After beating the Philadelphia Eagles to advance in the NFL Playoffs, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will now take on the Detroit Lions in the Divisional Round of the playoffs this week – a team they lost to 20-6 during the regular season. But head coach Todd Bowles thinks they’ve grown since that early-season loss.
During a press conference this week, Todd Bowles claimed that Tampa Bay is now “a different team” than it was when the Buccaneers lost to the Lions previously.
“We were where we were at that time of the year,” Bowles said according to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. “I don’t wish we would’ve done anything different or we wouldn’t have learned from it. They’re a very good team. They’re coached very well. Very fast, very physical. An electric crowd is going to be up there. Wish we hadn’t done anything different, but we’ve got to learn from it. Any of our losses, for that matter. We’re a different team now. We’re mentally tougher. I think we’ve gotten stronger from it, and we learned some things. We’re still piecing it together, but we’re happy where we’re at.”
We’ll have to see whether or not that proves to be true for the Buccaneers.
