Is the Bucs offense really better off with Greg Olson as offensive coordinator as opposed to Jeff Jagodzinki?

The Bucs offense is sad. Oh, sure, once in a while the offense shows a glimpse of being average. But the numbers don’t lie. The Bucs offense is mostly miserable.

Raheem the Dream can thank himself for that. That’s the premise that Pat Kirwan of NFL.com floats.

Three teams, including the Bucs, fired their offensive coordinators just before the season began. All three teams, Kirwan points out, are sucking wind terrible on offense. Kirwan notes this is not a coincidence.

Three teams — Bills, Bucs and Chiefs — fired their offensive coordinators days before the start of the season. One team said it needed more in the offense, another said it needed less in the offense and the third just thought it was time for a change.

Sunday was another brutal reminder that the terminations did not do one thing to solve their offensive woes. The Bills, Bucs and Chiefs all lost this week and scored a combined 37 points! Four teams scored more than 37 by themselves. The three teams that made coordinator changes are now 1-14 combined. After Sunday, Buffalo ranks 25th in total offense, Tampa Bay 26th and Kansas City 30th.

It wasn’t the coaches’ fault and it’s a shame they were released before the real games started. Could these three offenses be any worse with the men who installed the schemes?

Not only did the Bucs change offensive coordinators, they are changing their offense in midstream. Even with Jeff Faine returning, Joe believes Raheem the Dream painted his offense in a corner by firing Jeff Jagodzinski.

By JEFF CARLSON
JoeBucsFan.com analyst

Former Bucs quarterback Jeff Carlson writes the weekly QB Blast column here at JoeBucsFan.com. Joe is ecstatic to have him firing away. Carlson has TV gigs in the Bay area and trains quarterbacks of all ages via his company, America’s Best Quarterback.

“Eight men in the box” has become a household phrase, but “eight men on the LOS” (line of scrimmage) hasn’t. That’s because nearly every NFL team wouldn’t risk the consequences of the “quick six” that most teams would put up against an all-out blitz look.

The Bucs, however, weren’t able to exploit that blatant challenge by the Eagles defense.

Don’t look for the “Eight men on the LOS” to become a mainstay in the NFL. Buddy Ryan, the former head coach and designer of the Bears’ famed “46” defense, tried to recreate his success of QB pressure with six on the LOS, but teams learned to defeat it with the Redskins’ “counter-trey” running game and quick passing to the receivers in one-on-one coverage.

Unfortunately, the Bucs couldn’t or wouldn’t move their pocket to buy time for the receivers to shake their defenders (even though they have one of the most mobile QB’s in football history) and they couldn’t catch the ball in key situations to move the chains.

If any Buccaneers coaches happen to read this, using motion of a receiver behind or near another receiver also gives you an advantage in man coverage and gives your young QB a little bit bigger window in which to throw.

After Michael Clayton had his best game in years against Dallass, showing heart and toughness and best of all — hands! — Raheem the Dream declared boldly to all who would listen, “I dare somebody to write an article about why Clayton is on the team again.”

Since, Clayton has reverted to his old self, dropping virtually everything thrown to him.

Frustrated and angry, one fan (?) decided to take Raheem the Dream up on his challenge. And so was born the site “80sucks.com.”

The site is virtually dedicated to the goal of the Bucs cutting ties with Michael Clayton no matter if it’s a trade or outright release. Joe notes “virtually” as the site also offers (a few) non-Clayton takes. One compelling article is titled “Rick Stroud is a hack!”

The authors of the site absolutely destroy Clayton at every turn. Naturally, the fathers of the site had a field day with Clayton when he boasted about his bank account after dropping four balls Sunday at Philadelphia.

Joe loves to read and see such passion among Bucs fans.

Chris Myers is a legitimate, reputable national broadcaster known to countless Bucs fans as the team’s play-by-play man on its preseason telecasts.

So it’s fair to say that Bucs fans should take great notice when Myers drops an absolute bombshell of a ramble like he did Monday on his daily FOX Sports Radio show.

Myers said Tony Dungy is a name under consideration for a job at One Buc Place that could be a consultant position, an assistant coaching job, or a Bill Parcells-type advisory role.

Myers said, “I did want to mention Tony Dungy’s name, and I don’t even know if Tony has been approached, has surfaced in Tampa as a possibility. …The team is winless. There is some concern about direction. Dungy might be a guy whether he is brought in as a consultant or an executive or to coach with Raheem Morris. It is something that is out there that is being talked about.”

Myers went on to say this is “a developing story,” and “these are things that are being discussed that you’re not going to hear a lot of places except here.”

Typically, Joe would dismiss this comment as typical baseless gossip in search of ratings and something to be expected from a California-based talking head like Myers.

However, these Dungy comments must be taken seriously because of Myers’ close ties with the Bucs.

No doubt Myers has superior sources inside the bowels of One Buc Palace. To be fair, it’s also reasonable to believe Myers has bad information.

But perhaps the Glazers have reached out to heal the wounds surrounding Dungy’s exit.

Perhaps the Glazers want help repairing their suspect college scouting department.

Perhaps the Glazers want a trustworthy advisor to help them craft the post-Mark Dominik-Raheem The Dream era.

Considering the state of the franchise, Dungy would be a welcome addition.

Former Bucs DE Steve White

By STEVE WHITE
JoeBucsFan.com analyst

Steve White spent every season of the Tony Dungy era playing defensive end for the Bucs. He’s spent countless hours in the film room with the likes of Warren Sapp, Rod Marinelli and more. Joe is humbled to now have White, also a published author and blogger, as part of the JoeBucsFan.com team. Below is the first of White’s weekly Bull Rush columns that will breakdown all things defensive line. It’s simply a can’t-miss read for the hardcore Bucs fan.

If we could judge the Buccaneers defensive line play against the Philadephia Eagles by one player, the grade would very likely be an A+. Jimmy Wilkerson had a whale of a game with three sacks, a caused fumble, a pass knocked down, and scores of tackles against the run.

But unfortunately the defensive line is a unit, and as a group they were very average against the Eagles.

A few problems were apparent in the D-line play yesterday:

1) The defensive line as a group is terrible at running pass rush games.

A pass rush game is where two and sometimes three defensive linemen work together to switch off their pass rush lanes so as to confuse the offensive line and give themselves a greater likelihood of getting to the quarterback, and also maintaining gap integrity just in case there is a draw or the quarterback tries to scramble.

Two of the more common pass rush games are EX games, where the defensive end comes inside as the penetrator first to rush the guard and then the defensive tackle loops behind him for contain, and a TEX game, where the defensive tackle tries to get to the offensive tackle’s back and rush him and the defensive end loops behind him underneath to rush the guard and or center. In general a pass rush game is only as good as the guy who is setting it up, meaning the looper, and in the Bucs defensive line just isn’t very good at it.

You have to have patience if you are a defensive tackle setting up an EX game because if the guard can tell that the defensive end is coming inside then all he has to do is step back and take him on and the whole game is thrown out of whack. The same thing goes for a defensive end on a TEX game when he is waiting for the defensive tackle to penetrate. Too many times the loopers were in such a hurry to take off that they ended up giving away the game, which both gave Donovan McNabb plenty of time to throw and also gave him lanes to run.

2) Having the defensive tackles two-gap in a 4-3 defense puts a strain on our run defense.

I have never and will never be a fan of having two-gapping defensive tackles in a 4-3 scheme. It makes it too hard for your linebackers to know which gap they are supposed to have, and by not having a nose tackle shaded on the center you give the center a free path to get up on your middle backer. This was evidenced yesterday on Brian Westbrook’s run up the middle for a touchdown.

On that play, the front side guard pushed Ryan Sims to the outside and the back side guard did just enough to get in the way of Chris Hovan while the center took one lateral step and then got up on Barrett Ruud. Westbrook could have practically walked into the endzone. It seems like the Bucs are wedded to this kind of technique for our defensive tackles for whatever reason and to me that means we will be soft up the middle for most of the year.

3) The defensive line personnel for third down just isn’t getting it done.

Since the Bucs drafted Gaines Adams they have continually had him rush from the left hand side on third downs. I never have understood this move and at this point I think it is time to go back to the drawing board.

Just think about this for a moment, Jimmy Wilkerson had three sacks yesterday, two of them were from his left end spot on early downs. The other sack was when he rushed from the defensive tackle spot but not because he made a great move. Instead, he didn’t beat his guy initially but hustled back to tackle McNabb from behind as he scrambled. Yet by my count there were nine snaps with third-down personnel and two more third downs where the Bucs used a three-man rush. On those plays Wilkerson was either rushing inside or wasn’t even in the game.

Does that make sense to anybody?

And its not just that Wilkerson is obviously our best pass rusher from left end, its also that Gaines Adams is not very good rushing from that side. Although Adams is at least getting better at rushing from the right side. He wasn’t very consistent but he did get at least some pressure from the right yesterday and he did knock down one pass. But again, that is 11 third-down rushes that he isn’t rushing from his best position.

Now I am a fan of Greg White and think he is a very good, and possibly the best, pass rusher on the team, but it is time to rethink the personnel and how we are using them on third down. In my mind the Bucs have two options: Sit Gaines on third down and let Wilkerson rush from the left and White from the right because White is a better pass rusher than Gaines at this point.

That, of course, would leave an opening for someone else to come in and rush inside. Or what is a better option, if you ask me, is that you kick White inside and let him rush at defensive tackle like he did in his first year with the team. As good as Wilkerson is at rushing from left end, he hasn’t shown that same ability at defensive tackle and White has a history of making plays at that position.

In Philadelphia, the defensive line as a group didn’t play all that bad, but in the NFL average play will often times get you beat. Wilkerson had a hell of a game with his many big plays but he was basically carrying the unit yesterday on a day when we needed even more heat on McNabb to take the pressure off of our secondary.

The end result is that as a team the Bucs got their teeth kicked in.

The encouraging thing with the defensive line is that it is all fixable. We can get better at running pass rush games. We can get our guys out of two-gapping. We can change around our third down personnel.

The real question is will we?

I guess we will all have to stay tuned to find out.

The favorite turnstile of NFL defensive lineman, Bucs center Sean Mayhem, has been kicked to the bench (thankfully) as Jeff Faine tears off his shirt, escapes the phone booth (do those things still exist?) and comes back from healing his injured arm in an effort to rescue the Bucs offensive line.

With Mayhem at center, opposing defenses poured through the middle of the Bucs offensive line so quick most defenders didn’t even notice Mayhem standing there. eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune notes that the Bucs offensive line, which looked OK to begin the season, hasn’t looked the same since Mayhem started in place of the injured Faine.

As a result, Faine has been chomping at the bit to get back.

“It’s been pretty frustrating,” Faine acknowledged today after the Bucs fell to 0-5 with a 33-14 loss at Philadelphia. “You feel handcuffed not being able to help the way you want to. I think the guys up front have done pretty well, but it’s tough when you take out a piece that makes all the line calls. It’s tough to be cohesive.”

The Bucs did some good things in the running game against Dallass until they had to start throwing to catch up. With the almost-as putrid Panthers coming into the CITS this weekend, Faine may very well be the difference the Bucs need to lock up Raheem the Dream’s first win.

"That right, Kellen. You're one of my 53 soldiers."

Raheem The Dream’s most animated moment at his Monday news conference came when he channeled his inner Kellen Winslow, Jr.

Yes, months ago Joe promised Winslow personally that he would stop calling him a military nickname that referenced his famous soldier comments during his college days. 

It became a national story. And Joe has kept his word.

But it seems Raheem The Dream took Winslow’s soldier references to heart and has now adopted the soldier lingo.

“The only way you get a win is you know you’re not alone. I know I got 53 soldiers. There better be 53 soldiers ready for me to come in and meet with them guys right now. Be ready to deal with getting that next win,” Raheem The Dream said today.

Joe’s not a big fan of calling anyone outside the military “soldiers.” It’s just not respectful, especially during a time when the U.S. is considering sending another 40,000 troops to risk their lives in Afghanistan.

Joe suspects the Bucs communications staff will see to it that Raheem The Dream never uses the term “soldier” again in this context.

Stick to “violent,” Rah. Joe misses that.

The good people of FoxSports.com apparently have seen the light and are offering embed codes! About time! In this video, Sam Rosen and Tim Ryan take an inside look at the Bucs loss to the Eagles.

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Joe thought he’d offer the few highlights from the Bucs loss to help ease your otherwise slow Tuesday afternoon.

"The coaches meeting starts in 10 minutes. So who wants to tell Raheem that if we end up with a top-3 pick, his stuff is getting packed up in a U-haul?"

Hmmm. A very interesting quote emerged from Raheem The Dream’s Monday news conference.

Did Mark Dominik address the coaching staff and tell Raheem The Dream he’s stinking up the joint? Did a Glazer walk down the hallowed halls of One Buc Place?

“We had our coaches meeting this morning. We got our faces ripped off as a coaching staff, me included,” Raheem The Dream said.

Maybe Raheem The Dream was referring to himself blasting his own results. But it sure seemed like he was referring to a mysterious third party entering the coaches meeting to drop a few F-bombs.

Per the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bucs coaches offered no help to Josh Johnson in dealing with the pressure the Eagles defense threw at the Bucs quarterback.

Josh Johnson got blitzed. Philadelphia threw the kitchen sink at Johnson and, compounded by dropped passes (four by Michael Clayton), Johnson had a rough day throwing three picks.

When Johnson came to the sidelines looking for advice, his coaches offered no help, claims Matt Gelb of Philadelphia Inquirer.

After another unsuccessful drive, Tampa Bay quarterback Josh Johnson walked over to the sideline and asked his coaches for some advice. Johnson, making his second career start, had anticipated a heavy Eagles pass rush. But nothing like this. Not nearly every play.

The Buccaneers’ coaches didn’t have much of an answer.

“They said they’ve never seen it happen before, where a team just constantly brings everyone,” Johnson said.

Joe thinks that quote speaks for itself and won’t even bother commenting other than to ask, was Jeff Jagodzinski really the problem?

While Michael Clayton lives in denial about his inability to consistently catch the ball and arrogantly points to his bank account, Antonio Bryant is a man and confesses he’s screwing up, and hurting his teammates.

In talking with Joe Henderson of the Tampa Tribune, Bryant didn’t blame Chucky for his drops or try to big league Henderson at all. Bryant took the criticism of his dropped passes like a man.

“I personally had two big drops,” Bryant said. “If I get them, we probably win the game.”

Joe admires Bryant for speaking the truth, though Joe’s not sure the Bucs would have won had Bryant caught both passes he missed. Still, thank you Antonio for being upfront.

Joe only wishes No. 80 would be a man. Joe wonders if one lives in denial and blames others who are not even on the field for their mistakes, if said player is even motivated? If one doesn’t think one is in error, then there’s nothing to correct, right?

Doesn’t one have to come to grips with being in the wrong before they confront and repair their issues?

Fans in the past two weeks have been clamoring for Raheem The Dream’s head almost as much as they are for the Bucs to cut Michael Clayton.

Vacation Man of BSPN.com was the first Joe has read to suggest Raheem the Dream may be on thin ice.

Today, Gary Shelton of the St. Petersburg Times is the first local MSMer Joe has read to lob the first grenade, asking if Raheem the Dream is up to the task of being an NFL head coach.

For Morris, the man in charge of the answers, Sundays always seem to end like this. Five times he has coached an NFL game, and five times his team has lost. His defense is not getting better, and his offense is getting worse, and by now, double-digit beatings seem to be the norm. He is a winless coach, and for him and his team, Sundays are wasted afternoons.

All of this is on Morris, of course. Say what you will about the talent, and say what you want about his newness to the job, and say all you care to about how cheap the owners have become. It doesn’t matter. In the NFL, coaches are judged by the scoreboard, and when a team is 0-5 and has lost by an average of more than two touchdowns per game, a coach’s fingerprints are all over the disappointment.

Everything that Shelton writes is accurate but Joe has to be fair:

Was it Raheem the Dream’s decision to sign the walking turnstile Sean Mayhem to replace Jeff Faine? Was it Raheem the Dream’s decision to re-sign to a hideous contract a wide receiver who catches a cold more often than he catches a football? Was it Raheem the Dream’s decision to draft a defensive end who has had one decent half  in nearly 2 1/2 years?

Granted, Raheem the Dream deserves his share of blame in this mess. He’s the one who decided to fire his offensive coordinator 10 days before the season — a guy he hired in the first place. It was his decision to hire Jim Bates to oversee a defense with players that do not fit his style of defense.

And maybe more importantly, it was Raheem the Dream who lobbied hard and heavy for the Bucs to trade up to draft the object of his lust, quarterback Josh Freeman.

Joe just doesn’t see the need to call for Raheem the Dream’s head (yet). It’s premature. Is he blameless? Of course not. Who exactly expected the Bucs to compete for the playoffs this year? In Joe’s eyes, if you are not going to compete for a Super Bowl then compete for the worst record in the NFL so you can get a good draft slot.

Joe has listened multiple times to Raheem The Dream’s Sunday postgame news conference and has made a startling discovery.

The head coach couldn’t get the words “Michael Clayton” out of his mouth.

Joe is stunned. This is the same head coach who has made a reputation in his young tenure for passionately calling out players publicly  for positives and negatives.

Why yesterday he named Ronde Barber, Elbert Mack and Will Allen for getting beat. He also went out of his way to praise Kellen Winslow and Donald Penn, who the head coach said “played his heart out.”

But that Michael Clayton guy, the head coach lumped him together with Antonio Bryant when asked about critical dropped passes and then refused to say the words, “Michael Clayton.

From Raheem The Dream’s 8 minutes and 25 seconds news conference posted on Buccaneers.com:

“Both guys dropped a bunch of balls today.” 1:15

“It’s hard to grade Josh on some of those plays with some of those dropped balls he had today. He could have had a 80 yard bomb on the first throw of the game …if we catch the ball. ” 2:40

“Somebody’s got to step up and make a play for him. When you’ve got zero coverage on the back end and [Josh Johnson] puts the ball in, you’ve got to catch it, make somebody miss and go score.” 5:45

“I don’t think dropping a ball is mental. I think that’s physical. I think you’ve just got to catch the ball. You’re paid to catch the ball. You got to catch it. Everybody.”  7:58

“No. We’ve got to be a tougher team on ourselves. You’ve got to catch those balls. You can’t have that happen. We have to go to practice first. We have to go to practice and see who can step up and perform. Who can catch the balls? Throw it to those people. And that’s what we’ll do.” 8:05

Don’t worry, Rah. Joe has a hard time even thinking about Michael Clayton playing for the Bucs and reminding us his fat check is in the bank. It’s surely understandable that the head coach can’t even say his name.

SI.com columnist Peter King has a cushy gig Sundays.

He gets to sit in the warm, comfy studios of NBC in Manhattan, stuffing his face all day with catered grub, all the while gawking at multiple monitors watching every NFL game.

The lone drawback is that every place he sits, he has to wipe off the chairs due to all of Dull Patrick’s mousse.

So King, for whatever reason, was fixated on the Bucs loss to the Eagles. As a result, King is now a major Josh Johnson fan and suggests that Raheem the Dream has found his starting quarterback of the future.

I don’t care that Josh Johnson’s stats (26 of 50, 240 yards, two touchdown, three picks) were pedestrian Sunday at Philadelphia. If you saw much of the game, which I did, you saw a bold quarterback with growing confidence. I’d start him not just one or two more weeks — I’d give him the rest of the year.

Joe wouldn’t be opposed to this. Joe’s biggest short-term wish for the Bucs offense is that Greg Olson forget about using an option.

Alex Loeb and Cris Carter give their takes on the Bucs loss to the Eagles Sunday. Carter wonders aloud about Raheem the Dream’s job security.

Joe suspects Michael Clayton has direct deposit. He wouldn’t want to risk dropping his weekly paycheck with all those zeros.

Clayton, in an effort to explain his attitude toward his many critics, reminded Bucs nation that his $10 million of guaranteed money is safe and secure.  

When asked his reaction to critical fans who point to the team’s decision to re-sign him to a five-year, $26 million contract, Clayton accepted there would be some. But he doesn’t agree with them.

“I ain’t worried about that,” he said. “People who say stuff, they’re not out there on the field. Nobody who writes (stuff) or says (stuff) can say anything about a player because they’re not on the field. It’s real serious out there. That’s why I don’t pay any attention to that stuff because the mentality is that you make up for it and you come back and catch the next one. I mean, regardless of what they say, the check is in the bank. That’s not changing. It’s about this team right now. Nothing can break that or make me feel bad or worry because somebody’s talking about me in the paper. We just have to keep our heads.”

Forgetting for a moment about Clayton all but putting the dirt on his Buccaneers grave with this comment and his performances, Joe finds it absolutely hilarious that Clayton has the genitalia to say nobody is going to “make me feel bad.”

This is the same guy who said 100 different ways that Chucky made him feel bad, broke his confidence, etc.

Before this quote, about 72 percent of readers of JoeBucsFan.com were in favor of cutting Clayton today.

Joe suspects that number would be much higher if there was a new vote.

Just based on the feedback Joe gets from readers, Raheem the Dream is on thin ice. The natives are more than restless.

Some are so psychotic in their frustration with Raheem the Dream, they are suggesting Bryan and Joel bring Chucky back.

While Joe is of the belief that Raheem the Dream is safe this year, and Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune has gone on record as saying Raheem the Dream is safe through the end of next season, Vacation Man of BSPN.com points out that may not be the case.

Vacation Man, who covers the NFC South, resides in Tampa and was once a Bucs beat writer for the Tampa Tribune. So it’s not like some schmuck without a clue to what he is talking about like Mike Lupica screaming from upon high. Vacation Man is somewhat intimate with the inner workings of the Bucs.

The Bucs are 0-5 and there really haven’t been any signs of progress. Raheem Morris has some time because the Bucs don’t want to fire a coach they just hired. But 0-16 or 1-15 without any signs of hope is enough to get any coach fired.

Morris had a plan when he took this job and it’s got to start showing through just a little bit.

While Joe doesn’t think Raheem the Dream will be fired this year, and Joe will go on record to suggest he shouldn’t, one has to wonder what Bryan and Joel might do if the following takes place:

1) Chucky is hired by Washington or Dallass. Jim Zorn and the Redskins lost to the previous winless Carolina Panthers Sunday. The death watch has begun in the district.

Dallass had to go to overtime to beat Kansas City. Jerry Jones has to be going nuts and no one expects Wade Phillips to be retained short of an incredible postseason run.

Both owners love splash and big-name coaches and Chucky seems the perfect fit for both organizations: strong ownership willing to put their foot down on Chucky but with bottomless wallets willing to pay for any player; a concept that would give Chucky a wet dream.

2) With Chucky’s salary off the Bucs’ books and, say, Bill Cowher’s agent calls Bryan and Joel explaining his client is interested in getting back in the game while the Bucs are in the hunt for the top overall pick in next year’s draft, just how safe is Raheem the Dream?

Aside from Kellen Winslow and Sammie Stroughter, the Bucs receiver with the best hands Sunday wasn’t a receiver.

It was tackle Donald Penn.

Penn showed some savvy for a bulking 300-pound receiver, including instinctively switching hands to carry the ball as he rumbled downfield. Joe would still love to find out where Penn learned that from.

So impressed was Penn with his first NFL reception, he’s already pestering Bucs coaches for more chances, even though his reception was hardly planned, so reports eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune.

The burly left tackle provided a brief second-quarter spark when he latched onto a Josh Johnson pass deflected by Eagles defensive end Darren Howard and lumbered 15 yards to Philadelphia’s 8-yard line, where he was tackled by defensive end Trent Cole. Penn quickly got to his feet and gave the first down signal – twice.

“I told (offensive coordinator) Greg Olson he needs to make me a tackle-eligible,” said Penn, listed at 6-foot-5, 305 pounds. “Once I broke that first tackle, I thought I was gone.”

Hey, Penn showed he has some offensive skills besides blocking. Joe’s first thought after watching Penn roll for 15 yards was to try him at fullback in goal line situations, much like the Chicago Bears did with Refrigerator Perry.

Raheem the Dream was not in a good mood after the game speaking on the Bucs radio network. In short, Raheem the Dream nearly started naming names but stopped just short.

To be specific, Raheem the Dream is tired of players talking big but not backing up their big words with big plays.

“There’s not enough fight out there,” Raheem the Dream said. “We have to have more fight from both sides of the football out there. Jeremy Maclin was the pill we just didn’t need to see.

“We have to help out our young quarterback. When you get your hands on the ball, you have to make the catch. To Josh’s credit, he did the right checks but we have to execute. We have to make the catches for him. If we win the battles for him he will feel better about himself.

“Winslow was catching everything for him and when that happens you have to feed him the ball. But he needed some of his buddies to come up and help him.

“Everyone is saying the right thing but are you doing the right thing? Do you care about your team? We have to self evaluate.”

The NFL Network has your Bucs-Eagles lowlights.

Therefore, Joe has your Bucs-Eagles lowlights.

First are the game lowlights replete with Gene Deckerhoff calling the plays.

Next up are the many highlights produced by Kellen Winslow, Jr. Winslow’s plays are broken down in detail here, here and here .

Interestingly, 300-pound Bucs tackle Donald Penn showed Michael Clayton how catching the football is done. Note the nifty switching the football to the proper hand by Penn. When did he learn that?

The NFL Network scoreboard team has their take of the Bucs loss.