The Losing Culture Runs Deep
March 11th, 2019
Awful message by Bucs.
Some teams are known for winning. Others, for losing.
The Bucs? Well, since Chucky was jettisoned on that dark Friday afternoon in January 2009, the definition of “losing” in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary has a picture of someone wearing a Bucs jersey next to it.
And it has gotten so bad that suits and polo shirt-wearing minions at One Buc Palace have come to celebrate losing.
Joe posted the following on Twitter Friday. Joe was convinced he’d get flamed badly, but surprisingly, the vast majority of Bucs’ followers agreed. Only three people took offense.
What is it? Well, someone trying to be slick running the Bucs’ Twitter account sent out the following message on Friday.
When the squad rolls up this weekend. đ¤ pic.twitter.com/Tb49mtOhCl
â Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) March 8, 2019
If you click on the Tweet, you can read the replies. It didn’t go over very well nor should it have.
The picture is of seven Bucs defenders standing in the end zone preening like some two-bit biker gang about ready to bust heads on people for dissing them. You know, the defense posing like a bunch of tough guys about ready to break out baseball bats and snap bones is the same defense that damn near set 99-year records for the worst defense in NFL history.
“Yeah, we may not be able to slow down a cool breeze on the football field but we’re bad arse, tough mother f’ers and don’t you dare f’ with us or you will have an arm in a sling!”
What a joke!
And front and center is a guy who admitted on his wife’s podcast that he shut it down because his vibe was blown when coaches asked him to cover Antonio Brown. The nerve the Bucs had! But this is something that someone at One Buc Place thought should be celebrated. Imagine!
(Joe has always been a big fan of Brent Grimes and at least he had some self-worth and pride as he balled out his last game of the season, which very well may have been his final NFL game.)
Was that dumb and childish if not disconnected from reality to pose like a bunch of clowns like that when you are getting boatraced game-in and game-out? Hell yes.
What bothered Joe much more was that someone at One Buc Palace saw fit to use this picture as an example of what fans should admire and what the Bucs’ defense should be. Are people really that dense over there? Are people that naive or unaware? The guy front and center told his coaches to take a hike. The rest of the guys in that photo played like old women who didn’t take their arthritis medicine.
Is that what you want the Bucs to represent and celebrate, one of the worst defenses in NFL history that helped kill the NFL careers of many coaches? Or do you just not know any better in a weak-arse effort to be lit and fresh?
Joe is convinced this is just another sign that One Buc Palace is simply polluted with a loser culture within every room, every office, every storage closet. Lose a game? Eh. Let’s have fun and pose like King Kong Bundy! Get your defense’s arse handed to them worse than any defense in league history? Who cares about that, let’s march over to International Plaza and start rocking the weekend!
The losing culture is worse than Joe imagined.
Losing isn’t just tolerated and accepted over at One Buc Palace, it’s celebrated.
March 11th, 2019 at 12:08 am
A mentally weak culture where Dlinemen are apologizing mid hit to opposing QBs and overpaid mediocre free agents steal our money and could give a damn whether the Bucs win a football game or not.
March 11th, 2019 at 12:10 am
Totally agree Joe!
March 11th, 2019 at 12:31 am
Saw that post on Twitter too. The irony. Too funny. Go Bucs
March 11th, 2019 at 12:44 am
And that’s what I’ve been saying tbbucs3 & got heat from apologists and fan losers ! How in the F can one of our supposed wreaking machine lineman cry I’m so sorry Ben , I’m so sorry ! It was in my eyes a clean hit because Ben barley got rid of the ball as McCoy was in process of hitting him..i bet if he didn’t set hit arms high in the air and cry sorry Ben before Ben hit the ground , the refs probably would not have even thrown the flag..but of coarse with guys like sorry ass mcpuke we are destined to lose..i can not believe the bucs are keeping this guy and his six sacks a year for 13million a year..we need to start dropping guys like this who do nothing but lose anyway and start fresh for Bruce Arians with young guys that want to prove themselves in this leauge..not 13 mil guys that have proven nothing but that they lose and lose big and are no shows when it matters most ! We have got to get some money back and out of cap hell and the first 2 should be djax & McCoy..thats 23 mil sitting right there .I would not worry about having to replace djax at all because there is a speed guy out there that can be had at 4 mil and McCoy we could replace by drafting in the first to 4th round with the talent that’s coming out..for the life of me I cannot understand how our GM is not smarter than he is and if BA gets involved during this draft , that would be a very good thing..i am so sick of McCoy and all his losing smiles it just makes me sick to my stomach just having to look at this guy come out and play on the line..such a fast first step no nowhere he also gets run on with ease and vea will get better and our ends showed promise, now if we can put 4 really good linebackers on the field on most downs by let’s say drafting delvin white , we can stop guys like kamara with his instincts white has and plug up holes with vea and one or 2 more bad ass interior lineman..now if we can find a decent right tackle and guard which our GM should because that’s his job , then we can start having a good chance of winning this damn division once again..sorry for the long post You guys but jimminy Christmas just thinking of McCoy boils my arse to no end !
March 11th, 2019 at 12:46 am
wow, what a sorry bunch of losers…man this organization needs a vinik enema..
March 11th, 2019 at 12:50 am
yo jarod.. two spaces between sentences brother..
March 11th, 2019 at 12:55 am
It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose again.
March 11th, 2019 at 1:32 am
The people running the Twitter feed usually have nothing to do with the players front office or ownership, no need to act as if the defense or Jason Licht signed off on the photo. If you wanna to be mad at anyone it should be loser dirk who didnât have the common sense to coach the entire team and let Mike Smith torpedo the defense
March 11th, 2019 at 1:44 am
Joe was pretty clear about this in the post. Not once did Joe invoke Licht’s name. So not sure how you came to that conclusion.
March 11th, 2019 at 1:54 am
This organization is a joke and that’s why after 21 seasons I didn’t renew my tickets. Suddenly One Buc Palace is lowering the price for admission to try and retain me. Too late losers boys…
Glazer Boys = Loser Boys
Go Bucs!
March 11th, 2019 at 1:58 am
The complete idiot, and I mean complete f**king idiot in the Bucsâ marketing department posted this photo should be fired immediately. So should thiet boss.
This photo, the history behind it and the tag line are all about as embarrassing as it gets.
#bagofd*cks
March 11th, 2019 at 2:09 am
âI see power, I see pride, I see a bad mudda who donât take no crap from no oneâ
âSay it again!â
March 11th, 2019 at 2:47 am
Im always right…. negative is reality when you are bucfan… bucs will never win another meaningless game ever…. 6-10
March 11th, 2019 at 3:16 am
The day Monte revealed he was leaving the team. We never recovered.
March 11th, 2019 at 3:53 am
It runs much deeper than just this post. Even during the season I can’t believe sometimes what the post after another loss. This team is run by PR or PR decisions. IDK why no one talks about that. The attachment to players who are nobody outside of tampa and overpaying them. They can’t win so they sell us the players as heroes to create emotional engagement
March 11th, 2019 at 5:34 am
Joe, if that Tweet goes out on the Bucs account then it really doesn’t matter who posted it … it represents the Bucs’ organization in the eyes of those accessing it. I’m assuming that picture was taken later last year (#59 is Devante Bond & he was on IR for the first half of last season).
Besides Grimes #24, the only other number I can make out in there is #54 – LVD, and I’m surprised that he participated in a false bravado stunt like that during an actual game (I can’t you imagine Derrick Brooks going along with something like that).
Not there yet … Getting mad at ‘loser dirk’ as you call him doesn’t change a danged thing (since he’s the Falcons’ OC?). Glazers & Licht panicked after they fired Lovie and promoted Koetter (the wrong guy to hire), then doomed him by dual-hatting him as the HC AND OC. If you insist on being ‘mad’ at anyone, be mad at the ownership & management who hired HCs like Raheem, Schiano, Lovie & Koetter. Ask yourself ‘In what world were any of those hires ever going to end well’? (Especially given what each of them started with in terms of organization & personnel).
March 11th, 2019 at 5:55 am
The Glazers should demand to know who posted that….and fire them.
Anything less means they are complicit with it.
March 11th, 2019 at 6:25 am
You want to know how soft this defense is? Just show a picture of Gerald playing with his Batman dolls in his Batman pajamas and that is all you will need to know.
March 11th, 2019 at 6:28 am
Buc fans should be angry with this trash. My wife is in marketing (not with the Bucs, obviously!)and she can tell you that this Tweet never should’ve made the light of day. There’s a pretty good chance whoever sent and approved this is some pimple-faced millennial who’s never played a sport in their life and probably watches other people play video games on YouTube for entertainment!
Um, hello McFly!
A better Tweet would be of Bucs security revoking Grimes keycard to OneBuc!
March 11th, 2019 at 6:40 am
Sorry Joe(s), I have a hard time getting outraged over this photo. I honestly don’t know what it is that you’re proposing; do you want the Buccaneers to post only sad, pathetic-looking photos to their twitter account? How would that solve anything?
March 11th, 2019 at 6:53 am
Any one paying attention, knows that winning has not been the priority with the Buc’s higher ups!!!!!!! This team is ran by a combination of advertising and fear of fan opinion!!!!!!!! The examples are many and long, from forcing a young team to do nfl’s longest commercial hard knocks to the mission of jamming the scheme limiting gmc into the stupid ring of honor, instead of fixing defense and running multiple schemes!!!!!!!!!!! And this problem has not been fixed!!!!!! And the sheep need to think long and hard about what is going to happen when ole bruce finds this out the hard way!!!!!!!! most likely reretirement after the 2020 season!!!!!!!
2019 season will reveal answers to the sheep, that the “real” fans already know!!!!!!!!!!!
GO Bucs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 11th, 2019 at 8:03 am
Well you’re obviously not always right trollmax since I’m pretty sure the Bucs will win a meaningless game or two pretty soon.
March 11th, 2019 at 8:33 am
isrBuc:
That’s a *very* keen observation on your part. And the last sentence is a total bulls-eye. That’s exactly what the Bucs (and Joe assumes many sports teams) use social media for: to build emotional engagement.
March 11th, 2019 at 8:37 am
Don_Ryjo:
The Bucs have plenty of photos of players the team can be proud of demonstrating emotion they could have chosen. O.J., GMC, Peyton Barber, Mike Evans, Lavonte David, etc. The Bucs have one of the NFL’s top team photographers (have met him and forgot his name but he is an exceptional photographer and this is coming from a Joe who once had to shoot sports for his job).
Yet someone on their social media team decided to choose a photo of not only the worst defense in team history but damn near NFL history, highlighted by a guy who admitted he threw in the towel.
March 11th, 2019 at 8:56 am
I don’t get what the big deal is. When was the pic taken? It could have been taken at any point including after winning the first two games.
Even if it was taken at the end of the season, I see nothing wrong with it.
I spent 20 plus years in marketing. It’s a good pic, regardless of who is in it or the team record. What it most likely is? Players taking a pic together knowing they probably won’t be on the same team again this year.
Sorry. I think this is just much ado about nothing.
Good way to feed the haters though.
March 11th, 2019 at 8:58 am
Give them a break guys, they had probably just gotten the news that they were not going to break that 100 yr-old record and that they we going to finish the season ranked 31st instead of 34th!
OR
This was a preemptive celebration in anticipation of receiving the 5th pick in the draft!
March 11th, 2019 at 9:01 am
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March 11th, 2019 at 9:20 am
Bonzai, correct. It’s a big nothingburger. I’m a 20-plus year season ticket holder and that’s the first time I saw this picture. And it could very well have been taken after a victory. At the end of the day who cares? I just care about what’s going to happen from this point on. Once the season’s over it’s over.
March 11th, 2019 at 9:35 am
I have mixed feelings on this. A social media account manager for any sports franchise is tasked to **try** to build excitement and buzz on social media. They have to try and make the team seem fun, exciting, and relevant. Whatâs the social media person supposed to do when itâs their job to generate buzz, especially during the off-season? The Bucs have been a loser for years and the current backstabbinâ GM has done a bang up job setting the franchise back. The Bucs have one of the smallest social media footprints in all the NFL. They are at or near the bottom of the NFL when it comes to fan interaction on social media and overall social media presence. Whoever the social media account manager is for the Bucs has a herculean task to generate any fan interest. That person probably works harder than many at One Buc.
March 11th, 2019 at 9:39 am
Bonzai and 007- No, you’re right, it’s not that big of a deal…..unless you are trying to change the culture of a team.
Picture the team sending a Tweet of Swaggy Baker humping a tree while trying to convince fans that the team is serious about winning. From a marketing and branding standpoint, it’s awful.
I don’t have a problem with the picture although I’m “old school” and believe in the “act like you’ve been there before” mantra.
March 11th, 2019 at 10:24 am
Uh, exactly who can slow down a breeze? Worse analogy.
March 11th, 2019 at 10:54 am
Have you guys forgotten Billy Crystal’s great “Fernando” on SNL and his words of wisdom?
“Is better to looook good than to feeeel good”
They actually LOOK pretty good if you ignore those horrid unis.
March 11th, 2019 at 11:00 am
Forgot? Never heard of it.
You are getting to be like Ira. “Who can forget the Allman Bros. live album at some obscure San Francisco bar?” Forget? Have to have heard of something to forget it.
“Who can forget Steve Miller playing at Hondo’s in Bartelso, Ill.?”
HUH???
March 11th, 2019 at 11:08 am
Bucsfanman Says:
“Picture the team sending a Tweet of Swaggy Baker humping a tree while trying to convince fans that the team is serious about winning.”
Completely different circumstances. That pic would have been unprofessional and perverse.
This one is neither of those things.
March 11th, 2019 at 11:31 am
Bonzai- You’re splitting hairs dude. It was just an example. The point is that they could’ve used a different picture to convey the same message. From a PURELY marketing standpoint:
a) Don’t use photos of players who aren’t going to be here next year if possible.
b) Try and use marquee players
c) Know your audience!!!!!
I’m more than positive that the Bucs have a ton of stock photos that could be used. JPP getting a sack, LVD recovering a fumble, Carlton Davis defending a pass……
Anything without a guy who, on one of the NFL’s WORST defenses, proclaimed that he would not do his job because they didn’t pay him enough.
More than anything else, THAT’S the point! If he had kept his mouth shut, there’d be nothing to talk about.
March 12th, 2019 at 11:45 am
SeattleBuc Says:
March 11th, 2019 at 3:16 am
The day Monte revealed he was leaving the team. We never recovered
TRUTH.
Went from 9-3 to 9-7, missed the playoffs, and have never been consistently good or even competitive since. What a sad decade.