{"id":136469,"date":"2025-06-17T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/136469\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:49:11","slug":"bucs-offense-cited-as-reason-for-optimism-heading-into-the-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/136469\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs offense cited as reason for optimism heading into the 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each team enters a new season with a whole new lease of life for its players and their careers. The Bucs know who and what they can be, but they need to be firing on all cylinders in 2025 to reach those goals.<\/p>\n

PFF dug deep and identified each team’s reason<\/a> for optimism ahead of the season, and for the Bucs, it was apparent. Dalton Wasserman chose the Bucs’ dynamic offense as the reason to have belief this season that the team can reach new heights that go beyond simply winning the NFC South for a fifth straight time in 2025.<\/p>\n

Wasserman writes, “The Buccaneers<\/a> boast as much offensive talent as any team in the NFL. They ranked among the top nine teams in every category of offensive grading last season except PFF run-blocking grade, where they placed 18th. Every starter returns this season, including quarterback\u00a0Baker Mayfield, who earned the sixth-highest PFF overall grade among qualified passers last season. The team also fortified its already stacked receiving corps with first-round pick\u00a0Emeka Egbuka.”<\/p>\n

The team’s offense had all the pieces it needed heading into 2025, but general manager Jason Licht decided that they needed something more, so he went and got it.<\/p>\n

When you have pieces like Bucky Irving, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Cade Otton, and Jalen McMillan, you seem set, right? Adding a first-round pick, Emeka Egbuka, to the mix just puts the whole group over the top, and now you have a unit that is ready to put points on top of points when the time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each team enters a new season with a whole new lease of life for its players and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[247,265,1838,1842,210,211,5181,312,10412,9341,1596,699,6880,7,4621,7219,1294,4080,1839,698,1458,700,248,267,88,6,11169,245,537,530,9,266,209,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-136469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-baker","11":"tag-baker-mayfield","12":"tag-bay","13":"tag-buccaneers","14":"tag-bucky","15":"tag-bucky-irving","16":"tag-cade","17":"tag-cade-otton","18":"tag-chris","19":"tag-chris-godwin","20":"tag-evans","21":"tag-football","22":"tag-godwin","23":"tag-irving","24":"tag-jalen","25":"tag-jalen-mcmillan","26":"tag-mayfield","27":"tag-mcmillan","28":"tag-mike","29":"tag-mike-evans","30":"tag-national","31":"tag-national-sports","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-nfl","34":"tag-otton","35":"tag-overall","36":"tag-overall-positive","37":"tag-positive","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-tampa","41":"tag-tampa-bay","42":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","43":"tag-tampabay","44":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114697611850300365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136469","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=136469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}