“It’s His Second Time Around”
February 4th, 2019
Experience matters.
Don’t you dare use that word around Phil Simms!
The Super Bowl-winning quarterback who nearly pitched a perfect game in the NFL’s most important game has no use for people who do not respect experience.
Throw names at him like Kliff Kingsbury or Zac Taylor and Simms is likely to wrinkle his nose. He wishes them luck with their new teams, of course, but nothing beats experience, Simms says.
So don’t you ever use the word “recycle” around Simms unless you are taking out his trash at home.
“I hate when the press writes ‘recycle’ — shut up!” Simms barked when Joe talked to him last week during a CBS media availability at the World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. “‘Recycle’ — that’s another word they should ban from all things,” Simms added shaking his head in disgust.
Joe got Simms going when Joe asked how he thought new coach Bucco Bruce Arians would do with the Bucs. The 66-year old leader of the Bucs has experience and he’s been around the block, Simms said, and that is invaluable.
In fact, Simms thinks Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht may have outsmarted the rest of the NFL as they were hellbent on reaching in some cases for who they perceived to be the next Sean McVay.
“We need experience,” Simms said of NFL head coaches. “Are you a better writer or reporter than you were 10 years ago? The same things happen to coaches. There is so much that goes on [for an NFL head coach]. You have to learn to deal with all the turmoil and all things that go wrong. And I think [Arians] will be better the second time around.”
That’s some heavy prediction given Arians had the best winning percentage of any full-time Cardinals coach since the NFL was in its infancy, before the Great Depression.
“He did pretty good the first [time around],” Simms admitted.
Pretty much the ex-coaches Joe spoke with who were roaming around the Super Bowl media center echoed the same thing about Arians (except for Mike Smith): He’s a good fit with the Bucs and he hired a helluva staff.
February 4th, 2019 at 4:01 pm
no doubt this staff has a better resume than the previous staff from top to bottom….
“recycle” is exactly was dirk and smitty were….fortunately, the glazers took them out along with the trash…..
#REALISTKNOWSNOTHING!!!!…GO BUCS!!!!
February 4th, 2019 at 4:01 pm
I’m depressed.
Hate this time of year.
Can you create a mock draft post?
Anything.
Please.
February 4th, 2019 at 4:10 pm
@Todd
Just less than a month to go for the Combine. Then the draft talk will REALLY heat up. I think the Combine might also fire up trade rumors and those are always fun.
Take heart.
February 4th, 2019 at 4:18 pm
Simms said after the Super Bowl “it was a very exciting game.” I’m not sure what to say.
February 4th, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Does that mean Chucky will do even better? Could Chucky make it back to the SB before us?
February 4th, 2019 at 5:05 pm
BA will be a strong player in free agency.He will surprise many Buc fans by dismissing some fan favorites. We all want change.Open up that Umbrella maw a storms a brewing!!
February 4th, 2019 at 5:11 pm
Last night’s outcome could very well be an example of experience paying off…….it certainly seemed to me that LA was out-coached.
February 4th, 2019 at 5:26 pm
The staff is equally as important as the Head Coach. Morris and Schiano didnt have enough NFL connections to put together a good staff. Lovie could have had Belichick at DC and Bill Walsh at OC and he would have screwed it up
February 4th, 2019 at 5:30 pm
@Down in the Dirt Doug … “BA will be a strong player in free agency.” I fully anticipate that’s exactly what we’ll see once the FA dinner bell rings. Wouldn’t be at all surprised to see us re-sign Donovan, Hump, Taylor & possibly Minter, pick up a veteran RB plus 1 veteran OLineman, in addition to a starting-caliber LB, CB, Safety & kicker. And oh ya, a backup QB. That’s a lot of activity … and expense … in FA, but I suspect BA favors FA over the draft for getting starters & key rotational players. That’d leave us free in the draft to focus on 2 OLineman, 2 DLinemen, 1 LB & 1 RB … hopefully.
February 4th, 2019 at 5:36 pm
I hoped that Jameis Winston watched that game last night. Notice how even the great Tom Brady didn’t have to throw 40 to 50 yard bombs all day. Be precise and take what the opposition gives you. Nothing is wrong with short passes that crack a defense in half. JW could also use the help of an offensive line, a decent running game and an average defense but that’s what the new establishment is here for. Go Bucs.
February 4th, 2019 at 5:44 pm
I’m thinking Joe was much better 10 years ago, prior to burning all the brain cells with liquid libation and what probably has been a plethora of anxiety medication watching these bucs 😉
February 4th, 2019 at 5:50 pm
down in the dirt Doug
“BA will be a strong player in free agency.He will surprise many Buc fans by dismissing some fan favorites. We all want change.Open up that Umbrella maw a storms a brewing!!”
And would like to see it done but the fan favorites are the only good players we have and is he going to rebuild this entire team in the 3-4 years people say he has? Hump, Kwon, Brate, DJax, GMC, PB, VH3, Curry are all expendable in certain situations. I would be EXTREMELY pissed if they let LVD go. He’s still a top-notch LB and would finally be joined with a top-notch DC. Thing is Licht has been building through the draft. We don’t have any dough at the moment and we got a lot of young guys that have potential with good coaching that are still under cheap, rookie contracts. It’s a complicated thought at the moment but we will have to see.
February 4th, 2019 at 7:23 pm
I know I’m in the minority but I believe Liedtke or Wester could replace D (lazy ass) Smith.
February 4th, 2019 at 7:44 pm
Make your splash FA move at CB. Then stack the trenches!
-Trade back twice in the first round and get a DT. (Gave us an extra second and third for each but it will likely be more than that).
-Round 2: OG, LT, LB.
-Round 3: RT, DE, RB.
-Round 4: OG
-Round 5: QB
-Round 6: S
-Round 7: CB
-Get RT,DT,S,LB in FA. Get a bunch of camp meat. Have a big battle.
February 4th, 2019 at 7:52 pm
TOM
Not the minority at all. I love Leidtke and would start him over Smith anyway. That’s why they don’t need to resign his fat, slow, soft a$$ to a huge contract. Pick up a LT in the second or third round and you’re likely deep as hell at LT with good guys getting paid peanuts.
February 5th, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Well, Chucky is on his 2nd term as well. Didn’t go so well. In my opinion, when they have given a HC full control over everything, that is when it fails.