Bucs Putrid Offense “Mindboggling”
December 14th, 2009
CBS-TV and Sirius NFL Radio analyst Rich Gannon is horrified at the brutal Bucs offense.
Joe touched upon this yesterday when he heard Rich Gannon on the CBS broadcast of the nauseating Bucs loss to the Jets, that Gannon observed the Bucs practice Friday and was unnerved how the offense loafed.
Given a more broad if not impolite forum on his radio show “The Blitz” with co-host Adam Schein on Sirius NFL Radio Monday morning, Gannon trashed Bucs offensive coordinator Greg Olson without naming names.
“I was really disappointed in the tempo of [the Bucs] offense in practice Friday,” Gannon said. “It was not good. The precision just was not there.
“Then, it was mindboggling to me how [Olson] put the ball in the hands of a rookie quarterback who threw five interceptions in the previous game and what does he do? He throws it right to [Jets linebacker] David Harris on the first play from scrimmage, throws it right over the middle against the league’s best pass defense.
“It was just a bad, bad performance by the Bucs offense.”
While Joe points out that Gannon is an intimate of Chucky and has bragged — with Chucky on the air with Gannon on Sirius NFL Radio — that he hangs out with Chucky in Chucky’s bunker at the Ice Palace, can anyone truthfully argue with anything Gannon said?
Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times documented some other barbs Gannon tossed at the Bucs offense Sunday.
* “If I’m Raheem Morris, I’m thinking about changing quarterbacks. If you’re going to win this game, Josh Freeman, to me, doesn’t look like he’s going to give you a chance.”
* “If you’re the Bucs offense, I’m not sure you want to go into the locker room for halftime. You might just want to stay out here and get some work. … I don’t know how you face your defense after what has transpired.”
Don’t worry Rich, Joe was equally repulsed.
Joe also has the notion that the Bucs will no longer allow TV network types to watch practices.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Fumbled snaps, too many players in the huddle, delay of games, too many men in motion, and on and on and on……………Pretty much the worst coached offensive squad I’ve ever seen. My high school football coach wouldn’t have allowed us back on the field had we performed like that in the first half of a game…….for an NFL coaching staff to have their players this ill prepared is totally unacceptable
December 14th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
The sad thing is Gannon is right — regardless of his relationship with Gruden. Can anyone dispute anything he’s said?
IMHO, Freeman should have been pulled yesterday. I understand he needs the work, but he also needs to understand that poor play has consequences. Also, since JJ is our Jason Garrett (Morris’ words, not mine), it might be good practice for him to come in cold off the bench.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
You can look at the Atlanta game last week as a sign of how the tempo has been off. When we were trying to run a 2-minute offense, you would have thought we had more like 2 hours. I understand Josh is still learning, but come on. To Josh’s credit, I think he’ll be the first to admit he has to do a better job of speeding things up, but this all goes back to coaching.
December 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Gannon took it easy on us. Imagine if it were Darryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa calling the game…it wouldn’t have been pretty.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Why is everyone treating Olsen like he’s a real Offensive Coordinator he’s a quarterback coach at worst case and a moron best case.