By Rick Stroud
Tampa Bay Occasions
TAMPA — 4 consecutive NFC South titles earned the Bucs no less than 4 prime-time video games in the course of the 2025 season, in keeping with the NFL schedule launched Wednesday.
Regardless of their run of success within the division, the Bucs had been swept final 12 months by the Falcons.
They gained’t have to attend lengthy to avenge these defeats. Tampa Bay will open the season on Sunday, Sept. 7, at Atlanta.
The subsequent week, the Bucs will play at Houston on Monday Night time Soccer, marking the primary time they’ll start a season with back-to-back street video games since 2022 after they began at Dallas and at New Orleans, profitable each.
The Bucs’ house opener will come towards the Jets in Week 3. The subsequent week, the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Eagles will go to Raymond James Stadium for a 1 p.m. recreation on Sept. 28.
It’s the fifth time since 2022 the Bucs will host the Eagles, together with an NFC wild-card recreation that Tampa Bay gained 32-9 in January 2024. The Eagles have visited the Bucs three consecutive Septembers.
For the fifth time since 2019, together with a division-round recreation in January 2024, the Bucs will play the Lions in Detroit, this time on Monday, Oct. 20.
The Bucs will journey to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, for the second straight 12 months, this time to play the Rams Nov. 23 on Sunday Night time Soccer.
The Bucs wrap up their scheduled prime-time video games by internet hosting the Falcons in a homecoming of types for former Tampa Bay Tech quarterback Michael Penix Jr. on Thursday, Dec. 11.
Not less than the Bucs shall be house for the vacations, regardless of hypothesis on the contrary.
5 of their first eight video games shall be on the street earlier than a really advantageous and well-placed bye in Week 9.
After their recreation towards the Rams, the Bucs gained’t enterprise any any farther from Tampa than Carolina.
They’ll end by taking part in the Panthers twice in three weeks — at Carolina Dec. 21 and within the house finale on Jan. 3 or 4. Sandwiched between these video games is one towards the Dolphins Dec. 28 in Miami.
The Bucs have reached the postseason 5 consecutive years, the longest playoff run within the NFC.
However since capping the 2020 season by profitable Tremendous Bowl 55 with Tom Brady, Tampa Bay has didn’t advance previous the wild-card spherical twice in 4 seasons.
Coach Todd Bowles mentioned in March he hopes his crew can keep away from the October swoon that has plagued it the previous two seasons. After posting back-to-back 3-1 begins, the Bucs misplaced 5 of their subsequent six video games in 2023 and ’24 earlier than scrambling to succeed in the postseason.
“I really feel good that we all know how you can win,” Bowles mentioned. “I don’t be ok with us ending the season from a playoff side, and the center of the season having a drought two years in a row.
“We’ve acquired to be higher than that from a training standpoint, from veterans holding all people accountable — which they do — however we’ve acquired to do much more of that. We’ve acquired to play — not even higher soccer ultimately — however we’ve acquired to have a killer intuition, and we’ve acquired to attempt to blow folks out and attempt to win a division as a substitute of it taking place to the previous couple of weeks.”
The Bucs will host the Titans and Payments and play on the Steelers within the preseason. Dates and occasions have but to be introduced.
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2025 Bucs schedule
Preseason video games
Dates, occasions TBD: vs. Titans, at Steelers, vs. Payments (NBC)
Common season
Sept. 7: at Falcons, 1 p.m. (Fox)
Sept. 15 (Monday): at Texans, 7 (ABC)
Sept. 21: vs. Jets, 1 (Fox)
Sept. 28: vs. Eagles, 1 (Fox)
Oct. 5: at Seahawks, 4:05 (CBS)
Oct. 12: vs. 49ers, 1 (CBS)
Oct. 20 (Monday): at Lions, 7 (ESPN)
Oct. 26: at Saints, 4:05 (Fox)
Bye week
Nov. 9: vs. Patriots, 1 (CBS)
Nov. 16: at Payments, 1 (CBS)
Nov. 23: at Rams, 8:20 (NBC)
Nov. 30: vs. Cardinals, 1 (Fox)
Dec. 7: vs. Saints, 1 (CBS)
Dec. 11 (Thursday): vs. Falcons, 8:15 (Prime)
Dec. 21: at Panthers, 4:30 (Fox)
Dec. 28: at Dolphins, 1 (Fox)
Jan. 3 or 4: vs. Panthers, TBD (TBD)
