Matador Defense
November 4th, 2018
Even Bucs’ best LB whiffed.
Joe has to wonder where the Bucs thought Curtis Samuel was traveling to?
On a backbreaking 33-yard reverse run by the Stinking Panthers’ second-year receiver, Samuel took full advantage of Bucs defenders just waving at Samuel as if he was getting ready to board an international flight for a long business trip.
Samuel started up the left sideline, cut inside and then ran up the middle. It didn’t matter who it was — from guys who didn’t have any business being on an NFL field to a Pro Bowl player like Lavonte David .He landed smoothly in the end zone to take a 21-7 lead.
Just a sad, half-arse effort, that’s all you need to know.
November 4th, 2018 at 4:56 pm
They coudln’t have stopped Peyton Barber today.
November 4th, 2018 at 4:56 pm
Everyone except for JPP on this defense could leave and it wouldn’t make a difference
November 4th, 2018 at 4:56 pm
THEY GOT BEAT ON A COLLEGE GADGET PLAY
PATHETIC!!!!!!
November 4th, 2018 at 4:57 pm
David isn’t a probowl LB, I don’t remember last time he had an Int, he is the third best LB on this sorry defense.
November 4th, 2018 at 4:57 pm
Blame Jameis
November 4th, 2018 at 4:57 pm
fire Dirk Now!!!
November 4th, 2018 at 4:58 pm
Did Koetter explain why we have to watch 8 more useless games to end the year for the second year in a row?
November 4th, 2018 at 4:58 pm
sorry
but the defense looked and played like quit today
EXCEPT FOR JPP AND NASSIB
November 4th, 2018 at 4:59 pm
After today, I will no longer dedicate my SUNDAYS to watching them lose for 3 hours…..
….season is over
………………i gotta better things to do with my time
November 4th, 2018 at 4:59 pm
Unfortunately, just like Raheem, Koetter might be loosing his team.
The bus is getting full.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Bottom line is you need hard coaches with good football knowledge to teach, motivate and hold these guys accountable.
I wonder if Bruce Arians would be interested in coming back to coaching.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:00 pm
LMAO here. We are the Matador Defense. Who wrote that. Funny as hell.
I’m visualizing our defensive guys holding their red capes..letting the bulls happily charge on thru the Defense. While they..take a bow to the crowd. Ahhhh, lets pick out the Spanish music to suit the occasion! Can’t stop laughing guys.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Worst coached team I have ever seen.
Maybe Hugh Jackson or Rich Kotite are the only others you could argue.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:02 pm
A waste of an offense 2018.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Red Capes are standard issued by GMC one they arrive at ONE BUC PALACE
November 4th, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Hire HUE JACKSON to complete the TAMPA BAY BROWNS
November 4th, 2018 at 5:04 pm
Lavonte could have stayed home today considering his effort or lack there of. Taylor and Bond are just horrible. Nassib and JPP do a respectable job but the D tackles are horrible. McCoy looks very fat and out of shape just like the long hair next to him.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:04 pm
LVD and his buddy GMC can take a damn hike, as well as that idiot who got the taunting call against us, this team is undisciplined, badly coached, has untalented players who lack heart and fortitude just a bunch going thru the motions getting paid, i do not see the desire, only one and we had to trade to get him thank you JPP
November 4th, 2018 at 5:05 pm
This defense can only stop Jameis at practice.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:05 pm
Buckner has done a fabulous job with this d line. He needs to go too. Their primary asset is jumping offsides.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:06 pm
Oh, BS, Joes. Carolina was holding all day and getting away with it. Want to know why?? Cos the stupid Bucs HC would not draw up an intelligent game plan for his offense. So naturally the refs crap on us. I listen to these games so I know what I’m talking about here! If the Bucs offense was called correctly at the game’s beginning, we would have nailed Carolina’s defense. I am still fuming over it and I am an old wrinkled fan with low BP.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:06 pm
The refs hate the Bucs and deservedly so.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:07 pm
Buckner isn’t really the problem
TALENT is the problem………our secondary FLAT OUT SUCKS
November 4th, 2018 at 5:09 pm
This is a defense that can ill afford injuries to it’s starters….it simply isn’t deep enough…..we desperately need Hargreaves & Kwon….probably Conte…..Beckwith……we just aren’t that talented.
The offense is healthy without injuries all year….it is totally forced to be one-dimensional when we are down so much early…..
The QBs are not the problem…..it’s the defense and no running game coupled with losing the turnover battle every week.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Talent is not the problem. The coaching is the problem. 31 other team get a chance to get the same talent we got..except the raiders. I say start all over. FIRE’EM ALL!!!
November 4th, 2018 at 5:11 pm
We never attacked their backfield. This team just simply sits back playing scared and they allow the other team to do whatever they want……..And to give us no chance at all is our inability to tackle.
I know we don’t practice these things. The only practice this team is probabbly doing is watching game film on the couch. The proof is in the pudding.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:13 pm
Koetter does not deserve to finish the seasonable and the players already gave up. No one knows how to tackle. No one blocks. One pick in 7 games warrants firing of all defensive coaches. On second thought, keep Buckner because at least he appears as pissed off as I am. I am so tired of my team being the absolute laughing stock of the soprts world, not just the NFL. There is no upside to keeping Koetter. Team has quit on him. Defense never even tried all year. Sucks when you have to look forward to watching real teams play (not my Bucs) and dream about draft day although we can’t even get that right
November 4th, 2018 at 5:13 pm
The only play I saw Vea make was when he mistakenly tried o tackle McCaffrey who didn’t have the ball!
November 4th, 2018 at 5:15 pm
Lavonte has been indoctrinated in losing, he’s not a leader and neither is McCoy.
They are the first guys to go with those hefty salaries.
You can be the worst defense in history without these two.
Let them move on to real franchises and hopefully experience some form of winning in their pro careers.
If you think Lavonte or McCoy add ANYTHING to this team at this point, you have NO clue about the mentality of a team or organization.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:16 pm
We just allow their backfield plays to destroy us all day. As a fan I sit and watch to see what will happen when we adjust. But for some f***in reason we never adjust!! We just allow the other team to keep beating us the same way all game long…….This is why a guy like Mitch Trubisky can have the best game of his entire career.
This entire coaching staff just seems absolutely helpless. I have more respect for an upside down 🐢
November 4th, 2018 at 5:19 pm
A real coach doesn’t have Carlton Davis acting a fool when his unit has given up 7 TDs.
And if that did happen to a real coach there would have been words on the sideline.
You hold no accountability then stupid crap like that is expected. That’s why it happens every game
November 4th, 2018 at 5:22 pm
We got no leadership on defense. GMC is not the guy he was hyped to be, nor is he a leader, unless it is line to get some ice cream. We got no pass rush. The backs can’t cover cause they suck and are too slow. We may not win another game this season.
Koetter will soon loose the locker room, if he hasn’t already. This team simply has no pride, and does not know how to win.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:24 pm
We could not have stopped the Panthers in the first half if the game was flag football…not even two hand touch would have worked.
We are really, really a horrible tackling team…so much so it’s embarrassing and I’m usually the guy who really gets mad at posters talking about the “manhood” of an NFL player…but it’s time. Some of the guys need to look in their freaking jocks and see if they still have testicles. And it’s time they HEAR this kind of talk.
Perhaps if they knew the ENTIRE community wonders about their toughness and thinks of them as total wusses they might get angry enough to play…and tackle.
How many tackles did JW miss? Fitz? Like I thought…the problem is not at QB so much as the worst defense I think I’ve ever seen the Buc put on the field. It’s hard because on paper they should be a lot better. But talent on paper is no substitute for just a little sack in the jocks.
November 4th, 2018 at 6:08 pm
So Matadors get to hear Ole everytime the bull passes with no contact…when they whiff so to speak..the genesis of the term.
Watching the Lightning play in Montreal last night I heard Canadian fans use that ole soccer (bullfighting) chant…Ole…Ole…Ole..Ole.
That’s what we need to bring to RayJay. When our D hits the field we should just start singing…Ole Ole….Ole Ole. We know they’re going to whiff.
November 4th, 2018 at 6:25 pm
do you think if the glazers asked real nice that Bruce Allen would come back??
November 4th, 2018 at 6:32 pm
Oh re the D, one of many problems with the Bucs for years has been that the lunch pail guys (the starters who aren’t famous names, and the rotational guys) are scrubs. On teams like the panthers, those guys can be depended on by their hc to step in and do a decent, unspectacular but workmanlike job.
On the Bucs the cupboard is always bare behind the starters. Kwon goes down and the whole centre of the d crumbles. If JPP gets injured there is not a single
Other DE capable of stepping in. Maybe Nassib?
Few things in my life make me as sad as the Bucs. Watching football should be fun.
November 4th, 2018 at 6:38 pm
If the Rams lose to the Saints today, there’ll be a huge crowd on joeramsfan.com calling for McVay to be fired and Goff benched.
November 4th, 2018 at 7:14 pm
Whoever said talent isn’t the problem I beg to differ. The Bucs only have a handful of talented players that play like it. The GM & HC would like us to believe we have a team of talented players which is so far from the truth. Also I envy Carolina because they do know how to draft the right players.
November 4th, 2018 at 7:25 pm
It’s taken me years to realize it, but the Glazers should have kept Schiano. The guy did more with less.
November 4th, 2018 at 8:37 pm
Soft practices, soft coach, soft team !
November 4th, 2018 at 9:43 pm
I still dont understand the fascination with David, McCoy, etc on defense.
#54 isn’t anything special. Neither is Kwon.
Oh and Smith and Marpet on the Oline? Hahahahaha!!!!
November 5th, 2018 at 1:55 am
People are dumb about LVD. Gets the most tackles every week for this defense that is now run by the LB coach after we made the dumba$$ desicion to keep Smith on for so long. Our other two starting LBs are out with serious injuries. Doesn’t help him be better. He had 5 FF and was the MVP of what was a terrible defense in 2017.
Bottom line. You send LVD to a team with middle of the class defense, and he will be f#cking killing it again.
November 5th, 2018 at 7:08 am
If we had signed Tyranne Mathieu, Eric Reid and drafted Donte Jackson who are all from LSU aka DBU, we would we be 5-3 right now.
Tyranne- nickle
Eric Reid SS
Justin Evans- FS
Play a permanent nickle, only 2 LB’s.
We would be competing right now.