Bruce Arians Talks Offensive “Waves”
December 6th, 2019
Bucco Bruce Arians was asked about how his team is adjusting to its new schemes on Buccaneers Radio this week, and Arians gave sort of a state-of-the-adjustment address.
Twelve games into a regime it should be hard to say a team is struggling with new systems. That’s enough time and experience to develop consistency, though Joe isn’t discounting the value of experience and coaching, and how they should improve everything going foward.
“It takes some time,” Arians said. “I think usually, defensively, it’s earlier. But we have so many young players on defense it’s taken longer. But it’s really coming in to its right now. Offensively, it’s still in waves. You know, we’re really good and not so good, then really good. I’d like to see some more consistency out of the offense.”
More consistency out of the offense would mean more wins. The Bucs are very capable of scoring 28 points per game. And what happened last week in the second half to the offense was downright embarrassing.
But it’s hard to be consistent offensively with a sad stable of running backs by NFL standards. And fumbles and interceptions, of course, are a killer of consistency.
The very athletic Colts defensive line should give the Bucs fits in the running game, Joe believes. And Joe suspects the Arians and Byron Leftwich know that well.
Joe’s looking for an exceptionally pass-heavy attack on Sunday.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:24 am
“pass-heavy attack” = interception heavy JW.
December 6th, 2019 at 10:40 am
AKickInTheBucNuts Says:
December 6th, 2019 at 10:24 am
“pass-heavy attack” = interception heavy JW.
Unfortunately, yep. But this would be a great win for the team and fans.
December 6th, 2019 at 11:09 am
I honestly wasn’t that embaressed by the offense lol. IT’s not like they just were going 3 and out 3 and out.
They got into FG range on a 6 minute drive with their 2nd possession and sh1t the bed on a key 4th down play. In general our 4th down play calling sucks a lot.
But if we convert there we are likely talking about a 10 minute drive that probably wins the game. Up 25 points with the defense playing like that, I had no issue with the approach really. Just needed to execute a couple plays better and the game would have stayed a blowout vs a very solid win lol
December 6th, 2019 at 11:16 am
Re: bojim
I agree.
3 wins in a row is rare in these parts.
I forget what that feels like.
Hope they do it.
December 6th, 2019 at 12:06 pm
The 2nd half offense wasn’t at all embarrassing, it was totally predictable. This is a team that is going to struggle playing with leads because they are not in position to have leads very often. In the day of Dungy and Gruden, those teams often went full turtle shell as well in the 2nd half with leads, the big difference as that the defense made stops and got turnovers so points still came in bits and pieces. These Bucs don’t plays with leads very often, they either take it late and hold on for the win or give it up early and try to play catch up.
This is a pretty good team. They’ve got 10-11 win type talent right now and could conceivably be 8-4 right now. As with any young team they have to take their bumps and bruises and learn their lessons. They will be much better next year with another year of experience under their belts and an entire season and offseason in the same systems. If they can continue to build and finish strong and re-sign some of their front 7 free agents and fortify themselves in the draft on the OLine and front 7 depth, this team will contend in 2020.
December 6th, 2019 at 12:14 pm
Brandon
10 – 11 win talent… clean your crack pipe homer…
December 6th, 2019 at 12:43 pm
The offenses main job in that 2nd half was to eat clock. They actually did their job. The goal is to win football games not worry about statistics. The Jags had 3 freaking points on the board going into the 4th…….Negligent to call it embarrassing and really disrespectful.
When did the offense need to score in the second half? Right, never.
December 6th, 2019 at 4:25 pm
An exceptionally pass-heavy attack usually equals a loss for us.
So I’m hoping you’re dead wrong.
The bigger factor won’t be so much whether we’re having success running, but whether we get down by multiple scores early.
If the game is close, we can stay more balanced, even if we’re only averaging 3.5 ypc or something like that.
December 6th, 2019 at 4:53 pm
“The Bucs are very capable of scoring 28 points per game”
I guess so considering that’s exactly how many points per game the Bucs are averaging this year. 28.3 actually.
And yes maxi_pad – there is 10+ wins per year of talent on this team right now.
Only 7 teams are averaging more than 26 points per game this season.
Baltimore, San Fran, K.C., Tampa Bay, Seattle, New England, Minnesota
How many of those teams are getting 10+ wins and going to the playoffs this year?
All but the Bucs most likely.
If the Bucs Defense and secondary in particular had been as “fixed” as it has looked the last 2 weeks – this team would have 8 or 9 wins already this year.