Joe still gets a kick out of the following, and it just goes to show how folks perceive things differently.
Last year Joe referred to the Bucs’ offense as dink-and-dunk. And it was. The Bucs rarely threw the ball farther than 20 yards downfield.
But Joe also added in the very same article that the offense was working and working really well, so how could one knock the results? Well, that didn’t go over so well with then-Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen who scoffed at Joe in a press conference for the dink-and-dunk reference.
But the offense was working!
Well, here is still another piece of evidence that Coen was running a dink-and-dunk offense. Only once since 2018 has a quarterback thrown for more passing yards by completing passes behind the line of scrimmage than what Baker Mayfield did last year.
Per NextGen Stats, Mayfield had 967 yards passing from completed behind the line of scrimmage. Only Pat Mahomes has had more since the start of the 2018 season. That came in 2021.
In fact, every season but last year since the start of 2018 Mahomes has led the NFL in passing yards on completed passes behind the line.
Joe doesn’t know how anyone could disagree the Bucs didn’t have a dink-and-dunk offense in 2024. And Joe also doesn’t know how anyone could disagree the Bucs offense was potent.
Add in the knowledge that Mayfield had a career year, maybe a short-passing offense suits his skillset best?
