Pros And Cons Of Buccaneers Hiring New Oc Zac Robinson

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers person officially brought successful Zac Robinson to beryllium their caller violative coordinator, replacing OC Josh Grizzard aft a lackluster violative capacity successful 2025.

Robinson, antecedently pinch nan Atlanta Falcons complete nan past 2 years, brings playcalling acquisition and a akin strategy to Tampa Bay, but his offenses person besides had a fewer areas of interest during his clip successful Atlanta. As pinch immoderate hire, location are immoderate pros and cons to Todd Bowles' choice, and we'll break them down for you below:

Pro: He brings continuity

If you wanted continuity and a akin offense, Robinson was nan champion campaigner of nan bunch. Working pinch backmost Baker Mayfield successful 2022 pinch nan Los Angeles Rams, Robinson runs a akin discourtesy to nan 1 that Dave Canales, Liam Coen and Josh Grizzard person each tally successful Tampa Bay complete nan past 3 years. The terminology apt won't beryllium excessively different and nan concepts will beryllium very similar, making Robinson nan astir plug-and-play action of nan bunch.

Mayfield vouched for Robinson's hire, and it makes consciousness why. If Mayfield is comfortable, he plays amended football, and Robinson could put him connected way to shingle disconnected his dreadful extremity of nan twelvemonth successful 2025 and get him playing much for illustration he did passim each of 2024.

Con: He's a spot predictable

Robinson has had his tendencies complete his 2 years successful Atlanta, and he's uncommon to break them.

Falcons fans will show you each astir really often Robinson ran nan pistol, and they're right. He ran it astir 40% of nan clip successful some years arsenic a Falcons OC — among nan highest successful nan NFL — and his playcalling usage was mostly predictable successful those formations. He ran 67.9% of nan clip successful nan pistol successful 2024 and 69% of nan clip successful 2025, per SumerSports, showing that he was heavy committed to nan tally successful a statement he utilized rather frequently.

It gets worse crossed different formations. The Falcons passed connected 87% of their shotgun plays and ran astir 75% of their plays nether center, showing a chopped deficiency of mix-ups successful Robinson's playcalling tendencies. If Robinson wants to tally a successful discourtesy successful Tampa Bay, he'll person to break things up a spot more.

Pro: He has much to activity pinch astatine QB successful Tampa Bay

Robinson's backmost play successful Atlanta complete his 2 years location wasn't great. He sewage Kirk Cousins disconnected an Achilles tear successful 2024, rendering him mostly immobile, and he had to woody pinch Michael Penix Jr. successful his rookie play pinch akin mobility problems aft a batch of injuries during his assemblage career. These limitations arguably hampered Robinson rather a bit, limiting under-center plays owed to Cousins' mobility and Penix's inexperience.

Mayfield, however, tin move good and has acquisition moving nether center, too. In theory, he should unfastened up nan playbook for Robinson and tin tally a much modern NFL scheme, which could create those mixups Robinson is looking for. Mayfield's play successful 2023-4 and astatine nan opening of 2025 was amended than thing Robinson sewage successful Atlanta, truthful he could tally a much successful discourtesy arsenic a result.

Con: His 3rd down crippled needs work

The Atlanta Falcons were 10th successful reddish area scoring but conscionable 23rd successful points per crippled astatine 20.8 successful 2025. How could that be? Because they were conscionable 30th successful 3rd down conversion rate.

His short-yardage prowess peculiarly needs work. He went pinch nan tally connected 75.0% of short yardage plays complete 2 years successful Atlanta (three yards aliases little for a first down aliases touchdown), but had a -0.15 EPA/play connected those plays and converted 65% of nan time. He passed overmuch little connected these downs, but was measurement much successful, converting connected 70.8% of attempts and netting a +0.40 EPA/play. He utilized nan pistol nan astir successful these situations successful 2024 (38.7% of nan time) and nan 2nd astir successful 2025 (35.4% of nan time), but he had a antagonistic EPA successful that statement some years (-0.21, -0.08).

His inclination to instrumentality pinch what he likes, sloppy of whether aliases not it is working, is thing he'll person to activity connected successful Tampa Bay, because it caused his drives to stall retired earlier nan reddish area often successful Atlanta.

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