{"id":729685,"date":"2026-02-04T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/729685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:21:22","slug":"did-the-bucs-not-want-it-enough-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/729685\/","title":{"rendered":"Did The Bucs Not &#8220;Want It&#8221; Enough? &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gronkowskigroup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-255512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gronkowskigroup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like most Bucs fans, Joe remains flabbergasted by the Bucs losing to the Saints, Falcons, Panthers and Dolphins in consecutive weeks to march themselves out of this season\u2019s playoff hunt. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That was every December football game, the time of year when teams are supposed to be playing their best football and totally locked in to the task at hand and the game\u2019s ramifications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That Dolphins game was perhaps the most horrendous. Tanking with a seventh-round rookie at quarterback making his second career start, the Dolphins led the Bucs 20-10 late in the fourth quarter. Keep in mind Miami was blown out by a bad team the week before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bucs had hit rock bottom with plenty of blame to spread around the roster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, retired Bucs great Rob Gronkowski was talking on SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio about players that want to win desperately and are willing to take on that game\u2019s toughest challenges, and how teams need a lot of those guys to win games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people in the NFL, you know, that just go out there; they want to be stars but they want it to be easy,\u201d Gronk said. \u201cYou know, they just want that catch. They just want to be wide open, not contested or anything and make the catch, you know, score a touchdown. Any player can do that being wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe\u2019s not knocking the Bucs\u2019 receiving corps, and neither was Gronk, but the future Hall of Fame tight end\u2019s words made Joe wonder how many players the Bucs have that \u201cwant it to be easy.\u201d Was there a little to much of that come December?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen you want it, that\u2019s how you win Super Bowls,\u201d Gronk said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well, the Bucs didn\u2019t look like a team that wanted it late last season. Even Todd Bowles called it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2025\/12\/todd-bowles-delivers-a-profanity-laced-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via a historic profanity-laced rant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe hopes the message delivered in that rant helps shape the Bucs\u2019 offseason approach. The roster needs a few shots of want-to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like most Bucs fans, Joe remains flabbergasted by the Bucs losing to the Saints, Falcons, Panthers and Dolphins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729686,"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-729685","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\/116014461770680441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729685","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=729685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}