The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense has been a disaster this year. I am not going to mince words; it has been awful. The hard things for a defense to achieve have been an issue just as much as the small things.
Mastering those small things, though, could make the big things easier. Todd Bowles has identified the issue he hopes the team can address after the Bye Week.
“We definitely have to tackle better. We have spurts where we play well. [In] the second half, I didn’t think we tackled better at all. Again, coaches and players – we have our coaches, we have our players – we have to get out of this jam. We got ourselves in it, we have to get out of it. We show good spots and then we make an error and it comes up. . .”
Todd Bowles needs the defense, the unit he leads and specializes in, to be better. Plain and simple, this defense is a hindrance to a great offense that can score 30+ points a game but struggles not to give up more.
Perhaps tackling is the key, but we will have to wait and see if that fixes things.