I go to every Bucs game and as I watch and compare the real ” elite QB’s” week after week and year after year to Josh Freeman I say that he will NOT become an “elite QB”. No amount of wishing and hoping will make it so either.

Half of Freeman’s passes look like wounded ducks. He doesn’t scramble out of the pocket as he did in years 1and 2 either. Every week he makes terrible decisions that are so apparent. Maybe the media justs WANTS Josh to be “elite so bad because………IMHO Josh Freeman is a backup QB TO an “elite QB” and nothing more. It’s getting close to time to admit this and go forward.

IMO if you wanna put blame on why we lost its gotta go to our pass defense. Our DBs cant cover anyone. And our D-line cant seem to break thur to get good consistent pressure on the QB. But either way its much more fun to watch this year. I hope we can get some new guys in on defense next year. If we can improve there a bit…And get all our guys healthy on offense I really think we might have a really good team for years to come. If you think back to our glory days we never had a Top Qb. I think Josh is the closest to a top QB we’ve had. Ok my rambling thoughts are over lol.

This team is still learning sometimes hard lessons.

I think the Bucs will come out strong and take it to the Eagles this week.

Go Bucs!!!

They successfully kept the ball out of Manning’s hands in the 1st half, and did a darn good job catching up when needed– just one stop, or that pick-6 from victory (or a missed FG)

On one of the drives Freeman is sacked for a loss of 7 yards and I believe we kick a field goal in the end. Obviously there’s the interception which was caused by Zuttah (I think) letting a DT free to rush at Freeman (not sure if Martin was suppose to pick the guy up).

The point is the 4-5 bad possessions in the second half were not all about Freeman. Was some of it? Absolutely. It’s clear the pressure rattled him a bit, which maybe accounted for some balls thrown off the mark or too early.

But I’ve watched even great quarterbacks get rattled by pressure. I have no clue what games you’re watching when you refer to Rodgers and Cutler. The bears offense is consistently miserable because Cutler is always under pressure. The difference is their defense keeps them in games so he can put together a drive or two late to win the game. Just last week I watched Aaron Rodgers not play very Rodgers like when faced with consistent pressure by the Giants D-line.

This is obviously a case of you judging your own quarterback under a more biased light than that which you use on QB’s of other teams. We’re all guilty of doing this, though.

And by the way, Freeman did adapt, eventually. He moved around/out of the pocket a lot more towards the end of the game. Obviously it was just a little too late, but I still love that he adapted within the game. I think from now on when the pressure is a little much we’re going to see him shift modes to this more mobile QB earlier in the game.

Lastly, I have to ask, do you re-watch the games before writing articles? You can tell a lot of the media doesn’t, which make sense since they have to keep up with a lot of different teams. But I hope you do, since you’re focus is squarely on the Bucs (as it should be). I always find the game looks a lot different the second time you’re watching, since you can reexamine certain plays over and over without the emotions that overcome us during the game.

Throw a DL in and get Claiborne back.. then add a CB and give David, Foster, and Barron another year to play together and this could be really special.