The Tampa Bay Buccaneers did not have the best defensive outing in 2025. That's unfortunate, given that their head coach is a defensive head coach. Tampa Bay's initial defensive stats don't look awful.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a successful 2024 regular season, even if it was a little up-and-down. They finished with double-digit wins at 10-7 and won the NFC South for the third year in a row, but they weren't able to extend their season after dropping their Wild Card playoff game 23-20 to the Washington Commanders.

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The first came at the end of the first half when Bowles let over 10 seconds run off the clock after the Buccaneers reached the red zone. With just 17 seconds, the Buccaneers essentially had to be perfect execution-wise. Fortunately, for Tampa Bay, it ended up scoring a touchdown to knot proceedings up at 10-10 at the break.

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With Tampa Bay and Washington tied at halftime, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was asked where his team went wrong defending Daniels in the first stanza. Bowles’ explanation amounted to improving a collective defensive pocket containment where the Buccaneers were falling short as Daniels chose to run and make plays off-platform.

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Bowles’ choices didn’t ultimately doom the Buccaneers since they scored a touchdown on that final first half sequence and Washington could have bled the clock dry on the final drive regardless of timeouts, but Bowles did not put his team in the best position to succeed by letting clock run.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles isn't even thinking about coaching changes for the time being after the loss to the Commanders.

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