There’s A Reason For Everything
February 14th, 2026
Curious non-move.
So this is a unique angle.
It’s been well established given the comments on just about every post Joe has published on this here website the past month, the constant chirping on local sports radio, and the flood of videos on TikTok and missives from all sorts of other social media platforms, that most Bucs fans are not happy head coach Todd Bowles is still leading the Bucs.
Joe *still* gets comments on Twitter asking if Team Glazer will reassess? Joe informs these folks that Bowles is safe and entrenched until at least January 2027.
But there has been a gutting of the coaching staff — whether Bowles was ordered by Team Glazer to make changes or Bowles saw fit himself is unclear — with the exception of one major non-move. The Bucs didn’t hire a defensive coordinator.
This led Joe’s good friend, NFL humorist and scribe Mike Tanier to some deep thinking on his Substack page “Too Deep Zone.” Why wouldn’t Bowles hire a defensive coordinator? The Bucs defense was what did this team in last season and in the season prior.
But Tanier figured out why Bowles may have been hesitant.
Todd Bowles held onto his job despite numerous defensive lapses and the team’s listless performance against weak competition down the stretch. Bowles … plans to serve as his own defensive coordinator in 2026. Sounds like he’s afraid of hiring his replacement.
And there you have it. That makes as much sense as anything else.
Joe sure hopes the very same defensive players that clearly tuned Bowles out last year are wired up with new antennae.