The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are out of the playoffs after a Monday night loss to Dallas and are already turning their attention to 2023. That business, which is not always enjoyable, begin on Thursday when the team parted ways with six assistant coaches, including offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. Three other assistants elected to retire.
There is plenty for General Manager Jason Licht, Head Coach Todd Bowles and their respective staffs to do in the weeks and months ahead as they try to position the Buccaneers for another playoff run in 2023. Soon we’ll be talking about the Combine, free agency, the draft and OTAs.
Still, this weekly mailbag intro is often about looking back, and I’m going to do that again today. In the aforementioned loss to Dallas on Monday night, two Buccaneers set new single-game franchise records for the postseason. Tom Brady threw 66 passes, not only the most ever by a Buc QB in a playoff game but the second most ever by any QB in a playoff game. And Chris Godwin hauled in 10 passes against the Cowboys, breaking the Bucs’ old record of nine. Godwin now owns the team’s single-game records for catches in both the regular season and the postseason, having snagged 15 passes in a game in Atlanta on Dec. 5 of 2021.
So I thought, I would look up a bunch of other single-game records for the Bucs in the postseason and share them here, with some context of the season and game in which they occurred.
Most Pass Attempts: 66 by Tom Brady, vs. Dallas, Jan. 16, 2023
Most Completions: 35 Tom Brady, vs. Dallas, Jan. 16, 2023
Most Passing Yards: 381 by Tom Brady, at Washington, Jan. 9, 2021
Most Touchdown Passes: 3 by Tom Brady, at Green Bay, Jan. 23, 2021 and vs. Kansas City, Feb. 7, 2021
Most Times Sacked: 5 by Shaun King, at St. Louis, Jan. 23, 2000
Most Interceptions Thrown: 4 by Brad Johnson, at Philadelphia, Jan. 12, 2002 and by Doug Williams, at Dallas, Jan. 2, 1982
Longest Completion: 75 by Doug Williams to Jimmie Giles, Jan. 2, 1982
Not surprisingly, the big counting numbers all belong to Tom Brady, who is playing in a much more prolific passing era than did, say, Doug Williams or even Brad Johnson. Also, Brady now has seven postseason starts as a Buccaneer, easily the most of any quarterback. Williams had four, Trent Dilfer had two, Shaun King had three, Johnson had four, Chris Simms had one and Jeff Garcia had one. The five sacks that King absorbed in St. Louis were part of that unforgettable NFC Championship Game in which the Bucs deflated The…
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