As Antonio Bryant used to like to tell Joe, “Film don’t lie.”

Well, Greg Schiano went to the film of yesterday’s devastating defeat and found plenty of “good stuff.” Schiano said that after dealing with the emotions and disappointment of the loss, his staff saw “a lot of good stuff on that tape” and he addressed a few of those in his afternoon news conference today. There’s nothing groundbreaking in here, but you can listen to every last word from the leader of the New Schiano Order below.

Interestingly, Schiano, among other topics, talks about how the Bucs’ locker room is galvanizing and showing immense character, something Schiano says bodes very well for the second half of the season. Joe can’t wait!

Bucs commander Greg Schiano seemed slightly more upbeat today at his daily presser than he did yesterday, when he looked like a man at the wake of a family member. But he was still subdued less than 24 hours after choking away a three-touchdown lead against the Seahawks.

Schiano, when pressed, talk about the injury status of three key members of the Bucs, safety Dashon Goldson, guard Carl Nicks and running back Doug Martin. Of the three, Schiano believes Goldson has a good shot of playing against the Dolphins a week from tonight and ruled out Nicks. But Schiano did say there is still a chance Martin could suit up.

“Dashon is the furthest along in the process,” Schiano said. “Then, I’d say probably Doug and Carl. Not sure, just have to wait and see how that comes. Hopefully, we get a chance to see them both back playing.

“I don’t know if Carl is (available), Carl would not be in play for next Monday. Right now, Doug [is] and Dashon definitely is.”

Joe has touched on this before, but it bears repeating. With running backs in the NFL (before anyone jumps in, Adrian Peterson is not the rule, but the exception), they have only so much tread on the tires, only so many carries in the tank. The Bucs are in the middle of a lost season. Why risk further injury to such a talented and valuable running back? Shelve Martin for the season.

Joe understands Schiano is currently like a drowning man, desperately grasping at a life preserver just out of reach. Joe gets that. That is why Schiano is so hungry to get Martin back on the field.

This is where the Bucs front office needs to step in and put Martin on the disabled list. Mike James showed yesterday that if the offensive line can block, James is capable of grinding out big yards.

There is simply no reason to jeopardize the long term value of Martin for the short term gain of a lost season. There is simply no logical reason to run Martin out there during the calendar year of 2013.

The more Martin gets beat up now, the less of a chance Martin can help a new Bucs coaching regime down the road.

Can anyone say, “Cadillac Williams?”

Tom Crabtree made a nice catch of Mike James’ jump pass for a touchdown, but his holding penalty in the third quarter killed what looked to be a promising Bucs drive.

Joe has harped on the Bucs getting away from the one thing that worked as beautifully as anything had all year. That was Mike James having his best game since high school and the best game by a Bucs running back this season.

But the blame wasn’t totally on Bucs coaches, at least, not directly.

On the Bucs’ second possession of the second half leading 24-14, James ran through the Seahawks defense for 17 yards for what looked to be a first down on the Bucs-40. Not bad field position at all. But wait. There was a yellow hanky lying on the ground! Holding on Bucs tight end Tom Crabtree. Play nullified.

Instead of the Bucs with the ball at their own 40 with a first down, the Bucs were backed up to their own 30 with a first-and-20. And the Bucs never recovered from that penalty.

Whether it was because Crabtree, due to an injury, had not played a whole lot or if it was simply undisciplined play, Crabtree’s penalty killed what looked to be a promising drive that could have put the Bucs over the top.

Instead, the Bucs are still winless. And Joe asks a rhetorical question once again: How can such a disciplinarian like Greg Schiano have a team that plays so undisciplined?

With so many Bucs fans already focused on next year, Joe will focus on a Buccaneer almost sure to be around Tampa in 2014: rookie tight end Tim Wright.

At the halfway point of this miserable season, Wright has 24 catches for 259 yards and two touchdowns in limited action. The kid’s athletic, has made some very tough catches, and he’s clearly a handful to cover for linebackers.

Undrafted out of (all together now) Rutgers, Wright has come a long way from being a rookie who looked a little lost at times in training camp and when Josh Freeman threw him a sure touchdown pass in New England in Week 3 — one that went through Wright’s hands.

If you like rooting for underdogs, Wright is your guy. Rutgers fans seem to best know him for his two drops the cost Rutgers a conference title last season. And he only caught 50 balls during his college career. He’s also a converted wide receiver that, at roughly 6-4 and 225 pounds, looks like he has no business playing the position in the NFL.

Former Bucs tight end Anthony Becht praised Wright this morning on WDAE-AM 620 and suggested the Bucs need to get him more involved.

Bucs coaches refer to Wright as a “tough guy” who will sacrifice his body and is attacking learning blocking at the position.

In this dismal season, Joe would like the see the Bucs keep developing Wright and grooming him for the future. Wright could be a great legacy from the New Schiano Order.

FOX Sports color analyst Daryl “Moose” Johnston worked the Bucs game yesterday and gives a few thoughts in this brief video recap.

“It’s going to be so hard for them to show up at the facility and get ready for Week 9 on Monday,” Johnston said.

It was one of the finest performances Joe has seen from a Bucs player in a long time. Rookie running back Mike James pounding his way through the Seahawks defense and, playing Steve Alford, hit a short jump shot to Tom Crabtree for a touchdown pass.

James’ one-man gang of a game did not escape the watchful gaze of 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 Sports Illustrated and NBC Sports fame, who knighted James with his “Offensive Player of the Week” honor, as detailed in King’s must-read “Monday Morning Quarterback” column on theMMQB.com.

Mike James, running back, Tampa Bay. Drafted in the sixth round last April by the Bucs after a part-time starting career at the University of Miami, James, in his seventh NFL game, had the best day of any back in football Sunday: 28 carries, 158 yards, 5.6 yards per rush … in Seattle, against a team that had been respectable in run defense. By quarters: 37, 45, 58, 16, and two yards rushing in OT. But it was James’ touchdown pass—the play of the day in the NFL, in my opinion—that made him a lock here. He threw a Tebow-esque two-yard jump-pass touchdown to Tom Crabtree to give the Bucs a 21-0 lead in the second quarter.

A sixth-round draft pick? Why, Joe has never heard of such a thing. Damn, that Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik! What a scoundrel!

Joe will ask again: How in the world (or who?) did the Bucs pull the plug on easily their best offensive weapon yesterday when the Bucs had the Seahawks on the ropes in the fourth quarter? A guy runs for 158 yards and doesn’t touch the ball in the final seven minutes of a close game? In what world?

Joe is confident Team Glazer is asking that same question under their breath today. It is a question with no logical answer.

Joe remains stunned that Mike James’ last touch in regulation came with 7:51 remaining. What?? The Bucs took their best weapon out of the game, rather than make Seattle stop him. Unthinkable!

James returned for a 2nd-and-9 run in overtime before the Bucs fizzled out and the game ended.

It seems Buccaneers Radio Network analyst and former Bucs tight end Anthony Becht also was stunned by James’ lack of use late yesterday. Speaking on WDAE-AM 620 this morning, Becht explained that the Bucs’ offensive decisions did not reward those who were succeeding.

“To me, you know, you got to that point in the game. It was 24 all. Things weren’t going your way. You regroup. You kn0w, you get a fresh start and really you get back to your gameplan where you started the game. We ran the ball very effectively yesterday,” Becht said.

 And it was almost, to me, a little disrespectful to the line and what the running back had done in this game to go out and start that overtime with a pass.”

Joe agrees. What must the offensive line been thinking when the Bucs abandoned the run — with the lead — in the fourth quarter? Every head coach Joe has ever heard openly dreams of closing out games on the ground. That’s a popular offensive lineman fantasy, as well. Keep in mind Greg Schiano spoke all last week about how the Bucs must have a renewed commitment to the run.

Enjoy Becht’s full interview below. Plenty of interesting takes.

Longtime beat writer Rick Stroud was one of a few local media types in the devasted Bucs locker room yesterday, following Tampa Bay’s historic choke job in Seattle. This morning he called in to WDAE-AM 620 and described the postgame scene.

“I’ve never seen a more frustrated football team in all the years that I’ve covered the Bucs,” Stroud said, who explained how “those guys were hurt,” beat up mentally and physically. Stroud also describes a new look for Greg Schiano, one of a beaten man.

It’s a solid interview. Enjoy it below.

If the Bucs weren’t mired in a heinous losing streak, Joe knows legions of fans would be celebrating rookie Mike Glennon’s development.

Yesterday, Glennon showed the ability to improvise, escape, turn two broken plays into deep-throw touchdowns, and have impressive poise in a brutally difficult road environment. It was even obvious he learned from his early season intentional grounding mistakes.

Project Glennon’s current stats through five starts over a 16-game season, and the rookie would flush out 26 touchdowns against just nine interceptions with a 60% plus completion percentage.

That’s all very nice. Joe’s excited. Glennon is doing well. But remember, Joe’s not a big stats guy. Joe wrote over and over and over that Josh Freeman’s horrible career record as a starter was the greatest indictment against him. Why? Because winning is the ultimate intangible when it comes to quarterbacks. It’s important.

Glennon, obviously, is still showing Bucs fans what he’s all about. He looks far better than anyone expected, especially after being dropped into a difficult team riddled with injuries on offense, not to mention other messes. But he’s got to show he can put the team on his back and win a game and play well in the fourth quarter.

Per ESPN, the sun may very soon fade on Greg Schiano’s days in Tampa Bay after Sunday’s choke to Seattle.

Joe thinks it is fair to suggest yesterday’s choke job in Seattle may well have sealed Bucs commander Greg Schiano’s fate with the squad. If you can’t win after holding a three-touchdown lead, then when exactly can you win?

Grim hopes of a turnaround the latter part of the season were very much dashed yesterday.

Joe firmly believes Schiano will last through the end of the month and if Joe were a betting man, he’d lay cash Schiano is still the Bucs coach when the Bucs travel to New Orleans to finish the season.

After that game, the clock is ticking. However, one Bucs beat writer believes the bell to the end of the Schiano era in Tampa Bay very well could ring this week. Pat Yasinskas of ESPN thinks yesterday’s gagging to the Seahawks leaves Team Glazer with little wiggle room.

The Bucs hit their lowest point in Seattle. They squandered a chance for Schiano to say, “Hey, look at what my system can do if it’s run right.”

But that didn’t happen and the Glazers might be at a point where they need to make a big choice. Remember what I said about them not liking being embarrassed. I can’t emphasize that enough.

The next game on the schedule is a Monday night contest (Nov. 11) against the Miami Dolphins. It will be on national television in a sold-out stadium that rarely sells out. The Glazers have to decide what’s worse — going the interim route or run the risk of letting a national audience see Schiano get booed out of Raymond James Stadium.

Joe isn’t so sure. Team Glazer does not make rash decisions. They are methodical in their management style. This type of philosophy does not lead to emotional decisions. And thinking they will be embarrassed because of an angry crowd is an emotional decision, not a analytical one.

The way Schiano (if not the team) acted like a weight was taken off their backs last week at One Buc Palace, it was almost as if Team Glazer told Schiano he was safe for the rest of the season, but he had to win games.

This is pure speculation, of course. Again, after yesterday, when once again the Bucs found a way to lose, does anyone outside the coaching staff really believe Schiano can turn things around in eight weeks?

Joe finished watching Bucs commander Greg Schiano’s postgame presser video on Buccaneers.com in the small hours of this morning and Joe has never seen Schiano so crushed. Joe has seen Schiano miffed, upset, happy, fired up and even passive. Joe had never seen the guy so deflated. It was almost as if he was at a loss for words.

Schiano looked every bit the man at the wake of a family member. Perhaps Schiano himself knows his days with the Bucs are numbered after this team tanked a three-touchdown lead and folded like a tent in the second half, both offensively and defensively?

The previous week, for reasons not quite clear, Schiano had the look and demeanor of a man given fresh life. If Joe didn’t know better, he’d guess that Team Glazer had told Schiano, given the leaky Josh Freeman fiasco that tore the Bucs apart and, as Bill Cowher noted yesterday, how Freeman single-handedly destroyed the Bucs, perhaps not too worry about the past. Get the team’s ship righted in the second half of the season and a return for 2014 would be very much on the table.

Sunday, he may have seen that new life flash before his very eyes. Now, with the Bucs 0-8, and losing 13 of their last 14 games, and a team that cannot even win a game after gaining a 21-point lead, well, that may have been the proverbial breaking of the camel’s back.

Joe will still guess that Schiano stays at least until December. Again, what exactly would be the point of an interim coach? Destroy a strong draft position for a couple of meaningless wins that people won’t remember two years from now?

Has Schiano and his staff done a good job of coaching? There’s no way to say that with a straight face. Schiano has even said that on several occasions. Now, it’s almost past the point of no return (for 2014). Joe honestly feels sorry for Schiano, a good guy who was caught in a mess (Freeman) and never recovered from it.

The NFL is about wins. Schiano and his staff have proven they can’t. There’s really nothing more to say on the subject.

What run defense?

Even by adding more talent, the Bucs have regressed terribly from last year. How else to explain how the NFL’s best run defense has gone from No. 1 to No. 13? Maybe the four defensive linemen Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik brought in Schiano should have kept, no? After Michael Bennett got a key sack of Mike Glennon yesterday, don’t ya’ think he could have helped the Bucs? Yeah.

Was Ronde Barber that key of a figure in the rush defense? Joe isn’t sure. But Joe’s going to suggest that given how the Bucs, week after week, are unable to make key adjustments in the second half, have not been able to figure out — or are unwilling to change — how offensive coaches have attacked the Bucs on the ground.

Don’t be naive and think that NFL coaches during the offseason didn’t study the league’s top rush defense to find cracks or weaknesses in the schemes.

Bright spot?

Joe caught flack for not writing enough about the Bucs’ positives from yesterday. Really? The friggin’ team lost, choked away a three-touchdown lead and is 0-8 on their way to 1-13 and you want loads of positives??? These people are kindred spirits to the types who are quick to point out that, while Adolph Hitler may had have his flaws, he did have the trains running on time in the Fatherland.

To humor these Little League mothers, Mark Barron may have turned the corner as the dominant safety the Bucs thought he could be when he was drafted so high (cue the Dominik haters in three… two… one!). Barron led the team in tackles with 11 (along with Lavonte David) and leads the team now in picks with two (a disgraceful stat through eight games given the talent in the Bucs secondary).

Barron has always been strong against the run. If he continues to be good against the pass like this, he may be one of the better safeties in the NFL. Consistency is the key.

Could have had Golden Tate

That 71-yard punt return by Golden Tate that set up a Seahawks touchdown to narrow the score to 24-17? Joe couldn’t help but think of how Arrelious Benn (hey, the Bucs got a first down off the ugly Benn’d Around yesterday!) was the wide receiver drafted before Tate in the second round of 2010. Eh, it’s easy to Monday morning quarterback a draft over three years later, but this is ammo for the Dominik haters.

Offensive line’s best of 2013

Joe just giggled every time he heard/read a Bucs fan holler about how Schiano used not-fully-recovered Darrelle Revis on defense. It was the most manufactured non-story Joe has seen in some time.

Revis not playing in a man-press was not the reason the Bucs were losing. Rather, it was the under-performing offensive line, painfully so. When a line can’t block, you can’t run and your quarterback can’t set up to throw. No blocking and your offense can’t do squat and that is exactly what was happening with the Bucs due to injuries and just flat out subpar play.

Yesterday, that changed. The Bucs blocked the s(p)it out of the Seahawks front seven, enough to allow rookie running back Mike James to have his best game since high school.

So, why did it take the Bucs this long (long enough to seal the fate of the coaching staff) to put Jamon Meredith at left guard? If a team has to open a season with eight straight losses to figure this out, Joe suggests the coaching staff is woefully under-performing as well, more so than the offensive line has.

Sackless Bucs

The defensive line continued to embarrass themselves and the team with yet another sackless day. While Gerald McCoy balled out, right now he is basically a one-man gang. With the possible exception of Joe Greene and Reggie White, no man can beat double- and triple-teams play after play after play like GMC faces.

Joe will remind you that Dominik had four defensive linemen on the practice fields of One Buc Palace over the past two years that the coaching staff deemed not to be Buccaneer Men. Entering this past weekend’s games, those guys had as many sacks combined this season as the Bucs’ front four.

Can’t win close games

Schiano is winless with the Bucs in games decided by three points or less in his 24 games as the Bucs commander. This just in: he is winless in 13 of the last 14 games no matter the difference in the score.

Yes, it would help if he can win a few close games, but Joe’s guessing Bucs fans would be happy with a seven-point win for a change, hell, any win, not just a close win.

What next? Joe knows there will be more screams for Schiano’s head. Joe really doesn’t expect it to happen today, when Schiano will talk about fixing whatever is wrong with the Bucs, but that’s basically swimming upstream. What’s the point at this stage? Empty rhetoric.

Around the NFL

Dolphins: Well, the Dolphins found a way to win over playoff-bound Cincinnati. There’s a team that has a major, major distraction, a Josh Freeman-like distraction, and still found a way to win against a solid, solid team. Imagine?

Chiefs: The undefeated Chiefs outlasted hapless Buffalo despite not scoring an offensive touchdown. Talk about finding a way to win. Think the Bucs could pull that off? Nah, neither can Joe.

Stinking Panthers: Cam Newton and company throttled the Dixie Chicks yesterday. Look how much that team has improved just in the past month or so, with Mike Shula as their offensive coordinator. Mike Shula! Yet the Bucs are circling the drain.

Cowboys: Joe heard a great line from Dan Marino on the much underrated “That Other Pregame Show” yesterday morning. He said if Dez Bryant would have freaked on him the way he did on Tony Romo two weeks ago, he would have told Bryant in no uncertain terms, “If you don’t shut up and sit down I will never throw the ball your way again.” Oh, think Josh Freeman could have pulled the Vikings within a score of the Cowboys like Christian Ponder did with the Cowboys’ pass rush? Nah, Joe doesn’t either.

Jets: Man, what a manic team the Jets are. One week good, next week bad. Now they beat Drew Brees and the Saints. Much maligned Dee Milliner even made a play. How about that?

Titans: Chris Johnson is reborn and torches his old coach now with the Lambs. Can you imagine the torture to sit through this game sober? Whew.

Redskins: RGIII rallies Washington from behind by nearly tossing 300 yards, all one on leg. Joe cannot imagine this guy will be 30 and still be quarterbacking in the NFL. Dude is simply getting beat to a pulp.

Eagles: Nick Foles, seven touchdowns, ‘nuff said. Joe read where Joe Kapp once had seven touchdowns. This is difficult to believe.

Browns: Now that Jason Campbell is the Browns starting quarterback – Jason Campbell?! – the team is dangerous. The Browns had a good defense, but were rudderless on offense. Difficult to believe Campbell is the answer but he did beat the Super Bowl champions.

Patriots: Just thrashed the sinking Steelers. Yeah, Tom Brady has a poor completion percentage. And Kate Upton has a wart, too!

Colts: How cool was that game last night? Just when the Texans looked to have the game in the bag, here comes Andrew Luck and a bunch of receivers you never heard of.  Luck is fun to watch, even with that ugly neckbeard.

Non-NFL thoughts

1) How good is Florida State? The only points the Canes scored were off Jameis Winston’s picks. Otherwise, it would have been a shutout of the No. 7 team in the nation. That is freaking impressive.

2) Joe thought Jimbo Fisher was going to go all Woody Hayes on his offensive lineman, Bobby Hart, who had a major dumbarse penalty. Fisher was about to go wilding on the guy on national TV. Joe doesn’t blame him for being incensed, but easy man, easy.

3) Yes, the Canes are back, Joe believes. College football is so right when Miami and Florida State are relevant. The way first-year offensive coordinator James Coley can recruit, look out the next couple of years with that guy running loose in South Florida.

4) If Joe had to pick the Heisman Trophy now, it would be Johnny Football over Jameis Winston. Johnny Football is a marked man and yet his numbers are better than last year’s. As the Noles proved Saturday night, they don’t need Winston to pound an opponent; they have good running backs and a big offensive line. Johnny Football is virtually a one-man offense. Defenses know this, if you stop Johnny Football, then you stop A&M; and still they cannot stop Johnny Football.

5) Joe knows he will be asked about Marcus Mariota. Joe confesses he hasn’t watched him a lot because Oregon games are either hidden on the PAC 12 Network or played in the middle of the night. What Joe has seen of the guy, is he is good, obviously, but like Winston, teams cannot gameplan against him or other guys (DeAnthony Thomas, for example) will roast you. Again, Mariota and Winston have complimentary running backs surrounding them. Johnny Football does not.

6) My God, the Big Ten is brutal this year. Sorry, Ohio State has played no one and with the conference so down, they ought to be beating teams by 50 points.

7) Joe never in his life thought he would type the following sentence: Penn State’s defense is horrible. If Big Ten schools are racking up nearly 300 yards of offense against you each and every week, and you struggle against the likes of tripe like Illinois, you have problems. Somewhere, Scrap Bradley is vomiting.

8) Joe talked with someone who has deep knowledge of the draft this past week and heard some interesting things. For example, Joe asked about Jimmy Garoppolo of Eastern Illinois who has an insane 3,544 yards and 39 touchdowns through nine games. That’s nearly 400 yards a game with four touchdowns. Joe was told, “Oh, he’s on everybody’s radar” as far as NFL teams go.

9) Joe thinks the talk of running Will Muschamp from Florida is insane. The team has been decimated by injuries yet Florida still has a decent defense. Now does he need to quit the Father Dungy shtick of trying to win games by defense only and use an offense that is somewhat akin to 20th Century football? He sure does. But it’s not like he’s starting fights with fraternity dudes on campus or sweeping murders (allegedly) under the rug.

Joe truly thinks Florida is going to give Florida State the game of their lives and may very well upset Florida State. Just wait.

10) Joe hopes Red Sox fans got alcohol poisoning over the weekend.

Somewhat lost in today’s gut-punch by the Seahawks was the Buccaneers’ inability to stop the run.

Marshawn Lynch is a great running back, but this was a very special game he had against the Bucs, methodically pounding out 125 yards on only 21 carries without breaking a huge run.

Once upon a time (2012), the Bucs had the NFL’s best run defense. They were dominant with Michael Bennett and Lavonte David among the league leaders in tackles for loss, and week in and week out teams couldn’t bust the Bucs’ run defense. Yes, the Bucs run-blitzed all the time and their secondary doomed them, but the run defense wasn’t phony last year.

Yet this season the run defense is barely average. What happened?

Is it the loss of Ronde Barber in run support? That’s unlikely given how Mark Barron has played the run.

Is it because the regime waved goodbye to Bennett and Roy Miller? Perhaps.

Or is it because offensive coordinators have caught on to the Bucs and adjusted better than the Bucs have? Joe’s going to go with that. Outcoached.

Yes, the sting of this choke job the Bucs pulled this afternoon at Seattle, coughing up a three-touchdown lead, will be felt for weeks to come and Joe cannot imagine how Bucs commander Greg Schiano can return for 2014 after this.

If the Bucs cannot secure a win after leading by 21 points, just how are they going to win? This does not make Joe happy at all.

Still, key Bucs figures talked about the game on the Buccaneers radio network. Players who summed up the courage to talk were running back Mike James, safety Keith Tandy and quarterback Mike Glennon.

Also, Schiano had a few words to share on the loss. Audio courtesy of Joe’s good friends at WDAE-AM 620 and the Buccaneers Radio Network.

Yes, Lavonte David racked up double-digit tackles (again) today (11). He does this on such a regular basis, Bucs fans almost have come to expect this from the second-year linebacker from Nebraska.

The other Bucs defender who recorded double-digit tackles was safety Mark Barron.

Barron, another second-year player out of Alabama, has played better this year. It’s not like his rookie season was awful. He played strong against the run but was largely drafted to shut down the strong tight ends in the NFC South like Jimmy Graham, Greg Olson and Anthony Gonzalez. For Barron, that largely has not happened.

But Barron is far, far, far from a bust, thought in many eyes, he has not yet lived up to expectations. Today may have been a turning point.

In addition to his double-digit tackles (11), Barron recorded his second interception of the season, which leads the Bucs (which, if you factor in the talent on the Bucs secondary, is a pathetic stat through eight games).

For Barron to begin living up to his draft selection, he still must improve defending dangerous tight ends over the middle. As far as the run goes, Barron is already pretty good.

The pre-lockout NFL Draft of 2010 was considered by many to be the deepest in NFL history.

There were two receivers snatched in the second round. First, the Bucs traded up to draft Arrelious Benn. And 21 picks later, the Seahawks picked Bucs killer Golden Tate, whose ferocious punt return today was a dagger that buried the Bucs. Tate, 25, has had a nice career. Benn, well, he hasn’t.

It’s easy to play hindsight GM and bury rockstar general manager Mark Dominik in a case like this. Dominik went on to draft Myron Lewis in the third round and Mike Williams in the fourth that year.

There was also another Dominik decision on display today, when Michael Bennett manhandled Demar Dotson to register a key sack of Mike Glennon in the fourth quarter. Bennett’s got 5 1/2 sacks this season. Da’Quan Bowers is taking notes awaiting his first. On the flip side, Dominik’s 11th-hour trading of LeGarrette Blount gave the Bucs a draft pick used to trade up to grab Mike James in the sixth round this year.

Regardless, look at the Bucs’ play today, and it was extraordinarily clear that the team had enough talent to beat the best team in the NFC on their home turf. And it’s Dominik’s job to stock the team with talent.

The Bucs’ offensive line won in the trenches, and rookies Mike Glennon and James (both backups entering the season) were strong. The Bucs’ defense has playmakers but can’t make enough plays and almost always seems to have the wrong scheme when it matters most. The Bucs were outcoached again, playing not to lose in the second half and scoring three points.

Is that on Dominik? It’s a question Team Glazer will be asking after the season.

Joe can’t help but ask himself, ‘Where was this kind of offensive line play all season?”

The Bucs’ O-line was only a step below dominant today in Seattle, against a damn good front seven.

There were few negative runs, and rookie Mike James cranked out 28 carries for 158 yards — 5.6 yards per carry!

Did Jamon Meredith starting his first game at left guard make all the difference? No. But one must wonder where the Bucs might be if Meredith had always been the backup all season, rather than Gabe Carimi, Ted Larsen and Jeremy Zuttah filling in there for Carl Nicks.

Davin Joseph played his best game of the year, and the Bucs looked like a unit that couldn’t be stopped. Did anyone get past Donald Penn? Many times the Seahawks knew what was coming but were still outwilled by the O-line. Brian Leonard even cranked out 20 yards (four yards per carry. )

After the game, Greg Schiano said the O-line did the “best job they’ve done in a while.” Joe agrees.

The sad thing is Schiano didn’t give the O-line a chance to close out the game on the ground. The Bucs abandoned their strength at crunch time. Always a bad move.

The lone Bucs defender with more than one pick is Mark Barron, who has two.

Early in the game, on the Seahawks’ first possession, Bucs second-year safety Mark Barron picked off Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. It was Barron’s second interception of the season.

Remarkable, with Dashon Goldson and Darrelle Revis all in the same secondary, Barron leads the Bucs in interceptions. With two. Two!

Now, pulling up a chart from BSPN on NFL individual defensive statistics, entering this weekend, there were 48 other NFL players who had at least two interceptions. None of the 48, obviously, played for the Bucs. This is just stunning to Joe. How in the world can the Bucs have an All-World corner in Revis, an All-Pro in Goldson, and a promising second-year player in Barron, and before today’s game, none had more than one interception?

Often, good teams create their own opportunities. This is one reason why good teams often force opponents into turnovers. It’s also why the Bucs had their foot on the collective throats of the Seahawks for three quarters today, because the Bucs were forcing turnovers.

There are a lot of reasons why the Bucs are still winless through eight games. One is that the team has created so few turnovers on defense.

That’s seven sacks in eight games now for Buccaneers defensive linemen. It’s a miserable total.

Against the Panthers 10 days ago, Bucs’ D-linemen lost “contain” numerous times. Cam Newton got around them and found holes at key times. Sound familiar? Russell Wilson did the same thing today against the Bucs.

Yes, Wilson and Newton are stunning escape artists, but the Bucs are also stunning escape enablers. The Seahawks were allowing 3 1/2 sacks a game entering today’s contest. Think about that.

Joe’s not sure why the coaching isn’t getting through. There were more than a few times today when the Bucs lost the contain they drilled all week. DaQuan Bowers, Adrian Clayborn and Derek Landi come to mind.

More undisciplined play from the New Schiano Order.