Bucs' Bowles: 'Grinding' for Division Title

0:00It's March 31st. Welcome in. This is NFL News today, where football meets AI. Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles is keeping a real about his squad. He says they're not quite as hot as that 6-2 start last season when they drop 38 on the Super Bowl champs in Seattle and 30 on, the 49ers at home. But there no way as rough as that 2-7 finish against losing teams. Bottom line, he feels they've got a solid football team ready to grind. Now, after scraping an 8-9 record and losing the NFC South on a tiebreaker to Carolina, no team in the division even hit 500 in the Bucks. Got to step up offensively. They ranked 16th in scoring last year, and with Mike Evans bolting to San Francisco on a 3-year 60-million dollar deal after 12 years. As their top receiver, it's a big shift. Bowles knows the sting of losing leaders like Evans and Linebacker Lavante David, who was there 14 years. That duo guided the locker room on and off the field.

1:02Mentalities got a change. New folks stepping up, but he's confident they can reclaim the division. On offense, they swap coordinators again. Ditched first-year guy Josh Grizzard brought in Zach Robinson with two years running Atlanta's attack. Bowles likes his experience after facing the Falcons lately, says his game plans and fit with the receiver's screen potential, even without Evans. Defensively, losing David heard deep and cornered Jamel Dean's gone too, signing 3-year 36.75 million with Pittsburgh after. Seven years. Bowles amidst they need one or two more corners, vet or draft pick, still rebuilding smart could get these bucks back on top.