Rick Stroud, the St.  Pete Times beat writer known also as the Mad Twitterer, is questioning Jim Bates’ job security today.

In his look at Bates’ results to date, the Mad Twitterer gets a little insight from Raheem The Dream on the grand master plan.

“The theory behind this is you’ve got to see what you have,” Bucs coach Raheem Morris said. “You’ve got to go out there and let guys play. If you sprinkle in a guy that’s proven, like a Jason Taylor, it has nothing to do with your long-term plans. It would be simple to go out there with a short-term plan and see what you can get done this year and see how productive you can be this year. But you have an ability to look for long-term solutions. We gave an opportunity to guys like Quincy Black and Geno Hayes to go out there and be the starter, get better and progress. That’s been the plan the whole time.

Now Joe didn’t just fall out of the sky and land in Clearwater.

Yo, Rah, please don’t tell try and sell this to Joe as you’ve only been looking for long-term solutions. What exactly was moving Jermaine Phillips to linebacker all about when you had Black and Hayes on the roster? Why did you waste the limited cash to go around on Byron Leftwich when you had Luke McCown?

Joe’s going to give you a pass on Angelo Crowell. But get Roy Miller his first start of the season already, if this year is truly about letting young guys “be the starter, get better and progress.”

And to use that same logic, your logic, surely young, improving Maurice Stovall will be your starter today in place of Michael Clayton.