{"id":740513,"date":"2026-02-09T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:10:18","slug":"yes-it-can-be-done-bucs-fans-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740513\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It Can Be Done, Bucs Fans &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tYes, It Can Be Done, Bucs Fans<br \/>\nFebruary 9th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/evans-trophy.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333555\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/evans-trophy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"465\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-333555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It can happen again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don\u2019t worry, Bucs fans. Just because the Bucs missed the playoffs this year doesn\u2019t mean 2026 will be a throwaway season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last night marked the 60th Super Bowl. Both teams missed the playoffs the previous season. That is not unusual in Super Bowl history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/super-bowl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Super Bowl annals<\/a>, 14 of the 60 Super Bowl winners were not good enough to make the playoffs the previous season. That\u2019s 23 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So basically, the Bucs, based on Super Bowl history, sort of have a one-in-four shot to win their third Super Bowl a year from now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Yes, Joe knows that tee\u2019ed fans up for a Todd Bowles screed.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In fact, the last time the Bucs won a Super Bowl (2020), the Bucs were not a playoff team the year prior (2019).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cross your fingers, Bucs fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, It Can Be Done, Bucs Fans February 9th, 2026 It can happen again. Don\u2019t worry, Bucs fans.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740514,"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-740513","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\/116041315262313397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740513","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=740513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}