If you ask most fans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to answer you right now, they'd probably say that Todd Bowles should be done in Tampa as the head coach.

The past month has been pretty hard to overlook, and the overall product of the last two seasons has been pretty disappointing.

While this writer would agree that Bowles should get the boot, there are some clear paths forward for Bowles to save his job, even if the odds of these happening are pretty bleak.

The most obvious way for Bowles to turn things around is simply winning games, but this is easier said than done.

The recent loss against the Texans shows that Tampa shouldn't be favored over any team in the league for quite some time.

Still, the remaining schedule for the Bucs (especially in a weak NFC South) should open the door for a run at .500 and the top spot in the division.

This may not be what is best for the Buccaneers in the long run, but it does seem like making the playoffs as the four seed would go a long way to keeping the front office happy.

Another way for Bowles to save his job is a move that would help with the above idea; benching players that are performing poorly.

That list should absolutely start with Ke'Shawn Vaughn and Ryan Neal. Both players have been almost impossibly-bad for most of the year, and every game that Bowles brings both out for any length of time begs questions about his ability to evaluate talent.

The last thing that Bowles can do might yield the quickest results; admit that his approach to building a team (specifically on offense) is bad. 

A team that wants to run the football and play defense is not going to work well in the modern NFL. The pass is king, yet Bowles has done everything in his power to avoid analytics, throwing the ball, and modernizing his approach to football.

If Bowles really wants to win, he should hire a numbers guy that can evaluate what works and where on the field, put them with Dave Canales, take the handcuffs off, and then let the offense naturally evolve into what actually works in the NFL (throw the damn ball!!!)

Most of these are pretty doable. Bowles actually doing them to save his job just seems out of the question. Sadly, that is why he isn't long for this job.

Buccaneers have no choice with Todd Bowles

The Buccaneers can’t let this go on.