When the Storm hosted Chicago on Monday night, former Bucs quarterback Shaun King, who is now working with ESPN, was in the booth to serve as the color analyst for the nationally-televised game.

I caught up with King before the game and one of the questions I asked was whether or not he thought the Storm could turn things around this season after a tough first half. Now, King’s comments came prior to the game - one the Storm lost to fall to 3-6 - but I figured I’d share them anyways. Heck, maybe they’ll bring some smiles to Tampa Bay fans who haven’t had much to smile about recently.

“Well, I think if you look at what they were able to accomplish last year, last year kind of started the same way for them. They didn’t get off to a great start and then they acquired [quarterback Brett] Dietz from Kansas City’s practice squad and he came and helped them turn things around and get into the playoffs. This year they started off OK but then they just kind of got in a rut. Defensively they couldn’t force any turnovers and offensively they’ve had some injuries and have had a hard time protecting Dietz. But they beat a good Orlando team last week, so maybe that’s the spark that will get them back on a winning streak. One thing that you do know is they still have the most accomplished coach in arena [football] in [Tim] Marcum, so if there’s any guy who can get it turned around I’m sure he can.”