Former Bucs DT Suh Outlines Winning Super Bowl LV Gameplan

While the current Tampa Bay Buccaneers certainly have a long way to go before having Super Bowl aspirations this season, the Krewe has not been long removed from postseason success.

In 2021, Bucs quarterback Tom Brady won his legendary seventh NFL Super Bowl, leading Tampa Bay to a second championship in franchise history.

In what turned out to be a dominant postseason effort, Brady used his recruiting powers to build one of the best rosters in NFL history, with current and future Hall-of-Famers littered throughout the offense and defense.

13-year defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is one of the more-notable players who joined Brady's hunt for a Super Bowl, recording 44 tackles and six sacks en route to lifting the Lombardi Trophy.

On Wednesday, Suh joined the High Peformance podcast, where he talked about the run through the postseason, and the adjustment the defense made heading into the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs.

"Going into the championship game, Super Bowl against Kansas City, and having played them earlier in that year, and they just came in, in Tampa and destroyed us," Suh said. "They ran through us."

While "destroyed" is certainly tough lingo for a 27-24 loss, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes did dominate the Bucs through the air, throwing for 462 yards and three touchdowns, while completing 37-of-49 passing attempts.

Suh had a good game, recording five tackles, including one for loss, but it wasn't enough to come out with the victory.

On the podcast, Suh explained that he "begged" then-defensive coordinator Todd Bowles to make some adjustments to his gameplan heading into the big game, noting the advantages that Tampa Bay had in the front seven.

"I told him [Bowles] and I was like, ‘Hey man, we're watching film. I'm looking at these different things. This this offensive line as a whole has no chance against our defensive line. Put all the pressure on us up front in the front seven of our defense because we have a young back group, back end of guys from DBs, our corners and our safeties.'"

Suh explained that now head coach Todd Bowles said he would look into it, eventually opting to trust his veteran defensive tackle, and lean on the strengths of his defensive line.

Of course, it paid off, with the Bucs defense holding Mahomes and the Chiefs out of the end zone, and cruising to a 31-9 victory in Super Bowl LV.

Once again, Suh led the way, recording 1.5 sacks in a 3-sack total effort for the Tampa Bay front seven.

"And so being able to have a coach that was willing to change and adapt to some different things to understand what's best for the team, I think was key, but then also us being able to execute," Suh said.

The combination of Bowles leaning on his veterans, and Suh coming through on the field resulted in one of the most one-sided Super Bowl victories of all time.