Sad result.

Joe always thought Todd Bowles was a really good defensive coordinator. He’s not bad, but after last night Joe can’t rank him among the best in the game.

Good defensive coordinators don’t get lit for 500 passing yards. The problem is that this is the second time this has happened to Bowles in his Bucs time.

Last night, the one-legged Kirk Cousins ​​torched Bowles for 509 yards. Cousins ​​tied with Vince Ferragamo for 15th place on the list of most passing yards in a game.

In 2019, when Bowles had better talent to work with than he currently has (he had Jason Pierre-Paul, Ndamukong Suh, Vita Vea and Shaq Barrett in his 19.5-sack season, as well as Lavonte David and Devin White in their prime), Bowles’ defense was buoyed by Jared Goff and the Los Angeles Rams.

Joe was at the famous, historic Los Angeles Coliseum when Goff torched the Bowles defense for 517 yards in a shootout with America’s quarterback Jameis Winston. The terrible defensive performance was swept under the rug by a 55-40 win for the Bucs.

Goff’s day against Bowles’ defense was the ninth-most passing yards recorded in a game.

(A 500-yard passing blitzkrieg also occurred for Bowles when he was interim coach/assistant head coach/secondary assistant with the Dolphins in 2011, when Tom Brady also torched the Dolphins for 517 yards.)

So in the 104-year-old NFL, of the 25 games in which a quarterback threw for 500 or more yards, Bowles is partially responsible for one and directly responsible for two more. In other words, Bowles played a big role in 12 percent of those 25 games.

That doesn’t happen to good defensive coaches.

Ironically, a 500-yard passing game is not uncommon in the Bucs’ post-Chucky era. It happened four times.

The first came in Week 2 of the 2012 season when former Bucs commander Greg Schiano and Eli Manning’s Bucs were cornered for 510 yards of passing.

Four years later it was Mike Smith’s turn. Derek Carr and the Raiders destroyed the Bucs for 513 yards.

So over the last 12 seasons, the Bucs defense has been outplayed for 500 or more passing yards four times.