Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/22  at  03:19 AM

and by the way i have worked for the tampa sports authority which runs the stadium for 12 yrs,dont talk s*&t bout people you dont know,just because i dont share the same views as you doenst mean im not a true fan to football or the bucs…......people are allowed to have there own opinions…

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/22  at  03:13 AM

once again we didnt need to address the defense last year,they finished in the top 10 for the 9th straight yr,and what about ruud,adams,zemaitis,bennett,nicholson,young defensive players,we finished out of the top 10 for the first time in 9 years,most of our starters again were on the ir,,you lose 2 or 3 key players on any defense it will make a difference,and for the offense,we started two rookies on the line,they went out got a proven vet to help the young players get better on the oline,so i do see positive changes on this team,you cant blame gruden for dropped balls,thats the players fault ...plus with the way stovall played in the later part of last season,clayton should be looking over his shoulder even if we dont get calvin

Posted by  Dexter Fields, Neptune, N.J. on 04/20  at  06:14 PM

Listen hear prettyboy pat,I’m not complaining about the wins,i’m really complaining about the state of the team,no youth put in place for the defense-since he been here there is no young stand out player on defense.See pat unlike you i’m a football fan first then a team fan.You’re still talking about stats and resume’s'but we are losing-at the end of the season that what matters.Gruden and allen can only win with a ready team,they do not know how to get the players we need to put in place when other players get hurt.For the last three seasons we only really had one receiver that can get open-whats going on-what talent-you’re a jag fan-you’re funny!

Posted by  Dexter Fields, Neptune, N.J. on 04/20  at  05:44 PM

Apparentlty bruce wasn’t better than rattay because rattay played the final games.All these players we lost during the season didn’t end our season-gruden and allen did because last offseason they didn’t prepare for this like they did this season.They did not sign one defensive player last offseason.Kelly is not a cover CB-he plays 10-15 yards off of the line.Its not about winning in two season-we are not getting better as a team,our young players are not getting better-you don’t get it.Look at clayton,when will simms get better,how about caddy,how open do alex smith get.Gruden is a coordinator not a head coach,there’s a difference

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/19  at  11:06 PM

so tell me something if rattay was better than bruce….y wasnt he the backup…the rookie outplayed the vet….what do you expect a coach to do if a player is playing better than the other,bench the better playing one…thats sounds like a great idea ..look gruden has showed he can coach and his resume speaks for it itself,we all make bad descisions and we learn from them…sorry we cant win division titles and super bowls every year…..GO BUCS

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/19  at  10:46 PM

your complaining because we won a divisional title in the last 2 years,and your saying what have you done for me lately,what your not allowed to have a off year,not looking at the fact we had 9 starters on ir and thats not suppose to affect the team,you lose your best cover guy,your starting qb,defensive end,running back part of season,starting reciever,and thats not going to make a difference…if marvin harrison,payton manning and canto june got hurt on the colts your going to tell me the colts would have won the super bowl….think not…this team went 11-5 two years ago…everybody was health,this team has the talent,injuries can ruin a team for the whole season.

Posted by  Tony Gontanelli, Ft. Myers, Florida on 04/19  at  08:57 PM

Give me a break! Simms had two years to show us what he could do. He showed no maturity on the field. He would still have spleen if he knew how to throw the ball away and not run back 15 yards. Sure he knows the system, but so does Garcia. Garcia knows how a west coast offense is run. The only thing that Garcia needs to learn is the complex playbook. He is a veteran that shows promise under pressure and shows endurance on the field. This is not just some washed out quaterback like we are talking about here. He has two all-star games under his belt and a completion rate of over 60%. There shouldn’t even be a blink of an eye or the pause of the breath when it comes to chosing Garcia over Simms.

Posted by  Dexter Fields, Neptune, N.J. on 04/19  at  07:50 PM

Two seasons later-what have you done for me lately beside allow our defense to become the oldest in the league.An offense that was ranked 29th,didn’t win a game in our DIVISION,put our quarterback in a position to be put out for the season,start a 7th round pick QB over a veteran,come to New Jersey last season to play the Gaints on the windest day of the year and try to air it out.He wins with someone else’s team-what player got better under him?He only can coach veterans,he is not a mentor-we will never get better with this guy.IF you want to live by the sword be willing to die by the sword.

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/19  at  04:50 PM

have to make i correction gruden was the second bucs coach to win 2 divisional titles…john mckay was the first….but gruden was the first bucs coach to win two divisional titles in his first 4 years as head coach of the bucs

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/19  at  02:57 AM

why i give gruden lots of credit…..18 yrs in coaching,first bucs coach to win two divisional titles,has the two best records in bucs history(12-4 and 11-5),has won 4 divisional titles,a conference championship and a super bowl ring,most wins in a season by a bucs coach,youngest coach to win a super bowl,only coach to win super bowl his first year as head coach of a team,third coach since 1966 to win 40 games b4 his 40th birthday,only the the 3rd coach in nfl history to lead different teams to the playoffs in consecutive years…thats one hell of a resume not to give a guy credit…what does your nfl resume look like Mr.fields…..i guess gruden does know what he is doing after all….GO BUCS

Posted by  Dexter Fields, Neptune, N.J. on 04/17  at  07:49 PM

We won 4 games last year,(really 3 games)-but we are a better team.If we where a better team we would have been at least 9and7.We have one receiver that can only get open, a running that didn’t get 800 yards,who is our quarterback?-what football are you whatching,JAGUGARS?We still have problems on the o-line.You give gruden to much credit,this guy is becoming more of a bad play caller,he’s not a personel person,he can groom young players,he can’t draft.I don’t need to look at stats-I’m pointing at the score board,get it.

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/16  at  11:30 PM

nothing has changed…we actually have running backs and recievers getting over thousand yards a in 5 years in a row..cant say that bout dungy can you…..that isnt change….oh in the super bowl,the offense and defense both scored 3 t.d.‘s,so dont give me that crap the super bowl was won by only the defense…...check the stats our offense is better since gruden has been here….thats called change…..things dont happen over night…....weve won a division title 1 out of the last 3 yrs..thats not that bad….fiquring the nfc south to me is one of the toughest divisions in the league….so this team isnt any worse than when dungy was here…..at least we dont have to always rely on our d to win games now…like when dungy was here….

Posted by  Dexter Fields, Neptune, N.J. on 04/16  at  05:57 PM

There is a difference,gruden is supposed to be this offensive guru,he won the super bowl with dungy’s defense-since then our offense haven’t improved.Our defense is not strugging our defense is old and you can’t blame them for getting old.Our coaches and owner are to blame-players can’t sign other players.
  By the way,dungy is a defensive coach,he didn’t call offensive plays when he was here and we barely score 13 pts with this joker.Nothing havn’t changed-open your eye’s.

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/16  at  03:05 PM

regaurdless of who is coaching this team,we have always had problems on one side of the ball…when dungy was here he couldnt score more than 13 pnts a game half the time,averaged 10 pnts a gme in the playoffs ......run..run..run..punt,that was our offense pretty much for 6 yrs(dungy ball)...now its the opposite our offense is slowly making its way into the picture and our defense is struggling…the coaches are to blame..the players are to blame…the whole team is to blame for there drop of success…this off season to me is the best to date in a while…we finally filled holes and got depth, no excuses for this organization…..lets stop pointing fingers and win some f^&*king games and get back to the playoffs where we belong…go bucs

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/16  at  02:43 PM

well in my defense…..10 sacks compared to what he use to get…thats a major decrease…as for boger,he was suppose to be the next sapp i remember everybody talking bout he was going to be the next one…everybody thought so highly for him and he didnt meet the expectations of what he was thought of,as for the remarks about gruden and allen doing nothing,like i have stated before this offense looks a hell of alot better than when it did when dungy was here…gruden has had a player over a thousand yards every year he has been here..dungy didnt….dungy averaged 10 pnts a game in the playoffs..gruden averaged 32 in the playoffs the yr he came here….

Posted by  Dexter Fields, Neptune, N.J. on 04/16  at  02:09 PM

It’s funny how people want to give allen and gruden credit for doing nothing.For years we had this great defense that was given to these two jokers and the only thing they had to do was build an offense.For years we only drafted offense and we still have problems with offense-amazing!In one draft we drafted 3-4 WR’s-where are these guys,i don’t get it,how about those tackle’s we drafted a couple of years ago.

Posted by  Kurt A Hartless, Columbia, South Carolina on 04/16  at  01:52 PM

I’m going to have to agree to disagree with you on this one Patrick. Sapp posted 10 sacks last year. That’s about double of any other DT in the league. Booger was never meant to be Sapp’s replacement (who is?) and he always did a solid job (we could ill afford to lose depth at DT.) We agree on Lynch, which was a putred move. I’ll cede Jackson. But most of all; if it wasn’t for the NFL raising the salary cap, we’d still be in cap hell. What got us into cap hell were the Stinchcombs and the Garners…not McCay. I approach this administration as I do our current political situation, with much hope and little faith.

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/15  at  10:23 AM

when allen took over this team we were millions over the cap,it took him almost 5 yrs to fix the problems mckay left…so in my opinion,allen has gone a better job than people give him credit for…hes made some bad decisions,but he has also made good ones as well….the guy deserves some credit for getting this team out of a hole in the salary cap issues we had….and this year i feel gruden and allen have made excellent decisions to make this team better….GO BUCS

Posted by  Patrick Dotson, Tampa,FL on 04/15  at  10:17 AM

kurt, if you really think about,you should blame mckay before you blame allen,mckay is the one that gave them all the big contracts and when they wanted to resign they wanted more money than what they were worth,lynch im behind you 100 percent no reason for him to be let go to go to another team,but give me a break,sapp,his last 3 yrs here nothing but down hill(what has he done in oakland…nothing)dexter jackson was a one yr wonder and he hasnt done much since either….griese got hurt and simms was doing good,mcfarland..we got a 2nd rnd pick for him…which is what he is worth,boger never lived up to being the replacement for sapp…bogers numbers never got better over a period of time…so why waste the money….

Posted by  Kurt A Hartless, Columbia, South Carolina on 04/14  at  10:23 AM

Simms has a losing record as a starter. He sat the bench for 2 years and took over a 5-0 team that ended up 11-5. He went 0-4 last year and looked absolutely putred. Garcia, Rattay & Gradkowski should make the team. Grad showed promise under fire while Rattay should have been the starter anyway(coach’s fault.) As for Allen being a guru; well, he needs quite a few ‘attaboys to make up for all of his screw ups (see Sapp, Lynch, Greise, D. Jackson, McFarland, etc.) You should really put your money on Kiffin righting the defense so that we are at least in each game as Gruden has yet to peak #19 in offense as a Buc.

Posted by  Michael Harris, Oldsmar on 04/14  at  08:10 AM

Simms will be traded on draft day.  Allen will look like a guru, when he wheels and deals for two first round picks and lands two top notch players.  I wish Simms the best.  Nice young player.  Great arm!  Not very accurate.  Perfect fit for Al Davis’s Raiders.  Toss it up high Cris and let Randy Moss run under it.

Posted by  Jim Wilt, Riverview,FL. on 04/13  at  11:15 AM

Jeff, Sims and Coach Gruden gone by the middle of the season?? No way, I hope you don’t jump on the wagon in Oct. when we are about 6-2 and headed for a play-off run.

Posted by  eric 'phillybuc' robinson, philadelphia on 04/13  at  08:31 AM

Seeing what Garcia can up here last year, he can definitely step in and make things happen. But you gotta see first what #2 can do.

Posted by  kyle fanning, Tampa on 04/12  at  10:05 PM

Simms injuring his spleen the 4th game in the season is the only reason he has an outside chance of starting. If his spleen injury hadn’t occurred, he wouldn’t even be on the team right now. 
Jeff Garcia doesn’t have the weapons to help him out like Philadelphia did (Westbrook, Stallworth, Good O-line), but that might change in the draft.

Posted by  Craig Prestero (Gold Medalist Chef), St. Pete on 04/12  at  09:33 PM

Simms still has not really proven himself. he’s good but if Garcia can learn the system he really is the man we need. go with the the veteran is what I say but, I am just A fan of 25 years born in ib Tampa. GO BUCS!