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Todd Bowles Doesn’t Believe Change Is Bad For Bucs Offense

April 3rd, 2025

“‘Bake,’ what do you think about Bucky running a wildcat and putting you in the slot?” (A Tampa Bay Buccaneers photo)

So the Bucs have a new offensive coordinator, Josh Grizzard. He got promoted after Liam Coen allegedly slipped out of town in the dark of night.

Grizzard was hired because the Bucs want to keep the offense the same, right? Well, not really.

Yes, Grizzard proved himself worthy of being a coordinator in his one year with the Bucs and Coen. And yes, Grizzard also was hired because he knows the offense and the players were all on board with him getting promoted.

That doesn’t mean things will be the same. But why change? The Bucs had one of the best offenses in franchise history with a top-three passing game and top-four run game.

Todd Bowles explained why.

“You have to tweak some things because if you do exactly what you did last year, everybody watches tape, and they’re going to catch up,” the Bucs head coach said at the owners meetings at the swanky Breakers in Palm Beach this week. “It’ll be interesting to see the wrinkles he puts in and how we adjust and how the coaches interact in practice – that’ll be a whole new thing with Liam [Coen] gone.

“When you have another guy running the entire thing, even though everyone else is the same, it’s different. The continuity is going to be big for them to build throughout the spring.”

“This Joe’s” first commandment is not fixing something that isn’t broken. And the Bucs offense last year was anything but broken. It hummed.

But Bowles hit the nail on the head. Defensive coaches have nothing to do this time of year but look at tape to figure out how to stop their 2025 opponents.

Surely the good coaches that face the Bucs this year, when they break from studying draft prospects, are now sifting through Bucs film to find ways to stop the Tampa Bay offense. Grizzard better have more options ready compared to what Coen used last year. Joe will drink to that.