Buccaneers co-owner Joel Glazer speaks.
Some might say the 2024 Bucs season was a roller coaster ride. Ownership has a slightly different view.
Joe is at the NFL owners meetings at The Breakers resort, a five-star palace in Palm Beach.
How swanky is it? Joe asked the front desk where a water could be purchased and Joe was promptly handed a fancy 12-ounce aluminum can of spring water from Iceland that would have cost $4.99 at Wawa. And no, Joe isn’t staying at the $1,600-a-night property.
The NFL owners are lodged on premises amid massive security, and Buccaneers co-owner Joel Glazer held a nine-minute news conference today for some Tampa media in attendance.
Glazer was asked about the Bucs’ showing last season and applauded it.
“I thought there were a lot of positives last year. I mean, we had a good season,” Glazer said. “Obviously, we didn’t accomplish the ultimate goals we wanted to accomplish. But [we were] consistent, even when we kind of had that down streak in the middle, games were very, very close. And then, hey, in the NFL, you want to be playing your best football from November on, and that’s what we were doing. To see the team jelling, that to me is what is the most exciting part.”
Joe followed up and asked how Glazer would characterize the season. Did the division-champion Bucs overachieve or underachieve, or were the Bucs sort of in line with expectations?
Glazer wanted no part of that. He pointed more to the intangibles.
“I never want to say ‘overachieve/underachieve,”’ Glazer said. “It’s just the key was watching the team progress, watching the team grow as the season went on, watching the young players contribute and grow And, you know, there’s a chemistry among this team. People talk about chemistry all the time, but I walked into training camp last year, I honestly have never seen the chemistry that exists within this group of players. And it’s just a great group. So that’s a key element [among] a lot of other elements. But really, we are progressing as one would hope to progress.”
That was a common theme among the Bucs hierarchy talking this week. The team has amazing chemistry led by a franchise quarterback who embodies the spirit and work ethic of the club.
What would define progress for 2025? Joe will answer it because Team Glazer wasn’t asked. The Bucs need much better consistency in their overall play and they have to win playoff games. Anything else isn’t enough. Everything the Bucs have done the past two years has set the bar that high.
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