A guy who spent the last five years playing for hypemaster Dan Campbell says Todd Bowles was the secret sauce to the Bucs returning from the dead to beat the Cowboys in Dallas tonight.
“Coach did a good job just changing our mindset as a team, you know, to get us going for this Thursday night,” Alex Anzalone said on the Amazon Prime postgame show.
Sideline reporter Kaylee Hartung wouldn’t let the Bucs’ linebacker off the hook. She demanded to know what Bowles did or said.
“Man, he just did a great job leading the team, team meetings, throughout practice saying the right things changing the mindset of the team,” Anzalone said. “You know, going 0-4 is never easy. There’s a lot of outside noise. We just came together collectively.”
They sure did. The Bucs defense almost looked like a playoff unit. Joe said “almost” because the Bucs were sackless for the second consecutive game, and Dak Prescott dropped back to pass 42 times.
But as a group, the Bucs sure didn’t play sackless for a change. A beautiful thing.