The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are 3-6 coming out of their bye, with all six losses by seven points or fewer. Eight games are left to turn that around, and several key players are also playing for their next deal.
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians suddenly has interest in coaching again. In an interview with NFL insider Jordan Schultz, Arians said he underwent open-heart surgery last February, and is feeling much better.
Quarterback is the most important position for an NFL team. That wasn’t always the case, but it has been the case for, you know, 50 years at this point essentially.
When Bucs Ring of Honor member Bruce Arians retired from the game of football after the 2021 season and into the 2022 offseason, it felt likely that it would be the last time we saw him roaming the sidelines as a head coach.
Just a few weeks ago, the chances of Jason Licht and Tampa Bay Buccaneers becoming sellers at the NFL trade deadline seemed like more of a certainty than a possibility.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are having a difficult 2026/27 NFL season so far, which Warren Sapp has been discussing. Tampa were most recently in action against the Chicago Bears, losing 27-24 after Caleb Williams managed 279 passing yards and two touchdowns.
Forcing five turnovers usually wins a road game. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers forced five at Soldier Field on Sunday and still left with a 27-24 loss to the Bears and a 3-6 record going into the bye, and Todd Bowles summed up the problem afterward.
Bay area fans spent the bye replaying a 27-24 loss at Soldier Field in which the Tampa Bay Buccaneers forced five turnovers and still lost on a walk-off field goal.
Despite a disappointing 3-6 record the Bucs are still in the thick of the division race in the downtrodden NFC South, which features all four teams with either 3-5 (Carolina and New Orleans) or 3-6 records (Tampa Bay and Atlanta).
The Buccaneers are 3-6 after a 27-24 loss at Chicago on Sunday night, and the bye week has left fans with one question: is the season over? Not quite. All four NFC South teams sit on three wins, and Tampa Bay is only a game out of the division lead.
The Kansas City Chiefs cleared two roster spots this week by waiving wide receiver and return specialist Nikko Remigio along with defensive end Jack Pyburn, the team announced.
The Bucs didn’t make a trade at the NFL trade deadline on Tuesday, but did make a roster move – and not just to their practice squad. Tampa Bay re-signed guard Luke Haggard to the practice squad and released running back Barika Kpeenu, but the team also cut veteran wide receiver David Sills V.
As much as the Bucs’ offense has struggled this season, running back Bucky Irving has been a bright spot for it as the best player in that unit. Year three has proved to be the best season yet for Irving.
Ahead of the season, Mayfield and the Buccaneers agreed to a three-year contract extension reportedly worth $165M. Tampa Bay will need him to start matching the value of that deal with his on-the-field play.
While Williams missed time earlier this fall due to a hamstring injury, he had tossed just a single pick over five games this season until Sunday's matchup got underway.
The Buccaneers notched back-to-back wins in Weeks 7 and 8 in games that featured quarterback Baker Mayfield not needing to do much in his return from the dislocated thumb on his throwing hand that he suffered in Week 3.
The Buccaneers once fell to 1-5 after QB Baker Mayfield suffered a dislocated thumb on his throwing hand during a Week 3 loss that dropped Tampa Bay to 0-3.