Please, prove Joe wrong in Detroit, Keith Tandy. Please!

Joe’s no fan of Tandy’s skills, but Bucs coaches are. Greg Schiano offered big praise for the second-year safety’s intelligence and reliability today, and defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan took the Tandy love several steps further.

“Really a versatile guy as far as playing different positions. He’s a guy I would describe as really good at everything,” Sheridan said. “Maybe not a wow spectacular dynamic player at any one particular part of his game. But he’s good in run support, he can tackle, he’s athletic, he can play man-to-man coverage, he understands zone coverage, he can play different components of zone coverage, he can make checks off of formations. He’s done an outstanding job. I told him that a couple of weeks ago. He has really come around. We put him in there. I don’t think we miss a beat.”

Yes, Sheridan said the Bucs would miss suspended Dashon Goldson.

Joe asked Sheridan if the loss of Goldson meant he’d change the way Mark Barron is used, but the answer was a definitive, “No. We’re going to try to use Mark as we have.”

The Bucs are quite confident in Tandy. Joe’s going to break out the rabbit’s foot and cross fingers.