Defense Makes A Statement
August 10th, 2012
Last year if one took a shot for every first down a Bucs opponent had, one would be prone on the living room floor, comatose by halftime.
Yes, it’s preseason. Yes, it’s a glorified practice. Yes, it was against the Dolphins, who appear to be a miserable squad.
But how refreshing was it for a change that the Bucs defense pitched a shutout with the first and second team?
Gerald McCoy and Adrian Clayborn were all smiles after the game in the locker room — why wouldn’t they be? But behind the smiles lurked no false sense of security.
Work still needs to be done.
“It was good to put ourselves in a good situation to put [good play] on film,” Adrian Clayborn said. “It felt good to be able to contain someone, sure. But it’s just a beginning. It’s just a start.
“We are just trying to get better and play smart football and that’s what we put on tape today.”
Play smart football? What a novel concept!
Like Clayborn, GMC wasn’t about to go dancing after Friday’s performance.
“It was great, but honestly, we weren’t going out there to try to prove anything,” GMC said. “We put a lot of work into it back to the spring and this was the first chance to showcase it. I think we did a fairly decent job.
“We still have a long way to go. This is our first go-around, and for our first go-around I think we did fairly well.”
Since it was the Bucs first go-around, there were mistakes made. GMC nor Clayborn wanted to talk specifically about those mistakes but GMC said the errors were nothing to panic over.
“There are a number of different things [the Bucs could do better], but it is not anything that cannot be fixed. Just little stuff. Adjustments.”
August 10th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
It was great to see football again. It was even better to see some resemblance of defense out there.
August 10th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Looked better
Lots of pressure
but stats don’t lie
ZERO Sacks
against a bad Dolphin Team
August 10th, 2012 at 11:39 pm
Loved the Foster/Clayborn double-whammy!
August 10th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
I loved watching our buds again. Our secondary needs a lot of work…..
August 10th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
I saw GMC punk plug an o-lineman in the chest (and miss a tackle) but hey… he was in the backfield!
August 10th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
you dont need sacks when they are throwing into the grass with a manchild on your ass
August 10th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
ben said:
“you dont need sacks when they are throwing into the grass with a manchild on your ass”
ummmmmm need to rephrase b/c that sounds like a nambla mission statement.
August 11th, 2012 at 12:40 am
Is Barron still dealing with that toe injury or something?
August 11th, 2012 at 2:37 am
Anthony Gaitor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Myron Lewis. That man earned a roster spot tonight.
August 11th, 2012 at 8:06 am
I went back and graded Gerald. Not very good but the calls were vanilla.
He had one stuff, one offsides and he beat his man on one other but grossly missed the tackle.
On the other 11 snaps he lost at the line of scrimmage – looked very tired during the no huddle – generally looked like the Gerald I have seen previously.
Schiano moved him around outside both guards fairly evenly which is smart. I reserve my overall analysis until after preseason game 3 bc both teams were vanilla and careful last night.
However, anytime Gerald plays 1/4 of a football game and doesnt end up on IR – means he gets an A plus.
August 11th, 2012 at 8:08 am
Despite the camp propaganda, once the game started Myron Lewis became, well, Myron Lewis. Shocker!
August 11th, 2012 at 8:59 am
@Thomas…you graded.ha! Ha! LOL!!! OMG I have tears in my eyes I’m laughing so hard. You ‘graded’ someone….’snicker’ ….oh Tommy…that’s so cute. You are ‘special’ aren’t you…..
August 11th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Visitors sideline ticket to the Bucs-Dolphins preseason game? $35
Thomas 2.2 going back and grading GMC’s performance? Priceless
August 11th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
So Thomas is grading players now! LMAO!!!! I truly can’t believe he actually had the balls to write that. Are you trying to make yourself a joke? It so, well done!