Todd Bowles: “It’s A Players Team”
December 16th, 2025
What is Todd Bowles saying?
Joe heard all offseason about how the Bucs have historically good leadership on the roster.
Per Bowles, that leadership drives the Bucs’ bus. When it’s very good, the team plays well.
As Bucs fans know, the Bucs were once 6-2 and now sit at 7-7.
Does that mean the leadership is failing?
Bowles said the following on the Buccaneers Radio Network this evening.
“Well, like I told them in the locker room, you know, at this point in the season you’ve seen every play offensively and defensively,” Bowles said of his message to Bucs players. “It’s a veteran team, it’s a players team. And I mean that in the way of the leadership will take us as far as we go.
“Our leadership, our veteran leadership and our older guys will take us as far as we need to go because they lead us, they follow us. The guys follow them, and what they say resonates more to players from [being] accountable on the field to each other as opposed to what the coaches say. Not that they don’t listen because they do. and it’s the coaches as well as the players. But when the players speak up and take onus of everything and they can account on each other out on the field, then you see better results.”
Joe understands the value of players communicating and leadership types demanding the most from teammates. But perhaps Bowles needs to reassess the quality of leadership on the roster what he needs to take over before it’s too late.
Of course, that’s if the problem is really on the players.