I also emailed you UNFNOLE with photo clips on how to do this, its very easy, and its great to spot when someone like RJ brings something to the community like this.

I have no faith in this coaching staff. Might as well bring Leeman Bennett back, after all he did win more games.

Haha never had a front-page post. Thanks Niko.
I really hope to see some progress offense/defense before this season ends, or we’re going to have a huge problem this offseason…
Does anyone else think our O-Linemen are better suited to pass block than run block?

I don’t think Greg Olson is a good play caller at all. I can’t believe we are going to let this guy be our OC next year. He was an emergency fill in for Jags, and I don’t think he has done anything to win the job. We’re not even going to look for accomplished coordinators? What a joke.

I don’t think the theory that Freeman needs the same coordinator two years in a row holds any water. He has had already had two coordinators during his brief pro career and he has seemed to handle the transition just fine.

I’ve got to say that although Olson may have been some type of pupil of Linehan, his offensive play calling this season has reminded me more of a poor man’s John Gruden. We have not taken many shots down the field at all, and when we have they have not connected.

Charlie Weis, I weep for what could have been.

right around week one this is old news that just happened to come out after bates got fired

Guess it doesn’t matter cause when the head coach gets canned, the rest of them will be too, extensions or no extensions.

The continuity will help Freeman, and the offense hasn’t been their big problem. Give Freeman the #1 spot in the offseason and preseason, and I think we will see a really talented guy.

I think Morris will be given enough time to prove all the haters wrong. I don’t think they are really that far away from having a respectable team. They will focus on building a better D for next year. As long as there is a general trend of improvement that is good enough for me. I also don’t mind the changes at OC prior to the season or the DC during the season. I’d rather see a team that is willing to make the changes necessary to improve than someone with blinders on and unwilling to change.

My hope is for fans and sportswriters to have a longer term outlook than one year, or sometimes even one game.

I don’t particularly like the offensive system in place, generally speaking. Like UNFNOLE raises, the Bucs simply don’t run the football enough… and this is not like 2006 when they couldn’t get into 2nd/3rd and manageable often enough. This team can run the ball better. How well can they run the ball? WE STILL DON’T FREAKING KNOW!!!!!!!! If the Bucs are on a drive, running the football, controlling the flow, they suddenly stop at the first sign of 2nd and 9 and remain fixated on the mid-range and deep pass from there on. This is a major complaint many (of the more vocal) Bucs fans and local media had with Gruden when calling for his head the past few seasons.

Personally, I’m baffled by what results to expect long-term from this offensive scheme. This year, I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen a WR screen, a screen pass to RB, or a designed pass to a RB (TD to Ward in Green Bay game comes to mind, but still not often enough). It’s drop back and throw it down the field come hell or high water. Great for TV, as they say, but not a keen way to break in a young QB. Relying on a deep passing game can be folly without the right personnel, leading to various drive-stopping plays…sacks, fumbles lost, zero yard plays, interceptions. If Olson wants to run a shotgun based offense and turn Freeman into a downfield gunslinger, then I guess the running game will become secondary…. which is a shame since Raheem said this is going to be a physical, violent, run-based team. Really…. did the Bucs know what this team’s “direction” was going into this season?

(Climbing off high horse)

That said, after the circus of demotions/firings/player cuts that have taken place from this regime so far in 2009, it’s nice to see them try to maintain some personnel continuity and some damned sanity. IF they’ve decided that Olson’s pass-first scheme IS the direction of this team, that they’re going to adopt it, draft and bring in talent that fits this system, then I’m ok with the extension…even though i personally don’t like the running game being effectively placed on the back-burner.

For those who thought this was a dumb move, imagine if we resigned Mr Bates…
i predict us 8-8 next year (please prove me wrong Bucs).

MICHAEL CLAYTON SHOULD NOT BE STARTING

I dont think its that unusual to have an OC and QB coach be one and the same, as long as the OC is not also the HC.

Someone should look up and see how many (if) OCs are also the QB, or QB coaches are doing something else too like Tight Ends or something.

I just want us to score more points than the opponent…

Right now what’s stopping us?

The defense (yuck)