Messaging from coaches gets stale, especially when you don't win.
And so do coaching tactics.
At the end of 2025,Yaya Diaby said Bucs practices were TOO SOFT:
“We had more walk-throughs this year than any other year,” Diaby said, via PewterReport.com. . . . His point is to have mental reps, and I understand the mental reps. But at the same time, football is a physical game. You have to be in it. You can’t just walk through everything. I feel like that’s the next step, especially with me being here three years and seeing what we’ve done good and what we’ve done bad. That’s the next step.”
Harbaugh is considered one the best NFL coaches. Flowers says his practices were TOO PHYSICAL:
“Full pads all the time,” Flowers said. “However many practices in pads you can get, every single one. We’re doing one-on-ones in Week 17. Week 17, we’re doing one-on-ones, everybody out there, we’re tired, we’re still going.”
Asked how the players manage that workload, Flowers answered, “We don’t.”
“That’s why we had a lot of injuries,” Flowers continued. “Because of how we practiced, how we went. The load was heavy.”
Messaging from coaches gets stale, especially when you don't win.
And so do coaching tactics.
At the end of 2025,Yaya Diaby said Bucs practices were TOO SOFT:
“We had more walk-throughs this year than any other year,” Diaby said, via PewterReport.com. . . . His point is to have mental reps, and I understand the mental reps. But at the same time, football is a physical game. You have to be in it. You can’t just walk through everything. I feel like that’s the next step, especially with me being here three years and seeing what we’ve done good and what we’ve done bad. That’s the next step.”
Harbaugh is considered one the best NFL coaches. Flowers says his practices were TOO PHYSICAL:
“Full pads all the time,” Flowers said. “However many practices in pads you can get, every single one. We’re doing one-on-ones in Week 17. Week 17, we’re doing one-on-ones, everybody out there, we’re tired, we’re still going.”
Asked how the players manage that workload, Flowers answered, “We don’t.”
“That’s why we had a lot of injuries,” Flowers continued. “Because of how we practiced, how we went. The load was heavy.”
Seems like some of these brilliant bastards should learn that there is a happy medium.
I guess Harbaugh and Bowles need to read Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Haha exactly!
Messaging from coaches gets stale, especially when you don't win. Bowles has 7 years with the team. An entire career for most players on his defense.
The defense didnt quit on Bowles they just became complacent and according to Ronde Barber thats because no ass kickers on the filed:
You know what I’ve kind of heard from, like, behind the scenes — that both [Bain] and Keionte Scott are old school [University of] Miami type players,” Barber said. “They’re not about that BS, man. These dudes come to work, man. No fluff. No Instagram posts. No, you know, let me show you how fly I am.”
“… When he came to his press conference here in Tampa, you could feel the non-nonsenseness about him. And I think we’re going to appreciate just the way that this dude works.
“We talk about changing cultures … having one guy, especially if he ends up being one of the better players on your team, having one guy that has that attitude changes everything.”
“I can’t wait to see what it looks like, not only in training camp, but minicamps and rookie minicamps and OTAs, all these periods where we’re going to get to see this dude [Bain] work a little bit. I think we’re going to see some attitude adjustment out there just by the way this guy approaches the game. And I can’t say I’m looking forward to it enough.”
Bowles said it too.
"He plays with a mentality, a no-losing mentality, at all times," said Bowles. "He fights and he plays with the right kind of attitude and mentality that we're trying to bring to this team."
Barber doesnt credit Dungy for the Bucs culture on defense. He credits Brooks and Sapp (and Hardy before them)
Pressure cooker season for Bowles & Co. Either put up or shut up. Talk is cheap. Let's see what happens on the field.
The defense didnt quit on Bowles...
They ABSOLUTELY quit on him.
You could see it. Every one of those remaining games.
The exit interviews even suggested it.
The defense didnt quit on Bowles...
They ABSOLUTELY quit on him.
You could see it. Every one of those remaining games.
The exit interviews even suggested it.
Well, I dont disagree because I said they quit on his scheme initially. I meant that they went to freelancing, gave up on the defense. I think maybe I should have said with this post that they also quit doing the hard work of defense, physicality, etc.
Either way, those things are usually nearly impossible for a coach to overcome, but some hope with guys like Bain.
Going back to my OP, I still think the early games are key. If they starts badly it falls aaprt.
Barber doesnt credit Dungy for the Bucs culture on defense. He credits Brooks and Sapp (and Hardy before them)
Should be crediting Kiffin. The best to ever do it. Lolz at the 46 defense…
Barber doesnt credit Dungy for the Bucs culture on defense. He credits Brooks and Sapp (and Hardy before them)
Should be crediting Kiffin. The best to ever do it. Lolz at the 46 defense…
lol loved Kiffin and he was definitely part of the culture
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“There was a couple times in that season, man, I loafed a little bit and I didn’t like what I saw on film,” David told the The Set With T. Stead podcast. “And it was one of those things like, ‘Nah, I ain’t going to go out like this, bro.”
Ian Beckles
Todd Bowles, nobody in the history of defensive coordinators could have made that defense great last year. How?” Beckles told The Jay Recher Podcast. “How? We didn’t do anything great. We didn’t have one great [defensive] player last year. So, name me a great defense that doesn’t have one great, dominant player. So it’s not rocket science.
“Listen, I’m not here defending Todd Bowles, I just think he can coach. And I think that the Glazers and [Jason] Licht think he can coach as well, clearly.
The defense didn't need to be great last year. They just needed to get off the field at key times. That is where a good coach will come into play. They fell apart at key times last year and that is on the coach. I think there's plenty of reasons why we fell apart last year and our hc was one of them.
The defense didn't need to be great last year. They just needed to get off the field at key times. That is where a good coach will come into play. They fell apart at key times last year and that is on the coach. I think there's plenty of reasons why we fell apart last year and our hc was one of them.
coaching obviously a huge part but I think the Bucs agree MORE with Beckles. And that's not that the defense had to be great just that nobBrooks, Sapp, young LVD, etc.
Maybe Bain will be that I. The future, with or without Bowles.
The defense didn't need to be great last year. They just needed to get off the field at key times. That is where a good coach will come into play. They fell apart at key times last year and that is on the coach. I think there's plenty of reasons why we fell apart last year and our hc was one of them.
that Bucs defense was so bad during the final 6 game collapse that they ranked 6th best in points allowed during that time span of just 21.2 points per game.
all kidding aside, the defense was ass but you have to look to the other side of the ball if we want some finger pointing in terms collapse. Outside of the Atlanta game collapse, the other losses to inferior teams were primarily offensive ineptness driven
Bet that 2025 Ohio State game filled you with a lot of confidence in how well Arch can read college defenses.The defense didn't need to be great last year. They just needed to get off the field at key times. That is where a good coach will come into play. They fell apart at key times last year and that is on the coach. I think there's plenty of reasons why we fell apart last year and our hc was one of them.
that Bucs defense was so bad during the final 6 game collapse that they ranked 6th best in points allowed during that time span of just 21.2 points per game.
all kidding aside, the defense was ass but you have to look to the other side of the ball if we want some finger pointing in terms collapse. Outside of the Atlanta game collapse, the other losses to inferior teams were primarily offensive ineptness driven
I know it helped me make my decision on ol’ Arch’s capabilities.