No, but don't you think the Bucs could have got Josh for say $2 million a season rather than throw $5 Million per at him? Its just fucking stupid. I think Lovie got caught up in trying to steal him away from the Bears. The best thing for the Bucs would be if Josh is out with a broken hand, then Glennon can develop. Then again, with Lovie & Jeff Tedford, I seriously doubt than any QB can improve.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

I assume Lovie et al assumed the big fix was at least two years off so its a stop gap. Lovie may have a "plan"?

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Lovie will have success there.

He was 5-11 in his 1st year with the Bears. He'll eventually get them to be a 9/10 win borderline 1st-round playoff out each year.

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McCown just needs some talent around him.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Did you miss my numerous posts about how Lovie has complete control of personnel in Tampa Bay & that the GM works for Lovie?

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Hell yeah, nice work Lovie. Fuck the Steelers. That's what they get for resigning James Harrison.

Holy crap. Well theres a punter gonna be looking for work tomorrow.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He should have kicked the FG.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Both the Bears and Pack punters were looking for work today.

I believe Lovies Tampa 2 is on track for letting up the highest avg QB ratings ever.

That was terrible today by Pittsburgh.

Here is the last 1:44

1:44 4th & 10, PIT14
Mike Glennon incomplete pass down the middle
Pittsburgh
1:44 1st & 10, PIT14
Le'Veon Bell rushed up the middle for 2 yard gain
1:40 2nd & 8, PIT16
Tampa Bay timeout
1:40 2nd & 8, PIT16
Pittsburgh committed 5 yard penalty
1:40 2nd & 13, PIT11
Ben Roethlisberger passed to Markus Wheaton to the right for 8 yard gain
1:35 3rd & 5, PIT19
Tampa Bay timeout
1:35 3rd & 5, PIT19
Le'Veon Bell rushed to the right for 2 yard loss
0:50 4th & 7, PIT17
Pittsburgh timeout
0:40 4th & 7, PIT17
Brad Wing punted, no return
Tampa Bay
0:40 1st & 10, PIT46
Mike Glennon incomplete pass to the left
0:35 2nd & 10, PIT46
Mike Glennon passed to Louis Murphy Jr. down the middle for 41 yard gain
0:35 1st & 5, PIT5
Mike Glennon incomplete pass down the middle
0:15 2nd & 5, PIT5
Mike Glennon incomplete pass to the left
0:07 3rd & 5, PIT5
Mike Glennon passed to Vincent Jackson to the left for 5 yard touchdown. Patrick Murray made PAT
0:07
Tampa Bay kicked off, touchback
Pittsburgh
0:07 1st & 10, PIT20
Ben Roethlisberger passed to Heath Miller down the middle for 5 yard gain. lateral to Markus Wheaton. lateral to Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger fumbled. Marcus Gilbert recovered fumble

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Absolutely

they certainly could beat the saints this sunday. tulane could beat the saints at this point.

Diane Lane could beat the Saints right now

No fucking way. I agree the Saints have not been great. the offense has been average and the Defense is below average, but TB winning means nothing....Lovie pulled the Hnag around , hang around and then go for it....and it worked. Some bad Pitt play helped.

if Polamalu covered the WR...instead of playing in no mans land between the Qb and the WR, Pitt wins that game...but he is Polamalu...this guy makes so many dumb plays, it is amazing...

You play 1-2 yards in the endzone...protect the endzone with 7 seconds left....if the QB runs from 8 yard sout, you can get him...

Instead he is left waving off a good catch,.

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I can't stand looking at the Buccaneers' uniforms. Who decided slightly yellowish grey was a team color that would inspire passionate loyalty?

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probably the same people who thought the same about creamsicle orange and white?

I liked the old ones though.

But creamsicle orange is a bright color, it's a Floridian color. Warm grey is just BLAH.

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It's not suppose to be warm grey, it's pewter!

Hockey in about 9 days!!!

it's EARL gray!

I'm going to back slowly away from this thought.

Those guys were down 38-0 and it was barely the 2nd quarter.

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Stay strong.

Pieces were in place (54,55, 33) before Lovie got here.

Pieces are in place there. They have talent. I don't understand this.

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Lovie disagrees


Maybe some of these high draft picks arent as great as thought. It seems like it happens a lot, especially with Defensive players, that they play well enough to not be considered a bust at first but you look up after a few years and they're average.

Lovie Smith: Bucs aren't as talented as they need to be
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By Conor Orr
Around The NFL Writer
Published: Oct. 13, 2014 at 12:26 p.m. Updated: Oct. 13, 2014 at 01:06 p.m.
There are defensive coaches on talent-starved teams that likely cringed when they heard Lovie Smith talking about his team after yet another double-digit loss, the Buccaneers' second in four weeks.


Part of the theme of his post-Ravens press conference, which took place moments after a 48-17 loss, was about personnel and whether Tampa Bay has players good enough to run Smith's scheme.

"We're not giving excuses ... but we're not as talented as we need to be in some areas, and sometimes you can pick on that a little bit," Smith said Sunday. "But at the same time, the areas where we are talented, it's all kind of snowballing a little bit."

At his disposal, Smith has Lavonte David, Gerald McCoy, Alterraun Verner, Mark Barron and Dashon Goldson to name a few. Three of the franchise's last four first-round picks have been spent on defensive talent, and the Bucs went with a cornerback, Johnthan Banks, with their second-round pick in 2013 after spending a first-rounder on Darrelle Revis.

Perhaps their struggles can be attributed to a lack of depth in other places and a quarterback that is still in development. That being said, that is still a boatload of talent to be complaining about.

We recap all the Week 6 action on a jaunty edition of the "Around The NFL Podcast." Find more Around The NFL content on NFL NOW.

repeating the mistakes of the past. His GM will keep spending picks on defensive players to the detriment of the rest of the team.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I thought Lovie basically was the GM?

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I didn't know

Anyway, I was listening to a telecast this weekend where Romeo Crennel said the era of zone coverage has ended.

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I think that's more of it than anything. Everybody's got a game plan to attack it now as a standard package. You need the guy that's coming up with the next thing that people aren't ready for.

With great personnel, you can make any defense work.

But if you're able to out-scheme people, you can make up for your lack of personnel. Lovie doesn't do that. He sticks with what he does.

That was the thing that made the old "46" defense great. All those players were awesome and nobody knew what the hell that defense was.

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Conor Orr?

What the fuck.