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It was a throw-away line that should serve as an alarming keeper at Buc headquarters.
Are you listening, Glazer family?
In the aftermath of Pittsburgh’s comeback victory Sunday, Aaron Rodgers took the occasion to rip the field conditions at Raymond James Stadium, suggesting it was a hotbed for injuries. Those remarks made national news. But the future Hall of Fame quarterback didn’t stop there. No siree.
Rodgers, who has been known to say kookie things, then unleashed a potshot at the reeling franchise he just vanquished.
“To win our first road game, to beat a team we should have beat,” Rodgers said. “There’s no two ways around it, you’ve got to beat teams like that if you want to get to where we want to get to.”
Those 39 words, unscripted and unprovoked, should shake the windows and rattle the walls at One Buc Place.
Yes, the times they are a-changin.’
Two members of Team Glazer.
It’s clear from his remarks that Rodgers views the Bucs as mere patsies in the hierarchy of the NFL’s 32 teams. The numbers strikingly bear him out.
Todd Bowles doesn’t want to talk about the 2025 collapse that ushered Mike Evans out the door and prompted Lavonte David’s retirement. But this current 1-5 start doen’t exist in a vacuum. Bill Parcells once famously said, “You are what your record says you are.”
If that’s true, the Bucs have been lightweights since the middle of last season.
One day, in a distant galaxy, we may know what happened to the Bucs during the 2025 bye week. They had just trampled the Saints 23-3 on the road, forcing four turnovers to improve to 6-2. Since then, garbage.
Tampa Bay’s 3-12 mark since the middle of last season evidently gives Rodgers all the evidence he needs to label the Bucs as pushovers. No team in the league has fewer wins in its last 15 games. That includes bottom feeders like the Titans, Cardinals, Dolphins and Colts.
The three Buc wins in that span have come by a combined margin of only 13 points. This a long-term meltdown that shows no signs of abatement. Tampa Bay had a chance to build some momentum in Week 6. If the Bucs had sent the Steelers home as losers, they would have had an opportunity to make the NFC South race interesting heading into Charlotte.
Instead, the Bucs own the NFC’s worst record as they look up from the division basement. They’ve dropped four consecutive home games for the first time since 2016 — when the franchise was still in the throes of a 12-year playoff drought.
During Tampa Bay’s glory years, nobody looked down at the Bucs the way Rodgers just revealed. Nobody looked at this franchise as a soft touch. Those Buc teams were feared and respected.
Buc fans should be thankful to Rodgers for pointing out the obvious. This team doesn’t scare anyone … except its loyal supporters. Rodgers was just speaking his truth about the quality of Pittsburgh’s opposition in Tampa.
In his 22nd pro season, the four-time league MVP figures he has the right to speak his mind. He didn’t intend to disrespect the Bucs — but that’s exactly what he did.
In his mind, Rodgers was simply stating the obvious.
When you win three times in a 15-game span, you’re not going to be taken seriously on the NFL landscape. Ownership should fear this franchise has become irrelevant. This isn’t a 1-5 issue. It’s bigger than that.
Heed the harsh words of Mr. Rodgers at your own peril. He just held up a mirror for all to see at One Buc Place.
It’s cracked.