Tampa Bay Buccaneers Thread

Our offense is looking really healthy.

At quarterback Freeman is in a contract year, so if he's going to deliver on his potential it'll be now. He needs to attract interest and Glennon is breathing down his neck. I have a feeling he'll play we'll and he'll be franchised next season. When you consider he is still just 25 years old hes a valuable asset if he can get stay focused.

Obviously this is all dependent on guys like Nicks, Joseph and Penn staying fit up front. If they do and we see guys like Zuttah and Dotson continue to improve we'll be hard to stop.

At running back things are looking a bit crazy now. Doug Martin is looking like he could be a top 5 back on the league, behind him we now have Leonard who is a good 3rd down guy. He'll be mixing it up with Hillis perhaps, while Hillis also might mix it up with Lorig. Hillis is a head case but he has looked exceptional when in that kind of pairing (with Felix Jones and Darren McFadden) in the past. I still love Lorig though and I expect him to be in most of the time clearing holes for Martin on 1st downs and staying in there with Hillis coming in for longer yardage situations on 2nd/3rd down. By all accounts Mike James has people excited as well.

The receivers is an area I think we could improve. However saying that if Williams, Jackson, Ogletree and Underwood are all playing to their potential at the same time then I think we'll be very dangerous through the air. If Underwood and Ogletree can cause issues with deep balls then they will create a lot of room for our running backs as well which will be great.

The big weakness on offense is still TE in my opinion. Stocker is a solid player but if we had a truly great athletic tight end causing opposition linebackers headaches then it would give Freeman easier options and more importantly it would create space again for the running game. That is somewhere i hope we see them improve our talent. We're working out Shiancoe currently but I'm hoping they bring in someone better in the near future.

* Carlton Mitchell just blew past Revis along sideline. Had to double check it wasn’t Myron.

That's a story for the grand kids for camp meat.

DDC1990 wrote: »

Woo Football!

Only preseason, but would like to see a decent showing here vs Ravens.

Go Bucs!

It's mad that i'm happy to see the games live on the gamepass app. It was a long off-season.

Amazing Catch from VJax.

Under review, but should be confirmed. Looked like he kept both feet in.

EDIT: Or not, he had both feet inbounds, but he hadn't posession when he had the first foot in. Tough call, but correct.

Mike Glennon's first play in the NFL.

61 yard pass. No biggie :P

He's so unorthodox looking, but he gets things done evidently.

Don't think he'll beat Freeman out, but looking at his first play he might be a decent backup.

He'll never be able to handoff to Martin, no way he'll reach him!

That sucked balls.

Hopefully Tandy won't be getting much gametime either. Really poor tackle attempt.

Good:

Leonard, David, Gorrer, Banks

Bad:

Owusu, Tandy, Special Teams!

Bedtime, I think.

Crap end to the half!

Embarrassing, even if its preseason. Schiano won't be happy.

I can't believe I stayed up till nearly 4am watching that rubbish.

Lots to work on before the season starts. The positives are that the starters looked decent, and the seconds were good for a while.

Hope we never have to play in the rain again, went from 13-7 to 44-16 in a flash. We only got 3 more points.

Bowers needs Gametime, and got some decent reps.

Weber will be lucky if he gets to wear a Bucs uniform again. It was a disaster. Luckily he's 4th choice.

Was just reading a piece saying Schiano had no interest in Freeman to be his QB & wanted to move on ASAP. Few things leaking out about the 2 of them clashing.

Freeman clearly has the ability to be a starting QB in the league (for instance I'd take him over Sanchez) so what has been the issue recently

davyjose wrote: »

Freeman has definitely shown he has the ability to play. I would put his performance down to Schiano cutting the legs out from under him as much as anything. Never liked Schiano. Freeman will be around longer than him in the NFL.
I imagine the Browns, Jags and Vikes would do worse than make a trade for him.

Jags & Vikes maybe but don't see the Browns going near the trade. They are going to engineer to get the best QB in the draft come hell or high water

davyjose wrote: »

I agree, but he'd still be an upgrade. Tennessee would see an improvement with him too for that matter. Bills, Raiders, maybe the Jets.

He'll find a home.

Apparently his contract is pretty sizeable this year which would affect any trade talk. He will def find a home ok

EJ & Geno are locked in for this season & next so can't see him there. (Wouldn't want to affect their growth)

Titans & Raiders could explore him in the offseason if Pryor or Locker don't look like the answer (although both have been good so far this year) or if the Pats trade Mallett he would be a nice back-up for Brady, maybe Arizona.

irishbucsfan wrote: »

And he doesn't see the field.

I think this is the most important point. Freeman has many good qualities but if you can't see plays you'll always be limited in what you can accomplish. I'm curious to see how the new guy gets on. I think the Bucs will improve.

I've never liked Greg shiano since that crap he pulled at the end of the game against the giants(an eagles fan defending thr giants ha) last year. ive read reports that he is trying to run a pro team like a college team, which isnt working. I think he is gone at the seasons end.

I'm not sure if Glennon is the answer, but I really like the approach of giving him the first start before the Bye week and working with him during it.

There's an article from a while back claiming the Bucs are not in a rebuilding year. I'm sorry but if you are starting a Rookie QB your offense is rebuilding. Our defense might be Championship calibre, but our offense can't stay on the field with consistency and it is now rebuilding.

Really liked what Tim Wright brought to the game. Really liked how Glennon spread the ball around. He just made a couple of simple errors which was always going to happen.

jester1980 wrote: »

well what a great two weeks. got to see two wins which is great, got a nice free upgrade for Atlanta game too which was good.

Glennon starting to look good and Rainey had two decent games.

Radio shows all over there are talking about swapping Martin for a 1st round pick if they can and leep James and Rainey. What do you think of this??

I don't know, I think Martin is a better player than either. But if we can get a good 1st round pick for him then it might be worth it.

I wouldn't go trading Martin for a first round pick tbh.

Theres not enough body of work to show that James or Rainey are good enough as a long term solution. Theres a reason Rainey has bounced around the league and James hasn't played enough.

It could work out it may not. Im always of the opinion that a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.

Meh.

Not liking it at all. There was nothing wrong with our current jersey. It could have been modernized without going so... ugly

Lads, any opinions of Jeremy Zuttah? My Ravens just picked him up for a 5th rounder in 2015. No matter what, he's an upgrade over what we currently have, but I don't know much more about him than that.

Cheers.