Todd Bowles took some heat for appearing to laugh after Chris Godwin’s season came to a premature end on Monday night.
Bowles and the Buccaneers lost their prime receiving options in the space of one game. Mike Evans aggravated a hamstring injury and is likely to miss time, while Godwin sustained a dislocated ankle and is done for 2024.
“We’re just trying to win the ballgame,” the head coach told reporters after being asked why the latter was on the field with the Bucs down by 10 with less than a minute to go. “We’re still down 10, trying to get extra points, kick another onside kick. It just happened.
“We’ve got our guys, we’re playing everybody we’ve got. It’s unfortunate he got hurt. We feel bad about that. But he’s a football player, and he wanted to be in the game just like Baker [Mayfield] and everybody else wanted to be in the game.”