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The Rams’ OC weighs in
Joe’s always sniffing around sports radio in the cities of Bucs opponents and reading all kinds of reports to get the pulse of the opposition.
Twice in the past week, Joe has picked up on a little regret in the hearts of Rams faithful and media that they didn’t draft Gerald McCoy with the No. 1 overall pick in 2010. [read more]
Olivia Stacey gets Akeem Spence to open up about his football axiom and what he did with his first paycheck from Team Glazer, among other things, in this TBO.com video.
Joe’s not buying what Darrelle Revis was selling last night
No matter how much Darrelle Revis wants to hype Rams backup quarterback Kellen Clemens, Joe’s not buying it.
Clemens is not a good quarterback. As a starter, he’s one of the worst in the NFL.
Greg Schiano told us yesterday that the Bucs are only two pieces away from being a dominant defense. That means they’re close, and the likes of Clemens should struggle mightily Sunday if Schiano is assessing his team accurately. [read more]
“Hawk” Goldson said the Bucs secondary is still progressing and learning to play as a group.
When Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik signed safety Dashon “Hawk” Goldson and traded for cornerback Darrelle Revis, the Bucs seemed magically transformed from the second-worst pass defense in NFL history to one of the best in the league.
That didn’t happen right away, in part because Revis wasn’t 100 percent coming off his knee injury. If you talk to Revis now, he will admit he’s still not 100 percent. But he’s pretty close. [read more]
The ghost of Raheem Morris lingers at One Buc Palace.
When former Bucs coach Raheem Morris manned the pirate ship, it was one big chest-bump at One Buc Palace. With rap music blaring at practices (in 2009) and the head coach hanging with players in trendy south Tampa hot spots, it was more like One Buc Club than an NFL franchise.
And it showed on the field in 2011. [read more]
Veteran Ch, 10 sportscaster Dave Wirth hits on key Bucs topics in this Bucs-Rams preview video exclusively for Joe. Thanks Dave! Wirth talks about Mike Glennon’s alleged regression and the future of Greg Schiano, among other topics. Enjoy!
Yes, Joe already dove into how Bucs commander Greg Schiano feels the Bucs are a couple of pieces away from being a dominant defense. That’s probably true.
Now when Schiano was pressed for what those pieces were by Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune, Schiano played dodgeball, only saying people who watch the Bucs closely already know what those pieces are and they would be addressed in free agency and the draft.
Then Schiano admitted he potentially may have one of those pieces already, citing Will Gholston as a potential stud. [read more]
Greg Schiano says the Bucs are close to dominant
“We have good players, proven methods, good schemes, good coaches. So when you have all those good components and you’re doing things the right way, it’ll turn. You know everybody who’s been in competitive athletics goes through some stretches where, you know, they wish it were better. But if you have the components, now you’re kidding yourself if you don’t have the components, then you’re just wishing, but I know we have the components. So you just gotta stick to our guns and it’ll turn.” — Greg Schiano, Sept. 20, 2013.
Wait a minute, Greg Schiano said three months ago that all the components were in place for the Bucs to win. Perhaps that was accurate, given that the Bucs have won four of six games.
But Schiano had a somewhat different assessment today, when talking about building a championship defense at One Buc Palace. [read more]
There are bad signs for Lavonte David’s shot at NFL Defensive Player of the Year
A fun thing about Sunday’s Bucs-Lambs game is the meeting of Lavonte David and Rams stud, third-year defensive end Robert Quinn. His 15 sacks are second in the NFL.
These are two guys who absolutely should be in the conversation for the NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
No Buccaneer has won the award since Derrick Brooks in 2002. Warren Sapp took the honor in 2000, as did Lee Roy Selmon in 1979. [read more]
Mike Glennon has eaten too much turf on the road this season
There’s doom and gloom surrounding the prospects for the Bucs offense Sunday in St. Louis.
Never mind that St. Louis doesn’t have much of a pass defense, 27th-ranked in the NFL.
Never mind that Drew Brees, despite an off day and two interceptions, lit up the Rams for 393 yards in the air Sunday.
No, it’s all about location and Mike Glennon, says one NFL insider. [read more]
This is a first for Joe. In the more than five years Joe has had this site up, Joe has never offered any content on this here corner of the Interwebs from WFLA-TV Channel 8 princess Gayle Guyardo. And
that’s not a good thing. It’s just, she rarely does sports pieces because that’s not her gig. Likely still flying high over her Auburn Tigers, Gayle decided to take a break from interviewing presidential candidates and the “King of All Media,” Howard Stern, which was maybe her biggest “get,” and dip her toe into the waters of Bucs football. She had a lengthy sitdown with Bucs commander Greg Schiano, who discussed his private life, how he handles the down times, and how much Schiano loves living in the Tampa Bay area. It’s a pretty neat interview; though very, very, very bad angles of Gayle. TV is a visual medium, guys, com’on!
Joe noted seven weeks ago that former Bears director of college scouting, Greg Gabriel, seized a national forum to lobby for Jerry Angelo to replace Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik.
Joe saw that as Angelo stirring the pot, via has former employee, to garner attention. Angelo also just so happens to live in the Tampa Bay area.
Gabriel was curiously chattering again yesterday. [read more]
These are tough times for West Point grad and former Army officer Mike Sullivan, the Bucs’ offensive coordinator, who took to the One Buc Palace podium yesterday to answer questions about the NFL’s worst offense.
You can listen to the full 620wdae.com audio below. Sullivan, as usual, is fully accountable. Asked early about whether he might be distracted, Sullivan quotes poet Rudyard Kipling to explain his focused approach to his job. That was moving and admirable, but another bad sign for Sullivan’s Buccaneers future.
The development of Will Gholston is a bigger accomplishment than it seems
Gerald McCoy told a stunning story last night on the Buccaneers Radio Network, one that reflects terribly on Michigan State football and shines a stunning light on Bucs rookie defensive end William Gholston.
McCoy was asked on WDAE-AM 620 to talk about the recent rise of Gholston, whose playing time and performance has increased dramatically the past few games. [read more]
Tim Wright is in rare NFL company
A constant irritant of Bucs fans is the lack of a quality tight end. Fans have kvetched about this so much and so often since DJ Toes on the Line was thrown off the team, many fans have been banned from neighborhood watering holes because the innkeepers are sick of the whining.
In fact, when some Bucs fans begin cursing out loud over the Bucs not having a tight end, their dog runs for cover, conditioned to know an angry boot is about to follow. [read more]
It’s part of the holiday season, just like candies and nuts and eggnog and Christmas lights and drunken parties and rotten TV specials and bowl games and bad sweaters. It’s the NFL coaching carousel, when we try to guess which coaches have been naughty and will get bounced.
In his weekly segment with the one and only Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on the show that bears his name, “Mad Dog Unleashed,” heard exclusively on SiriusXM Radio, fight-instigating, barista-training, pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball box score-reading Peter King of SI.com and theMMQB.com fame discussed NFL coaches on the hot seat. [read more]
Dashon Goldson says the 2013 Bucs shouldn’t be plagued by something Raheem Morris said helped sink his team — and his job.
Diehard Bucs fans will remember how Raheem used to moan about how the new NFL labor agreement cut back on physical practices so much that it hurt his young club, especially during a post-lockout season. [read more]
Bucs commander Greg Schiano explained all of those short third down passes that don’t reach the first down marker.
It drive fans up a tree and Joe is no different than those fans in this case. It was never more evident for the Bucs than last Sunday, when time and again Bucs quarterback Mike Glennon would throw to receivers well short of the first down markers.
Almost always, that’s a dead play waiting to happen. With smallish receivers like Tiquan Underwood and Chris Owusu, expecting them to break two or three tackles just to get to the first down marker is a virtual pipedream and, frankly, hangs receivers out to dry. [read more]
In case you missed it, Bucs offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan, a West Point grad, was the subject of a FOX Sports report Monday that claimed he’s in the mix to interview for the Army head coaching job.
Today, Sullivan was asked about it at One Buc Palace, and he politely told reporters it would be inappropriate for him to comment and that he had no plans to do that today.
So it’s pretty clear to Joe that the FOX report had merit.
Sullivan also interviewed for the Chicago Bears head coaching vacancy last January. Regardless, Joe thinks the odds are good that Sullivan will be free to interview for any job he wants in a matter of days. Captaining the NFL’s worst offense is usually a coaching death sentence.
