Lovie Says “Each Position” Is Improved, Draws A Line In The Sand
June 22nd, 2015
No excuses. None.
Dammit, your beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers must show significant improvement this season or heads need to roll.
Last week, Lovie Smith served up a can of worms boldly declared the Bucs are “going to be a good football team,” but Lovie didn’t clarify that statement.
Today, Scott Smith (no relation) shared a video sit-down with Lovie on Buccaneers.com, in which he asked Lovie to go deeper into that proclamation. Lovie identified three concrete reasons the Bucs will be a good football team.
In order:
1) “Each position” is improved versus last year.
2) It’s the second-year in his defense.
3) Watching how we’ve grown as an offense
Lovie went on to note how Dirk Koetter has been “installing a system that guys believe in.” (Hmm, interesting choice of words.)
Lovie summarized that his claim the Bucs are going to be a good football team is based on his decades of NFL experience.
Joe considers that Lovie drawing a line in the sand. The head coach expects to win football games. Joe will assume that means at least as many as the Bucs lose.
Joe still thinks the Bucs look like a 6-10 team for 2015, but after Lovie’s strong words, wild anger in the streets will ensue if Lovie can’t at least hit the six-win mark.
June 22nd, 2015 at 11:29 am
Didn’t we watch Lovie did this same hole last year! He watches his defense against the worst offense in the league in practice, then starts the talk!!!
June 22nd, 2015 at 11:37 am
Being a better football team doesn’t mean you will always win more games, just saying.
June 22nd, 2015 at 11:42 am
If this team stays healthy, with no major injuries to key people, I don’t see why a division run couldn’t happen. Beyond the starters it’s very iffy. Injuries will determine the fate of the season….
June 22nd, 2015 at 11:51 am
@The Buc Realist
you really are a moron why do you come here??? are you comparing an offense that even marcus arroyo wasn’t familiar with to that of dirk koetter? you could easily argue that even a third year for mike glennon and drafting jameis Winston upgraded our offense regardless of the weapons. a healthy ASJ
if your saying the offense and defense is comparable to last year you are stupid. I tend to think that if that awful football team on both sides of the ball lost 8 games by less than a touchdown that this year’s team can win more than half of those close games this year.
June 22nd, 2015 at 11:57 am
What’s going to change in Lovie’s game management skills? Is this team gonna play smarter and reduce penalties? Is Lovie gonna adjust his scheme to maximize his players talents or is he gonna stay passive and play not to lose?
Bucs can add talent but talent can’t overcome a head coach of who refuses to adapt and change.
4 wins and hopefully the glazers give Harbaugh anything he wants to coach Jameis. Lovie sucks
June 22nd, 2015 at 12:04 pm
“4 wins and hopefully the glazers give Harbaugh anything he wants to coach Jameis. Lovie sucks”
Interesting! I like your train of thought. If harbaugh really dressed in full pads for a practice then that’s the kind of moxy I want leading the team but I doubt some of our “leaders” can handle harbaugh bc he likes to yell and is passionate, that doesn’t go over too well here.
President Lovie is just spewing his old talking points.
June 22nd, 2015 at 12:18 pm
You mean to tell me no one besides Herron believed in the explosive Wyoming playbook? #whattha
June 22nd, 2015 at 12:25 pm
I would be shocked if we didn’t get to at least 6 wins, barring any major injury(and I ain’t talking about Jonathan Banks!!). The only thing that makes me nervous is the holes we have up front on both sides of the ball.
I have always liked the Lovie Smith hire, because he has proven that he can win at this level. But I have to admit this talk about Jim Harbaugh is getting me aroused! That’s wishful thinking, but it wont stop me from fantasizing(sexually) about it! He wont be leaving Michigan for a while!
“It’s as simple as that” – Lovie Smith
June 22nd, 2015 at 1:11 pm
I actually agree with Lovie, I mean he knows what he is seeing at this early date. Not hard to see the team getting better to an optimist.
June 22nd, 2015 at 1:15 pm
I don’t remember anyone blaming schiano for lavonte david foolish penalty in that jets game a couple years ago just sayin, lol jim harbaugh is going to give up all that money and power to coach this team when he’s on easy street in college? no wonder so many people hate coaches and players, mentality of rich people doesn’t compute in the mind broke couch coaching fans. keep on dreaming and playing lotto
June 22nd, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Lovie, how do you interpret that statement? Blowout = 14+ points. Last year, of the 2 opponents we won against, we blew out 1 of them. That’s great! Or, of the 14 that we lost, 4 were blowouts. I guess time will tell. But I do see the glass half full.
June 22nd, 2015 at 1:41 pm
@bucs4lies
look again, nice comments bro
https://www.joebucsfan.com/2013/09/jets-18-buccaneers-17/
later in the week you were even better!!!!
https://www.joebucsfan.com/2013/09/soured-on-the-commander/
June 22nd, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Lovie needs an intervention. Someone please help that man. A man that delusional to say every position is better than last year is just crazy… MLB is not better. We have a rookie draft picking learning the position and OLB learning to play MLB. Carter has not played a full season at MLB… Yep that is much better. Lovie is a fool. Only position with depth is DT everything else is unproven young guys or has been – injury prone system specific players. not game changers or proven starters. it’s all one big gamble…
June 22nd, 2015 at 2:24 pm
Lovie sure is putting a lot of faith in Offensive line coach George Warhop for saying that the Offense has grown. Hopefully the brand new students (Smith and Marpet) are at least average in their rookie season. By the way, its rare for a rookie to be special in their first year in the NFL.
June 22nd, 2015 at 3:27 pm
Joe…It’s time to retire the phrase “drawing a line in the sand”, Obama ruined it for the rest of us! How about…”issued an ultimatum” instead?
June 22nd, 2015 at 3:44 pm
University of Seffner. Bwahahah! Best name I’ve seen on here in a long while. I used to be the Hugh Hefner of Seffner as a young adult.
Oh yeah. Lovie is an idiot until he proves he’s not. Everything last year is on him. IMO.
June 22nd, 2015 at 5:27 pm
Better chemistry under Dirk. Buc Ems will be 9-7……good enough to win the NFL South!
June 22nd, 2015 at 7:26 pm
Anyone heard of Positive Thinking? Good God Bucs fans are negative…..try believing just a little bit. Se what happens.
June 22nd, 2015 at 8:36 pm
Have to agree with Tampa Tony. Lovie’s game management was terrible in Chicago and is terrible here. Sure, he was in the Super Bowl with Chicago, but that was because he had great talent on the defense. (especially that linebacker group, Urlacher was worth 2 players, linebacker and safety all in one.).
June 22nd, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Lovie went to 2 Superbowls and lost both. As DC for the Rams he couldn’t stop a second year qb from driving the length of the field for a game winning field goal. The one against the colts wasn’t even close 29-17.
June 22nd, 2015 at 9:28 pm
Onelove, don’t you watch The League???! NO Rosterbating!!!!!
June 22nd, 2015 at 9:49 pm
Can’t imagine why. After all, if 2-14 doesn’t scream “Super Bowl,” what does?
June 22nd, 2015 at 10:17 pm
Can we please stop talking about the fact that we lost close games and we should win the close games now. 2/3 of NFL games are decided by 1 score or less. The good teams win the close ones, and the bad teams lose them. Every team that didn’t make the playoffs can say the same thing. I would say that we had unfortunate things happen in two of the games where we could say that we “should” have won them; the Evans game and the 12 man game. But to use close games as a measuring stick is wrong.
June 23rd, 2015 at 1:22 pm
last year couldn’t have gone any worst for lovie…no offensive coor., the defenses first year in a new scheme mixed with players that didn’t fit the scheme, journey man qb, along with a few injuries…we still have to wait and see how the oline shakes up but I agree with lovie..on paper we look to be better/improved on both sides of the both..harbaugh can stay far away from tampa for all I care..he’s just like schiano.. dude is a college coach nothing more nothing less…GO BUCS!!!
June 23rd, 2015 at 7:01 pm
I see a team that will be a lot better. This defense will carry the team this yr. Lovie is the right coach for the this team.