{"id":647987,"date":"2026-01-02T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647987\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:47:12","slug":"how-safe-is-josh-grizzard-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647987\/","title":{"rendered":"How Safe Is Josh Grizzard? – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Should Josh Grizzard start watching his back?<\/p>\n

If the Bucs lose tomorrow, the immediate future of Todd Bowles, his staff and several players is very much up in the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Joe\u201d finally watched Episodes 3 and 4 of \u201cRaise the Flags<\/a>\u201d and a couple of things jumped out.<\/p>\n

* The idea that some folks have that Malcolm Glazer called every shot the Bucs made from the day he first purchased the Bucs until he became too ill to run the day-to-day operations of the Bucs is at best misguided and at worst na\u00efve.<\/p>\n

* The notion some folks have that Team Glazer doesn\u2019t really care about the team and that winning isn\u2019t a priority, well, those same folks are sadly mistaken.<\/p>\n

* When expectations with the Bucs are not met, especially high expectations, someone will walk the plank as a result.<\/p>\n

Now \u201cthis Joe\u201d believes Bowles likely is coaching for his job tomorrow. Even if the Bucs make the playoffs, \u201cthis Joe\u201d isn\u2019t 100 percent sure Bowles will be forced to pay the price of such a monumental collapse.<\/p>\n

(\u201cShould\u201d and \u201cwill\u201d are two very different things. And please remember, Joe\u2019s last name is not \u201cGlazer.\u201d)<\/p>\n

In Episode 3 of \u201cRaise the Flags,\u201d Joe was struck by a comment from Bucs\u2019 co-chairman Bryan Glazer. He spoke about Sam Wyche crowing in 1995 that the Bucs were \u201c5-dash-2.\u201d Glazer said, \u201cAnd then the season turned to crap.\u201d The Bucs finished 7-9. Glazer added, \u201cAt the end of the year, we had to fire Sam Wyche.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, the Bucs this season started 6-dash-2 and the season has turned to crap and, at best, the Bucs will finish 8-9, perhaps 7-10. Joe isn\u2019t sure the Bucs had as high of expectations 30 years ago as they did entering this season.<\/p>\n

Again, it is clear from the phenomenal documentary of the history of the Bucs that since Team Glazer became stewards of the franchise, when high expectations are not met, someone has their head lopped off.<\/p>\n

Over the holidays, ESPN insider Jeremy Fowler noted that if the Bucs miss the playoffs after starting 6-2, \u201csomeone will have to pay<\/a>.\u201d The speculation centered around Bowles. However, Fowler added, could it be Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard instead of Bowles as the sacrificial lamb.<\/p>\n

Apparently, chatter behind the scenes among NFL team shot-callers is looking at Grizzard as the man who may sleep with the fishes.<\/p>\n

There is talk in some league circles about the future of Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard. The offense has tanked of late, and Baker Mayfield has regressed in the second half of the season. Some level of change is needed after this year\u2019s late-season collapse, which is at least somewhat injury-driven. The Bucs are playing with third-string offensive guards, and the running game hasn\u2019t been quite the same. Grizzard is well respected and helped former coordinator Liam Coen with game-planning last season, but the Bucs\u2019 offense can\u2019t stop the slide.<\/p>\n

Well, whoever it was that believed the Bucs could get by with \u201cthird-string guards\u201d should have some \u2018splainin\u2019 to do for that. Why was a move not made at the trade deadline to bolster the injured offensive line?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult for Joe to believe a decent second-string guard on the final year of his contract couldn\u2019t have been rented out. That he would have cost so many coveted third-day draft picks that his ransom was unbearable.<\/p>\n

One key to all of this is how badly Baker Mayfield\u2019s injuries hurt the offense. Was he injured so badly that he couldn\u2019t throw \u2014 is that why the past six weeks Grizzard transitioned the Bucs into a pee wee football passing attack?<\/p>\n

And if Mayfield was hurt that badly that he couldn\u2019t throw or at least throw accurately, then why was he even on the field? Very important games the Bucs needed to win to secure the NFC South were lost by one score because Mayfield was throwing fourth-quarter picks.<\/p>\n

Did someone with the Bucs decide the team was better off sacrificing wins just so Mayfield could protect his tough guy image and stay on the field? Does the team not trust Teddy Bridgewater? And if not, then why is Bridgewater eating up a roster spot?<\/p>\n

Seems as if Team Glazer will have to find answers to a lot of questions in the next few days if they haven\u2019t found the answers (and solutions) already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should Josh Grizzard start watching his back? If the Bucs lose tomorrow, the immediate future of Todd Bowles,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-647987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115825347960981493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647987","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=647987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}