Brooks: “Comfort, Experience & Excitement”
January 16th, 2015
Just look at how Lovie Smith approached his search for a new offensive coordinator.
There’s insight to be gleaned from the approach, says Derrick Brooks, and Bucs fans should like what’s coming, despite the uncertainty at quarterback.
Brooks talked about his favorite professional football team this week with Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620.
Lovie moved away from the “experiment” of last season and a coordinator new to the NFL, Brooks said. It was evident in the candidates interviewing, and Brooks is impressed by the hiring of Dirk Koetter.
The combination of his diverse experience is the cake, and the icing is Koetter’s knowledge of the NFC South.
“So he knows Carolina. He knows the Saints. He knows the Falcons, in terms of that personnel. So he brings that to this football team. He’s used to calling plays against your division opponents, Brooks said.
“Overall, he’s understood what it took to develop a young quarterback and call plays for a young quarterback. So he can bring that experience, and being used to being in front or a room of pro coaches and teaching. I think you can draw some comfort level, in term of what this means. I would say comfort, experience and excitement; I would use those three words in describing what Coach Kotter is going to bring.”
Brooks went on to praise Koetter as a hire that can handle a transition to “a very different team” than what he had in Atlanta.
What’s unclear, Brooks said, is how Koetter will jell with the head coach and offensive coaches under contract, as well as if Koetter will have the freedom to hire his own assistants.
Joe noted that one thing Koetter made very clear during his news conference was that he works for the head coach and is not overlord of offensive operations.
January 16th, 2015 at 10:25 am
Koetter will have autonomy…he certainly had other OC opportunities & it was early in the process…..I a quite sure that he insisted on being able to hire his assistants.
January 16th, 2015 at 10:25 am
That’s the problem! What will lovie let him do? Scary !
January 16th, 2015 at 10:27 am
If Lovie was willing to permit Arroyo (no experience at OC) to do whatever he wished…..I am sure Koetter will have the control over the Offense…
January 16th, 2015 at 10:28 am
that was a gd piece and i just want to say that it will not matter who are QB is if we dont fix the oline cause if you dont fix that then are QB is goin to b on the ground alot
January 16th, 2015 at 10:39 am
hey JOE is there any word on sparano
January 16th, 2015 at 10:42 am
“not overlord of offensive operations.”
WTF????
thats like telling me I have to manage a team and tell them what to do, but you get to pick who to hire and the general direction I am to go in.
recipe for disaster IMO
January 16th, 2015 at 10:50 am
Time will tell how it works out. But as of now – I like the Koetter hire.
January 16th, 2015 at 10:50 am
There are currently only Four QBs playing in the league that are No. 1 overall picks. Newton, Luck, Alex Smith and Peyton Manning. Only one of those is in the playoffs currently.
WHY do you guys think we need to reach on a guy with Massive Character issues or a Spread QB that May or May not make it in the NFL?????????????????????
NEITHER OF THESE GUYS IS ANDREW LUCK PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 16th, 2015 at 10:51 am
i will Bet that the two QBs who face off in the SB will be a 3rd rounder vs. a 6th rounder.
January 16th, 2015 at 10:57 am
gatrbuc17 — 100% agree. Teams that take big risks on the QB draft don’t payoff.
January 16th, 2015 at 10:59 am
@ gatrbuc17
And I’ll bet that if that scenario pans out that the JBF headline spin will be all about the importance of having a franchise QB instead of the obvious…you need a very good HC (Belicheat = the best in current football, Carroll = pretty damn good too) and a good defense/complete team. Hell at least 3 of the teams have a proven and excellent coaching staff and the Colts have a promising one as well. “We were a 2-14 team”…simple as that
January 16th, 2015 at 11:07 am
@gatrbuc17 Much more likely to get an elite QB the higher up you take one.
If Wilson and Brady were about to be picked #1, you could have said those were reaches too. The bottom line is that it’s always a reach. People have forgotten that there were quite a few who thought RG3 should go before Luck. It was hardly a sure thing in that draft.
January 16th, 2015 at 11:19 am
No way in hell he took this job knowing he doesn’t have control or at least a say in the offensive personnel the YUCS hire. He’s definitely going to be involved.
January 16th, 2015 at 11:30 am
I just gotta stay of this site until training camp. Sorry Joe I’ll follow on Twitter. I can’t read one more draft offensive line with the pick post. I will legit lose my mind. ITS BEEN THIRTY YEARS SINCE WE HAD THIS PICK. QBS DONT POP UP OUT OF NOWHERE ANYMORE. YOU DO NOT GET THE LUXURY OF A FRANCHISE QB WITHOUT TAKING A RISK. AND IF YOU PEOPLE DONT THONL WINSTON OR MARCUS IS BETTER THAN FREEMAN GLENNON OR MCCOWN TRYING ACTUALLY WATCHING ON SUNDAYS AND SATURDAYS
January 16th, 2015 at 11:33 am
As long as Dovie is HC this team will be a disaster. I don’t care who the coaches are, who they draft or what Fa’s they sign they will have no more than 4 or 5 wins this upcoming season.
January 16th, 2015 at 11:34 am
I have nothing against Koetter, but, Tampa Bay and Tennessee are riding between Shameful and Shameless. And, to add to the misery, if Ohio State lost all 3 QBs, it would have rang uglier than that of Tom Hermann going to work and building National Champions in Houston. I am sure Columbus WILL Miss Him September 5th worse than Ames Still Misses Him 4 Years Later, but, it would be in a great big way like noticing a big loss and hearing it. I’m sure in Columbus, they’ll feel and hear the loss of Coach Hermann and Ohio State has no strong assistants for the 1st Time Since Woody Hayes, that was Since 1951.
January 16th, 2015 at 11:39 am
@Tomcin- So who is your handpicked coach that you feel is the Buccaneers Savior?
January 16th, 2015 at 11:55 am
Fyi – he came down here to be closer to his daughter who is a coach at UT. Simple as that.
January 16th, 2015 at 12:20 pm
I’d love to know if he will give the defensive coaches intel on weaknesses he found scheming against us. You would think our D-coaches would clammer to get this information from him. Maybe its obvious (our weaknesses) but you would think he can tell them tendencies that gave some things away as far as what we were trying to do.
January 16th, 2015 at 1:16 pm
The Bobby Rainey throw against the Steelers shows Arroyo called the plays! 2 and 1 against Cleveland they throw three straight times! Lovie always has let coordinators call plays on both sides of the ball!
January 16th, 2015 at 2:30 pm
I doubt Koetter has the authority to hire his own assistants, except maybe the QB coach. I’m sure he has some input, but I don’t expect an overhaul of the whole staff. Arroyo is gone, but everyone else will probably be back with the possible exception of Warhop. I’m just being realistic. Very few offensive coordinators have the freedom to hire an entire staff. I’m not even convinced they’re going to get rid of Warhop.
January 16th, 2015 at 3:57 pm
They.just let the asst. offensive line coach go, Cascade. You don’t kill the whole litter just because one of the pups has fleas.
January 16th, 2015 at 7:21 pm
Guys were in great shape right now… draft winston.. then sign oline in off season draft a few ljnebackers formpas rush and will be a 8 an 8 team..
January 16th, 2015 at 9:12 pm
One thing DB left out in his analsysis unless it never made it from radio to blog is that Koetter also ran a solid offense with an OL worse even than the Bucs.
No whining, just a clever game plan with good playcalling. The fact that Koetter has already worked with a horrid OL gives me hope since that is what he starts with here in Tampa.