Comments on: Competition For Freeman Doesn’t Add Up

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:38:39 +0000

My point in all of this was never that the defense wasn’t bad or that it did not to be addressed but that just because the defense has problems does not mean that Freeman gets a “pass”. He should be held accountable as well and to a higher degree. He has more responsibility as the leader of this team. “It all starts with #5″ or so its said.

Plenty of blame to go around indeed but with a greater position comes greater responsibility.

It’s been fun, respect ur thoughts

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:19:56 +0000

Well with your interpretation of my comments you might agree that there is plenty of blame to go around. The d is worse than free by a mile in comparison. Again my opinion.

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:38:37 +0000

So the defense missed all those passes…

Failed to covert key third down passes, touchdown passes, wideopen passes, threw all those interceptions, fumbled the ball 10 times, panics at the slightest thought of pressure, struggles with accuracy? The defense allowed all that.

You see how silly that sounds.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:48:32 +0000

So I guess Freeman let Nick Foles throw for nearly 400 yards…. And he also let Bob griffen run for 30 or 40 yards at the end of the game when all we need is one stop… And he absolutely let Eli throw for almost 300 yards in the second half. Those three games don’t end that way were in the playoffs. Freeman is the least of our worries. We need an entire secondary and a ligament pass rusher way before we think about replacing Freeman. There isn’t any one out there with the up side Freeman has. And don’t tell me Alex Smith or Matt Flynn would be any better. One sucked balls for the last 7 years and the other got beat out by a rookie! And yes Wilson has been great but the Seahawks aren’t in the playoffs with out their defense. we need a defense that can hang on to leads, not a new quarterback.

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:55:51 +0000

If our QB just played average for the last 6 weeks of the season we’d be in the playoffs…

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:37:08 +0000

Some of these comments are silly. Mallet? Ready to start? Says who and where’s the proof? Freeman is the best quarterback the bucs have ever had for an extended period of time. Wait till next season to see what kind of contract he will demand. I know he makes some bad throws at bad times but the next person that compares him to mark Sanchez, needs to find something else to do! Freeman is going to be fine. If our defense was just middle of the road this season we would be in the payoffs right now and no one is talking about a new quarterback. Go bucs the future looks bright. (don’t jump ship)

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:24:53 +0000

*On the last drive of everyone of those games

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:24:02 +0000

However It is his job to execute the pass plays he does get. And for crying out loud
is he so incapable as to make adjustments at the line?

Any who, he failed to convert on those passes. They did not run it every down on everyone of those games.

By: Stranger

Stranger — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:30:25 +0000

@PRBucFan

Its not Freeman’s call whether the team go conservative or not. There are two people above him that make that decision.

@Silence

Backpedaling. Better QBs have gotten clobbered in the playoffs. If we made the playoffs then got embarrassed, that’s because of team effort, not Freeman.

And for the record, Freeman and the offense have been significant more explosive this year to the point we were one of the better offensive teams in the first half.

By: SilenceTheCritics

SilenceTheCritics — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:34:05 +0000

If we ever got to the playoffs with Freeman playing the way he has his entire career so far, we would get smoked right out of the first round. 1 and done. It would be embarrissing We can’t beat good teams with a QB that only plays half a game. Yes the defense has its fault, nobody can dispute that. But that can’t be used as an excuse for why Freeman can’t do a dam thing for the first 2 quarters of every game.

By: PRBucFan

PRBucFan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:57:27 +0000

If Freeman would have shown up before the fourth quarter in all those games we could have won?

If Free would have led the offense into closing out those games on their last possession on offense instead of giving the ball back to the other team the defense would have never had to be in the position to lose the game.

Point is Freeman playing as horribly as he is, is not excusable.
No matter what other problems on our team we have. Sure they have to get addressed but first and foremost this is a QB driven league so that is priority number one. Schiano sees it, thats all that matters. Freeman has run out of excuses, its now or never.

I mean if Freeman was playing like an average QB that would be one thing, but he is far far far under par right now.

By: Stranger

Stranger — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 02:12:18 +0000

But that’s not entirely true. With a better defense, we take games like the Redskins, Eagles and the first Falcons game. Might have gotten the Giants and first Saints game as well. That would have been enough for a playoff spot with the current Freeman.