Lovie: We Don’t Have A Quarterback Controversy
October 22nd, 2014
Today, Lovie Smith was selling the lack of a quarterback controversy on his team.
How he defines controversy, of course, isn’t clear.
Whatever.
It’s Wednesday afternoon and it’s unclear who will start for the Bucs on Sunday, or whether the starter will be the same through the game, or into the following Sunday at Cleveland.
Joe’s been clear for more than a month that Josh McCown starting no longer makes a shred of sense. An 0-3 record, combined with McCown and the team he leads not showing up for their only primetime game, was enough for Joe to move all-in with Glennon.
Joe wonders what Lovie has told his team. If Glennon is the guy, Joe would like to see Lovie go all-in with No. 8 publicly. So the head coach can evaluate how Glennon performs with the offense completely on his shouders as its leader and No. 1 voice.
October 22nd, 2014 at 4:18 pm
What’s scary is that we’re only 2.5 games behind the division lead – I could see Lovie using that as evidence that this isn’t a “wasted” season and that the veteran McCown should be given the opportunity to lead this team once again.
October 22nd, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Mariota (sic) would look good in a Buc Jersey next year.
October 22nd, 2014 at 4:23 pm
We only have 3 picks this year……QB is not one of them…..foundation/rebuilding year…OL ..OK…STFU…I realize we have 6 round on…kinda like 6 extra packs of Ketchup at the drive through
October 22nd, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Melman, McClown, whatever, just win.
October 22nd, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Lovie and the rest have seen enough from both. He’s not all in with either cause that guy is not on the team yet. Enjoy your one+ year of Glennon. I predict he’s traded in offseason and the Bucs draft a QB who will sit behind Mccown as he learns.
October 22nd, 2014 at 4:54 pm
Remember that time when Joe said for months that the Bucs would draft a QB in 2014? …whatever
October 22nd, 2014 at 5:12 pm
McCown playing with second team says enough.
October 22nd, 2014 at 5:16 pm
Watch L & L squash this media created QB controversy by trading Glennon before the deadline, as we finish the season with the McCown / Kafka duet. I really think Glennon could garner a #2, or maybe a #3, w/ a #5, 6, or 7. His propensity to make all the throws are well documented now, and in the right system could elevate his status to Franchise QB. Let’s face it, he’ll never be able to change the hearts and minds of our hometown media and certain segment of our fanbase. He’ll never get a fair shake. This franchise doesn’t recognize or even know how to develop young QB’s.
October 22nd, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Can’t have a controversy when you do not have a QB on the roster.
October 22nd, 2014 at 6:25 pm
To me that means the original starter of the year, McCown, is the starter. Lovie’s not confident he’s healthy enough for the Vikings game.
McCown in the Cleveland game.
Remember for him to bench McCown means admitting he made a mistake in evaluating McCown’s talent over Glennon’s. So far, Lovie has never admitted to an error in talent evaluation, despite everyone else seeing them every week.
October 22nd, 2014 at 7:05 pm
“Joe wonders what Lovie has told his team. If Glennon is the guy, Joe would like to see Lovie go all-in with No. 8 publicly. So the head coach can evaluate how Glennon performs with the offense completely on his shouders as its leader and No. 1 voice.”
Hmmmm…
General
What makes you think Glennon is not playing with full responsibility of the offense on Sundays? He is also getting paid. This is not college nor high school. I think you should make it public the information you know about Glennon that we don’t! “The Mob” Demands it! I think…
October 22nd, 2014 at 7:37 pm
loovie is a lying snivilling biotch
October 22nd, 2014 at 7:44 pm
even if glennon could get us a second rounder……….have you seen what the bucs have done with their second rounders over the last 15 years? keep the guy in Tampa on his rookie contract until you are sure he is the guy (extend him) or that somebody else is the guy. It boggles the mind how every decision maker in the post gruden era has thought so highly of the talent they’ve assembled (and their ability to draft player) that we’ve have a conveyor belt of NFL quality talent being traded out of the team every year. i’d love to do an “all-not-good-enough-to-be-a-buc team” of players traded or not re-signed over the last 5 years. they’d probably beat a team of the best players we’ve traded for, drafted with the picks we got, or signed in free agency
October 22nd, 2014 at 8:08 pm
I really am starting to hate this coach
October 22nd, 2014 at 8:34 pm
Think what a coach like Bruce Arians could do with Glennon, that offense even with an aging Fitzgerald would be sick..
October 22nd, 2014 at 8:36 pm
@ james…Yup with no ability to evaluate talent. Which of his hand-picked guys are worth a crap?