Light Duty Ahead For McCoy And Johnson
August 5th, 2014
Chatting with Leslie Frazier this afternoon, the defensive coordinator made it clear to Joe that the Bucs want Gerald McCoy and Michael Johnson on the field for every possible snap.
He almost laughed at the thought of McCoy getting fewer reps than he did last season. But it seems the opposite will be true for preseason games.
Lovie Smith specifically singled out Johnson and McCoy in his news conference this evening as men who wouldn’t see much action for the preseason opener in Jacksonville on Friday night.
The starters won’t play much period (maybe a quarter), Lovie said, and there will be little game-planning until the third preseason game, which will be treated as a real game week would.
Frankly, McCoy already looks in Hall of Fame form. Again today at practice he was unstoppable. If there is one Buccaneer who doesn’t seem to need any reps — or risk — in preseason, Joe would say it’s McCoy.
August 5th, 2014 at 8:27 pm
A quarter for the first preseason game I am completely fine with, just not this one series garbage like last year that left our guys completely unprepared at the start of the regular season. From my years of watching football, one quarter for the first and fourth preseason games, and two for the second and third, seem to be the best ways to go to establish a good rhythm.
August 5th, 2014 at 11:29 pm
Uncle Albert Says:
August 5th, 2014 at 8:27 pm
A quarter for the first preseason game I am completely fine with, just not this one series garbage like last year that left our guys completely unprepared at the start of the regular season.
Because none of that failure to be prepared was coaching….
Honestly, I felt that the team always looked well prepared (even for game one)… until the second half of each game that was. At that point the halftime adjustments were clearly the fault of the coaching staff.