Perform Or You Are Gone
October 20th, 2009
Rick Brown of the Lakeland Ledger claims the trade of Gaines Adams very well could be the first of many changes to the Bucs roster, and hinted Michael Clayton should be concerned.
Raheem the Dream hinted at it yesterday that there needs to be a thorough housecleaning on the Bucs roster.
Good of him to final notice what most Bucs fans figured out some time ago.
Good guy Backwards Hat, otherwise known as Rick Brown of the Lakeland Ledger — Hey Rick, Joe misses your weekly videos, man — suggests the trade of Gaines Adams Friday was the first salvo that major changes are at hand if performance lacks.
The move also sent out a silent warning among the players – perform or risk being the next one shipped out.
Are you watching Michael Clayton?
When a team is 6-0, then everything is rosy.
The Bucs, however, are not 6-0. For those who are still counting, they are 0-6 and fans are starting to fold their cards on the season.
This is the time, however, when the spotlight from management turns to the players. They want to see if the people they pegged to be the foundation of the team are the proper building blocks.
Do you understand Derrick Ward?
Joe can only think of a handful of players who have no worries about their mortgages. Aqib Talib, Donald Penn, Sammie Stroughter, Davin Joseph and Josh Freeman are absolutely safe. Geno Hayes, Quincy Black and Earnest Graham are likely safe.
The rest better worry. If they don’t, then they are gutless.
Sad thing is Raheem the Dream and possibly Mark Dominik came to this conclusion a bit late. There are scant hours left in the trade deadline (4 p.m. today).
October 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Just saw this quote from ‘the Nightmare’ in the St. Pete Times, and it hit me as VERY strange:
The obvious thing there is, you’re happy to take your game international and make it a bigger game than it already is,” Morris said. “You’re happy about and excited about that opportunity. But at the same time, you’re going to play a team that scored 59 points (Sunday), which I didn’t realize until I woke up (Monday).”
His horrendous team’s next opponent is playing the late game, and he makes no effort to watch it?! Was he out partying with his players again?!
October 20th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Chuck:
To be fair, Raheem the Dream doesn’t have to rely on a network TV feed of his next opponent, which doesn’t show much for coaches. He was likely watching film of the Bucs-Carolina game until close to midnight.
Compared to the video NFL teams receive of their opponents, a network feed is pretty worthless.