3 Things for Buccaneers to Correct to Avoid Another Collapse
Tampa Bay's shocking late-season nosedive wasn't random. Discover the three critical areas—leadership, execution, and a lack of killer instinct—that doomed the Bucs.
Video Transcript
Why did the Bucs collapse in twenty twenty-five?
Lavonte David did some reflecting on it, and we did some reflecting on it as a result.
This is Joe Smeltzer for Bucs Roundtable.
Three reasons that the Bucs collapsed, among many, are leadership, with both Todd Bowles and Baker Mayfield; a lack of a killer instinct, the Bucs were one of the worst teams in the NFL in both red zone defense and red zone offense; and, for the first time in several years, not having a offensive coordinator that could get the most out of his personnel.
Tampa Bay, of course, lost seven of its last nine games to lose the NFC South by a tiebreaker to the Carolina Panthers.
So going even three and six in that stretch would have won the Bucs division.
And to make matters worse, Tampa went more than a month without playing a winning team and still lost all four games to the Falcons, Saints, Panthers, and Dolphins, all in excruciating fashion.
Things need to change in twenty twenty-six, or the Bucs might have to do a reset in twenty twenty-seven.
This is Joe Smeltzer for Bucs Roundtable.
