Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles has been the king of mediocrity, and since he inherited a loaded roster that was competing for Super Bowls and somehow lost with Tom Brady as his quarterback, calling him the NFL's modern day Jeff Fisher (the version with the St. Louis Rams, not the Tennessee Titans) would be far too kind.
Bowles is supposedly a defensive guru, but he has stagnated the development of his best defensive players and has purposefully tanked an already thin Bucs pass rush. His tactics, defensive schemes, and way of motivating the players are all horrendous, and Bucs fans were left wondering what sort of evidence he has against the Glazer family that enabled him to keep his job in spite of his ineptitude and a historically bad collapse in 2025 from Super Bowl contenders to not even making the playoffs over the Carolina Panthers in the league's weakest division.
Todd Bowles has little going for him
Despite the misgivings of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans and years of poor results, including this past season, the NFL Network's Nick Shook doesn't think Bowles's seat is at piping hot as the fans do. In fact, he thinks it is only "warm".
Shook said of Bowles's status, "Near the end of a frustrating, somewhat-inexplicable collapse in 2025, plenty of folks expected the Buccaneers to move on from Todd Bowles and start fresh with a new coach. That didn’t happen, of course, and Bowles is back to justify the organization’s support in 2026. If the Bucs struggle like they did last season — with Bowles’ defense finishing 20th in points allowed — he’ll likely be out of a job and Tampa Bay will be facing a potentially significant shift in identity for the first time since Tom Brady arrived in 2020. Some thought it’s precisely what the Buccaneers needed after 2025 and pointed toward Evans’ departure as proof that things weren’t right at One Buc Place. The team will have to embark on the new campaign without two franchise legends in Evans and linebacker Lavonte David, who retired after 14 seasons, another concerning sign about Tampa’s trajectory. It will be up to Bowles to prove the concerns are overblown."
Buccaneers fans are going to look at that quote and scratch their heads. Because things are not right at all about the Bucs under Todd Bowles, and though Nick Shook wrote nothing positive about what Bowles is doing, including the major defensive issues, he still does not think the man's seat is scorching. But for Bucs fans, it is, and if the Bucs don't return to the playoffs this season, Bowles is as good as gone in their eyes.
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