One thing Joe has noticed since prior to last season is that the Bucs are looking for teachers, as much as coaches.

Joe remembers one reason for the dismissal of former Bucs offensive line coach Pete Mangurian was because the Bucs wanted more of a teacher, not a doctrinarian.

So when the Bucs jettisoned Raheem Morris after a 4-12 season punctuated by a grotesque 10-game losing streak, it seems only natural that the Bucs would hire a teacher.

That’s what Ian Rapoport of NFL.com believes Schiano is. And unlike Kellen Winslow, Rapoport is all in on the New Schiano Order.

Schiano is teaching. That’s it. Just teaching. Doing what a coach does and providing a basis for learning. Instead of starting from Calculus, Schiano is teaching the multiplication tables. Years of coaching college players make college coaches cognizant that not all stars learned everything along the way. It was Schiano’s job to teach them, and I love how his approach hasn’t changed in the NFL.

He’s using the same desire to mold 18-year-olds on 25-year-olds. He’s teaching them football, starting with McCoy. It’s a young team anyway, and this will help. There’s no way this will be bad. Create a base, set your team up for the future, and move on from there.

Schiano is in for the long haul, and this goes to show that. It may even take a year to give the team solid footing. It will pay off. Really good coaches are always teachers, and he’s showing he is.

If anything jumped out at Joe last year — aside from the grotesque 10-game losing streak — it was the poor fundamentals, whether it was simply tackling to the linebacker play to… Joe’s not going to beat this dead horse.

If a team is 4-12, sometimes you have to go back to the basics and rebuild from there.