Barstool's Own Coach Jon Gruden Unveiled The Buccaneers 2025 NFL Schedule And It Was Perfection

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Today was NFL schedule release day and every team has a fancy video. Some of which featuring the highest ranking Barstool people of all. But it was very fitting that going into their 50th NFL season, the Bucs brought back the best Coach in their storied history. Barstool employee Jon Gruden.

Looking at the schedule in list form, I have a couple thoughts.

We've got nine road games vs. just eight home games, but that'll happen every other year. Doing Monday Night Football in Week 2 isn't ideal. We don't have a home game til September 21st but we will get to use that Tampa Heat to our advantage with both Week 3 and 4 in the 1pm EST window. 

No division games after Week 1 until Week 8 and that game is on a short week. I do like the Week 9 bye. Anything in the middle of the season is good. The schedule softens up quite a bit beginning Week 13 we've got potentially six straight games to end the season against teams that did not make the playoffs in 2024. That is a pretty forgiving end to a season and could allow my Buccaneers to get hot going into the playoffs. My only gripe with that stretch is that they get Atlanta, who has the second best odds of winning the division on a short week on TNF, but luckily they play the week before too so we're in the same boat.

If the Bucs can start out 4-4 I think that'll end up being fine and they should be favored in four of those games. Then they have the bye and New England followed by at Buffalo and at the Rams. The Bills have the reigning MVP and Sean McVay has always given Todd Bowles problems so that Week 10 game against New England is huge coming off the bye. 

If they can win five of their final six games, we'd just need six wins in the first 11 games to pretty much guarantee a playoff berth. I'm confident the Buccaneers will have a great 50th season and pull through to win their fifth straight division title to even more firmly entrench themselves as one of the best franchises of the 2020s. Go Bucs!