Sticky Spot Dooms Dietrich-Smith
December 7th, 2014
A Hollywood screenwriter couldn’t concoct the stuff that’s happened during this Bucs season. And you thought Greg Schiano, The MRSA and sleepy, leaky Josh Freeman was a fictional horror movie.
This year’s show includes horror, comedy, tear-jerkers and more.
Trailing the Lions 14-3 in the second quarter today, center Evan Dietrich-Smith rolled a snap to Josh McCown, who was under center. Detriot recovered the fumble at the Bucs’ 35-yard line, and the Lions quickly took a 17-3 lead. Darn, just when you thought things were better now that backup center Garrett Gilkey wasn’t starting.
McCown was asked about the muffed snap after the game and replied Dietrich-Smith found a bad spot on the Detroit turf. That’s right, not a divot on grass, not a frozen field in December, but a tricky patch of plastic grass.
“Evan just said he caught a bad spot in the ground and the ball didn’t come up,” McCown said. “So those are just bad breaks.”
McCown elaborated to say that when Dietrich Smith dragged the ball to snap it, then it got stuck.
Jiminy Christmas! Did the dog eat Dietrich-Smith’s homework, too?
This is a 300-pound tough guy snapping a football on artificial turf. A sticky spot? If so, perhaps it was from a Bucs offensive lineman soiling himself in fear of the Lions’ suffocating front-4.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:20 pm
this is what happens when the center and guards are scared and getting manhandled all game. then you will skittish mistakes like this.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:26 pm
Wow….just WOW!!!
December 7th, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Not a big EDS fan, but I see this as more of a (previously) proven pro making a hapless error in the face of a pointless season. Same reason why Jackson drops balls and Mankins body slams D-lineman. Doesn’t make it right tho – only people acting like they have to go out there and earn their money are the ones that don’t have it yet…. funny coincidence.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Forget Elmers, they need gorilla glue.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Earlier today, I called #90 the worst free agent pickup ever. Upon further review That title actually belongs to Dietrich-Smith!
December 7th, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Looking like the sucks might get the 1st overall pick
December 7th, 2014 at 7:47 pm
I miss last years offensive line. i think josh mccown need to get vocal with his offensive linemen. i am sure if peyton manning or tom brady got knocked down that much they would have yelled at those o linemen at half time. most good QB’S in the NFL do get vocal when they have to deal with what happened in todays game. todays QB pressure was worse than what v. testaverde or trent dilfer had to deal with.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Here we com LA…
December 7th, 2014 at 7:52 pm
So McCoy dislocates his kneecap and they put him back in the game?
December 7th, 2014 at 7:53 pm
I wonder if the ball was sticky and that is why McCown missed so many receivers?
December 7th, 2014 at 7:53 pm
I did not watch the game. Did I miss anything.
Feel bad for all the people that bothered to invest their time in this sh!t bag of a team with a moron of a coach.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Not really anything positive w today’s game. Not that I thought they had a snowballs chance in hell of winning today.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Can’t WAIT to hear the spin on McCoy’s injury. Someone needs to get fired on THAT decision alone.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Please end this franchise and move it! This is damnation for the NFL.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:58 pm
World class excuse makers, the whole sorry bunch of them. No life, no energy, no will, no wonder.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:58 pm
Hey, you aint moving our beloved Bucs franchise anywhere.
December 7th, 2014 at 7:59 pm
The Glazers made a huge mistake, Instead of firing Coach Rah, they should have demoted him and made him do the radio call with Deckerhoff!
Deckerhoff ” Oh my, thats the six sack of the day for McCown!!!”
Rah ” Thats a grown man team right there!!!”
December 7th, 2014 at 7:59 pm
He’s gone next year….Bucs will overhaul the O line…..again
December 7th, 2014 at 8:03 pm
Sticky Spot? Was Kellen Winslow Jr there?
December 7th, 2014 at 8:05 pm
I’d rather see glennon at this point.
December 7th, 2014 at 8:05 pm
Did Josh McCown cry again? Or is he all out of tears?
December 7th, 2014 at 8:08 pm
Real football being played tonight Pats Chargers.
December 7th, 2014 at 8:10 pm
Did Lovie hire another coach to count the players on the Field this week?
December 7th, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Bad spot on the field is the Bucs
December 7th, 2014 at 8:25 pm
What a lame ass excuse.
Real reason EDS fumbled the snap = He is garbage. That’s all folks…
December 7th, 2014 at 8:26 pm
tgreg Says:
December 7th, 2014 at 8:13 pm
Bad spot on the field is the Bucs
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LOL!
December 7th, 2014 at 8:30 pm
I’m sick of EDS’s sh1t!! He is the worst center in the league. It would nice if him and McCown went back to the NFC North and but focked eachother. Even those ug azz jerseys are too good to hold up their stupid worthless names!!
December 7th, 2014 at 8:32 pm
Hmmm. How does the raiders win play into the draft order
December 7th, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Lovie’s comments, excuses, as well as his actions have been a joke all season long. It was inevitable that it would rub off on his players. They are simple following the example from their leader. The best part of this comedy show,through actions and words, has been finding humor each and every week. The Comedy Channel has offered Lovie and his team a top spot on the network now. Congrats Lovie, you made the Bucs relevant again.
December 7th, 2014 at 8:41 pm
Oakland wins!!!!
Bucs have the overall #1 pick!!!
December 7th, 2014 at 8:45 pm
teams with 2 wins:
Raiders
Bucs
Jets
Jags
Titans
1st pick is up for grabs between 5 teams
December 7th, 2014 at 8:49 pm
Off topic …But, I cant believe know one is talking about the Bucs have the first pick in the 2015 Draft after Raiders beating 49ers. Come on Joe! where you at? 🙂 jj.
December 7th, 2014 at 8:50 pm
Sticky spot on the turf? Are we still talking about football?
December 7th, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Are we first do we beat oakland with the tie breaker ?
December 7th, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Thanks Dallas, humor now is the best medicine.
December 7th, 2014 at 8:55 pm
Real good chance we’ll lose to the Panthers next week in Charlotte after the whipping Car put on No. I thought we had a good chance to win that game before this Sunday but not so much now. Which is good. at this point I dif want the first pick.
December 7th, 2014 at 8:56 pm
@mad max
The bucs played the easiest schedule out of all the 2 win teams. They have the first pick. Now if they don’t win ( and that is a lock with Lovie as coach/gm) the bucs have the #1 pick!!!
December 7th, 2014 at 9:17 pm
@Realist….AWESOME!!! Thanks for clearing it up for me.
December 7th, 2014 at 10:10 pm
This is what really p!$$e$ me OFF. Schiano should have coached this year, the final year of his contract. 1) Good chance we would not have wasted so much money on these FA busts as we have done this year. 2) Jim Harbaugh will be available in 2015, just about every source is reporting this. 3) We passed on Manziel but more importantly we passed on Bridgewater. Would love to know who Schiano-Dominick would have drafted. 4) Could of would have avoided the Tedford debacle 5) Still cannot fathom how EDS is an “upgrade” over Zuttah????? 6) How does Jacques Smith (league minmum salary) have double the numbers of the multi-millonaire Michael “invisible man” Johnson? I do not know who deserves the most severe “B!*$&% slap, Glazer Brat 1, Glazer brat 2, Lovie, Licht, all the above or someone else. We are Y-E-A-R-S away from having a team that can even sniff .500
December 7th, 2014 at 10:11 pm
Dietrich-Smith has been horrible all season.
I understand the need to clear cap space, but the one ol guy they should have kept was Zuttah.
Is he a free agent in 2015?
December 7th, 2014 at 10:29 pm
eds is pure garbage
December 7th, 2014 at 10:46 pm
We sent pro-bowl Zuttah to the Ravens for this?
December 8th, 2014 at 1:36 am
Johnsapp – you know it’s bad when we’re rationalizing thing being better under Schiano and Dominik. Agree though, I think we’re far away from even .500
December 8th, 2014 at 8:19 am
Every game that goes by, just compounds our anger, that this coach, was arrogant(incredibly stupid) enough to dismantle last years O line.
December 8th, 2014 at 8:34 am
bunch of idiots now people are talking about moving the team, why do you move. how many mulligans was bowers given by schiano? we’ve put some horrible teams out on the field the last few years and fake ass fans come here every week and talk about this team like theres nothing to look forward to like there are no players playing lights out on this team like theres nothing to look forward to….hell the first overall pick is something to look forward to in my opinion but 3 games left to be talking about moving the team when you know you’ll be praying to the football god’s this offseason is stupid, ill be rooting for this team as soon as the new year begins, rooting for them to get rid of dead weight like Michael and leonard Johnson, it’s so bad it can only get better people. lovie is a proven winner and theres only one other proven winner on this team and that’s the guy we got in free agency after winning a superbowl championship last year. how can you think players that have sucked for years are more valuable than a proven winning head coach in this league, give it a rest already or find a new team
December 8th, 2014 at 12:44 pm
@bucs4lyfe- Funny, isn’t it! All these supposed fans! I’m sure many of them were clamoring for Johnson and Collins and EDS. Now they are all jumping ship, even on Lovie. With fans like these, who needs opponents?! Pathetic! Don’t worry though, as soon as the Bucs start winning these same “fans” will be telling us how they’ve been fans since ’76!