Joe Gets Personal With Team Glazer
March 26th, 2015
What a great privilege Joe had to probe the mind and heart of Team Glazer at the NFL Owners Meetings this week.
Joe could not resist the opportunity to explore how Team Glazer really feels about Buccaneers football, not just about boring matters of business.
Here’s the exchange with Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer:
JoeBucsFan.com: You chose the slogan, “It’s A Bucs Life.” I think a lot of Bucs fans kind of think the team is just a business to you and your family. Can you talk about what the fan experience is for you, not as the business owner, what is that like for you?
Joel Glazer: Nobody loves the game of football more than myself or my family. I mean, we grew up huge football fans. Really, when it comes to Sundays, or Monday, or Sunday nights, it’s all about football. You know, yeah, ultimately the NFL is a business but nobody’s heart is pounding more when the game is close. Nobody’s more frustrated after a loss. And there’s nobody that’s feeling better after a win. So how do I feel? I would say, as a fan, ask yourself how you feel, and that’s how we’re feeling. It’s the same emotions. It’s the same passion. And, you know a lot of people may not know me personally, or know any of my family members personally. But the people who do know us close, they know how we feel about the game.
Joe: So on a Monday morning, is it a tough balance ever, when you are the guy who can actually go to the coach and say, ‘Hey, What the hell was that?’ Is that a tough balance?
Glazer: (Laughs) You have to be reasonable. I mean at the end of the day …
Joe: I’m not saying that you do it.
Glazer: But you do have to make sure as the owner, ultimately, if something doesn’t make sense, it’s not that you’re walking in there every day asking about this player or that play call, but just to know people are accountable, whether it’s coaches or general managers or anybody within our organization, and that there’s logic behind things that happen. Ultimately, our belief is leave it up to the football people. Let them do their job. Be as supportive as possible, but if there’s something that’s just obviously crazy going on, you can’t just sit on your hands and let it go buy. For the most part, you know, people are hard working, dedicated to winning and you just got to be supportive.
Joe can’t express body language and intensity through direct quotes, but Glazer was quite passionate during this exchange. He seemed to quickly transform from CEO to regular beer-swilling Bucs fan yearning for a victory. Joe’s analogy is a bit exaggerated, but not too much.
Yes, Joe has no doubt Joel Glazer has joined Bucs fans in experiencing excruciatingly painful Sundays over the past four years.
Joe will share more from his chat with Joel Glazer throughout the week. In case you missed it, here are Glazer’s comments on Jameis Winston and a discussion on impatience in the NFL.
March 26th, 2015 at 9:57 am
A simple question for all. Do you love the Bucs? Do you want them to be great?
Would you trade that greatness or postpone it for a decade if it meant making your extended family incredibly wealthy for life?
Seriously think about it. Would you rather be mind numblingly wealthy or see the Bucs win the S.B.?
Call me greedy but I gotta go with “show me the money!” That’s exactly what the Glazers did and I do not fault them. In fact I applaud their business acumen they pulled off a major coup.
Now they’re ready to enjoy the fruits of their efforts and the Bucs will become more of an interest for them again. A rich person’s playtoy if you will.
Fortunately for us the Glazers do not seem as meddling as Jerry Jones or that scourge of DC Daniel Snyder.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:00 am
You know the saying…”If you have 3 QBs you don’t have one”……perhaps the same can be said for owners….
March 26th, 2015 at 10:01 am
I sat in the owners suite for a game once. I sat right behind the Glazers and paid close attention to them. They do seem very involved with all the staff and players. And for the most part, very caught up in the game as fans.
That game was a while ago. Chucky was still coaching and at half time Bruce Allen came in and did a quick meet (I passed on the photo op) and greet with the other regular fans that were invited to the suite. It was a heck of an experience. Besides all the food on an awesome buffet and all the free beer you could pound down, they gave us each a gift bag filled with goodies to take home. Inside the bag was a full press style info sheet on all players and coaches, car flags, a new reebok team issued Bucs hat, and best of all, an official Wilson football with “owners suite” stamped on the side.
We had a hell of a time and it was just a random thing that we were invite. Joel found us sitting in the nose bleeds about 20 mins before kickoff
March 26th, 2015 at 10:01 am
Guys u win with talent – spare no expense on scouting and let the coaches coach and the scouts scout
March 26th, 2015 at 10:06 am
Sick of the debate…awesome story.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:14 am
the 3 in 1 bosses just hasn’t worked. one of these guys needs to be the final say because this panel decision type thing going on has led to nothing but losses, look at yourselves and your decisions then consider what kind of people your hiring under you
March 26th, 2015 at 10:19 am
No complaints on the Glzer family. Other than when they didnt spend money when Rah was coach, and i think they mustve just had money tied up somewhere else…(ManU)
We all remember the previous owners..They guys are good for Tampa as a whole. And they want to win.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:20 am
Over the years I’ve met a lot of wealthy, second generation business owners….some good, some not so…..an NFL team is also different because your “customers” are the season ticket holders and fans who buy stuff, watch the games and take more than a passive interest.
One thing that always stands out to me is that the model franchise is in a tiny market and owned by the good folks of Green Bay.
Sometimes NFL owners might take some advice from Pogo in the old cartoon series of the same name:
“We have met the enemy and it’s us!”
March 26th, 2015 at 10:25 am
Great article Jose’!! You should have asked Mr. Glazer what he said to Lovie after the last game….you know…when HIS coach lost the game intentionally for the 1st pick instead of the 2nd pick!
I guess that is why all you Famous Porky Jameis mob are ok with having QB1 be a guy with no moral compass! It does not matter if he assaults women or steals food when he has all he can eat given to him! If the HC is ok with throwing a football game for ANY reason, then Famous Porky Jameis is the QB for you!
Hey Joe…Please tell the Big Poodle if he says 1 more time that Famous Porky was not found guilty in the first trial again, I am going to slap the poodle fuzz off of him! Famous Porky did not answer one (1) question, the FSU PD failed to investigate, and Pinellas County, the Prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich, let alone a Famous Porky Jameis! In Pinellas County, Winston would be doing 25 years for that assault.
But go ahead…the fact now that he is accused of assaulting two (2) women does not matter. I am ok if you say Famous Porky was protected like every other football player on every other college campus, but he was NOT investigated or he would have been charges. As for the Big Poodle, if Famous Porky is so innocent, why did he destroy the video that would have proved to the entire world it was consensual?????
Loser Lovie has no guts and they are mean’t for each other. The can throw games…whatever. Good coaches hate to lose and they win without #1 draft picks!!
Fire Lovie NOW!
Greg Schiano
March 26th, 2015 at 10:25 am
I like the Glazers as owners. I’d take them any day of the week over Dan Snyder or Jerry Jones.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:27 am
Team Glazer needs to consider a new coach!
Great article Jose’!! You should have asked Mr. Glazer what he said to Lovie after the last game….you know…when HIS coach lost the game intentionally for the 1st pick instead of the 2nd pick!
I guess that is why all you Famous Porky Jameis mob are ok with having QB1 be a guy with no moral compass! It does not matter if he assaults women or steals food when he has all he can eat given to him! If the HC is ok with throwing a football game for ANY reason, then Famous Porky Jameis is the QB for you!
Hey Joe…Please tell the Big Poodle if he says 1 more time that Famous Porky was not found guilty in the first trial again, I am going to slap the poodle fuzz off of him! Famous Porky did not answer one (1) question, the FSU PD failed to investigate, and Pinellas County, the Prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich, let alone a Famous Porky Jameis! In Pinellas County, Winston would be doing 25 years for that assault.
But go ahead…the fact now that he is accused of assaulting two (2) women does not matter. I am ok if you say Famous Porky was protected like every other football player on every other college campus, but he was NOT investigated or he would have been charges. As for the Big Poodle, if Famous Porky is so innocent, why did he destroy the video that would have proved to the entire world it was consensual?????
Loser Lovie has no guts and they are mean’t for each other. The can throw games…whatever. Good coaches hate to lose and they win without #1 draft picks!!
Fire Lovie NOW!
Greg Schiano
March 26th, 2015 at 10:27 am
considering now that the blackout rule is probably nonexistent for good the glazers have to put a winner on the field because that’s where the money is and since the league voted to do away with this blackout rule he knows there has to be interest in this bucs franchise and your not going to do that with a trade down or a defensive end 1st overall
March 26th, 2015 at 10:31 am
@Greg Schiano
Why don’t you fix that Gap in your teeth and STFU you overrated POS!
March 26th, 2015 at 10:44 am
@Greg Schiano
your beyond moronic. shock us and talk about something other than your man crush on lovie smith, we get it a lot of people don’t like the guy but you do realize we’re like a month away from the draft let it go already we cant fire him now. if you want to hire koetter as head coach on such short notice sorry this isn’t Arizona state or boise because that’s the only head coaching experience he has, he’s only been a coordinator at this level stfu already
March 26th, 2015 at 11:23 am
*buy *by
March 26th, 2015 at 11:44 am
I have no doubt the Glazers want to win. As business people and football fans, it benefits them to win. More wines=more notoriety=more ticket sales=successful business model.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:56 am
Note for “Haters” – get a life and stop clogging up this board with your moral judgments (as if you are so perfect that you have the right to judge). If you rely on emotion and can’t employ logical reasoning in your statements, they have no value for the other readers.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:04 pm
@bucs4lyfe
the glazers have to put a winner on the field because that’s where the money is
Oh if only that were true. In the NFL the money is actually in the TV deal. That may have driven the no blackout rule as much as any legal threats. Local stations do not wish to give away that gold mine.
But I do not dismiss your point. The fans in the stands may be only the icing on the cake but the Glazers will not wish to walk away from that icing.
When they were leveraging and sucking for air trying to pull off the ManU deal the cake was all the desperately needed…TV money is ALWAYS there.
But again I do not disagree with your point…perhaps we differ a bit on degree…they won’t be desperate to get fans in the stands, but who doesn’t want some icing on your cake.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:13 pm
The Glazers are the best owners the Buccaneers have ever had.
That dude does a great Schiano impression, what an a-hole.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Love this read. I want an owner that is as emotionally invested into my team as I am. Good on you, Mr. Glazer. Go Bucs.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Joe – congrats on moving up the food chain so dramatically and being considered real journalists instead of just some Bucs opinion blog. You would not have been invited to be one of the few able to interview Joel Glazer if this were not the case. I watched the whole Lovie breakfast interview – and you asked some of the best questions that were posed to Lovie.
Congrats again. You guys hard work and diligence at providing excellent Bucs coverage is really starting to pay off. I hope that is the case for your bottom line as well.
Thanks for the kind words, man. – Joe
March 26th, 2015 at 9:08 pm
“In case you missed it, here are Glazer’s comments on Jameis Winston a…”
– Joe
This is a prime example of how one sided you are, lol. Here is a quote from Glazer
“We found both Jameis and Marcus to be impressive young men when we spent our time with them. Great success in college. Both academically very successful. Unbeliveable amount of work on both players and other potential players in this draft. We as an organization are comfortable.”
Glazer expressed a like for both quarterbacks, spending time with both. But, of course, Joe see’s it as all Winston.
March 26th, 2015 at 9:13 pm
bucs4lyfe Says
“the 3 in 1 bosses just hasn’t worked.”
Actually, it is 4 in 1 now. Their sister has become involved.
March 26th, 2015 at 9:16 pm
Buddhaboy Says:
March 26th, 2015 at 10:19 am
“No complaints on the Glzer family. Other than when they didnt spend money when Rah was coach, and i think they must’ve just had money tied up somewhere else…”
I believe it was more because the owners wanted to make sure the players had as little money as possible going into the lockout. Remember, it had been planned, and then delayed at last minute before it finally went down?
The glazers have never been shy about spending money, so long as it is spent wisely…except when the lockout was looming.
March 26th, 2015 at 9:18 pm
@Tom Edrington
Packers fans do not actually own the team. Legally, it is a fictional ownership.
March 26th, 2015 at 9:21 pm
Can someone explain to me why “Greg Schiano” thinks there were two rapes?
March 30th, 2015 at 4:04 pm
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