The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a quality team right now, but it still feels different from the dominance the franchise showed over the past few years under Bruce Arians and Tom Brady.

Those offenses were truly something special, and they did a ton to prop up Bruce Arians and his legacy in the mind of NFL fans. However, one person that was closely connected to Brady and Arians did not escape that tenure with a good reputation; offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.

Leftwich went from being one of the hottest head coaching candidates in the NFL to out of the league after just one year without Arians, and it looks like Leftwich is going to have to hold off his return even longer after the Steelers have publicly spurned his attempts to help one of the worst offenses in the NFL.

If you ever feel like the Buccaneers are stagnating on offense, turn on a Steelers game for one drive (or, if you really like pain, watch the Bucs from last year). You probably won't feel as bad about the product in Tampa.

The Steelers look downright horrendous moving the football (23rd in passing yards, 28th in rushing yards, tied for last in total touchdowns).

Pittsburgh has one of the worst offenses in the NFL and a huge part of that stems from Matt Canada at offensive coordinator.

Canada leans on an extremely dull run game, a reluctance to pass early and often, and stays as far away from analytics as possible. Sound like anyone, Bucs fans?

The product has been so bad for a few weeks now that Steelers fans have been calling for Canada's job week-in and week-out, and coaches have started to take notice. 

Byron Leftwich, seeing an opening after Pitt fans tried to connect him with the OC job this past offseason, reportedly offered his services to the team he used to play for during his playing career.

The results were….humiliating.

#Steelers Insider @MarkKaboly says he's heard that Byron Leftwich has reached out to the Steelers about being an offensive consultant but that the Steelers are more or less "ignoring him."

— Adam Crowley (@_adamcrowley) October 9, 2023

This should tell the world everything it needs to know about the appeal for Leftwich as a coach.

If the Steelers, a team that is stuck in the 40s with its offensive approach, won't even entertain the idea of bringing in a guy that played a role in a Super Bowl win less than five years ago because he is too archaic in his tendencies, that should be a smack in the face that perhaps something isn't right.

It's hard to see Leftwich fall off in such a dramatic fashion, but the results simply weren't there.

While a story like this is surely hard for Leftwich's ego, hopefully this serves as a wakeup call and ends up leading to positive change in the way he calls games in the future.

Buccaneers fans should just appreciate what Dave Canales has been able to do with less talent than Leftwich ever had.

Buccaneers define themselves in dominant Week 4 win

You can’t argue with those results.