{"id":679896,"date":"2026-01-15T18:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/679896\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:45:14","slug":"charlie-strong-reacts-to-ronde-barber-claims-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/679896\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Strong Reacts To Rond\u00e9 Barber Claims &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tCharlie Strong Reacts To Rond\u00e9 Barber Claims<br \/>\nJanuary 15th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Barberleftopen.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276446\" class=\"wp-image-276446 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Barberleftopen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"383\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-276446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rond\u00e9 Barber<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So 2025 Buccaneers defensive line coach Charlie Strong was among the fired assistant coaches at One Buc Palace last week. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday, Strong sat down with multimedia czar J.P. Peterson on the YouTube show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@fanstreamsportstampabay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">that bears his name<\/a>. On the docket was the subject of Bucs legend Rond\u00e9 Barber saying the Bucs defense is too complicated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Barber has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/01\/ronde-barber-lack-of-elite-coaching-has-hurt-bucs-defense-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gone there several times<\/a>. It\u2019s a biting criticism, Joe believes, because it\u2019s a slap at the teaching prowess of coaches and it speaks to them not adjusting to talent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Strong largely rejected Barber\u2019s notion that a challenging defense held the Bucs back. He also pointed to a steady turnover of personnel because of injuries, especially at cornerback.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t so much the complication, it was more of different people; each and every game here\u2019s a different guy,\u201d Strong said. \u201cNow we gotta teach this guy. So I don\u2019t know if it was the scheme being very complicated, it was more of, \u2018Here we got to try to now put it all together with what we have.\u2019 And sometimes it\u2019s guys who had not played that you\u2019re trying to get them ready to go play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After the Bucs season ended, Joe talked to someone intimate with daily happenings inside the walls of One Buc Palace. His basic response to a very similar question about Barber\u2019s takes were much more in line with Strong\u2019s comments versus Barber\u2019s musings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And Joe was told defensive players flat out getting beat and making elementary errors were another huge factor in the sad defense, not complexity of the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Strong Reacts To Rond\u00e9 Barber Claims January 15th, 2026 Rond\u00e9 Barber So 2025 Buccaneers defensive line coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679897,"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-679896","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\/115900601984307192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679896","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=679896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}