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By Tyler Erzberger
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles hates losing. He really hates losing to his NFC South rival, the Atlanta Falcons.
And Bowles might be the angriest man on the planet following his team's loss to the Falcons in the final seconds of a game that the Buccaneers believed they won just seconds prior.
In Bowles’ post-game interview after the Falcons' comeback victory, he didn’t hold back. In an expletive-ridden rant, Bowles went off on his team, his players, his staff, and most importantly, himself, for letting a 3-9 Falcons team beat them at home in a game they needed to win.
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“It’s inexcusable,” Bowles said when asked what he was going to tell the team in the locker room after such a heartbreaking defeat. “You don’t make excuses. You have to [expletive] care enough where this [expletive] hurts. It's got to [expletive] mean something to you. It's more than a job; it's your [expletive] livelihood. ... You can't sugarcoat that [expletive], it was [expletive] inexcusable. And there's no [expletive] answer for it; there's no excuse for it. That's what you tell them."
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It was a game where the Falcons were backed up in their own half of the field with no timeouts and the clock ticking down in an impossible third-and-forever down.
But the Bucs’ safety played too far off the receiver, and the corner played too forward, leaving veteran Kirk Cousins an easy completion to turn a lost game into a thunderous comeback for a Falcons side that needed some hope.
The Buccaneers drop to 7-7 with three games left in the season, and the Carolina Panthers miraculously lead the division. The two teams will play each other twice in the last three weeks, and now the onus is on Tampa not only to split the series but, most likely, to sweep both games to make the postseason after starting 2025 looking like one of the NFL’s top teams.
For Bowles, whose seat was already getting warm, is now fully on the hot seat following his team’s implosion in the final minutes, poor timeout management, and his breakdown in the post-game presser.
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