Dragging Bucs down.
Trading field goals for touchdowns never works. But boy, it sure seems like the Bucs are hellbent on trying to change that line of thinking.
Joe doesn’t know how Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson stays employed after last night. This is the worst Bucs offense Joe has seen since the launch of this site in August 2008.
And yes, Joe knows that’s saying something.
The Bucs finally have a good special teams unit. The Bucs finally fixed the defense. But now, behind an expensive quarterback who sure looks broken, it is the offense dragging down this team.
One element KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles has to get over is his habit of settling for field goals. He and the Bucs can get away with that against the dregs of the league, otherwise known as the NFC South landfill. But Bowles cannot get away with that against good teams, as was evidenced last night.
Nothing screams a Todd Bowles team (Zac Robinson offense?) like field goals. Where would this team be without team MVP Chase McLaughlin?
The Bucs, yet again, were trying to fight a bully with field goals last night. It reminds Joe of the line in the movie “Untouchables” (about the Chicago mob in the 1920s).
> _“He pulls a knife? You pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital? You send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way.”_
The Bears’ offense played with .45s. The Bucs’ offense played with butterknives.
Zac Robinson’s passing attack is truly _mierda de pollo_.
Does Jason Beck want to make easy money in Florida? Yes, it’s just about that bad. (If you don’t know who Jason Beck is, feel free to Google him, as Curt Cignetti might say.)
> The ceiling for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is severely capped by this passing offense.
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> That’s pretty much my first half assessment.
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> — Evan Closky (@ECloskyWTSP) [November 9, 2026](https://x.com/ECloskyWTSP/status/2119625624482423189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)