2025 season
Benchmarks:
Roster Rating – 72 (11th) <-- wow
Cohesion – 62-65-61-61 (bottom quartile in all, but not dead last in anything)
My predictions:
Chester Caruso posts roughly 25 TD and 15 Int
Our pass rush elevates to being above league average, maybe a PR% of 22
We post 7 wins and actually look like a pretty competitive team
Season narrative:
We start off with two close games, a 1-1 split, but with Caruso posting 5 TDs to zero picks. We get to 3-2, but lose WR Czyz to a knee injury – just for a few weeks, fortunately. At the halfway point, we are a solid 4-4, and our controlled passing gameplan is working really just the way we wanted it to – not prolific yardage, but we’re moving the chains pretty well.
When we get to 7-5, it is time to start thinking about the playoffs. And at 9-5, it’s time to start thinking about playoff seeding. We have a 2-game lead in our weak division, but almost no shot at a bye week. Regardless, the managed-pass offense is treating us very well in terms of keeping games in check, not so much for generating big stats (WR Hevey’s on target to land under 1,00 yards, after approaching 1,600 last season).
We slip up and lose our last two games – that drops us to 9-7 on the season, but that’s still good enough to crown ourselves division champs. Here’s the regular season summary:
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Front Office Football 2007
2025 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Year 2025
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 130-190
Winning Pct. .406
Playoffs 0-2
Playoff Visits 3
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. Z. Huntley
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 29.3 8
Rushing Yards 125.3 7
Yards Per Carry 4.28 7
Pass Attempts 32.6 21
Completions 23.3 4
Completion Pct. 71.6 1
Passing Yards 219.7 22
Yards Per Attempt 6.75 20 (T)
Yards Per Catch 9.42 31
Total Yardage Gained 333.6 12
3rd Down Conversions 47.6 1 (T)
Points Per Game 19.6 23
Pass Rush Pct. 19.3 22 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 38.6 28
Turnovers 17 3
Turnover Margin +11 4
Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.9 21
Rushing Yards 103.1 8
Yards Per Carry 3.69 3
Pass Attempts 29.4 1 (T)
Completions 19.8 9
Completion Pct. 67.3 30
Passing Yards 223.6 14 (T)
Yards Per Attempt 7.60 30
Yards Per Catch 11.29 19
Total Yardage Gained 310.8 10
3rd Down Conversions 41.8 23
Points Per Game 20.7 12 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 15.1 1
Pass Defense Pct. 27.1 1
Turnovers 28 16 (T)
Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 24 at ATL 27
2 23 MIA 20
3 7 GBY 37
4 20 ARI 0
5 24 SFO 10
6 23 at STL 31
8 17 at SEA 7
9 14 at NOS 28
10 27 ATL 21
11 24 at CAR 35
12 24 at NYJ 20
13 23 at DAL 10
14 16 BUF 10
15 16 CAR 13
16 3 at NED 31
17 29 NOS 31
$$WC SEA
Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
14 C. Caruso QB 499 363 3373 6.76 19 7 97.7
**Team --- 521 373 3515 6.75 21 8 96.9
$$Opp --- 471 317 3578 7.60 26 16 94.1
Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
39 R. Everett RB 211 970 4.60 7 5
35 A. Newton RB 112 461 4.12 2 3
24 T. Reed RB 82 321 3.91 0 3
14 C. Caruso QB 53 222 4.19 1 6
**Team --- 469 2005 4.28 10 29
$$Opp --- 447 1650 3.69 12 25
Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 98 71 718 10.11 7.33 2 6
81 M. Hevey WR 90 63 719 11.41 7.99 2 0
18 W. Dickens WR 72 48 591 12.31 8.21 5 1
89 K. Lindsay WR 67 46 459 9.98 6.85 5 6
43 K. Raven FB 38 29 144 4.97 3.79 3 2
39 R. Everett RB 25 22 113 5.14 4.52 1 1
24 T. Reed RB 19 18 142 7.89 7.47 0 2
37 P. Copeland TE 21 18 123 6.83 5.86 0 1
83 J. Deberry WR 32 17 261 15.35 8.16 1 2
82 C. Kanell TE 26 17 95 5.59 3.65 0 0
Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
34 R. Fritz S 80 29 1.0 0 1 5 75.7
51 D. Leal OLB 79 29 3.0 1 1 3 72.5
95 D. Winfield ILB 77 34 2.0 1 1 1 77.1
25 P. Woods S 71 32 0.0 0 1 2 75.9
48 B. Shea CB 60 10 0.0 0 8 8 80.4
98 A. Ingram DE 53 18 8.5 9 0 0 82.0
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 51 6 0.0 1 2 7 72.4
91 M. Busby DT 42 17 5.5 7 0 1 82.8
99 B. Bolsins DE 42 16 5.5 8 0 0 81.9
93 G. Wilkerson OLB 38 20 9.0 23 0 0 79.1
40 L. Sawyer CB 31 14 0.0 0 0 0 71.0
94 M. Quinn ILB 28 11 0.0 2 2 2 84.3
59 D. Mathews ILB 28 11 0.0 0 0 0 74.2
90 A. Wilkerson DT 19 17 2.5 1 0 0 81.8
36 T. Kaplan S 17 9 0.0 0 0 1 74.2
Well, we fell short of my two stat predictions – we were a bit less effective with the passing game that I had hoped, especially in the late season (when Deberry got hurt). We’ll take a 98 passer rating overall, but I think we should be looking for bigger numbers in the pass attack all things considered – 3600 yards isn’t very eye-opening.
The defense was okay, but giving up 7.6 yards per pass attempt means we really have work to do. The pass rush just isn’t there yet, despite some pretty solid talent at the DE slots. We’re not generating a lot of hurries to go with a fair number of sacks. Wilkerson was good at the rushbacker slot, but overall we fell short of my hopes there. CB Shea has juicy red bars, but might not have the killer instinct – two pretty pedestrian seasons from him.
Postseason Narrative:
In the postseason, we manage to crush our opening opponents 27-6 to advance to the divisional round, but we then have a flu outbreak and have about 15 players questionable. WE play a tough game at the Giants, but lose when our late possession gets us into territory to set up a late FG to take the lead, but instead our WR fumbles, they take over, and they make the late drive for the go-ahead FG instead to win 20-17. Alas.
The Giants go on to win the championship with pretty easy wins in their final two games. We gave them their toughest matchup of the playoffs.
We are left out of the season awards again this year.
With our late season renegotiation, I decide that it makes the most sense to offer a new deal to CB Kemnitzer. Yes, this leaves us potentially without QB Caruso next year, but Kemnitzer was going to be without a contract, too, and he looks to me like the real thing. I like not feeling like I have any worry at CB, and Shea and Kemnitzer give me that feeling. Hopefully they will begin earning their fat paychecks before too long as well.