One of the goals that the Buccaneers and general manager Jason Licht set out to accomplish this offseason was improving the team’s pass rush. While Tampa Bay’s pressure rate and sack total at the end of the year were actually good, they also had the third highest blitz percentage in the league and blitzed the second most in the league. That is largely due to the team’s inability to get home with just four guys.
Whenever a team has to blitz just to be able to get pressure as much as the Bucs did in 2024, it leaves the secondary exposed and the potential to give up big plays through the air certainly rises.