Comments on: “It Still Goes Back To 5″

By: Capt. Tim

Capt. Tim — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:20:26 +0000

Thank God for Joe! Glad to know there is still one guy reading the local sports hacks.

By: nicknosbucs

nicknosbucs — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:45:28 +0000

i got an idea. how about we include freeman and sanchez swap as part of the trade
then both sides would be very estatic. lol

By: mark2001

mark2001 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:20:42 +0000

No one has the WR’s the Packers have….but their O line is not nearly as talented as ours, nor nearly as expensive. It is just that Rogers is too cagey to get caught flat footed and dumps the ball fast or makes time and space with his feet to deliver the ball.

And GB’s RB’s have been bad. Like Bucfan said…Rogers makes his WR’s look good…the know that if they are open, he can and will deliver the ball. And it will be on target.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:11:43 +0000

Brady and Rodgers had to deal with their teams having the two worst secondaries and worst defenses in 2011, just saying…

By: bucbucbuc

bucbucbuc — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:49:50 +0000

Easy to make the QB a scapegoat. Enough of the Freeman talk; when you trot out one of the worst pass defenses in NFL history, that’s where the conversation must start and end. They cost the Bucs way more games than Freeman did. Getting to the playoffs doesn’t hinge upon fixing Freeman.

By: Bucfan

Bucfan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:47:45 +0000

Rodgers elevates the play of his Wrs. In Tampa it’s vise versa.

By: Jester

Jester — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:45:37 +0000

The only point I want to say is that can we really say that Freeman has as many weapons as some of the top caliber QBs in the league. I don’t think we can honestly. Bc to say that you would be lying. Underwood wouldn’t be a even 3 Wr on all of the top passing teams. You know it I know it. Dallas Clark is old, slow and a bit washed up. So my point being Freeman has a pretty solid Oline, when they aren’t injured, but lacks real game change ability at WR. We have two amazing top guys, but there is hardly any depth after Jackson and Williams. Green Bay runs used to run with greg jennings, randle cobb, finley, jordy nelson, james jones I mean can anyone without looking it up tell me who the rest of the WRs are on the bucs? they sure as hell dont look the Packers in that sense I promise you that. I only throw that bit in there because I get tired of reading that Rogers would love to have all the weapons Freeman has. That is just untrue.

By: mark2001

mark2001 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:43:31 +0000

So does anyone think our Defense is close to the Eli Manning Giants Defense was when Eli was 25? Please, this Offense is by far the most talented we have had…except for MAYBE the SB year. The O line and Martin are certainly so, and I’d take Jackson and Williams over Key and McCardell. It has to be much better than our Defense, for the next couple of years at the least…meaning that Josh needs to grow up fast.

By: Nick P

Nick P — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:35:42 +0000

Excellent point on Eli. Eli’s stats at 25: 57.7% 3,244yds 24/18 77.0 Rat.

Freeman’s: 54.8 4,065 27/17 81.6

By: Bucfan

Bucfan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:34:32 +0000

Honestly how many weapons does freeman need? Underwood was solid as a 3wr. Williams and Jackson were a top 10 duo. Martin was a beast.

Regardless of what we do to improve the defense #5 kept putting them in bad positions last year.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:10:14 +0000

At his age, Freeman is light years ahead of where: Eli, Alex Smith, Jeff Garcia, Kurt Warner, Rich Gannon, and even Brett Favre were at the same age.

He’s young, had a ton of offensive coordinators. Give him this season…and if the stinks, then run him out of town… if he does well, be thankful that the Bucs were more patient than the tons of Buc fans out there that don’t realize that good QBs still often need time to develop.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:06:49 +0000

I think the offense is still one weapon away fron being able to say, “..an offense with all of those weapons…” VJax is a Pro Bowl, even All-Pro caliber WR, Mike Wiliiams is a very good #2, Doug Martin is fantastic and good in the passing game… but we do need one more good target. TE, slot WR, somebody to threat the middle of the field would make this offense known for its weaponry. Two good WRs and a RB are hardly: Aikman, Smith, Irvin, Novacek, Harper, etc, or Young, Rice, Taylor, Craig, Jones, etc, Warner, Faulk, Holt, Bruce, Hakim, Proehl, etc.

We’ve got good weapons, but one more away from being anywhere close to great.