Buccaneers
Buccaneers HC Todd Bowles told his team to “look in the mirror” after blowing a two-touchdown lead and losing to the Falcons by one point.
“You don’t make excuses,” Bowles said, via ESPN. “You got to f—ing care enough where the s— hurts. It’s got to f—ing mean something to you. It’s more than a job. It’s your f—ing livelihood. How well do you know your job? How well can you do your job? You can’t sugarcoat that s—. At this point, you’ve seen everything in the season. The coaches have done everything they can do. This is a player-driven team in the last four or five weeks. You’ve got to execute, and they’ve got to hold each other accountable. As a coach, you can sit there until you’re blue in the face. Until they start holding each other accountable and doing the little things right — and that’s not everybody, you know, we’re talking about a small, select few. But the small, select few is what’s getting us beat. And until that happens, it’s not going to get right.”
“This one is going to haunt me. It falls on my shoulders,” QB Baker Mayfield said. “It’s not the defense’s fault. It’s my fault.”
