Emmitt Smith Will Never Make It
June 4th, 2011It’s Saturday night and, if you’re not having a blast at Derby Lane, Joe thought you might enjoy the signature tones of legendary Bucs voice Gene Deckerhoff, who inked a new two-year contract this week.
Deckerhoff was interviewed on The Ron and Ian Show this week on WDAE-AM 620. You can click the arrow below to listen.
First, Deckerhoff said he wants to broadcast Bucs games for many years to come. C’mon, Team Glazer, give the guy a longer deal. He’s a freakin’ institution!
Later on in the interview, Deckerhoff tells some great Bucs stories, including one of Ray Perkins chewing him out when Deckerhoff dared to suggest to him that rookie Emmitt Smith was a heck of a running back. Perkins, that master talent evaluator, barked that Smith was too slow and too small.
Its’ a great listen, as Deckerhoff always is. Enjoy.
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June 4th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
3 days @ the old one buc……hughs …vince lombardi
June 4th, 2011 at 10:00 pm
And a lot of the fanatical geniuses here were predicting: that GMC would have a much smoother transtion and more productive rookie year than GMC b/c GMC was “the perfect fit” for the bucs 3 technique position and he was much more athletic than the Suh..LOL ha ha ha ha ha ha
Brilliant prediction. I know that the Captain was in this camp I even recall him making excuses mid-year that Suh wasn’t really that good that the Lions were actually funnelling plays to Suh to pad his stats to make him look good. Can you imagine that?
Maybe the “work in progress” will play 16 games this year. That would be an improvement.
June 4th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
Def Interceptions Fumbles Tackles
Year G GS Sk Int Yds TD Lng PD FF Fmb FR Yds TD Tkl Ast
1995 16 8 3.0 1 5 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 17 10
2010 13 13 3.0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 22 6
Let’s see, 3 fewer games, but 5 more games started. Same number of sacks. Sapp has an INT, they didn’t record passes defended his rookie year, so no comparison there…. McCoy one more forced fumble, 5 more tackles and 4 fewer assists.
Yeah, thomas, your right, he sucked.
No one is saying he’s Suh. But to say that he sucked? That’s just ignorant and asinine.
June 4th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
If you think that because Sapp had a bad rookie year and GMC had a bad rookie year – that it means that GMC will be as good as Sapp – you are not very sharp.
Steve Emtman (1st overall 1992):
49 total tackles, 3 sacks as a rookie. Better first year than GMC. Out of the league in 5 years. Generally considered a bust.
Adam Carricker (14th overall 2007):
30 tackles and 2 sacks as a rookie. Comparable first year to McCoy;no longer a Ram after 3 years. Generally considered a bust.
The point; just because McCoy’s stats are comparable to Sapp as a rookie, they are also comparable to a bunch of busts – they are not comparable to the player taken 1 pick ahead of him.
June 5th, 2011 at 12:32 am
Thomas, give it a rest. Making such a strong judgement of a player based off of his rookie year is ridiculous and you know it.
If all this hatred is just because some other posters wanted to be optomistic about what McCoy would do in his rookie year then that is beyond pathetic. I was also optomistic that he would have a great rookie year but I also knew that it would be hard on him having to be surrounded by Teen Wolf and Kyle Moore.
June 5th, 2011 at 1:14 am
Thomas 2.2:
Care to guess why Emtman was out of the league in five years?
June 5th, 2011 at 6:02 am
So does this mean that Thomas is predicting a blown ACL, a ruptured patella tendon and a ruptured disc in the neck for McCoy? And this is because he wasn’t as good as the player selected before him – go figure. An observer with a less jaundiced eye might have noticed that he, like the rest of the defense, was starting to develop quite nicely in the second half of the season – until the torn bicep.
June 5th, 2011 at 7:01 am
This is insane. Thomas consistently ruins article after article with his hate. What I don’t understand is this: Why do you go out of your way to repetitively bash McCoy? What do you get out of that? Is it because you want to prove you were right about him? That says a lot about you. So what if we were all excited about him? That apparently gets your little panties ruffled, but we are fans, we are supposed to do that. Let’s be honest here, none of us (myself and Thomas included) know 2 sh!Ts about NFL football. You are not qualified in any way, shape, or form, and neither am I. So your constant bashing of McCoy is ignorant, and your opinion means absolutely nothing to anybody. I promise you not on GM, coach, or expert knows or cares about anything you say. You are more worthless to them than you are to us. So stop repeating yourself, because I promise you that not one person on this board wants to hear it anymore. Let that thought sink in for a moment. But I know that your life is so sad, you won’t be able to do it.
June 5th, 2011 at 8:23 am
Thomas you are the next to get my wrath keep up the idiotic crap about gmc you will be proven wrong, Remember how stupid you were about benn. Give players like a minute before you start calling them busts
June 5th, 2011 at 9:38 am
While this article has stirred memories of GMC vs Suh for many, it has reminded me of the hell that Buc fans had to endure way back when.
The worst owner in the history of professional sports, Hugh Culverhouse, couldn’t get Alabama’s coach, Bear Bryant to come to Tampa. He decided instead to hire Bear’s best friend, John McKay. When that idea failed because McKay hadn’t really attended or coached at Alabama, he decided that he would hire his version of Bear Bryant, Ray Perkins. Ray had played for Alabama under Bryant. Perkins would tell everyone how smart he was. He thought he was a master poker player and his Baltimore Colts teammates would love to invite him to play so they could relieve him of his paycheck. Ray never caught on. One of his teammates later wrote a book and described Ray as the stupidest man alive.
One of Ray’s greatest ideas was to switch sides of the field with the visiting team. The problem was that the locker rooms were on the wrong side of the field and the players had to inter-mingle while crossing the field at half time and at the end of he game. Perkins was infuriated that our players would speak to the enemy and suspected that they were plotting against him by telling the other team Buc secrets. This switch gave the visiting teams the cooler shady side of the field while the Bucs would suffer blistering mid day Florida sun in their face.
Ray drafted a quarterback from Miami named Vinny Testaverde although he had just set a record for interceptions in one of those post season all star games. The biggest problem was that Vinny was totally color blind and he literally couldn’t tell the difference between his receivers and the defensive backs. Vinny had flunked their intelligence test horribly but Ray thought he would mold him in his own image. He made Vinny accompany him everyday in the off season usually on the golf course. He would bark at Vinny, “Third and eighteen, balls on our seven yard line. Second quarter, what’s the call?” Invariably Vinny would answer “I dunno.” This gave Ray a chance to berate him, “A draw, you call a draw, you dumb ass!” Vinny never could call his own plays, learned to despise his coach, never could tell the difference between a Buc’s uniform and an opponent’s. The other teams could remember what play Perkins would call in a certain down and distance and they would always stop them. They could think clearer on the shady side of the field.
June 5th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Thomas hilarity ensues once more. Both sides are apart of said hilarity.
June 5th, 2011 at 11:24 am
Wow thomas is such a moron! Before anyone passes any judgement, let wtch the man play more.
June 5th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Wow what a complete moron. Yeah, just like Steve Young wasn’t any good.
The Bucs sure had some real idiots running the organization back in the day lol.