Fire Them Cannons: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tracker

[Survivor]

Damn... Freeman is a heavy sweater.

http://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=54056

 

[BigBucs]

Haa haa. Heard that on his weekly radio show last week.

 

[BigBucs]

Bucs Beat Yankees In TV Ratings

By: Justin Pawlowski

There was a lot of talk leading up to Monday night's game that because Peyton Manning was not playing that the NFL and ESPN would regret having this matchup in the spot light when the ratings came out. Well, the ratings are out, and there should be no regrets.

On a night where the Bucs and Colts would have to battle the Yankees in the playoffs for TV time, Monday Night Football almost doubled the TV ratings that the Yankees and Tigers received for their ALDS matchup on TBS.

According to Variety, in the key demographic of 18-49, Monday Night Football on ESPN received a 4.5 rating and 11 share, which meant more than 10 million people were tuned in to see the Bucs beat the Colts. TBS received a 2.1 rating and a 5 share, which meant just over 6 million people tuned in to see the Yankees lose game 3 of the ALDS to the Tigers.

Football remains king even without its king of kings playing on the biggest stage. Fans around the country still tuned in to see this young Buccaneer team physically beat down the Colts. I would expect more Monday Night Football games at Raymond James Stadium after the way the team, the fans, the stadium, and the city showed upon national television.

http://www.620wdae.com/pages/theblitz_justinpawlowski.html?article=9212928

 

[BigBucs]

Week 5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ San Francisco 49ers

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[Scikotic]

No one else found it funny that the scores were photoshopped out in the last picture?

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

No one else found it funny that the scores were photoshopped out in the last picture?

LOL

I think the screen cap was taken a fraction of a second before the score overlay was finished loading up on the screen.

 

[BigBucs]

:crazydance: :crazydance: :crazydance: :crazydance: :crazydance:

AdamSchefter Adam Schefter
Filed to ESPN Buccaneers safety Tanard Jackson, who had served a suspension for over one year, has been reinstated, per NFL source.
5 hours ago

http://twitter.com/#!/AdamSchefter/status/123832419995492352

No one else found it funny that the scores were photoshopped out in the last picture?

:facepalm: If you stop trying your best to troll you would see that that any score, other than 0-0 in the 1st few seconds of the game, is blurred out in all of the games I uploaded. Its done to prevent spoilers. It is a sporting event you know.

wtf is the point of posting these pictures anyway?

Screen caps and/or snap shots are standard practice for video uploads. Gives the downloader an idea of the quality of the video.

:bigsrs:?

 

[Realist]

Props for those links. I didn't get to see the 1st half. where are you getting these files or are you recording and uploading yourself?

 

[BigBucs]

Props for those links. I didn't get to see the 1st half. where are you getting these files or are you recording and uploading yourself?

Wouldnt you like to know :lesmug:

 

[StealthShot]

 

[BigBucs]

 

[BigBucs]

:crazydance:

Jackson Activated​

Friday Notes: S Tanard Jackson will be available to play on Sunday against the Saints after he was activated from the exempt list on Friday

This is definitely not what you would call “easing back into things.”


Not only has safety Tanard Jackson been activated just four days and three practices after ending his 56-week suspension from the NFL, but he could see his first game action in over a year against a murderer’s row of opponents.


Jackson returned to the Buccaneers on Monday but the team had up to two weeks to keep him on an exempt list in order to determine when and if he could help the team. They didn’t need nearly that long, reporting serious satisfaction with Jackson’s very first practice on Wednesday and making the expected decision to activate him from the exempt list on Friday. Now Jackson is available to play Sunday against the New Orleans Saints, and almost certainly will do so.


That means he’ll get his NFL re-initiation from the likes of Drew Brees, Jimmy Graham, Marques Colston, Darren Sproles and Mark Ingram. That’s some welcoming committee.


Of course, the Buccaneers are happy to have a little more firepower to counter with. Before his suspension, Jackson was clearly one of the team’s best defenders, and a frequent source of big plays, which have been somewhat lacking this season. The exact size and shape of his role in his first game back may not be obvious until Sunday, but the Buccaneers are confident he can have an impact rather quickly.


Most of that confidence comes from how sharp Jackson looked on the practice field and sounded in the meetings this week. By all accounts, he came back much more ready than the team could have reasonably hoped he would. But Head Coach Raheem Morris remembers Jackson’s first integration into the defense as a rookie in 2007 as well as his return from a four-game suspension in 2009, and in both cases the improvement the young player made was swift and steady.


“He just grew and got better and better,” said Morris. “Basically, what gives me the confidence is watching him come off the suspension [two years ago] and go through that same process. Watching him come back and be clearly the best safety on our team is what gives me the confidence to put him out there.”


While Jackson’s lengthy suspension was certainly unfortunate, it has been lost on no one that his return dovetails pretty nicely with a recently-created void at the safety position. Second-year safety Cody Grimm, the team’s replacement at free safety for Jackson, started the season marvelously but was lost for the year to a knee injury in Week Three. Rookie Devin Holland, mostly a special teams ace but still part of the depth at the safety position, joined Grimm on injured reserve last week due to a back ailment. The Bucs’ obvious need in the secondary probably also played a part in Jackson’s rapid activation, and the coaching staff is willing to live with any initial miscues Jackson may experience as he fits back into the defense.


“Will he make some mistakes? Probably,” said Morris. “But do I want him to make fast, hard mistakes? Yeah, that’s what I’m interested in.”


Morris lifted weights throughout his suspension but said he had very little opportunity to do agility work or football-type drills. He said his return from a suspension in 2009 was a different experience, as he had the benefit of an entire offseason and training camp with the team to prepare himself for the last three-quarters of the season. This time around, it may be the psychological lift he is getting from being back with his extended family that has carried him through.


“Just being put on the practice field in this environment, and being away from it for that long, I guess I would credit it to adrenaline, just being happy to be out there, doing whatever I can to get adjusted,” said Jackson. “Luckily it happened this week. This was 56 weeks, man, and being back, first time putting on shoulder pads and a helmet after that long, it’s amazing.”


The Buccaneers did not have to clear a roster spot on Friday for Jackson’s activation because they had done so on Thursday by waiving rookie running back Allen Bradford.


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Foster Makes Strides


Rookie linebacker Mason Foster spent most of the week getting treatment on an ankle sprain he suffered in the third quarter of Sunday’s game in San Francisco, but he had his eye on Friday all along.


Foster was held out of the week’s first two practices. On Thursday, as most of his teammates practiced on the turf under the Tropicana Field roof, he had his ankle taped as he would for a game and spent a few minutes testing it out. On Friday, as he had hoped, he was able to give it a more thorough test, returning to full participation in the final up-tempo practice of the week.


Afterward, he seemed cautiously optimistic about his chances to suit up on Sunday against New Orleans.


“I practiced today, got to run around a little bit,” said Foster. “It’s all good. I got treatment throughout the week and we’ve got great trainers, so it’s getting better every day. I feel like I’m good to go but you’ve just got to take it day-to-day. But it felt good today to run around.”


Foster has been the team’s starting middle linebacker since Week One, and after two games he also took over the ‘Mike’ LB spot in the nickel package and began calling the defensive plays. He is the team’s leading tackler and has already pitched in with two sacks and another quarterback pressure. Foster is quickly emerging as one of the team’s top playmakers, and the Bucs are obviously hopeful he can give it a go on Sunday.


That’s especially true with the adjustments that are already being made in front of Foster. Starting defensive tackle Gerald McCoy has an ankle injury of his own, one a bit more severe, and on Friday he was ruled out for the Saints game. The Bucs will fill the void with a combination of Frank Okam and Da’Quan Bowers, the latter temporarily moving down into the interior line from his usual spot on the end.



McCoy is one of three Buccaneers who were designated as “out” on Friday’s injury report, the first one of the week that includes game-status designations. Wide receiver Sammie Stroughter, who injured his foot on a 78-yard kickoff return to start the season, will miss his fifth game in a row. Rookie tight end Luke Stocker will be out for a second week due to a knee injury.


In addition, starting tailback LeGarrette Blount, as expected, is unlikely to play against the Saints due to the knee injury he sustained against the 49ers. Blount did not practice this week and was listed as doubtful on Friday. Linebacker Zac Diles, who has a hamstring injury and was held out last weekend, is considered questionable. That may clear the way for newly-acquired linebacker Jacob Cutrera to be active on Sunday and make an impact on special teams.


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Keeping It Steady


Good things have happened when Earnest Graham has had the football in his hands against the New Orleans Saints.


In 11 career games against the Bucs’ division rival, Graham has ran the ball 42 times for 266 yards and a touchdown. He has averaged 6.3 yards per carry in those contests, and picked up a first down on more than a quarter of his total runs. In addition, Graham has caught 17 passes for 123 yards in his career against the Saints.


Of course, 32 of those 42 carries and 10 of those 17 receptions came in a pair of games spread over late 2007 and early 2008. During that time, Graham had his one extended run as a starting tailback in the NFL, and he performed marvelously, rushing for 898 yards and 10 touchdowns and catching 49 passes in just 10 starts in 2007. He started the first 10 games of 2008, as well, and turned in another 563 yards and 23 catches.


Since 2009, however, Graham has bounced from one role to another in the backfield – always without complaint and always successfully. In 2009 and 2010 he was primarily the starting fullback. To start the 2010 season, he was primarily the third-down back. With Blount likely to miss Sunday’s game, however, Graham finds himself back on the front line at tailback. His reaction, to those who have witnessed Graham’s reactions – or lack thereof – to any of his other role changes, comes as no surprise.


I’ve always approached the game a certain way, and it’s no different this week,” he said. “I’m not thinking that I’m an older guy so I have something to prove, or I haven’t run the ball a lot so I’ve got something to prove. I just do what I do. I’ve always it approached it that way. When I was a starter and when I wasn’t a starter, it was always the same to me. I always keep it steady.”


In the Bucs’ December win at New Orleans in 2007 – a game that essentially clinched the NFC South title that year – Graham had the third-most prolific rushing day of his career, turning 22 handoffs into 106 yards and a score. Graham’s share of the offensive load is obviously increasing this week, but he may not have to be quite the workhorse he was back in ’07. His head coach suggest that the job will be a time-share between Graham and Kregg Lumpkin, and that how the two are utilized may evolve during the course of the game.


“I’m always confident in Earnest,” said Morris. “I don’t know if Earnest will need to take the ball 20 times and try to go out there and be LeGarrette Blount. I need Lumpkin and Earnest to go out there and be a team together and figure out a way to get us what we need rushing, whatever that is. Whatever it is to control that game, they need to figure a way to go out there and get it for us. And they need to figure out a way to go out there and protect [Josh Freeman] together. And they need to figure out a way to go out there and be better than what Blount was when he was out there. I’m confident in both of those young men. They’re both sharp, they’re both smart, they’re both detailed and they care about the game.”


And, in Graham’s case at least, he’s certainly been there before.

http://www.buccaneers.com/news/article-1/Jackson-Activated/b0b0b52f-0546-47fe-bfe0-8140418bfaf3

 

[BigBucs]

Week 6 New Orleans Saints @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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[BigBucs]

Pics jacked from my teams message board....

:fap:

:datass:

 

[BigBucs]

:smugrussell:

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[BigBucs]

Week 7 Chicago Bears vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers (London)

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[zack54attack]

That Matt Forte Run... :smug:

 

[Senser81]

Question to Tampa fans...what is Freeman doing differently that makes him so terrible this year? Are his WRs worse? It seems like he holds on to the ball way too long and is late with all his throws.

 

[Ironworker808]

Question to Tampa fans...what is Freeman doing differently that makes him so terrible this year? Are his WRs worse? It seems like he holds on to the ball way too long and is late with all his throws.

I've been asking myself those same questions, Senser. This year has not been good at all. Even our wins haven't been fun games to watch. Freeman has looked like he did his rookie year. He doesn't look like he's having a lot of fun this year either.

I couldn't quite put into words what was different until I read this article. It's a bit of a read, but it explains what I've been thinking for the last four weeks. (I attributed the first three weeks of the season to no offseason. I gave the entire NFL the same pass, kinda dismissing horrendous play until week four.)

Again, I know it's a long read, but it's worth it.

Special Featured Column By Bucs Gab Contributor Chris C.

I’ve read most of the comments on the other main Buc blogs, and the opinions seem to be evenly split between blaming Freeman and blaming Olson. Frankly, I don’t know enough to give a confident opinion, but I can say what I see. And what I see is very alarming.

It helps for perspective to go back to both the 3-13 season and the 10-6 season. I haven’t seen anyone note this, but in Freeman’s first year his biggest problem by far was throwing interceptions down the middle. The difference in his second year (just go on youtube and watch the highlight reel) was that he rolled out of the pocket and threw to the sides, usually with his body in motion or with a quick plant-and-chuck.

Given the foregoing, what we are seeing this season is bizarre: it seems as though Olson is trying to turn Freeman into a Brad Johnson-type QB, a well-protected pocket passer who plays it safe and minimizes mistakes. In other words, a very conservative approach. And most importantly, an approach that has already been shown to be inadequate during the 3-13 season. There was a time when Freeman minimized mistakes, and it was precisely NOT when he was playing like Brad Johnson.

This decision to go back to the “first Freeman” is completely mystifying. Maybe someone with more football knowledge can explain what in the world Olson is thinking. In any case, I am willing to forward a prediction: as long as Olson continues to beat Freeman into the standard pocket passer mold, Freeman will continue to perform poor-to-average. I realize that Freeman and his confreres on offense do not want to give off the whiff of mutiny, but they should take the opportunity of the bye-week to gently suggest that they work on incorporating dynamic plays into their offense (not pseudo-dynamic plays like that atrocious pitch play to Benn which they run every game). Maybe that’s just not done in pro-football. I have no idea. But somehow the point has get through someone’s skull who has the authority to do something about it.

My take then is this. Our coaches are treating this team as if it already has an identity. The first part of that identity is “Youngry.” That is a loser, and it amounts to a pre-emptive excuse for poor performances. They’re not babies. They’re a pro football team, and they need to be “Grown-upry” and “excellent.” They need to excel and have the steely determination to accept nothing less. Every Sunday. And they need to conceive of themselves, collectively, in those terms. Excellence does not rely on miracles; it forces the other team to do so. Thus the Saints in their generally ugly loss to us last week still managed to force us to win with a miracle. ‘Till the end, despite not trailing since the first quarter, it never ceased to feel like we were the ones who were reeling. That is the effect excellent teams have – even when beating them, opponents never stop feeling fear.

Another effect excellent teams have is they do not just win games. They dominate. When is the last time this team dominated? I can think of one example in the past two and a half seasons: the Seahawks game in 2010. This “domination factor” is an important variable in determining a team’s progress. San Francisco knew they had cleared the hump when they blew us out. The Saints do it all the time, for example their early season blow-out of the same Bears who beat us this week, and their absolute shredding of the Colts a few hours after our loss.

Some may say it is unfair to expect excellence from this team, which is an attitude that flows directly from the “Youngry” mentality. Look at it like this – we were a vastly superior team to the 49ers last season, and we came close to dominating them. Although we lost to the Lions late last season, we were a better team than them as well. Young or not, that was our starting-point. A team, to be considered on an upward trajectory, must by definition be moving in an upward direction from their starting-point. The 49ers have demanded excellence, and they’ve got it. The Lions too, at least to a far greater degree than us. They are flat-out better teams than us this season. So being young is no excuse; it’s not even an explanation. We had these teams beneath our cleats a year ago; today they make us look like pikers.

Thus, I consider it a psychological and strategic mistake of the first order to attempt to define this team by a slogan that, if we ever show excellence, has nothing to do with it, and if we don’t, is simply an excuse for sucking. “Youngry” must go.

Second, and just as troubling, is the pretend identity of our offense: pound the run, then rely on orthodox pocket passes to a reliable set of hands, preferably Winslow. This presumes (wrongly, in my view) that we already have evidence that Freeman and Winslow have a Brady-Welker kind of connection. It presumes, that is, that this identity has already been established. It has not. When Freeman shines – and when Winslow shines, for that matter – it is in motion, in a dynamic mode, predicated on exploiting breakdowns in coverage as plays are extended. We can rage against this fact – namely, that our offense is intrinsically unorthodox – by trying to shoehorn it into something more prototypical, but mark my words: It will not work. Stated with maximum simplicity: you can’t fight nature, and it is not our nature to be an ordinary machinic sort of offense. That is what Atlanta is, and that is because Matt Ryan is that kind of quarterback, and Gonzales and White function best in that kind of structure.

Josh Freeman is not Matt Ryan. Kellen Winslow is not Tony Gonzales. Mike Williams is not Roddy White. LaGarrette Blount is not Michael Turner. Obvious, right? Well, take a good, close look at the style of our offense this season. Look at Freeman in the pocket. Look at the routes we try to get Williams and Winslow to execute for Freeman. Look at the way we use Blount. Seem familiar? Olson is taking an offense with abilities and instincts vastly different from those of the bread-and-butter, boringly efficient Falcons, and trying to turn it into… a bread-and-butter, boringly efficient imitation.

Simply put: Olson is attempting to turn a supposed identity into a science, a formula, before that identity has been elucidated. It’s like defining the laws of physics before you know what gravity is. Olson is defining a physics for our offense before he’s understood how its gravity works. How could anyone who bothered to look at the tapes from last year decide that this is the direction in which to take this offense? I am certainly no football genius, but it seems borderline insane to me, almost out-of-touch with reality.

Consider in this light another oddity. We are always being assured that Freeman is the future, that everything comes back to Number Five, that it’s all about “Free.” At the same time, everything in the offensive scheme seems purposely designed to take as much off of his shoulders as possible. It’s schizophrenic: “Freeman is the General, but please, General, lead within the pocket-size box we put you in.” I’m starting to think that this is frustrating Freeman, though being the good soldier that he is, I’m also sure he faults himself above all when he screws up. When I see Freeman play consistently like garbage when he’s playing his style, I’ll be ready to say it’s mostly his fault. Now, however, he is playing like garbage while not playing in a style suited to his strengths. So while Freeman proximately makes the mistakes, the ultimate cause of the mistakes is the person who places him in a position where he is most prone to making them. You don’t use a wide receiver like a guard. And you don’t use Freeman like he’s Brad Johnson or Matt Ryan – like he has no legs. To do that is, almost literally, to cripple him before he snaps the ball.

What Olson is doing, thus, is forcing the offense to play in a way that is not, as it were, in its nature. In the effort to carve the offense’s identity into stone, Olson is ironically throwing it into even deeper obscurity. We can’t find our identity because we’re having one forced upon us that is ultimately alien. Yes, we do not know precisely what our identity is; but also, just as surely, this is not it. A course correction is in order, and sooner rather than later.

This is, I guess, what appears to me as the core issue. Identities are what people are, not what they are forced to be. Again, I stress this is just what I see – I admit I could be way off. No one ever accused me of being anything less than a Cassandra. Nonetheless, I try to correct for that bias and my reading of what’s going on with Freeman remains pretty much the opposite of what most people seem to be saying. Freeman is confined. He’s frustrated. He wants to move, but Olson has beat it into his head that it is important to be conventional – and to an extent, I agree with Olson there. Take a look, however, at what Carolina is doing with Cam Newton. They are allowing the identity of their offense to flow from his style of play, not trying to cram his style into that of Jake Delhomme. Think about that. They’re doing the same with Stafford in Detroit. And Smith in San Francisco. Franchise players have their offenses stamped with their identities.

Now, ask this question: What is Freeman’s identity as a QB?

Not so easy to answer, is it? We’ve seen the Freeman of the 3-13 season. We’ve seen the Freeman of the 10-6 season. And we’ve seen the Freeman of this (so far) 4-3 season. Which is the real Freeman?

Before answering that, ask another question: Can we pinpoint a certain style of play which, when Freeman employs it, seems to be not only successful, but natural for him?

Basically, the question is: What comes most naturally to Freeman as a QB?

The core of my evaluation of what is going on right now is that the “natural” Freeman is the one we saw last year. He was fluid, he was engaged, he was active and dynamic, and he was, above all, inspired. That Freeman moved, a lot. That Freeman avoided staring down receivers by taking a moment to roll out of the pocket, then quick-scanning in a pinch. He threw deep because his shuffling gave his receivers time to get open. You can’t run them on essentially the same routes as last year while nailing Freeman’s feet to the turf. Of course they won’t get open. And of course Freeman will try to force things. It can’t be fun as a QB to have to execute 5 second plays in 2.5 seconds. All the opposing defenses have to do gameplan-wise is recognize that Freeman does not have the vision in the pocket to throw the sideline long-ball (he never has had it – see the 3-13 season), and then run variants on a Cover 2 with the safeties and linebackers crunching up on the usual holes in the middle that open up in that package. Result: forced throws over the middle, lots of picks. Until Freeman is permitted to move, that will not change. And until Olson understands that he must be vastly more creative in designing routes to slice through zones quickly with many options, instead of maintaining the vain hope that Freeman will suddenly become a visionary on three-step plant-and-throws, Freeman will not improve if we insist on turning him into Matt Ryan.

Bottom line: if Olson wants his current routes to work, he must allow Freeman to move; if he won’t allow him to move, then he must design new plays that are top-heavy on options in the black holes of zones. Right now we have the worst of both worlds – we won’t allow Freeman to move, and we won’t change our playbook.

It all comes back to this. I see it asked all the time: “Why can’t our receivers get open?” The answer is that their identities, as they began to emerge last year – letting their dynamic QB shuffle as they maneuvered on big routes – has suddenly been stifled in favor of a style of play they do not feel comfortable with.

Ask another question, the answer to which I consider highly revealing: Does our offense look comfortable out there?

From what I’ve seen, the answer is obviously “No.”

And not only do they not look comfortable, they look positively uncomfortable, as if they are trying to follow some sort of formula instead of using judgment and intuition when these are called for (as they often are). They don’t just look bad, they look rigid. They show rigor to the point of mortis. Every week we hear “Williams is ready to BREAK OUT,” and “Benn is ready to EXPLODE,” and so forth. I submit that, yes, they are ready, but not just in the sense that they are ready to have big games. They are, as well, ready to break out of the chains that have been foisted upon them.

Having said all of that, it is safe to conclude that I believe the chief problem is indeed Olson. I’m not saying he’s a bad OC. He may be a great one for all I know. What I am saying is that he is not the right OC for this offense, if what we have seen this season is the direction in which he wants to take us.

The problems are not primarily mechanical. They are mental, and our offense is clearly inhibited by their narrowed conception of what a good offense is supposed to look like. Olson may be right in what the typical good offense looks like. But, again, if our offense is to flourish, it will not look like that. How odd that our coaches and GM go out of their way to constantly stress how unconventional this team is, yet when it comes to what matters – the gameplay – the thrust is utterly conventional.

I worry that we are, on offense, becoming Pavlovian. Keep that in mind when talking about “development.” Young people learn quickly, which is an advantage if they are being taught properly. If they’re not, then what happens is… they quickly learn bad habits.

So much of this game is intangible. Players must click with their program, and coaches must find a program that clicks with their players. We can debate the ins and outs of specific mistakes and miscues to our hearts content (or discontent), but we shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees. This offense is not clicking with their program, even when they win. And the OC has not found a program that clicks with his players. It’s as simple, and as terribly complicated, as that.

 

[BigBucs]

Free isnt as much late as he is grossly inaccurate in some cases. Mike Williams playing like shit isnt helping the situation either.