Joel Glazer Talks Dirk Koetter Leadership
March 30th, 2018
Team Glazer opens up
Don’t confuse Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer with a stereotypical soccer mom cheering effort over victory and celebrating battling more than battering quarterbacks and winning at all costs.
You’d be wrong if you did that.
Team Glazer wants to win oh so badly. Joe has no doubt.
And perhaps unlike every other NFL ownership group over the last 20 seasons, Team Glazer has a distinctly clear picture of what true extreme greatness looks and feels like — as well the stench of quit, dysfunction and misdirection.
Chatting with Joel Glazer at the NFL Owners Meetings this week, Joe talked to a man who senses noe of the latter from head coach Dirk Koetter. Last season wasn’t 2011 or 2013, or 2016. It was much more like the 5-11 mark of 2004. The Bucs won the NFC South the following season.
Multiple times, Glazer mentioned the firm leadership of Koetter that shined through thick clouds of a lost season marred by numerous and diverse distractions.
“I think one of the big things is not letting the outside noise affect him, and just keeping players focused week to week, continuing to play hard, trying to take steps forward and face a lot of headwinds,” Glazer said. “And he did that week by week. Again, we didn’t necessarily get the results we wanted; we didn’t win a lot down the stretch but we were playing hard. Saying ‘playing hard’ doesn’t mean we don’t want to win. Don’t get me wrong. But all these games that were extremely close, just none of them went our way. It’s, it’s one of those years.”
That’s the hope deep inside One Buc Palace — 2017 was just one of those years that didn’t reflect the positive direction of the day-to-day, and the invaluable learning that came along with it.
The Bucs’ moves in free agency and the trade of a top third-round pick for Jason Pierre-Paul certainly reflect the Team Glazer and Jason Licht mindset of “we’re very, very close.”
Joe sure hopes they’re right.
March 30th, 2018 at 11:52 am
“That’s the hope deep inside One Buc Palace — 2017 was just one of those years that didn’t reflect the positive direction of the day-to-day”
I can agree with that. But of course, what else is there?
March 30th, 2018 at 12:03 pm
“Just one of those years”…
… the nerve.
March 30th, 2018 at 12:04 pm
The Glazers are very rational people. They watched the countless “close” games.
So, clearly, we are “close.”
I personally find the Glazers to be a beautiful and sweet family.
Elohim bless them.
Go Bucs!
March 30th, 2018 at 12:04 pm
@Joe
Any truth to the rumor that Joel let slip that ” The Buc Realist was right again” or that he reads the “Realist Repost” during your Chat with Mr. Glazer??????????
GO Bucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 30th, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Hopefully they see Mike Smith is the problem. I’m really hoping to see Jason and Koetter build this team without him here to ruin it next season
March 30th, 2018 at 12:17 pm
“I think one of the big things is not letting the outside noise affect him, and just keeping players focused week to week, continuing to play hard, trying to take steps forward and face a lot of headwinds,” Glazer said. “And he did that week by week. Again, we didn’t necessarily get the results we wanted; we didn’t win a lot down the stretch but we were playing hard. Saying ‘playing hard’ doesn’t mean we don’t want to win. Don’t get me wrong. But all these games that were extremely close, just none of them went our way. It’s, it’s one of those years.”
That’s a cute answer, but how many weeks did we hear Koetter say after a game that the team WASN’T prepared enough and that it was on him? And if he’s so good at keeping distractions at bay, why are so many “distractions” being tossed around as excuses for last year, like Hard Knocks, the hurricane, and our lost bye week???? It doesn’t add up to me.
March 30th, 2018 at 12:22 pm
If they wanted to win so damn badly it would not be 16 years in between meaningful wins… if it takes nearly 2 decades to figure it out then they have no business running any team.
March 30th, 2018 at 12:33 pm
Hope Koetter doesn’t need a carrot to dangle in front of him also.
March 30th, 2018 at 12:33 pm
I’ve always liked Dirk’s personality and candidness. I’m more worried about his play-calling / red zone execution / game time management / decisions on which RB to use.
March 30th, 2018 at 12:36 pm
Teacherman…did you just refer to the Glaziers as God’s and deitys????
March 30th, 2018 at 12:53 pm
The decision to keep Koetter for a third year was the right decision even if he fails…..the Owners simply couldn’t replace another coach after 2 years…..they had to continue with Koetter and hope he turns this team around.
Of course, I’m disappointed but the difference is, I’m rooting for Koetter & Co. to succeed.
I get the impression that some predict failure so much that it makes them want it to happen simply to prove their prediction right….that is very, very sad….sad indeed…
March 30th, 2018 at 1:12 pm
Dirk Koetter is the best coach this team has had since Tony Dungy. That’s right…he’s much better than Jon Gruden…who only won because he only slowly dismantled a good team.
March 30th, 2018 at 1:15 pm
Walter Says:
“That’s a cute answer, but how many weeks did we hear Koetter say after a game that the team WASN’T prepared enough and that it was on him?”
Coach speak. We all knew while it was happening that the players were the reason for the losses. Yes, some players played hard most of the time, but then you had others who did not…and those cost us.
But Koetter cannot blame it on the real reason, because then the team would turn on him.
March 30th, 2018 at 1:16 pm
@Tampabaybucfan
A very respectable viewpoint, buddy.
March 30th, 2018 at 1:26 pm
“But all these games that were extremely close, just none of them went our way. It’s, it’s one of those years.” Surprising comment by an owner. They know most games in the league are close. They know coaching wins and loses games. Dirk was trying to coach a dump off then Jameis decided to win the last game. I saw more game and clock management mistakes last year than I can ever recall seeing. I’m hoping Dirk learned alot last year. Not sure how he gets it turned around doing the same things. The Glazers saw something much different I suppose
March 30th, 2018 at 2:12 pm
tmaxcon Says:
March 30th, 2018 at 12:22 pm
If they wanted to win so damn badly it would not be 16 years in between meaningful wins… if it takes nearly 2 decades to figure it out then they have no business running any team.
I am saving this extremely rare tmax post to my hard drive…
March 30th, 2018 at 2:15 pm
I’ll give Dirk credit for the team not quitting and the team beat who they should beat, they were 4-1 versus teams under .500. It might have been just one of those years, except I don’t know what the team did to get all that much better. If going into free agency I would have told you the Bucs wouldn’t sign a corner or a RB and signed a bunch of guys you never heard of on the d-line before finally getting a C and trading for JPP (both good moves in my book), would anyone say that FA period was a success? Ryan Smith and Chris Conte are still starters and the Bucs have managed to somehow nearly max out their cap. The Bucs, even with Grimes back there, easily have the worst group of defensive backs in football and did nothing to improve that – it’s a remarkable oversight. Sure, the Bucs are pinning their hopes on drafting a corner and starting them right away, but wow is that risky, to pre-draft determine you’re walking away with a starter for a particular position.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:37 pm
There is a part of Dirk, which he shares with the majority of NFL coaches, that finds IMHO far too much comfort in the “proven”…the vets…and far too much fear in new “untested” talent. They see them every freaking day in practice…in preseason games, in real games but it’s like they just can’t accept that sometimes a no name is actually better than a “name”.
The Payton Barber-Doug saga is a prime example. Long after it was clear that Doug was not the man in ’17 Koetter stuck with him.
I think this fear also infects his play calling which as you point out is at minimum suspect from last year.
Here is my greatest wish for Koetter, Jameis and all the Bucs. Give your best effort…from my perch I believe you have to this point. Don’t back off inch!!!
STOP playing to not lose and play to win! HAVE FUN!!! Nothing ventured nothing gained. ENJOY yourselves guys. I would LOVE to play on this team.
I think this team has charisma all over the roster, not just #3 although he is obviously the leader. Unlike many teams that are hard to like even when successful, this team is easy to cheer. Just enjoy the moment guys.
Trust me…if it doesn’t work out…for whatever reason (malaria empties the locker room…We lose 30 players for ten games or more) there will be NO reasons acceptable…NOTHING you can do about the bounces, calls and luck…just give it your best shot and most of all HAVE FUN!
Call plays to have fun…play to win…be honest and DO put the best players on the field regardless of their fan base, contracts, or resume. Play the best guys.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:37 pm
Bonzi
Dungy failed… one dimensional ignorant fool with a career losing playoff record… every day you prove you prefer a failure over a winner… Dungy super bowl win should have an asterisk for competing against the incompontent loser Lovie Smith. Dungy could not have beat even a pop Warner coach but thankfully he was able to coach against a failed member of his pathetic coaching shrub….
All dungy did was waste the defense whyche buily…
March 30th, 2018 at 2:39 pm
Rod Munch. Don’t worry man. It’s only March. They still got six months until they hit training camp. They know what their roster looks like and they know what they need. I’m positive that their plan is not to start the season with R.Smith and Conte covering half the field again.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:41 pm
Hahaha…..Dungy created that defense. Some fans are so ignorant it’s funny.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:42 pm
tmaxcon – It’s a shame that you live while cancer kids die… it’s a cruel world.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:44 pm
St Pete…..Was that the pep talk Rick Moranis used in the movie ‘Little Giants’?
March 30th, 2018 at 2:46 pm
JimmyJack – I’m sure they’re going into the draft with the idea of coming away with at least a starting corner, but again, pre-draft, that is risky since you don’t know how the board is going to fall. Post draft you look at FA again and then see what you can get, but again, just judging FA here, the Bucs did absolutely nothing to address huge areas of need – it’s stunning to me that they sign anyone at corner/safety/RB. For RB I’m actually not worried at all, you can get RBs all day long, but any corner that is any good isn’t still a FA in May. Finally rookie safeties rarely play well. Evans last year was solid, with the huge astrek being he was solid for a rookie – although according to many of the posters here he was a wasted draft pick after having a rough preseason opener.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:50 pm
It’s pathetic you fools rewrite history because you like the mr peanut look alike foo… Dungy won nothing for Tampa… he failed. 2 playoff wins in 6 years with the players whyce handed him is absolutely pathetic. the offenses that dungy the clown fielded made high school football look like the greatest show on turf…. you can not rewrite history because you prefer ignorant losers….
the legend of dungy far surpassed his actual accomplishments long long ago… it’s a complete and total slap in the face to every single hall of famer that a coach with a career losing playoff record is enshrined to a once respected hall of fame…. hall has zero credibility with bums like dungy in it.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:53 pm
JimmyJack
so dungy invented zone defense.. lol you guys are freaking amazing… keep rewriting history to justify a failure…. versions of the cover two have been ran for years. tony dungy did not invent s**t….. another case of the legend of dungy exceeding the actual accomplishments.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:54 pm
tmaxcon – Grrrrr… so angry…. grrrrrr…..
Anywho cupcake you might want to check your pad, it sounds like a heavy flow day.
March 30th, 2018 at 2:55 pm
Tom Flores has ten times the accomplishments as the fool dungy… Yet he is not in hall…. dungy is not good enough to even sniff a stain from flores shorts…
March 30th, 2018 at 2:55 pm
not angry just laughing at you people supporting failure
March 30th, 2018 at 2:56 pm
how’d that father first BS workout for the failed hypocrite
March 30th, 2018 at 3:23 pm
Tmax….Your comments prove that not only do you not know much about the Buccaneers(which I already knew) but also that you don’t know much about the NFL in general.
And while you may believe that your little name-calling diddty makes you sound smart……It doesn’t buddy, it does quite the opposite. Yes, I’m sure there’s a few preteen aged posters that fall in love with your childish brand of posting. But I’m quite sure most here are adults. And I would wager your posts are the most ignored on here.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:25 pm
jimmy
i write the truth i do not give a rats arse if any low standard fan like yourself or bonzi are in complete and utter denial of reality.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:30 pm
dungy was a failure in Tampa any other spin is delusional rantings from the ignorant…. no team in any sport would celebrate a coach with a career losing playoff record and one who could only manage 2 pathetic playoff wins with one of the most dominate defenses in nfl history handed to him.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:30 pm
tmaxcon – take a few midol, you’ll feel better.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:33 pm
Rod every team in the league is going to have weak spots on the roster. The Eagles won a SB with a CB that found during this period of free agency last year. The Patriots filled out their Oline the same way.
It’s infeasible to fill out your roster with high priced free agents.
All I’m saying is it’s only March. We just moved beyond the high price FA period. I thought we did quite well. The roster we see now is not the one we are looking at next month. Then that roster will change as teams make more roster decisions and let experienced players walk(like we may do with Sweezy).
Then we can adress any weak spots and add competition.
The roster is far from set. The first few weeks of FA is only step 1. It should be looked at as a fill-everyneed solution.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:37 pm
Tmax……You have no idea about reality guy. It’s obvisous by your posts you don’t know anything about Dungy.
You see man I read a book about the matter. So my reality is the real reality. You need to go educate yourself.
You say your are always right and you are…..In your own mind and in your own reality.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:41 pm
Come on Joe, give us a little alliteration. You could go with “dejection, despair, defeatism,” although that’s not a good sequitur to “stench of.” Same issue with some combination of “Heartache, hardship, hopelessness or heartbreak” and “regret, remorse and repentance.” You could go suffixal alliteration with “deficiency, inadequacy and incompetency” or “bungling, failing and losing.”
If “stench of” was the main point, I like the word “decay” as it’s a smell-associating adjective. So, “decay, decrepitude and decline” is the best that I could come up with. You could might work in dilapidation, degeneration, dissolution, depreciation or downfall instead.
Clearly though, you wanted to get “stench of losing” in there. And I’m not sure any of my ideas work for that. If you’re bored, tell us what you tried to do here.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:43 pm
jimmy
being a nice guy and a religious hypocrite pos is not justification to be enshrined in the hall of fame… he is a failed coach with a career losing playoff record… that is all that matters.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:44 pm
JJ
Well I didn’t work in a reference to when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor so we know it’s not from “Animal House”. LOL Little Giants works for me. 🙂
March 30th, 2018 at 3:45 pm
no wonder dungy’s kid was depressed he was watching tape of dungy’s offenses.
March 30th, 2018 at 3:56 pm
Tmax
You are the only POS on here. For you to make a joke about a man’s son taking his life makes you the biggest jacka$$ in the world. Joe i wish you would ban this POS. not because of his stupid repetitive rants but because any idiot to stoop so low to find jokes and pleasure out of someone taking their own life is not a good look for your site. You always say joe is responsible for comments made here well show some responsibility. Tmax is a POS
March 30th, 2018 at 3:59 pm
First off Tmax you are wrong about Dungy. If you refuse to educate yourself then there’s nothing I can do……Continue on with you uneducated opinions. Which BTW some of them are factually wrong.
Your problem is the altered reality you live in. It’s right in this comment section in black and white…….You say I have low standards and that is something you just fabricated. Isn’t it?…..Isn’t it. Sure go ahead and deny it, that’s your thing. Your reality consists on making up BS which is unfounded….If I’m low standard simply tell me how…..But I know you never will because in reality(the real one) I am not low standard………It’s the same as you saying I celebrate Dungy. I never did you just conjured that one up in your brain.
See I’m different then you. I deal in REAL facts. In the real reality. When I present something as fact you can be darn sure it is a fact…….Like when I told you how you name call everybody. This whole section is littered with them.
Continue on with your tattered reality bro…….You know the one where you are always right. I’ll come back and holler at you again one day when I feel like wasting more time.
March 30th, 2018 at 4:58 pm
Tmax, I usually try to ignore whatever drivel you post, since you’re clearly just trolling, but wisecracking about a man’s son committing suicide is crossing a line. I really hope the ban hammer falls on your head swiftly and hard.
March 30th, 2018 at 5:08 pm
Buccaneer BrownEye off his meds again…claiming Koetter superior to Gruden as a head coach. Wow. JPP won’t be able to acclimate to his college home stadium…Jensen will be a guard and not a center for the Bucs…seriously fella! Stick to your wish lists of fairies and writing elf erotica…your continued attempts to be a “Buc Insider” are an embarrassing failure.
March 30th, 2018 at 5:28 pm
for every pre-season, spin spin spin…
cover our asses, spin spin spin…
we’re stuck with this coach, spin spin spin…
our GM’s a joke, spin spin spin…
March 30th, 2018 at 5:36 pm
tmaxcon Says:
March 30th, 2018 at 2:56 pm
how’d that father first BS workout for the failed hypocrite
Yo this is pretty f’ed up man. The Dungy family is a great family. I have a great story about how kind they are and loving. To imply and disrespect them just shows your ignorance, if you met they you’d never ever say such an awful thing.
March 30th, 2018 at 6:31 pm
Guys, the season hasn’t even started yet. The draft is almost a month away. Please stop this incessant bickering and get behind the team if you really are a true Bucs Fan that wants the best for this team. Do you really think upper management sits around trying to sabotage us fans or create stupid moves so we can chit chat over it? No. In fact, these guys have been successful in just about everything that they have attempted in this life. I’m sure some more than others. You don’t think a Super Bowl Ring to honer their late Pops would be a nugget at the country club social? Come on……
There is a process, much like a really good chess player. Though you don’t always know your next move exactly ……. you have a contingency plan lest the opposing player pulls a move you did not expect. I re-opted my $2,000 plus tix this season because I support the team and think the bellows are a heading in the right direction and the current is on the upswing. To put it bluntly…Either you are positive poster on this site or not. I’m not talking constructive criticism because the truth will always come out one way or another. Try to be positive and strong than a negative Gortis Hole. GO BUCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 30th, 2018 at 6:33 pm
Just sayin’
March 30th, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Ya I’m not cool with tmax sh!t posting and joking about a mans son committing suicide… I hope that if you ever have kids that never happens to you… as a father myself I pray it never does, but if you spoke like that in person you’d get your ass beat… you don’t joke about that
March 30th, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Been one of those years going on what 10 years now? Bucs are the bucs until proven otherwise
March 30th, 2018 at 7:53 pm
William Berry I am in total agreement with you n your post. Hammer Time!
March 30th, 2018 at 8:18 pm
I’ll never read a word you say again tmax. For you to say what you said about Dungy and his son is despicable man. I hope Karam gives you what you deserve and I hope Joe bans you from this page. There’s no room for that kind of talk. DO THE RIGHT THING JOE AND BAN TMAX NOW.
March 30th, 2018 at 11:01 pm
Tmax = Clickbait
Don’t get sucked in…..