Sleepless Nights For Zac Robinson
January 27th, 2026
As Bucs fans know well, Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins carved up the Bucs badly in his last three starts against Tampa Bay over the past two years.
Cousins spent those games with new Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson calling the shots for him in Atlanta.
Today, when Robinson was introduced to the Tampa Bay media throng, he was asked about facing the Bucs a couple of times. Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman, the venerable JoeBucsFan.com columnist, even asked Robinson about whether he had conversations with Bucs head coach Todd Bowles about how Atlanta was able to carve up Tampa Bay.
Robinson wasn’t having any of it. He twice talked about sleepless nights prepping to play the complex Bowles defense, and how he’s glad to not have to do that again.
Robinson also said he and Bowles didn’t have conversations about schemes specific to those Falcons-Bucs games. That time will come, he said.
No, nobody asked Robinson in the news converence about his famous (infamous?) 3rd-and-28 and 4th-and-14 calls that beat the Bucs on Thursday Night Football in December. If those don’t happen, the Bucs very likely win the NFC South — and perhaps Robinson would be coaching elsewhere.