Bruce Arians: “If You’re Up There Too Much, You’re Either Too Dumb To Play Here Or You Don’t Give A Sh*t.”
January 10th, 2019
Joe had one very specific question ready for Bucco Bruce Arians when the new Tampa Bay head coach sat down with Joe and other media away from the TV and team cameras today.
And Joe got one helluva an answer.
Here’s the exchange:
JoeBucsFan.com: Coach, do you have a general way that you handle, if you’re watching film after a game, and you see a guy who took maybe a couple of plays off or didn’t play to the whistle, is there a way you handle that with everybody?
Bruce Arians: Yeah, I’ll show it up on film and ask him what he’s doing in front of the team. I don’t have a problem with that. If you can’t play hard, you can’t play here. That’s not acceptable. We’ll have an accountability sheet, I call it. Every mental error, every penalty in practice, that’s how we start every day, with the accountability sheet. Now if you’re up there too much, you’re either too dumb to play here or you don’t give a sh*t. Alright, so you can’t be a Buc.
What sweet music to the ears of Bucs fans. But the best part is that Arians is not BSing.
This is how it will be — and should be.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:12 pm
Hey, no free passes for anyone. I love this. Fair is fair.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:12 pm
Music to Bucs fans ears, finally some accountability!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
Nice. How refreshing it is to have a legit head coach who will treat men like they should be treated; like men.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
I think I just accidentally drooled into my napkin. Glad I had one handy.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
OMG I AM ALREADY IN LOVE! DSmith better wake up!!!!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
“Why is there a picture of me in this thread”
Donovon Smith
January 10th, 2019 at 4:14 pm
Bruce Arians is getting my panties wet…
Can’t wait until he boots big fat slug Donavan Smith and big fat softie Gerald McCoy!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:14 pm
YES
January 10th, 2019 at 4:16 pm
Oh yeah.. Rude awakening. .. I can already think of about 3 players not returning.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:16 pm
BRUH
January 10th, 2019 at 4:16 pm
Can we have that rule for posters…. 😉
January 10th, 2019 at 4:17 pm
There are some offensive and defensive Tackles on this team who play until they’re beat then give up.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:17 pm
YES SIR! Any questions?!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:18 pm
Smith will be replaced…..His film wont justify not bringing in competition and his ego will likely have him believe if the Bucs wont pay him….someone will. He should ask Josh Freeman how that mindset worked out.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:18 pm
Very excited!!!
We have gone from #StickCarriers to #BucsMob and now we are #BiscuitEaters !!!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:19 pm
“A staff of fantastic teachers” – Bruce Arians
God I love it!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Lots of house cleaning for BA & licht, seems like a good hire but bucs winning off season and going 5-11 is getting old
January 10th, 2019 at 4:22 pm
I feel like someone just stabbed me with an adrenaline shot lol
January 10th, 2019 at 4:22 pm
You mean he won’t make them a captain for the week?
January 10th, 2019 at 4:23 pm
Well it’s about effing time someone had that attitude around here.
A huge theme over the lost decade is lack of accountability!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:23 pm
“We’re gonna build a system around what our players can do” – Bruce Arians
AKA next season’s coach of the year
January 10th, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Koetter would have just blathered on about how great everyone is…
January 10th, 2019 at 4:29 pm
And you MF’s complained about Schiano? This MF right here is a beast. Don’t run him off you soft a$$e$. It will take time to weed out the Aunt Geraldine’s of the world. But it will get done. #SQSmooth
January 10th, 2019 at 4:30 pm
“I’ve always thought it was my job to get the next group of great coaches ready” – Bruce Arians
Yep don’t have to worry about his old age, whoever his replacement is will be ready!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:31 pm
Bring on the ACCOUNTABILITY!!! I am starting to like old school Arians…just what the Buc locker room and players needed.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:45 pm
Compare that to Dirk’s “I don’t think you guys realize how tough it is out there, and how hard [that player] really plays.”
January 10th, 2019 at 4:51 pm
Licht drafted D Smith , and will try to keep and make it work with BA
January 10th, 2019 at 4:51 pm
Buc fans are desperate when “panties are getting wet” over the word “accountability”.
LOL
I hear it all the time from Super Bowl winners… “we won today because of accountability!!!”
Arians is GREAT, love him, but I’ll just settle for some good old fashioned WINS.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:52 pm
WOW. BA better ease up a little…he’s already got a significant portion of JBF with premature ejaculation. We can’t wait until the season! How much better can this get? Just win baby and BA will OWN THIS TOWN!
January 10th, 2019 at 4:53 pm
Yup sounds like we won’t have to worry about them resigning our current soon to be free agent left tackle. No way that guys film passes muster. The coming roster moves on this team are going to be a massive indictment of Koetter’s staff. If D Smith was still on his rookie deal they might bring him into camp and see if they could beat the stupid out of him but no chance they spend big money bringing him back. We all know someones going to over pay him. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to Benenoch/Cappa They both get cut and it looks bad for Koetter and Warhop or the new staff makes real players out of them which I think would look worse and in that case Warhop should be charged with grand larceny.
January 10th, 2019 at 4:57 pm
I remember when the media loved Koetters candid press conferences
January 10th, 2019 at 4:58 pm
great question joe and better answer from the old dude.
accountability and toes on the line works for about 5 minutes in tampa then the crying clown and lvd march into glazers office crying like little girls. that old guy is a big meanie then toes on the line reverts right back to cancer93’s fun house.
cancer93 should just retire he has embarrassed himself, the sport of football and masculinity long enough…. a decade and not a single meaningful win for the face of the basement years. he has never made it through a single game without taking at least a quarter of the game off… nurseing boo boos and lolly gagging or getting #metoo’ed in the run game
January 10th, 2019 at 5:03 pm
Hallelujah and amen !!!!!!!!! Go Bucs !!!!!!!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 5:04 pm
Doesn’t pretty much every team do something similar to that though?
January 10th, 2019 at 5:04 pm
AMAZING
January 10th, 2019 at 5:06 pm
O M G
This dude, I luv him!!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Almost forgot what a real coach sounds like.
The Bruce is Here!
January 10th, 2019 at 5:11 pm
LOL
shots fired D. SMITH!!!!!….LOL…
GO BUCS!!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 5:13 pm
I just had flashbacks of “Buccaneer Men”
January 10th, 2019 at 5:21 pm
Oh hell yeah…love this guy!
January 10th, 2019 at 5:34 pm
“you’re either too dumb to play here or you don’t give a sh*t.’
Holy crap there ya have it folks.
With that being said he’s got his work cut out for him. This team has lot’s of both. Might have to turnover 75% of the roster.
No wonder this guy is a Winston fan….
January 10th, 2019 at 5:35 pm
There’s your answer for Donovan Smith… bye bye
January 10th, 2019 at 5:38 pm
Yup- the O line is in deep sht.
January 10th, 2019 at 5:38 pm
Jensen seems safe. Even the whistle doesn’t stop him.
January 10th, 2019 at 5:39 pm
813
You forgot your hashtags.
January 10th, 2019 at 5:46 pm
Accountability Sheet – 9
Donovan Smith – 0
January 10th, 2019 at 5:47 pm
Love that!
Lol Demon. Yea D Smith is about to get his a$$ whipped if he’s still on the roster.
January 10th, 2019 at 5:49 pm
^^^^^
I like hashtag-less 813.
He don’t need ’em.
One of my very favorite posters here on JBF….
whether we agree or disagree..
Hope to raise a beer with ya soon, brother, during a BUCS win.
January 10th, 2019 at 5:51 pm
So this list will actually be:
– McCoy (since he got here)
– Smith
Those two are masters at taking plays off.
Good riddance.
January 10th, 2019 at 5:51 pm
No doubt, unbelievable!
There is a part of me now that kinda hopes he makes it. Donovan, without the loaf plays, might actually be pretty damn good!
January 10th, 2019 at 6:03 pm
Awesome!
January 10th, 2019 at 6:04 pm
Boss
January 10th, 2019 at 6:16 pm
Dilly! Dilly!
January 10th, 2019 at 6:21 pm
I may have to change my shorts….
January 10th, 2019 at 6:25 pm
Hoky crap I cant Wait….imagine in patrick peterson and the honey badger both come to tampa!! Good thing Jason licht wasnt fired huh??!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 6:36 pm
WHO’S YOUR DADDY B!TCH?!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 6:49 pm
Amen 🙏
January 10th, 2019 at 7:09 pm
Problem on this team has been who do you replace the dumb asses, and slackers with? If Licht can’t find smart, good players who care, then what? Swaggy, D Jax, Berto, Cappa, Grimes, should I go on? You draft, or sign guys to big contracts, who are dumb, suck, or don’t care there in lies the problem.
January 10th, 2019 at 7:18 pm
GOD I LOVE IT!!!! Arians is going to clear a lot of players out of TB , that can’t be a BUC!! This guy doesn’t hold back! Going to be a lot of sad faces come training camp!
January 10th, 2019 at 7:19 pm
Hodad right on and lichts bs players go on and on, snoops nephew or whatever that couldnt read a playbook…. cant wait for BA to flip the roster
January 10th, 2019 at 7:42 pm
Hodad & Duthsty … Arians knows exactly what he wants & will be TELLING Licht who to get. Jason might be all smiles right now, but there’s NO DOUBT in my mind who’s running the show from this point on. New Jefe in town … Lovin’ it.
January 10th, 2019 at 7:43 pm
Joe
2 practices though Joe that’s fckn genius!
January 10th, 2019 at 7:44 pm
Soooooo, why has it taken 12 years for this level of professional accountability?
I’m grateful for this feedback as a fan.
January 10th, 2019 at 8:06 pm
Haha! you guys are funny, acting like every coach in the NFL doesn’t have this idea set in place. Let’s not get too worked up over something we know nothing about what previous coach’s have done or do. “Accountability” a word that gets thrown around a lot when a new coach gets hired, every time. I can point to coach Schiano, everyone said he came in trying to hold players accountable… how that work out?
Go BUCS!
January 10th, 2019 at 8:16 pm
The more I hear from Bucco Bruce, the more I like him. Thank you, Joe, for asking a question that all of would have asked if we had the chance. I’ve read hundreds of posts on here about the need for culture change. It appears it is already underway. The 2018 team had potential to win a lot more than 5 games. We saw that potential in the first two games that basically no one was giving us a chance to win. Then the typical and predictable Buc malaise took over. Guys got their feelings hurt or decided they weren’t getting paid enough. I believe this staff will keep players focused on the task at hand; that is to EARN Team Glazer loot and not STEAL it.
January 10th, 2019 at 8:22 pm
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January 10th, 2019 at 8:41 pm
I think you guys are wrong. I think a lot of these guys that have been brought in here have it, it hasn’t been coached up. Don’t get me wrong, we have a lot of lazy players and that is a culture.
Donovon Smith 2020 Pro Bowl Player…….
January 10th, 2019 at 8:45 pm
TexBuc,,
Is the Texas Bucs Fan Association currently accepting members from FL?
Because I can definitely get behind the movement.
😉
January 10th, 2019 at 8:50 pm
Demon
We accept all bucs fans it is lonely here in cowgirl country
January 10th, 2019 at 9:06 pm
@Tmax
“getting #metoo’ed in the run game”
LMFAO
January 10th, 2019 at 9:30 pm
My favorite question, and love the reply. So, we won’t be seeing any more player tweets that say they really don’t care if fans show up for the games, because they’ll get paid anyway…?
January 10th, 2019 at 9:42 pm
I thought today’s players don’t go for the old style General Patton blood and Guts marine corps drill instructor BS
January 10th, 2019 at 11:21 pm
This sounds like a scene from North Dallas Forty …..Very cool Bruce!!!!
January 10th, 2019 at 11:49 pm
Did you ask him about his cell phones during halftime policy?
January 11th, 2019 at 7:35 am
Is Jason Licht accountable as well?
That’s the question that should be addressed……now, if we had enough time (we don’t), we list the long list of bums put on the field by the Buccaneer GM……..Bleah
January 11th, 2019 at 9:50 am
I just hope BA isn’t hesident about getting rid of lazy ass D Smith. Also how bad Bennoch is. As well as aging Dotson. IMO Grimes & DeJacks should have already been released. BA once said what a good job Leidke played in place of lazy ass Smith.
January 13th, 2019 at 10:58 pm
Finally a coach that will hold his players accountable!! Maybe the captains should hold their teammates accountable too.