Back To The Future
January 31st, 2026
Get him the ball.
Back in his lone season running the Bucs’ offense, Liam Coen had probably the most complete offense Tampa Bay has seen outside of the two seasons the Bucs won the Super Bowl.
The Bucs ran the ball very well under Coen and threw it well. Offensively, there were few if any warts.
New Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson hopes to advance the Bucs offense by going back to 2024. That was the year Coen was here, and Robinson and Coen are close to twins in how they want an offense to run. Each became a made man in the NFL at the feet of Sean McVay.
But Robinson said another reason he wants to use a form of McVay/Coen’s offense is that most skill position players on the Bucs roster played under Coen and excelled under Coen.
So why wouldn’t Robinson want to bring back something proven?
“This is a group of guys that have a lot of continuity,” Robinson said. “They’ve played a lot of good football together.
“So, there will be some carry over, obviously from Liam [Coen] and I working together in [Los Angeles], the foundation and the beliefs that we have coming from Sean [McVay] and that system is definitely what we’re going to be all about.
“It’s a great group of guys, great group of coaches, and I’m just fired up to get an opportunity to coach these guys.”
Joe’s fired up to see Robinson get the ball to his best players. That Carolina game in Charlotte was disgraceful how the Bucs went ground-and-pound hoping the Bucs’ running attack, which wasn’t playing well to begin with, would take over the game behind a decimated offensive line when the Bucs had Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Emeka Egbuka and Jalen McMillan.
To paraphrase Nick Saban, get the ball in the hands of your best players and good things happen.
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