Congratulations, Oneil Cousins!
November 2nd, 2014
Joe is somewhat stunned that the reason the Bucs lost today had nothing to do with Oneil Cousins, who filled in at left tackle for injured Anthony Collins.
Cousins was the scourge of preseason when he allowed Josh McCown to get pounded like Whac-a-mole. But today he stood tall.
Cousins showed plenty of dog in the running game and did a very solid job keeping Mike Glennon upright. It’s not Cousins’ fault Glennon threw two high school interceptions.
Before today, Cousins, 30, had nine starts in his journeyman career. The Bucs picked him up in free agency this season and pegged him to replace Davin Joseph after three years in Cleveland. But Cousins proved brutal at left and right guard in preseason games and was buried on the bench.
Kudos to Jason Licht and Lovie Smith for picking up a very good backup left tackle with experience off the street.
It’s too bad their big-money pick at starting left tackle is not as impressive.
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:36 pm
It’s sad when we have to celebrate something like this
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:37 pm
Collins and Johnson should both be cut. Got paid and got soft.
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:38 pm
Yes he looked decent today: but could that just be the result of the Brown defensive line playing like the Bucs D-Line sans McCoy???? I am guessing that is what critics in Cleveland are going to say? But Cousins looked good, maybe more of him and less of the $$$ guy is a good thing from here on out!
November 2nd, 2014 at 6:40 pm
Collins is a joke. Cut his ass along with that ghost Michael Johnson.
Props to the O-line in this game. The sacks were on Glennon. But can anyone name a single defensive starter on the Brownies D-line? Nobody special. O-line is still a top priority, but this game made it clear the Bucs NEED a QB come May.
November 2nd, 2014 at 7:11 pm
Gotta hand it to him- he done decent.
November 2nd, 2014 at 7:12 pm
It’s one game… Let’s pump the brakes Joe.. Remember Matt Flynn, Rob Johnson, Mike Clayton, and Derrick Ward have all had ONE good game before… I wouldn’t call any of them good at anything related to football except at stealing good money from NFL franchises!
November 2nd, 2014 at 7:33 pm
His first play was turnstile like but I did think he played a pretty good game. Wouldn’t it be a kick in the head if an injury to our free agent bust LT gave rise to where Cousins should have been playing all along?
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:09 pm
I saw plenty of pressure from that side and him missing on his run assignments (rainey getting dropped by his man on 3rd and 1 comes to mind)
=== he is not the answer
November 2nd, 2014 at 9:38 pm
Cousins was really good IMO. I was joking about it earlier this week that maybe LT is his real position, but it looked today like that was the truth. I don’t know enough about Cleveland to know if their end is just really bad.
November 2nd, 2014 at 10:24 pm
O-line definitely played better this week.
November 2nd, 2014 at 10:45 pm
So Raheem had to get rid of Gruden’s players, then Schiano purging Raheem’s, then Lovie unloading Schiano’s players and turns out now we have the worst of the worst at the highest prices, but fear not Bucs fans, according to Lovie, things will improve. Glazers, please either sell this sorry team or fire everyone. If they’re not gonna fire Lovie, then make a statement and fire The DC and special teams coach tomorrow, then fire Warshop after the Atlanta game. This is as hopeless and low as I can remember since the beginning of the franchise, and that’s saying a lot. I wish the fan would take a stand and have no one show up at the homes games at least to send a message to the owners, coaches and players.
November 2nd, 2014 at 11:24 pm
Pelbuc said:
“So Raheem had to get rid of Gruden’s players, then Schiano purging Raheem’s, then Lovie unloading Schiano’s players and turns out now we have the worst of the worst at the highest prices, but fear not Bucs fans, according to Lovie, things will improve. Glazers, please either sell this sorry team or fire everyone. If they’re not gonna fire Lovie, then make a statement and fire The DC and special teams coach tomorrow, then fire Warshop after the Atlanta game. This is as hopeless and low as I can remember since the beginning of the franchise, and that’s saying a lot. I wish the fan would take a stand and have no one show up at the homes games at least to send a message to the owners, coaches and players.”
Yeah, I agree with everything you said: I wish that the special teams coach was fired on the spot in Cleveland but that is not gonna happen; Lovie needs to use the guy as a shield in the offseason when he “corrects” the problems he seen when he reviews the Bucs 2-14 season (I throw in one more win then most posters as the Bucs are not lucky enough to secure the overall #1 and we’ll probably see Jon Gruden using the pick in either Oakland or Jetland…)… The players also make convenient scapegoats which is why the revolving door of washed up players stops during the season only to start again after the trainwreck is over and the coaches are looking for excuses and scapegoats to release and blame…. I too also wish the Glazers would sell to someone like Vinik or DeBartolo but they are not giving up on the TV revenue all that easily; a lot of $$$ to be earned even if your franchise is one of the 4 worst in the NFL in record, attendance, coaching and ownership…..
November 3rd, 2014 at 12:13 am
Cousins was better than serviceable. The O line was better than they have been. Bobby ran the ball well … Opie Cunningham looked like he had the ghost of Ray Nietchsky and Mike Singleltary on his ass. Jamies, free lifetime crab legs dude! Wait for the Bucs to draft you.
November 3rd, 2014 at 1:44 am
Who do you people have in mind to coach this team if you get your wish and everybody is fired?
A new coach would mean a new house cleaning; here we go again.
The Bucs had their chances today, but unfortunately, we do not have a good enough QB, which this team has never had for about the last 20 years.
We should know by now that the draft is always a crap shoot, but I wish management was more careful about the FA signings. Is the FA good, or is he good because the people surrounding him make him/them look better than perceived.
Peyton Manning, or Darrelle Revis are good no matter what. But how about Dashon Goldson, or Michael Johnson?
We, as fans, need to be patient. Let’s see what happens by the end of the season. Personally, I did not think we would win more than 5 to 7 games.
Let’s hang in there.
November 3rd, 2014 at 2:00 am
Let’s don’t ship off Collins when he has guaranteed money that would affect our cap. He has played RG before in Cincy so why not try him out there in practice and if he looks good try him in some games there; however, I believe Cousins will not be effective against some of the better pass rushers we still face this year. The better move would be to move our solid RT to LT because he has been trained in the past at LT too. Then move Cousins to RT where he would not face as tough pass rushers this year. If Collins plays well at RG keep him but ask him to take a cut next year on his contract or face being cut. The key reason our running game looked better was the use of our Tennessee TE at FB to open holes for our RB. However, we need to bring Sims in to alternate with Rainey like the Gators alternated their top backs to devastate Georgia!
November 3rd, 2014 at 4:30 pm
We cannot just get rid of players willy nilly, there has to be viable replacements available first. If we let them go because we don’t like them now, just to get players of similar caliber later, likely for more money that don’t know the system, we are even further behind. We need to keep the best of the bad that are potentially redeemable at least as backups and then try to add quality players in front of them to build some depth.