Lovie Confidence Rating Dips To 34.2 Percent
December 25th, 2014
There are multiple ways to interpret the weekly data from the Lovie Smith confidence poll.
The latest results reveal confidence in Lovie is waning, but confidence is higher than it was in early November.
This week, 34.2 percent of the JoeBucsFan.com studio audience claimed confidence in the head coach. That’s down from about 38 percent last week.
Here’s the current breakdown:
Totally confident 5.17%
Very Confident 5.69%
Confident 23.45%
The majority expressed “little confidence” or “no confidence” in Lovie. These things happen when you’re a two-win team.
Following losses at Cleveland and at home against Atlanta, however, Lovie’s confidence rating hovered at about 32 percent. So Lovie hasn’t really hasn’t lost any in his core fan base in weeks.
December 25th, 2014 at 11:09 am
Curious to see what his confidence rating will be after Sunday’s win or loss.
December 25th, 2014 at 11:13 am
joe should email his survey results to the glazers!
maybe they will see his popularity is even lower than
prez Obama’s right now. bring back tony dungy or jon
gruden!
December 25th, 2014 at 11:32 am
You can bet the Bucs do have people that monitor these websites. Lovie will have to earn respect just like anyone else. It’s time for his sales pitch now, he will tell us now how he sees what changes need to be made without admitting he was wrong.
December 25th, 2014 at 11:38 am
So….let me guess……If he loses Sunday…..he’s an idiot…..and if he wins Sunday, he’s an idiot!!!
December 25th, 2014 at 11:43 am
Or… hes is what hes always been. A good defensive coordinator or position coach that has absolutely no idea about coaching or making any sense of anything on the offensive side of the ball
December 25th, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Great DC Horrible HC. Thats Lovie Smith in a nut shell
December 25th, 2014 at 12:12 pm
We were a 4-12 team, we were a 4-12 team, yeah, now we’re gonna be 2-14…
Thx Lovie….
December 25th, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Schiano should have been given another year.
December 25th, 2014 at 12:26 pm
Who they Hell are the 34.2%
????
December 25th, 2014 at 12:27 pm
THIS TEAM IS GOING NOWHERE WITH LOVELY AS HEAD COACH, WHAT IS THE SENCE TO KEEP HIM AT HC WHEN THE OTHER COACHES BEFORE HIM HAD BETTER RECORD OR THE SAME AND GOT FIRED, WHAT IS THE REASON !!HE’S ONLY GOING TO SCREW EVERY THING UP FOR NEXT YEAR…….
December 25th, 2014 at 12:28 pm
I don’t think head coaches need to be great at every aspect of coaching. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Let your coaches and coordinators do what they’re good at. The thing that concerns me, is that we seem to be horrible talent evaluators! How did we get so duped by our free agents? Really? I know it supposedly takes a few years to assess a draft. We have a chance to acquire some good picks this year, but based on last year, I’m not holding my breath!
December 25th, 2014 at 12:31 pm
I’m one of the 34.2 percent. On this day, of all days, ya’ gotta believe! The first year I started my job, I stunk too! Thankfully, I was given a little bit of time to get better. Over time, I did. Give Lovie a little more time to turn things around and I bet he does. If after 2-3 years of this, THEN, I say get rid of him. For now, BELIEVE!!! Happy Holidays everyone!
December 25th, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Lovie or someone else Buccaneers fans want a winning team every year, we are tired of loosing tired of not having a franchise quarterback. When lovie or some other guy can come in and deliver what Tampa Bay deserves popularity polls are useless. As fans we need to turn the heat up on ownership to demand more from the staff they put in place.
December 25th, 2014 at 1:20 pm
“Schiano should have been given another year.”
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Gruden should have never been fired. But guess what, they both did. Time to move on.
December 25th, 2014 at 1:25 pm
I hope your right Bawlmer. I have my doubts tho. Joe did you do an article on Derrick Brooks being the appeals man on player grievances for the NFL? They couldn’t have chosen a better man.
December 25th, 2014 at 1:47 pm
Bawlmer I am sure you weren’t making $4-5 million to grow into your new position. Even if you did or were making more I am sure you were not worse than your predecessor.
December 25th, 2014 at 2:06 pm
He is 1 horrible HC…. Worst in the league…. Only someone blind or delusional would over look the many dumb mistakes he has made…
December 25th, 2014 at 2:50 pm
Marry Christmas to the Joe’s and all of MyBUCBrethren. Hope everyone’s families and friends are in good health and thoughts. Peace InThe Valley
December 25th, 2014 at 3:28 pm
My confidence level in Lovie Smith would be through the roof if he would just give his OC total control of the offense. Had he done that Tedford would have come back and we would likely have found a way to make the playoffs. As bad as our oline has been a good coordinator can offset that with a good system to some point which would have been good enough for us to win many of the close matchups we have lost. I dont need to hear it from and interview or read it in an article…its obvious that Tedford didnt want to be here and its not without reason. Lovie put his stamp on the offense when Tedford had to leave and refused to hand over the reighns when tedford was healthy. I would have bailed as well. I paint houses for a living and if I got a deposit to start a job to do it my way based on my knowledge of the trade and the customer tells me the day I start the work he wants me to do things my way against what I know to be best for the final results then I will no doubt hand them theyre money back and say thanks but no thanks. Im not going to put my name on someone elses crappy product. Lovie is a good defensive coach and no one can argue his results throughout his career….but until he finds a good oc….which probably will never happen as they all know that theyre going to be handcuffed in theyre own system….this offense will suck as long as lovie is here. I dont see the glaziers firing him until at least 2016 so heres hoping he learned a leason this season. But as they say hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which on fills up faster. It pains me being a Tampa Native to lose all hope in my team but its obvious that lovie is not willing to let go and let an oc do his job. Wish Gruden would have came back. We wont be a winning team again until we get an offenive minded head coach.
December 25th, 2014 at 3:30 pm
My confidence level in Lovie Smith would be through the roof if he would just give his OC total control of the offense. Had he done that Tedford would have come back and we would likely have found a way to make the playoffs. As bad as our oline has been a good coordinator can offset that with a good system to some point which would have been good enough for us to win many of the close matchups we have lost. I dont need to hear it from and interview or read it in an article…its obvious that Tedford didnt want to be here and its not without reason. Lovie put his stamp on the offense when Tedford had to leave and refused to hand over the reighns when tedford was healthy. I would have bailed as well. I paint houses for a living and if I got a deposit to start a job to do it my way based on my knowledge of the trade and the customer tells me the day I start the work he wants me to do things my way against what I know to be best for the final results then I will no doubt hand them theyre money back and say thanks but no thanks. Im not going to put my name on someone elses crappy product. Lovie is a good defensive coach and no one can argue his results throughout his career….but until he finds a good oc….which probably will never happen as they all know that theyre going to be handcuffed in theyre own system….this offense will suck as long as lovie is here. I dont see the glaziers firing him until at least 2016 so heres hoping he learned a leason this season. But as they say hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which on fills up faster. It pains me being a Tampa Native to lose all hope in my team but its obvious that lovie is not willing to let go and let an oc do his job. Wish Gruden would have came back. We wont be a winning team again until we get an offenive minded head coach…………
December 25th, 2014 at 3:57 pm
HawaiianBuc Says:
“Schiano should have been given another year.”
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Gruden should have never been fired. But guess what, they both did. Time to move on.
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To where? We’re already in the basement of the NFL now!
Glazers take note!
How much further are you willing to push us fans? Ownership has an obligation to put the best product possible on the field.
Hire a President of football operations that can find us a coach!
December 25th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
If lovie is the worst coach in the eyes of so many on this site than we need to find a way to judge this claim. 1st the coaches in the nfc south: with all the talent the other teams have and thier coaches this division is still horreble. rivera has been a HC twice and has never even taken a team to a conference playoff game. M.Smith has wasted that atlanta team and we all know how sean peyton won that superbowl. I would say that lovie is better than all of them since he coached a team with less talent in a harder division and this season how bad are the Bucs really compared to the other teams in this division? In the nfc east: tom coughlin and reid that’s it. The nfc west: seahawks hc (better team), Harbaugh maybe but not by a lot (better team) and his organization prefers their gm over him. NFC north: Packers hc (better team and HOF qb), THATS’S IT.
December 25th, 2014 at 4:28 pm
So the argument that coach Smith is the worst coach is not factual and based on spur of the moment emotions. The Bucs are not irrelevant in the nfl, they have more ads on national tv than a lot of other teams in the nfl. Are not in the news for dysfunction and for all of their talent evaluational bust there have been some gems plus getting rid of players that didn’t help. So you can’t say with merit that coach smith runs the show but only give the gm credit for evans and other finds. Bucs supporters should realize that they have one of the best coaches in the league but unlike his other coaching stops he was not able to turn this bucs team into a winner with players that most Bucs fans considered garbage or busts anyway.
December 25th, 2014 at 4:40 pm
With no offense, below average special teams, and an improving defense the Bucs were still in contention to win this division for most of the season. If the offense could have added anything and McCown didn’t play like a scrub the Bucs would have won this division outright. Don’t think so, then go back and look at the results for every game this season. Then you have those who say that while with the Bears coach smith missed the playoffs 3 out of 4 years but that doesn’t tell the whole story. If you were a Bears fan and watched every game then look at what their record was with cutler in and what happened when he went down for a finger nail injury. That’s why national attention is showing how much of a scrub he really is.
December 25th, 2014 at 4:51 pm
Bucs fans don’t let trolls sway you into believing that the Bucs aren’t improving or that you have the wrong leadership because their teams suck ballz. I see some of these same usernames at other newspaper comment sections and you know who you are. Even with their record the Bucs are not a laughing stock in the nfl but the bears are with all that talent in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The Bucs would rather contend for a decade than go from worst to first like the chiefs and be mediocre afterwards. R.E.L.A.X.
December 25th, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Bring back Schiano! Firing him was a huge mistake which cost us the playoffs this year! 🙁
December 26th, 2014 at 3:06 am
I swear I don’t understand how anyone says to give him another year. Out if your minds… Give me Josh McDaniels- Anyone but a position coach like Lovie. Worst head coach in the nfl- so much worse than Schiano coaching a team he chose above ten others like Andy areid 2 years ago- but our head coach is a 1960s nfl tard
December 26th, 2014 at 12:16 pm
The simple fact is Dovie doesn’t care he’s going to get his 5mil. no matter what. Plus the Glasers don’t care with all the money they got. If Dovie’s still here next year it will prove my point. I think the best thing the Glaser’s could do would be to sell the team.
December 26th, 2014 at 9:17 pm
L&L do not deserve the right to select the players in this upcoming draft. Besides Evans who was a no brainer, our last draft and Free Agency was a bust. Terrible scouting done by our coaching staff. I am going to be really worried they will find a way to mess this up. This upcoming March thru June will determine the success or lack there of we will have for the next several seasons. I would be more comfortable with a coach with a proven record picking players and properly evaluating them before shelling out millions for backup or worse players.