Bucs' Todd Bowles Outlines Bye Week Plan

The bye week has perhaps come at the right time for the injury-riddled Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with Todd Bowles' team desperately needing a breather.

Having put their best foot forward dealing with a host of injuries, namely to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, but others in Tristan Wirfs, Luke Goedeke, Antoine Winfield, Trey Palmer, Jalen McMillan, and Calijah Kancey have also missed time, and the team has suffered.

Sitting at 4-6 and on a four-game losing streak, the bye is the right time for Bowles and his staff to assess what went right and what didn't in the first half of the season.

But what are Bowles' plans for the entire bye week?

"Trying to get everybody healthy, to recalibrate," Bowles said. "We'll get some guys healthy hopefully some guys that are playing bang up, hopefully they get healthy. Get to recalibrate, step back, look at everything as coaches we'll self-scout, and we'll come up with better plans. We'll do some things to get ready for the stretch run." 

The Buccaneers could consider themselves unfortunate to be at 4-6 with three of their four losses being by one score, and when we add in that one was in overtime and they didn't get the ball back, while the other was a walk-off field goal against the San Francisco 49ers, it is small margins.

But that is life in the NFL, and unfortunately, the Buccaneers have been on the wrong side of the ledger far too often this season.

However, being in such a position in games with the mounting injury list is positive, and as Bowles stated, hopefully, the bye week will allow the roster to heal, and the team can get some of its injured pieces back as they look to make a playoff run.