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<\/p>\n\t\t\t\u201cWe Didn\u2019t Do Enough\u201d
\nSeptember 16th, 2026 <\/p>\n
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Bucs needed more.<\/p>\n
As we begin to turn the page from Week 1 towards Week 2, the Bucs\u2019 home opener against the Browns, Joe was going through some of his notes from the locker room after the Bucs lost to the Bengals.<\/p>\n
Now Joe isn\u2019t buying the theory that because the Bucs didn\u2019t play enough snaps in worthless preseason games it hurt the team \u2014 how the hell did the Bucs ever win a Super Bowl in 2020 without any of these atrocities being forced upon innocent Americans?<\/p>\n
Did the Bengals have seven worthless preseason games that Joe isn\u2019t aware of?<\/p>\n
Zyon McCollum made a point to Joe that sort of makes sense. The Bucs had six new starters on defense with one of those starters playing a new position. A\u2019Shawn Robinson, Alex Anzalone, Josiah Trotter, Rueben Bain and Keionte Scott were all new starters that were not on the roster last year.<\/p>\n
Jacob Parrish did start at nickel last year and Sunday he started at outside corner.<\/p>\n
McCollum told Joe there is a difference between worthless preseason games and the games that count.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst time playing a real type of football with the bullets flying with some new teammates,\u201d McCollum told Joe. \u201cWe will continue to build that cohesion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Practice is not worthless preseason and worthless preseason is not the regular season. While the Bucs defense got a lot of snaps in practice with their new starting defense, but it\u2019s a whole different thing knowing how your teammate on the other side of the line will play and not knowing what Joe Burrow and Co. will be doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a one-score game where we didn\u2019t play up to our standards,\u201d McCollum told Joe, not really acknowledging how the offense played Santa Claus with the football. \u201cIt lets us know we have something here.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCollum didn\u2019t want to hear from anyone about work or effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter how hard we play,\u201d McCollum said. \u201cIf we lose, we didn\u2019t do enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe heard that from more than one player. The defense, though it played well enough to win, didn\u2019t do enough. If the offense is sputtering, the defense needs to take measures to help out their teammates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Didn\u2019t Do Enough\u201d September 16th, 2026 Bucs needed more. As we begin to turn the page from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":["post-1002330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-buccaneers","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117280541591629966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}