there’s no way to spin that. It’s bad. Very bad.
One thing Joe will defend Bowles on is Joe always reads comments on this here website and hears callers to WDAE radio that Bowles has no accountability.
Joe doesn’t understand that at all. He always says “We have to coach it better.” If that’s not taking accountability, then Joe doesn’t know what accountability is.
And he’s not wrong.
The sad thing for Bowles is — aside from his edge rush, which is going to doom him both on and off the field — is that his hand-picked offensive coordinator is dragging him down with him.
Zac Robinson has been truly awful, and the offense isn’t getting any better. Joe swears Robinson may be worse than ill-suited Marcus Arroyo in 2014 because Arroyo, outside of Vincent Jackson and rookie Mike Evans, had nothing to work with.
Robinson has talent all up and down the roster to work with.
The Bucs have scored, in four games, 27, 19, 16 and 14 points. That’s going the wrong way.
To Robinson’s credit, he came out yesterday in his weekly press conference and owned up to it. Wanna throw rocks at the Bucs, Robinson said, he’s the target for the offense.
> “Yeah, it has not been good enough,” Robinson said. “It starts with me, 100 percent. …
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> “It’s been very tough for us to have a chance as an offense at the end of these games to close it out. That’s what you want, and that’s what our guys want – those moments. So, for us not to be able to close the game out on our terms has been tough. Again, it starts with me. …
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> “Certainly \[it\] has not been good enough. Again, it starts 100 percent with me.”
Well, you cannot use the excuse that guys didn’t get enough snaps in the worthless preseason — last week Joe asked Robinson if that was an issue and he said he didn’t believe it to be. The Bucs have four games under their belts.
But by the fourth week of the season, an offense should be on the upside when it comes to scoring, not the opposite. (Yes, Joe knows the Bucs now have an undrafted rookie quarterback at the wheel.)
Right now the Bucs should be entering tryouts for 2027. Watch and see who on offense may start freelancing or making business decisions. Those guys, once identified, should be shipped out next spring.