“We Script Our Game Plans So Meticulously”
March 28th, 2019
Worried Bucco Bruce Arians won’t have a massive impact on offense because he’s not calling plays this season?
Consider what he said Tuesday morning during a very casual sitdown in Phoenix with Joe and three other Bucs reporters.
It was part of a discussion about how Arians will fare staying out Byron Leftwich’s way, as he will be a play-calling and big-influence offensive coordinator.
Arians was asked if he’ll have trouble biting his tongue. He replied, “I won’t bite it; I’ll bite his. … There’s going to be times when you get gut feelings during a game. And we script our game plans so meticulously there are only about five or six gut calls in a game. ‘Hey, pound it. Let’s just pound it.’ Or, ‘We got’em. It’s time for a shot. Take a shot.’ It’s odd, because when Byron called played for me in the preseason [in Arizona], we called a lot of the same plays. … I’ll be there in full force on the headset with input.”
The overall takeaway from many things Joe has heard Arians say is that the head coach really believes he is on the same frequency as Leftwich. Arians trained him and he thinks Leftwich learned masterfully, and Arians already saw him operate as a player, an involved backup on and off the field.
Joe thinks Arians’ “meticulous” characterization for the game planning is noteworthy. It sounds like he believes his way is more thorough and thoughtful than others.
Joe knows 2018 Bucs receivers questioned and were perplexed by the team’s overall plans and thought-processes in the red zone. Joe’s going to guess that won’t happen in 2019.
March 28th, 2019 at 9:08 am
BA’s gut is gonna wretch when Jameis free lances on the “scripted” plays….
March 28th, 2019 at 9:14 am
Dirk Koetter to ATL is subtraction by addition for them. Monken will be a HC before Koetter ever gets another try.
March 28th, 2019 at 9:23 am
^^ ShutTheBucUp,,
Haha, one of my favorite monikers so far.
Very well done.
March 28th, 2019 at 9:26 am
glad to see our OC and HC on the same page….never really felt that last year…..it seemed as if there was a power struggle between dirk and todd….
2019 will reveal what “real” fan already know!!!!!!!
#REALISTKNOWSNOTHING!!!!…GO BUCS!!!!!
March 28th, 2019 at 9:41 am
Wow.. What a novel idea. First time in his NFL career Fameis will receive PROFESSIONAL COACHING.
March 28th, 2019 at 9:56 am
clearly he has never scripted plays for a team with Cancer93 as the face of the defense…. All plans and scripts go right down the toilet after the crying clown and his girls give up 24 first qtr / half points…. mentally weakest and softest team captains in team and league history…. remember this is not the NFL, BA it’s the minor league bucs…
March 28th, 2019 at 9:59 am
Klueless thinking out loud- you won a national champiship and a Hiesmen,we’re gonna throw the ball 50x. Go out and win the game for us.. Whata dumb@$$.
March 28th, 2019 at 10:03 am
I recall on an episode of Hardknocks,Jameis goes into the idiots office sits down in front of his desk. Jameis asked “what is it you want me do coach” dumb@$$ responds with “don’t make dumb mistakes”. Jameis starred back mouth slightly opened with a baffled facial expression. He was looking for teaching in that moment but dumb@$$ was klueless as to what exactly to give him in response.
March 28th, 2019 at 10:07 am
But you cats sit on online and casually call people no good and get all goo goo eyed with fng’s entering the draft like they’ve proven anything because they were awarded some rinkydink @$$ certificates in college. Please. You’ll always be hard pressed getting the most out of players that don’t view the HC as LEGIT.
March 28th, 2019 at 10:15 am
Did we sign Blaine Gabbert?
March 28th, 2019 at 10:18 am
Yes
March 28th, 2019 at 10:31 am
Heard the Bucs offered vet minimum contract to Mo Claiborne, but he is waiting it out, can’t blame him, but at least he is interested
March 28th, 2019 at 10:37 am
Winston thrived from hard in his face coaching from Jimbo Fisher and has many times publicly asked to be coached hard during Dirk’s era. I believe BA’s coaching style will bring the best in Winston.
March 28th, 2019 at 10:45 am
What is the vet minimum?
March 28th, 2019 at 10:59 am
@ Tom, it’s less than a million but determined by the number of years a player has been in the league.
March 28th, 2019 at 11:09 am
Winston is a Good QB an with BA coaching him he will be a great QB he just needs some tough love with a coach who actually coaches him an pushes him Breakout year for JW an the Bucs
March 28th, 2019 at 11:22 am
Love it…..lets the players to feel comfortable with the game plan and allows them to play fast without thinking too much.
Dirk was old school in that way with the Playbook where it’s keep up or get left, especially with the young guys. There’s a reason BA has 2 practices during training camp cause he understands that it’s hard for rookies to learn and feel comfortable with a new NFL Playbook.
Guys feeling comfortable with their assignments will make a huge difference, Got the sense last year that guys were confused on the field on both offense and especially on defense.
March 28th, 2019 at 11:46 am
Tell them what he said when asked about his future successor Joe.
March 28th, 2019 at 11:49 am
Oh and Godwin to the slot,notice the difference between he and Hump next season for all you with no vision still salty about Rudy not being resigned.
March 28th, 2019 at 11:58 am
Atlanta couldn’t wait to have Koetter back so they believe in him…makes you wonder if a different coach can make Winston become at least an average qb ..but keeping hope alive he improves along with the team.
March 28th, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Calm down NOSBOS……. you’re getting yourself all worked up again.
…… and I think there’s a customer looking for a new pair of Nikes in a 9 wide.
Better put the phone down and get back to work.
March 28th, 2019 at 12:06 pm
Koetter and company seemed to abandon the run game far too early in many games…
March 28th, 2019 at 12:10 pm
Unlikr koetter caling tge same olays every game. He is a much better playcaller when he is stricklty an oc. He willnbe fine in atl with that offense and weapons nownthatbhis mind is focused soley on calling plays
March 28th, 2019 at 12:33 pm
Tampa Bay Demon Says:
March 28th, 2019 at 9:23 am
^^ ShutTheBucUp,,
Haha, one of my favorite monikers so far.
Very well do
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My license plate was BUCYU for a couple years. I changed it when i realized the team went something like 7-25 with it on my car… i neither wanted to associate myself with such a horrible stench of failure nor did I like the possibility that I had jinxed them.
March 28th, 2019 at 12:48 pm
^^ LOL, it was still a killer plate, Brandon. Good stuff!
March 28th, 2019 at 1:27 pm
AlteredEgo Says:
March 28th, 2019 at 9:08 am
BA’s gut is gonna wretch when Jameis free lances on the “scripted” plays….
^^^ This is so so true. Let’s see if JW can take down another coaching staff with his “I just gotta be me” play style.
Popcorn will be ready.
March 28th, 2019 at 1:59 pm
Did BA give any indication that he would be listening as closely to the defensive calls? He seems to really like and trust Bowles.
March 28th, 2019 at 2:36 pm
diggler & altered,,
While you guys are rooting for Jameis to fail,
the rest of us will be rooting for the Bucs.
March 28th, 2019 at 3:43 pm
It’s going to be awesome he is going to trick so many defenses with smart play calling and we have the mismatches across the board with M1k3 Godwin Oj Brate cmon now Jameis it’s your time to shine !
March 28th, 2019 at 4:34 pm
The biggest issue I had with Dirk was once he became headcoach he totally changed the way he did things on offense, and became ultra predictable. I don’t think Dirk really saw the field well from the sideline, and I don’t think he had the mental capacity to just wing it the way he did once his time as split between being the OC and the HC. We saw as soon as Monken took over, when the team wasn’t ultra predictable, how explosive it was – how just mixing things up opened up the field. Then we saw Dirk take back over things, and how predictable things became. The fact the Bucs could move the ball the way they did is a credit to the offensive players – because I know if I could sit at home and call not only run/pass, but the direction and depth of a play, and hit on it probably 60-70% of the time. Defensive coordinators, who do this full time at the highest level, were certainly guessing right even more often than that.
March 28th, 2019 at 5:09 pm
^^ Great observations, Rod, about Dirk’s playcalling from the field. I hadn’t thought of it and I think you are spot on.
Unfortunately, that is not good for us in the sense that Dirk will be back up in the booth for ATL.
March 28th, 2019 at 7:12 pm
Where’s the ” B.A. will make adjustments in the game” crowd?
Lots of criticism of Dirk inability to make in game adjustments, but now crickets!
Rod ,
if defensive coordinators were guessing correctly more often than not then why was the offense ranked #1 . Scoring isn’t how the NFL ranks offenses , that’s debatable, the point is how did being so predictable translate into the game. The numbers clearly say it didnt.
March 28th, 2019 at 7:18 pm
Pryda,
Mismatches should give the team a huge boost. I don’t see tricking a defense happening but if the team can find the ability to run the ball , then it’s possible to call some smart plays. If the team remains one dimensional, although I don’t believe it will, it’s damn difficult to dial up smart plays. The options are too limited.
March 28th, 2019 at 7:26 pm
@AlteredEgo
always cherry picking bro… you mean those unscripted plays where Jameis flees the pocket and is ranked behind no one other than Aaron Rodgers himself during his career?
March 29th, 2019 at 12:26 am
@Rod Munch
I noticed the same thing about his play calling predictability.
For example… you could tell when it was a run the way a receiver moves in motion to the wing back position… if Godwin or Vincent Jackson turned face to face and moved feet a brace for impact… it was a run… if they stayed 90 degrees and looked loose like they might sprint… it was a pass.
March 29th, 2019 at 11:57 am
Pryda30…. sec 147 Says:
we have the mismatches across the board with M1k3 Godwin Oj Brate cmon now Jameis it’s your time to shine !
^^^LOL we been saying this for 4 years now. Dude aint shining in an offense where timing is everything. JW cannot throw a good timing route, 95% of his completions are on come back routes. BA will bench him after the bye. Bet on it!