Hall of Fame QB Bewildered By Bucs Defense
October 2nd, 2018
Believes someone is slacking.
Now, a Hall of Fame quarterback is piling on.
Just about everyone connected to the NFL in some way is downright aghast at the pathetic showing by Mike Smith’s defense in Chicago on Sunday. And it wasn’t just how badly the defense rolled over at the command of Bears coach Matt Nagy.
What really has folks staring in disbelief was that Smith seemed to be more puzzled about what to do than a priest in a house of ill repute, as if Smith froze at the wheel.
Take Kurt Warner. The former Rams, Giants and Cardinals quarterback apparently thought Smith’s challenge to stop a certain play that is basically a trick misdirection was weaksauce.
Cmon @Buccaneers D… how many times in 1 game can u get hit with a “Wheel” route??? That’s a once a game change up usually – I’ve counted 4 already (3 for TDS) & in middle of 3rd qtr!!
— Kurt Warner (@kurt13warner) October 1, 2018
And the next game is on the road in a dome. Boy, and we all know just how stout Smith’s defense has been on the road in domes the past couple of years.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:07 am
Mike Smith should’ve been fired after last season. Koetter’s logic of if we fire Mike Smith then what doesn’t fly. He should’ve already been prepared for that when he chose to bring him back.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:07 am
The Bucs defense is downright OFFENSIVE!
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:08 am
Starting Matt Ryan in fantasy in 2 weeks
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:21 am
So every person with knowledge of football seems applaud by what they say on Sunday yet we are going to just keeping running out the same crap and hope for different results. Unreal how we keep bringing such incompetence into the building.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:22 am
can’t the defense call and audible???
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:26 am
I see folks lining up to start the JW is losing because of the D stance.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:26 am
Yup
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:30 am
The Bears ran the same play over and over. The fact that Smith could’t see this from the booth is puzzling. Spielman broke down how to defend this play during the game. I wish he would have called over and explained it to Smith. This defense has been bad for so long. Any team that’s having any slump in area on offense magically solves it against us. Tribisky has been a pedestrian QB up until he played us on Sunday. There’s no imagination or anything dynamic about how we play defense.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:35 am
In my opinion the whole defense unit including coaches should not get a week off, come in to one buc place and fix this communication/blown coverages problem In a hurry and i don’t mean on the practice field but spend the bye week in the classroom going over film so everyone in the defense including the coaches can get on the same page. This is BEYOND unacceptable!!!!
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:43 am
The wheel route doesn’t fool a JV team that many times in a game
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:47 am
I agree with Rico…..no one on the Buc’s roster should be taking any time off. They should all be at One Buc Place figuring out what the hell they’re doing.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:50 am
Dementia.
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:52 am
Godeep- There is no mention of Jameis here. AND, a blind man can see that this defense is horrible.
But please, by all means, continue with your petty agenda. Every once in a while though, it might be nice to contribute to the actual topic at hand. Just saying!
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:53 am
rico
I agree….
everyone needs to be at OBP in the classroom and on the field full pads correcting whats going on….work on tackling…..work on “communication”….
#NOEXCUSESIN2018!!!!…#PRESSURESONTHECOACHES!!!!….GO BUCS!!!!
October 2nd, 2018 at 10:55 am
You two have to be the same person…..you’re both on the same level of dumbness and you answered your own comment.
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:00 am
Bucsfanman….dude the KID is too effing stupid. Yes I said effing to emphasize the magnitude of the stupidity.
Everyone’s lining up to blame the defense…….
Yeah everyone idiot….everyone….like 99.9% of Bucs fans and Kurt Warner too.
@Joe…some fans should be banned for being this stupid.
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:03 am
Bucsfanman, dont try with godeep. They are a useless troll whose cant get JWs jock out of their mouth for every post.
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:03 am
How many times can one be beat with a simple Wheel route during a game? ANSWER….Repeatedly and as often as you throw it..If you are the Bucs Defense.
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:09 am
’87- I’m trying to keep it together! The sheer stupidity: 1) Of this organization and tolerating failure 2) Of the fan base that’s like one of those pull-string dolls for kids…..”Wah-Wah-Wah”!
STFU and make a change!
For you ’87:
“I’m a low brow but I rock a little know how
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow
Get smart get down with the pow wow
Never been a better time than right now
Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin’ like he talk it
Goodness me can’t you see I’m gonna cough it
Give it away give it away give it away now”
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:09 am
I don’t hear any players defending Smith. He must have taught them how to suck at defending even him. “Communication issues” year after year. Game after game. New students, same lessons, same results. Trubisky even said days before the game that we had a “jumpy” secondary. Perfect for wheel rout success. But THAT many?. That’s lack of coaching and there’s no other way around it.
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:10 am
“Never been a better time than right now”…..to fire Smitty!
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:18 am
Refusing to fire an incompetent coordinator is what eventually got Dungy fired. We all remember how loyal he was to his offensive coordinator Mike Shula. Looks like Dirk may be watching history repeat itself. The whole world can see the defensive emperor Smith has no clothes, why can’t Dirk??
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:34 am
This offense put up a huge amount of points over 3 weeks
So with the caliber of QB Winston is I can’t wait to see a 48 point game
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:53 am
Nice one Bucsfanman.
Was rocking that album yesterday…
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:54 am
BrandonBob
Your statement is factually incorrect.. Dungy fired Shula, at Mckay’s behest, at the end of 1999. Les Steckel was brought in after that.
So Dungy wasn’t fired for not firing a coordinator.
October 2nd, 2018 at 11:56 am
Dungy was fired for not having enough offense to get past Philly.
A little more patience by the Glazers, and we have a completely different recent history…
October 2nd, 2018 at 12:02 pm
lol Fanman.
October 2nd, 2018 at 12:18 pm
unbelievable- For an encore…
“I don’t ever want to feel
Like I did that day…Sunday!
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way…to the Super Bowl!
I don’t ever want to feel
Like I did that day….last Sunday!
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way (yeah yeah)”
Love me some Red Hot Chili Peppers!
October 2nd, 2018 at 12:20 pm
The defensive play they used is called “Smith-magic” this play makes the coverage disappear.
October 2nd, 2018 at 12:29 pm
Lamarcus
I hope youve been starting every qb the bucs play every week. If not start. Ive made some money play daily fantasy riding opposing qbs and wrs. Its been a given 2 years now. Cant believe smitty hasnt been canned yet. The 2 weeks of preparation with the new coordonator are getting shorter n shorter. It cant be if but when. Cmon Glazers step up.
October 2nd, 2018 at 12:39 pm
Who answers their own comment. Lame
October 2nd, 2018 at 1:09 pm
Surely the post game reports, graphs, and stat sheets with TPS report cover sheets that koetter and company is mandating his staff to complete…will identify and fix all our problems! Rolling eyes…
October 2nd, 2018 at 2:16 pm
Warner looks like Ray Liotta in that new TV drug ad.
October 2nd, 2018 at 5:03 pm
“…as if Smith froze at the wheel.”
I see what you did there.
October 2nd, 2018 at 9:05 pm
It’s a cruel curse from the football gods, after blessing us with arguably the greatest defense of all time…
Question is , how long will we suffer and who shall deliver us?
October 3rd, 2018 at 12:44 am
I’m bewildered why Kurt Warner is married to a woman that looks just like Mrs Papadopoulos from Webster.
Yeah that’s a joke that is like 20 years old now, but screw him. I hate Warner for being part of the fix in St Louis that deprived the team of a Super Bowl appearance.