Haha so much for that guy here ranting that Lovie didn't want Houston and swearing they would have more success in tampa
Is Cleveland f[d up or genius, that is the question. They are going analytic and getting ripped by the press.
Firing Lovie Smith is a head scratcher. Who are the Bucs gonna hire that's better than him? They must have the inside track on somebody big.
Well, that doesn't make a difference to me. It is of my opinion that no matter what other teams do, as far as picking coaches or players or whatever, if my team is good, we will beat anyone. The Texans will improve, vastly, and will have good matchups next season, and we will be much better because we will have the similar opponents as this year. So, in short... I don't think it matters what other teams do as long as we are good.
8-24 the past two years. Former Bucs GM Mark Dominik expects OC Dirk Koetter to get the job, FWIW. Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">With Lovie Smith fired I would expect Dirk Koetter to be named head coach within the week. They still will interview a few other candidates.</p>— Mark Dominik (@MarkdominikESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkdominikESPN/status/684940443755409408">January 7, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Right? From 2-14 to 6-10. A 4 game jump while having a rookie QB under center is very good. Very surprised Lovie was given the boot.
What did the ownership expect from the team these last 2 seasons? Dubious decision to fire Lovie IMO. Only adds fuel to the fire that black head coaches are severely disadvantaged.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">During season, I had a trusted source insist that if <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Texans?src=hash">#Texans</a> fired Bill O'Brien, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Buccaneers?src=hash">#Buccaneers</a>' Licht would consider replacing Lovie with him.</p>— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/CharlesRobinson/status/684943272125403136">January 7, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The Organization has been a dumpster fire that was floating on the good works done when Tony Dungy was there . . . . . They have slowly descended back to crap . .. like they were before he got there I remember the Pre Dungy Bucs . . .. laughing stock that even Cleveland laughed at Rocket River
The Bucs haven't made a good hire since Dungy. Gruden coasted to a Super Bowl with Dungy's players and having the good fortune of playing the team he spent 5 years building in the Super Bowl. Ultimately it brought them a title, but the ridiculous price they paid for Gruden (2 1st rounders and 2 2nd rounders) would ultimately cripple their future and once the core of Sapp, Brooks, Lynch and Simeon Rice peaked they found nothing to replace them with. So they fire Gruden after spending the post-Super Bowl era in mediocrity, presumably because hot-name assistant Raheem Morris is drawing interest from the outside and they want to keep him so badly they're willing to put the HC title on a young guy with very little coaching experience who was primarily a defensive backs coach. Morris predictably flames out and then they make another horrible decision by bringing in Greg Schiano. Lovie Smith was exactly the kind of experienced HC a young team needed after making so many terrible coaching moves, and now they're basically repeating the same mistake they made when they ditched Gruden to hire a flavor of the month assistant.
The Bucs have a pretty talented roster. They have good skill position players, a stud DT, and LB, and a franchise QB for the next decade. That would be a good landing spot for a high profile candidate.
The Bucs are watching the Titans pick 2 and 1 back to back. They are clearly falling behind in the nuclear build up.
Players seem to like Lovie. Bears had same reaction when he was fired after a 10 win season. Seems like a good guy. He'll bounce back hopefully
