Era we have had after the superbowl.

available in the league?

The Glazers were willing to pay monte like a head coach I bet with a salary close to that we could convince charlie strong to leave Florida

I saw this article and wanted to respond for several reasons. When the Broncos hired Jim Bates, several Green Bay players commented that if the Broncos would work hard and learn Bates’ system, it would take a while but they would be very good. He was great with Miami and turned Green Bay around. Bates big problem with Denver was not who he drafted but sadly his head coach. After just a few games, Shanahan got impatient and changed the scheme. Bates had one foot out the door at that time.
Shanahan replaced Bates with Bob Slowik. Who is Slowik? The man Green Bay fired to bring in Bates to fix their defense.
It will take a little time but Bates will make your defense better. Don’t pull a Shanahan and give up hope too early.

People may hate this, but I think that it’s Morris’ fault that the Bucs Defense is deplorable. The problem is players aren’t buying into philosophies, because the head coach is throwing players that don’t perform under the bus. Dungy and Gruden didn’t do that. That is the team’s single biggest problem, the adolescence of the head coach. Accountability for losses start at the top of the organization, accountability for wins start at the bottom- this is how winning coaches leverage success and failure in the league. Bates has players that have to buy into his scheme. If no one bought into Tampa 2 even Dungy/Kiffin said it never would have worked. That said, accountability starts with Morris, until the seasons end, then it’ll reflect on the GM and Ownership… Poor Morris, I don’t know if he will learn the neccessary skills in time.

Are not the cause of this mess. You have to have the right players. If 11 of us go, we can buy in all we want to.

Right now the head coach Ralph Friedgen is on the hot seat for losing three games early in the season to teams we probably should have beaten. Turnovers, poor offense, poor defense, everything looked bad. I see some parallels with some Tampa fans complaining about our coaching staff. I still think it is ridiculous to throw any of the coaches under the bus this entire year. We lost our last four games last year, and looked miserable doing it. Obviously, we had to make some significant changes in player personnel. After only three games with an entirely new coaching staff, many new players in a new scheme, millions of dollars of cap room, and a terrible schedule, I think it is unfair to call any of them out yet. I think a coaching staff needs about three years to put an entirely new plan and good product on the field from where we were. How does anyone think Gruden would have faired against Dallas, Buffalo, and the Giants this year?

BTW the Friedgen haters are now eating some crow, Md beat Clemson today.

I know that we just got beaten down by the Giants, but I believe that our defense is SLOWLY improving. Yes, we are dead last in the league, but the big plays are gone. Roy Miller is a rookie DT and he’ll be up and down all year. He struggled against the Giants but looked good in the first two games. Our depth is an issue as we played Buffalo tight until the final quarter. But, the big plays that hurt Sabby in game one have declined. Talib is a very talented second year player, who looks worse than he is due to the lack of pressure. If, and it is a big if, we can improve our pass rush, a lot of other pieces will fall into place. I think they need to use Quincy Black or Geno Hayes as more hybrid rush ends, using them to blitz, a la the zone blitz of the Steelers with James Harrison. If they can begin to mix that in, get Stylez White to improve, keep working on Gaines Adams and Crowder, we have some reason for hope. We get Tanard back after next week. With a high draft pick, we will be able to get Suh from Nebraska or McCoy from Oklahoma, the highest rated defensive tackles. Add a second or third round pass rusher and we have a better future. Also, let’s not forget that when your offense can not gain a first down through three quarters against a clear Super Bowl contender, the defense will always look worse than they are-no rest.

Thats how changes will happen, slowly. Now did we not give up the long play because we had it covered? or did we play so deep Eli would have been sick to throw deep on us? Or the fact that their running game was producing so m uch, why throw deep once you have a 14-0 lead. We have GOT to stop getting behind so early, and I think this week is the first week we wont.