Comments on: Upheaval With Bad Offseason?

By: BrianDorry55

BrianDorry55 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:52:53 +0000

If Dom lets Bennett walk…and signs some bum like Sean Smith for $10 million, and we miss the playoffs…Dom and Schiano will be gone next year. Chalk it up.

By: Joc

Joc — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:04:28 +0000

Schino is now Making mist draft decisions. With Dom until Greg rolled In you got one starter a draft. Google his drafts and tell men he has done well.

By: Capt. Tim

Capt. Tim — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:51:54 +0000

Dang phong phone! He has “Done great” with . Not “do Threat” sorry guys.

By: Capt. Tim

Capt. Tim — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:47:15 +0000

The Glazers have proven that they are all about winning, bottom line.
They seemed to like both Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden also,but if you don’t produce- you get canned. NFL is tough.

I think Dom has to have a winning season this year. Don’t think it has to be the playoffs- but gotta show signs of revolving into that” lasting contender” he spoke of when he took the job

I think he has done quite a bit to improve the starting talent on this team. He really had nothing to start with. Nothing!

But it bothers me that, in year five- we still are putting entire units on the field, that are so far below NFL standard( secondary, omitting only the great Ronde).

And Team Depth is still a huge concern across the board. He has do threat with some late round picks- put of missed on high round/mod round picks, that should be the quality depth.

Still, unless he just totally blows it on the secondary picks( it seems to be his Achilles heel!)- think this year we start to become a power in the NFC south.

But a key injury in the D-line, O-line, or WR- we could crash to the bottom again. And yeah- I think it would get Dom fired.

There are about 10 players, whose lose would be almost insurmountable. Think Dom will be whispering a lil prayer every time they are on the field

By: JonBuc

JonBuc — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:58:42 +0000

Make or break year for both Freeman and Dominik. I truly hope they both succeed.

By: Tbuc

Tbuc — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:18:11 +0000

Bucs are going into year 5 of rebuilding with Dom. How long do we give him until the rebuilding is over? We all know Joe loves the Pop Star, but in reality he’s a losing GM.

By: thomas 2.2

thomas 2.2 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:35:51 +0000

It is a tough, tough call on Josh.

Some may remember that I was against drafting Josh, but in 2009-10 he made me into a big supporter of his. Now I am totally uncertain and on the fence.

Josh is very talented, very inconcistent and totally unpredictable. I think that he has not improved.

By: Chris@Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa

Chris@Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:34:27 +0000

I would not call Mark a Rockstar, but I think he has done a great job lately.
One more draft like last years, and I think Tampa will be in the playoffs soon.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:33:15 +0000

For those that think Dom does so bad you need to take a look at Belicheats drafts the last 8 years. Count up the misses and hits.

He is considered to have done very well, but as you will see, the whole thing is a crapshoot where batting .300 is consdered great.

By: T in Orlando

T in Orlando — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:12:04 +0000

Well siad Hyperryd

By: T in Orlando

T in Orlando — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:10:48 +0000

@thomas2.2

Valid points with the previous misses, and how the on field results pan out rest with Schiano.

I basically agree with your assessment of scout and cap guy, however I think it’s a little over simplified. I think Dominick and his Personnel staff are good at going out and getting the types of players the coaches ask for. The problem with Morris was, he was not able to clearly convey what he was looking for and/or his plan to piece that talent together was questionable at best.

With Schiano; being one of the most structured/detailed coaches in the NFL; this is not a problem and Dominick and the Personnel team are better equipped to find what the coaches are looking for. Perhaps Dominick knew this when he hired Schiano, and knew that would be a great compliment to his own strengths.

By: Hyperryd

Hyperryd — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:03:40 +0000

You have to remember that the first three years he worked on getting the players that Raheem wanted. Raheem wanted fast & strong, but he didn’t have a great focus on the players he needed, because I honestly don’t think he knew what he needed. I also think Dominick was on the learning curve those first couple of years on the draft and free agency. He also didn’t have any money for FA from the owners, which in hindsight was probably good bad long term decisions weren’t made by a green GM. The difference now is he has a coach who knows exactly what he wants in his players so now Dom can focus on finding that guy. Last year was a great example. Schiano was too busy trying to find a coaching staff to have major input in the draft, but he knew what he wanted in talent and Dom did a great job of aquiring them with the money that our owners finally let him spend. Then our coach went out and acutally coached them. Go figure.
I think Dom has learned a lot and has gotten considerably better as a GM. If you look at our talent and our Cap, both are pretty impressive. Now that we have a real coach, a crafty GM and owners who will now spend (especially since Manchester United made big money this year), we have a chance to really put together some good football years.
I think Freeman will do fine. He is maturing and can throw with the best of them. I know I was a different person at 25 than I was at 21 and I still didn’t know sh!t at 25. Give us a solid Defense and I think we will be just fine with Josh. Hell we used to go to the playoffs every year with quarterbacks 10 times worse than Freeman!! But, somebody give Josh a Michael Vick tinte visor so nobody can see where he is looking, not to mention he would look scarey with his size and a tinted visor.

Go Bucs!!