There’s a long way to go before we see the Bucs’ offense attempt to recapture all the greatness that they accomplished a year ago being a top five offense. Almost everything is the same. The quarterback, running backs, offensive line, wide receivers and tight ends are all back. They’ve only gotten better, too, by drafting wide receiver Emeka Egbuka in the first round.

The only difference is having Josh Grizzard call the plays as offensive coordinator. And even that’s not much different season he was here a year ago. It’s all set up for the Bucs to be even bigger and better in 2025. Just how much can Josh Grizzard get them to where they want to reach?

Bucs pass game coordinator Josh Grizzard and RBs coach Skip Peete – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

Grizzard has emphasized that last year was last year with the Bucs, and there’s still so many ways they can get better this time around.

“What we’ve been harping on is that even though in different categories it was a a good statistical year,” Grizzard began. “But still at the end of the day the points per game could always go up, essentially everything can go up. Through our fundamental and techniques and asking teh right questions and pushing the guy besides you, we’re going to look at it as the scheme is the scheme and then what can we do individually at this time of the year to improve their fundamentals because then that will allow for us to make a deeper run in the playoffs and score more points.”

Bucs Picking Up New Plays

He hasn’t been in the league very long but Josh Grizzard has already been regarded as having a sharp football mind,  and that’s not just because he went to Yale. He’s seen a couple of different offenses now going back to several coaches at the Dolphins and then Liam Coen with the Bucs last season. Grizzard will gives his own take on the offense this year, and it appears he already has some new wrinkles finding them in new areas. This will help in the run and passing game.

“It was getting to the point where the scheme was molded to fit what the O-line was good at, what the backs were good at and that’s how we left the season so we can now have a starting point for what we feel like puts our players in the best position to make plays,” Grizzard said. “You can always improve that, there’s always new things. We spend a lot of time looking around the NFL for different schemes that we feel like could be implemented.

Bucs OC Josh Grizzard – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

“We pick up so much tape on the college prospects that we picked up four to five plays just watching Emeka’s (Egbuka) tape or Tez’s (Johnson) tape on things that we already implemented. You can find it from anywhere, we had international coaches in here the last couple weeks and they’ve got things that we’ve never heard of. You can get it from anywhere.”

The players understand that there’s going to be new adjustments to the offense. They’ve already take place, though it’s going to take more time to develop than a couple of practices.

“I’d say that the players know that there are based on the installs and things we’ve done,” Grizzard said. “If you went out and watched what we just did I don’t think you would look at it as overly different, it’s just more in the schematics and behind closed doors of nuanced changes and a couple of ways things are called. In terms of how it would look just watching it, I don’t think you would see a whole lot of difference.”