Koetter Updates Status Of Sims, Martin
October 8th, 2016
Talks health of running backs.
It seems there is a real chance the Bucs may not have both of their top running backs when they travel to Carolina Monday.
Charles Sims may not be able and Doug Martin won’t be suited up against the Stinking Panthers.
That’s the word from Bucs coach Dirk Koetter.
While appearing on SiriusXM NFL Radio this week, Koetter said Sims’ status is still unknown for Monday and Martin will not see the field until after the bye week.
“Well, you know we are a little banged up at running back,” Koetter said answering a question about Sims’ availability. “We have a bye after Carolina. Sims is probably going to be a game-time decision for Carolina and then we have a bye before we go out to the west coast and play the 49ers.
“We hope Doug Martin will be back for that game. It would be a huge lift to our team. Hopefully, Charles Sims will be able to make it back for Monday night.”
So it seems even Martin’s status for San Francisco in two weeks is in doubt. Damn, that’s a nasty hammy, but the way Martin hobbled on one leg off the field in Arizona, really not surprising.
October 8th, 2016 at 1:03 am
This was THE Deepest position in our team last yr. Bye bye Rainey, and Mike James. Step up Quizz and Peyton Barber?
Mark Ingraham is on a bye so I picked up Quizz on Flyer……..lol……Sad but true.
October 8th, 2016 at 4:39 am
Bucs just can’t catch a break this season. Martin started all 16 games last season and had his best season. This year? Pulls a hammy in the 2nd game and hasn’t played since. Sims played quite a bit in all 16 games last year. This year? Now it looks like he’s out too.
The most durable guy on our team over that span? Jameis Winston. And he’s taken a real beating over those 20 games. Hopefully Jacquizz Rodgers can give us some semblance of a running game to take pressure off Jameis. And hopefully Peyton Barber proves worthy of a place among the 46 who dress on game day. Time for the rookie to earn his keep.
October 8th, 2016 at 5:34 am
Start shopping!!!! Plenty of RB’s to pick from. FA RB Karlos Williams but maybe not for long, Jonas Gray, bigger backs r what we need… Anybody would help @ this point $#!+ pick up some players NOW!!!! All positions, Roddy time? HELP!!!! The ship is sinking fast😡 MAKE SOME MOVES!!!!!
http://nfltraderumors.co/2016-nfl-free-agents-list/
October 8th, 2016 at 6:04 am
Or we can just pack it in…. I mean we might not win another game honestly. Or win just enough so we miss out on team changing top talent in the draft (gonna need a lot more then one playa, for real). Holy $#!+ DRAFT!!! I’ve been thinking about the F’n draft… BARF – SICKENING. Ok on to a happy Saturday, and hey!!! A happy Sunday too, NO BUCS. But b4 I run…
If they get destroyed on National tele… I’m going to have to check out, I haven’t missed a game since the late 90’s… even then I had no choice. I walked out at the end of the 3rd qtr last week because this isn’t about being a FAN anymore, it’s about my health… and these gutless wonders are hazardous to it.
Why do I even bother… this is so painful. The TRUE fans probably feel my pain, I’m sorry if I don’t know how to express it better. Many years of hurt.
October 8th, 2016 at 6:51 am
ARGH_M8E…I’ve been where you’re at. I mean to a T.
I feel your pain.
October 8th, 2016 at 7:25 am
It really helps to be an optimist….I’ve been one all my life. I get down for a few hours after each loss….but then I start to rebound and think of pulling out a win for the next game.
It saddens me to think of others that aren’t able to do that and get mentally down. My heart goes out to all Buc fans…..I do feel your pain, just not as much and not for long. It’s simply my nature.
Right now I’m thinking we will shock the sports world and win Monday night!!!
October 8th, 2016 at 7:52 am
TBBF
You and I are among the luckyg ones…not just as Buc fans but in life.
The little train never made the top of the hill chugging “I think I can’t…I think I can’t.
Zen teaches that you see where you place your attention. Statistically violent crime is down to a record low…if that’s where you place your attention you feel safe…if you place your attention on the remaining crime you can have an entire political movement.
Same for football. The darkest hour comes before dawn. Many have lost faith that the sun is going to ever come up.
You can place your attention on all our failures….or you can remember what it was like when Dungy arrived…much worse than it is now. We’ve turned this corner before and the sun WILL come up again.
October 8th, 2016 at 7:59 am
I go way back almost (not quite) 40 years with this team. Hate to say it, but there are a few on here who would NOT make it through the Dark Ages of Losing back in the 1980s, and most of the 1990s. This team is light years better than some of those jokes were. DK has to dress the players who can play. Payton Barber looked promising in preseason. Let’s see what Rodgers can do. Hey look, my area just dodged a big nasty hit by Mother Nature called Matthew. This natural optimist says GO TAMPA BAY MONDAY NITE!!
October 8th, 2016 at 8:28 am
TBBF and Stpetbucsfan
Add me to your list. I watch the Buc’s a game at a time. Each week is a whole new season and an hour after each game whatever the outcome I am looking forward to next week. We are only given a short seventeen week window to enjoy pro football so no use being bummed out when we lose. We are going to sneak up on the Panthers Monday and steal their sack lunch. Right now no talking head in the world can convince me otherwise. Go Bucs
October 8th, 2016 at 8:49 am
TBBF & StPete … Given our rich history, it does help to be an optimist (glass half full?) as opposed to a pessimist (glass half empty?) when it comes to being a Bucs fan. But don’t leave out the Realist who lies somewhere in-between (the glass is twice as big as it needs to be?). I tend to fall someplace in-between also … as in “Hey, what’s happening? The glass has a leak. Water’s running out all over the place.”
In the case of our Bucs, we’ve got a number of solid starters, but we’re having to play too many back-ups as starters. Injuries at critical positions are crippling us and we simply don’t have the depth that we need to compensate for mistakes on the field. I too have followed the Bucs for a LONG time (since 1982), and it seems like we have those same 2 issues every year: more injuries and less depth than most other teams. Coaching can only compensate for so much … at some point you’ve gotta have the horses. Lack of depth falls on poor drafting, poor development and poor retention over many years. I still have no clue why the Bucs seem to have far more injuries just about every year than most other teams, especially hamstrings and ankles it seems.
October 8th, 2016 at 9:13 am
For some reason, I feel like Peyton Barber is going to be a stud NFL RB at some point. His lower body is so strong; maybe the biggest legs in the NFL. I think he can be kinda like Doug Martin or Maurice Jones-Drew type of RB
For this game, I’d be happy to see Quizzy and Peyton Barber all game.
October 8th, 2016 at 9:35 am
ARGH_M8E I feel you also. I consider myself a true fan and I walked out just before the storm delay last week. I figured if the coaches and players were already giving up it was alright for me to do it. Was already pissed about how many players went down in that game, then after, come to see that Mcdonald, maybe our best player that game, went down in the post delay warm ups. Ugghh. I will stay watching till week 16 but it might be rough
October 8th, 2016 at 9:50 am
Even if we pull it off on Monday night. The bucs haven’t won back to back games in a long time we’re very inconsistent in that department the 49ers looked like an expansion team on Thursday night so we better win that one at the least. We could easily be .500 after this two game stretch so there’s really no need to panic and talk draft talk. We definitely let the rams off the hook smh
October 8th, 2016 at 9:55 am
We need to use the formula the falcons used against the stinking panthers that got there corner fired. Bring it Russell Shepard to run flys tired the corner out and bring in a fresh mike evans to burn them on another fly. Mike evans could put up 300 yards as well.
October 8th, 2016 at 10:10 am
ARGH M8E…Tip from a buc vet since 76 here. If you drink, that helps immensely when you watch a bucs game. Have a double just before the game starts. That way, you wil have already taken the edge..the disappointment off a notch. Then (after the 3 or 4th drink)when the Bucs go down by 14 or 21, you really are just laughing. My true zeal and enthusiasm disappeared about 5 or 6 yrs ago. Sure, I want us to win. But I no longer have my pities all in a bunch when we do not. After all, its the Yucks!! and we…Suck!! As Pink Floyd belts out, I have become..comforatably Numb.
October 8th, 2016 at 10:28 am
@mike johnson
Is that how you got thru the coach my scheme years????
I think joe needs to stop worrying about who will and who won’t be in game 3 Sundays away!!!!! And we all need to stop saying the CS34 ins’t a runner!!!! Name one #2 running back that can put up big games against the Rams and Broncos!!!!!