Empty Yardage
November 11th, 2018
It was a fourth 400-yard day for Ryan Fitzpatrick and his second consecutive loss in those games.
The Bucs are really good at yards and really bad at points. As Todd Monken would say, “They choose to suck” when it counts.
Today, your Buccaneers cranked out more than 500 yards of offense. Five freakin’ hundred yards. And they scored three points. That’s got to be a modern day record and another mind-numbing black mark on this train wreck Bucs season.
Five different pass catchers had 50 or more yards today. Jacquizz Rodgers had a 102; Chris Godwin led the way with 103.
Joe would take boring, mistake-free Alex Smith over the Bucs’ tantalizing mess any day of the week.
Lots of foreplay and very little finish, that’s been our beloved Bucs for two seasons now,
It’s coaching. It’s desire. It’s 19 freakin’ interceptions in nine games. That’s a ridiculous pace rivaling the 36 interceptions thrown by the bumbling 1988 Bucs.
And they fumble. And the drops have come back to Mike Evans.
Empty-yardage teams surely would benefit from a good kicker, but the Bucs don’t have one of those either.
All they have is numbers, numbers that will get a lot men fired in seven weeks.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:20 pm
The buccaneers refused to join the modern NFL. Outdated offensive scheme that puts too much pressure on the offensive line and quarterbacks. It produces yards, but not points. Turnovers tend to cancel out touchdowns. Defensive scheme fails to account for the modern, short passing game. It requires pressure from the front four with stunts that take too long to develop. The ball is out by the time the pressure arrives and our soft, slow, physical cornersplay too far off the line of scrimmage to disrupt what turn out to be easy pitches and catches.
Our coaching staff is too stubborn and stuck in its way to adapt. As a result, we are an analog team in a digital world.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:20 pm
.006 points per yard. I would bet the mortgage that is an all time NFL RECORD.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:25 pm
I’m glad Winston is not playing while everything is unraveling. Can’t be his fault this time.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:26 pm
Sick and tired of being sick and tired of this mess
November 11th, 2018 at 5:32 pm
Bculaw, that was a brilliant post. I saw a game with Kansas City and they said Andy Reed told them the future of NFL defense and QB pressure is up the middle because the ball comes out too quickly for edge rushers to have the impact they used to.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:35 pm
Fitz ain’t it!!!
November 11th, 2018 at 5:39 pm
The Bucs are officially in 4th place in the NFC South
In wins and points scored
November 11th, 2018 at 5:42 pm
Pure nutts. Any other team including the Browns would not be suffering through this crap.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:46 pm
If fans thought the Bucs would contend in this home game then this game was an eye opener to wash those thoughts away. The Bucs were in range to pull off a win for most of the game but came up empty looking like a clueless poorly coached team who can’t get out of their own way.
November 11th, 2018 at 5:47 pm
Browns GM fires the head coach for being incompetent…. Browns play their best game of the year. Losing starts from the top
November 11th, 2018 at 6:23 pm
FitzTragic is a home run hitter
But he can’t get the run home with a single
November 11th, 2018 at 6:51 pm
You know it’s a Bucs life when your garbage D finally holds at team under 21 pts and your record breaking offense decides to completely shart the bed lmao
the Bucs are trolling us, right? They read our anguished comments out in team meetings, laugh they azzes off and then hunker down to come up with even more elaborate and impossible ways to fail.
IS JOE IN ON THIS CONSPIRACY?!?
November 11th, 2018 at 7:28 pm
See the Suck.
Feel the Suck.
Embrace the Suck.
It’s a Sucks Life@
November 11th, 2018 at 8:54 pm
Its not about the turnovers, they are a distraction. The scheme is the problem. Once the league adjusted to Fitz going vertical, it pretty much ended.
Koetter’s base scheme doesn’t work in the red zone when the field gets condensed. Vert scheme + no running game = no success.
November 12th, 2018 at 7:47 am
The Bucs are officially the worst team ever
November 12th, 2018 at 8:03 am
Koetter will take the fall….That’s how the NFL operates but I don’t blame him for being saddled with this mess. Koetter didn’t build the defense that is now on its FOURTH COORDINATOR in five years…..Koetter didn’t pick Winston who gets himself suspended and benched in one season. Koetter didn’t pick all these different kickers who routinely fail. Koetter didn’t blow draft picks in rds 1-3 on players that aren’t even in the league anymore. Koetter has built a top performing offense with garbage at QB….a middle of the road offensive line….and no talent at RB.
Koetter will find work as a coordinator…immediately. As will Monken.
November 12th, 2018 at 8:39 am
Bobby M., Youre right Light is equally as bad. BUT, Koetter does choose to have his average route more than 12 yards. He does choose to pass 50 times a game and abandon the run game. He chose to keep Mike Smith. He displayed very poor leadership starting in training camp by saying he doesn’t know who will start when Jameis is back. Compounds bad decision by pulling Fitz in Chicago and outting unprepared Jameis in. Poor Leadership is why both Koetter and Light willl be gone. They choose the 53 together and they allow Smith and Warhop to stick around too. BAD, BAD, BAD. More games have been lost because of poor leadership than Jameis’ interceptions, including Jameis’ own poor leadership from that incident 3 YEARS AGO. (Not recently)