""You don't make excuses," Bowles said in an expletive-laden reaction. "You got to f---ing care enough where the s--- hurts. It's got to f---ing mean something to you. It's more than a job. It's your f---ing livelihood. How well do you know your job? How well can you do your job? You can't sugarcoat that s---.""
""The coaches have done everything they can do. This is a player-driven team in the last four or five weeks. You've got to execute, and they've got to hold each other accountable. As a coach you can sit there until you're blue in the face. Until they start holding each other accountable and doing the little things right. -- and that's not everybody, you know, we're talking about a small, select few. But the small, select few is what's getting us beat.""
The Buccaneers blew a 14-point fourth-quarter lead and lost 29-28 to the Atlanta Falcons at Raymond James Stadium. The loss was Tampa Bay's fifth in six games, dropping the team to 7-7 and a half-game behind Carolina in the NFC South. After Bijan Robinson's touchdown, Baker Mayfield threw an interception to Dee Alford that led to Atlanta's go-ahead drive. On the final drive, Kirk Cousins converted critical third-and-28 and fourth-and-14 completions to set up Zane Gonzalez's 43-yard field goal as time expired. Coach Todd Bowles blasted players with expletives and demanded accountability and execution from a select few he blamed for the collapse.
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