Bucs Ownership Appreciates Todd Bowles Hiring Game/Clock Management Guru
April 1st, 2025
Not good enough.
That mindset was at the root of one offseason decision by Todd Bowles.
After three seasons of not having a full-time dedicated game management/clock management guru, Bowles set out this winter to hire one.
He got his man within the past few weeks, Zach Beistline, who had the same role with the Jaguars.
A year ago, and Joe is not exaggerating. Bowles had a game-day team of three people in his ear providing guidance on various in-game decisions. Joe joked with Bowles about that at the NFL Scouting Combine and asked if is headset had hold music.
Some fans and Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman speculated that perhaps Team Glazer urged Bowles to make the move following some highly debatable game decisions last year
Joe was skeptical of that take and asked Bucs co-owner Joel Glazer today to comment on the hire.
JoeBucsFan.com: Joel, Todd Bowles signed a game management/clock management guy this year. Is that something that you were involved in the decision or talking about it? Or how do you feel about it?
Joel Glazer: Todd always reflects on his season. The great thing about Todd is he will reflect on the season and see where things went well, may not have went well, where he can improve or we can improve. And that’s what we’re always trying to do. Todd adjusts to what’s needed and hats off to him for identifying an area that he thinks we can improve, and that can do nothing but help us for next season.
So there you go. Maybe Bowles came to the table wanting to streamline his game-day decisions and hire a guru, or perhaps it was suggested to him that it could help.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter. Bowles found a guy and hopefully he’s good at his job, or Bowles knows when to ignore him.