Flashback: Arians Should Not Be Bucs Coach
January 27th, 2021
Whoops!
One of the loudest critics when the Bucs were trying to find their footing before the bye week was none other than Mike Greenberg.
The Tom Brokaw of BSPN, Mike Greenberg (Joe types that with both respect and sarcasm — Greenberg brings a lot of good to the table and is the face of the network along with Mel Kiper and Dick Vitale) often harshly criticized the Bucs offense until the pirate ship got turned around somehow, someway during the bye week.
And the target of his ire was often Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians, who he believed the team was better off without.
Greenberg, Joe assumes, is sort of paid to be the voice of reason for the four-letter.
Below are some of Greenberg’s comments that Arians was ruining the Bucs and park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Bucs quarterback Tom Brady. He felt Arians was shoving a square peg (the offense) into a round hole (Brady’s skillset).
As we have learned since, this was all nonsense to fill empty minutes of BSPN programming. Below are excerpts from Greenberg’s BSPN radio show.
“I feel like I am the only person in the world who watches the Buccaneers and thinks Bruce Arians should not be their coach,” Greenberg began. “You know who should be watching their games and laughing hysterically? Jameis Winston.
“Now we know why Jameis Winston threw all of those interceptions. Because Bruce Arians’ offense stinks. Bruce Arians wants to chuck it down the field, no risk it; no biscuit. He did it with Jameis Winston who had a reputation coming out of college for turning the ball over. And now he is doing it with the greatest quarterback of all time.”
Greenberg thought at times Arians’ offense was made for laughter.
“This offense is a joke,” Greenberg said. “It is a mistake. What are we doing here?! … You know what you are doing? You are ruining a season that has championship aspirations.
“And those are slipping away lightning fast. Brady is throwing the ball up there like a punt. That’s not what Tom Brady does.”
Arians, Greenberg said, was tarnishing the legacy of Brady.
“What’s wrong with Tom Brady?” Greenberg asked rhetorically. “I’m here to tell you what is wrong with Tom Brady is his coach.
“And if Bruce Arians doesn’t figure it out, this season is done. They’re done.”
January 27th, 2021 at 5:09 am
Mike Greenberg was wrong for sure. He was wrong about why Jay-Miss threw all those interceptions and Arians’ offense wasn’t the problem.
January 27th, 2021 at 5:12 am
Another one bite the dust…..🤣
January 27th, 2021 at 5:19 am
Instead of 3 INT’s on Brady’s Green Bay stat sheet he should actually be given Special Teams Player of the week for 3 excellent punts pinning the Packers deep. Greenberg is wrong like so many so called sports media types…sort of like anyone who thought we should keep Winston…sound familiar Joe?
January 27th, 2021 at 5:30 am
Wrong again muddasucka!!….in my Michael Blackson voice 🤣🤣🤣
January 27th, 2021 at 5:37 am
Add Greenberg to the list of national media nimrods who thought the Bucs were not all that spectacular but then again I have never been impressed with Greenie dating all the way back to the early Golic days.
January 27th, 2021 at 5:41 am
Biggest, sanctimonious, douchebag on TV.
January 27th, 2021 at 5:42 am
For a while it WAS concerning and truly worthy of criticism (Arians/Leftwich’s coaching WAS lacking creativity, rhythm, flow and finesse), until the big post-bye week epiphany. Overcoming such poor play-calling and poor execution makes our postseason winning all the the more sweet.
Joe — hate to be that person (it’s in my writer blood): “criticizedd” (double d, only good when it refers to a bra size, right? [I’m a girl who even thinks so] ; “NFC Champion” (ship?) ; Greeberg thought… (Greenberg)
Hey, it’s ass-super early so I apologize. This is best Bucs site in the world!
January 27th, 2021 at 6:13 am
The most overpaid person on tv, mike Greenberg. Joe is on a tear calling out the bs, I love it!
January 27th, 2021 at 6:16 am
He wasn’t wrong, because Arians had never adjusted his offense to fit the qb. He accepted all the interceptions until Jameis threw all he threw. It took him 12 games this year to finally listen to Brady. Before coming we knew he made little use of TEs presnap reads or short passes. What coach does that??? Everybody railed on Lovie Smith as coach my scheme for refusing to fit his defense to match the skill of his players, well Arians did it all the way up to week 12 of this year. Why do you think we’ve been out coached by even inferior teams???
January 27th, 2021 at 6:33 am
Yeah Jameis and Jon Gruden both laughing right now…
January 27th, 2021 at 6:54 am
Brady doesn’t takes sacks…..doesn’t fumble…..and his interceptions are usually deep balls on late downs……like punts…
Works for me……
Yep…..many in the media and posters on this site were very wrong…..happens all the time.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:30 am
Greenberg was right. Even now, the offense only functions due to the best talent in the League. Against GB, outside of the TD run, the backs were 21/51 yards –what kind of run game is that? Brilliant scheme.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:31 am
Whether it was Brady adapting to Arians or Arians adapting to Brady, these guys did it before the end of the season and got into the playoffs.
These are good coaches on this staff. They have coached up the cornerbacks and the offensive line to levels the last coaching regime was unable to.
The narrative that we are out coached is weak in hindsight.
The narrative that Arians does not adjust is very weak. He has adjusted from running the wishbone early in his career to many different passing style offenses
To suggest his offense for Brady, Winston, Palmer, Luck, Rothleisberger, Manning, and Tim Couch were not all the same.
His active coaching winning percentage is 8th highest in the NFL. And that does not include the 9-3 record when he took over for Pagano in Indy.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:33 am
Can’t win in this league without good coaching.
Please point to all the past examples of teams getting to the Super Bowl without good coaching.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:34 am
I honestly don’t know how anyone watches BSPN. It is truly garbage, with a clear agenda trying to be pushed to their viewers.
Greenberg is a man girl. Can’t believe he is the face of the network.
Kudos to Joe, for having to put up with that trash to bring us the best Bucs coverage.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:43 am
Instead of crow, BA should send Greenberg a weeks compilation of his own 💩
Just put it all in a bucket to really make it stick out.
With a note “hey greeny try and eat the peanuts and corn out of my sh_t”
😂
January 27th, 2021 at 7:48 am
Those early season slow starts hurt. Amazing how things turned around when the Bucs stopped ‘deferring the kick off’. I always felt start with your strength and set the tone for the game. SCORE first and make the other team try to catch up. My prediction – if the Bucs score first they WIN.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:52 am
“Brady is throwing the ball up there like a punt. That’s not what Tom Brady does.”
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So that is what he was doing for most of the second half. He was throwing punts.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:54 am
Getting to the Super Bowl is a marathon not a sprint. This same team that’s won 7 games in a row was at one point 7-5 on the season. Those 5 losses came against 4 teams that all made the playoffs, certainly implying that ‘we weren’t there yet’.
Our Bucs TEAM matured tremendously after those 2 losses to the Rams & Chiefs. A number of things changed after those losses, with both our offense and our defense. That’s what winning teams do: they adjust & grow & mature as the season rolls along. Tom Brady & the Pats were masters of that during his years in New England, and he’s working that ‘magic’ here.
And yes, our coaching has ‘matured’ as the season’s rolled along also. It just takes time to get a bunch of new pieces to gel. But I have no doubts in my mind that without Tom Brady, it wouldn’t have happened & we’d be sitting home watching someone else play for the championship in OUR stadium. We got this.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:56 am
The Bucs were badly out coached for the Saints Rams Chiefs games… no one can deny that.
According to BA, he doesn’t do Sh*t anyway, so that wouldn’t be hard to believe , would it?
Glad whoever’s coaching now got it together. Maybe it was TB12.
January 27th, 2021 at 8:04 am
Y’all all missing the point these shows are for drama. They care little for truth or facts it’s garbage.
January 27th, 2021 at 8:44 am
BL will be our HC soon….with BA as president of football ops…
GO BUCS!!!!!
January 27th, 2021 at 8:48 am
Dam Bird…… that’s nasty!
Plus something tells me BA only moves his bowels bi-monthly!
January 27th, 2021 at 9:36 am
Greenie (what a nickname!) is a tennis-playing wussie that never even sniffed a football field, so take everything he says about the NFL and know it is more likely wrong than right! In BA we trust!
January 27th, 2021 at 10:08 am
Joe’s also need to call themselves out. More than once after Jameis was let go ONE of you guys started putting in nearly every article about Brady (especially after mixed results through the first half of the season) allusions to whether getting rid of “America’s quarterback” (you’re words…repetitively) was such a good idea. Yeah, I know which Joe, the same one who calls Jameis “America’s Quarteback” and you relented the last quarter of the season. But you were still bringing up whether “running off America’s QB” was a wise idea. Let’s have a little intellectual honesty here while you call everyone else out.
January 27th, 2021 at 10:23 am
I agree VA Tom. Unreasonable Joe needs to be upfront about how wrong he was with that #1 overall draft bust before he calls out other people for bad takes.
January 27th, 2021 at 10:37 am
Geez! Some of you guys just aren’t happy unless you’re bitching about something. You’ll probably pee all over an SB win!
January 27th, 2021 at 11:04 am
@Chesepeake Bay Bucco: Yeah I also think Greenie is a bit of a wimp. One of the last Mike and Mike shows I listened to had the guys taking bids for a charity (might have been the V Foundation) offering things liked signed jerseys, gear, baseballs, footballs etc…. Anyhow they also had a part where if enough money was bid the guys would take on certain dares; one was that Greenie had to eat a Nathan’s Dog with ketchup, the little guy sounded very reluctant about this dare saying “ketchup does not go on hot dogs”…,. Anyhow Golic intervened and basically said that Greenie was going to eat the dog with lots of Heinz 57 or little Mike might end up at the dentist….. Seems like the type of guy who might play tennis, croquet, badminton or Parcheesi but definitely not any of the sports he is paid to cover on BSPN….
January 27th, 2021 at 11:04 am
The hell he wasn’t.
He wanted Arians gone. His words above speak for themselves.
Would the Bucs be in the Super Bowl with Todd Bowles or Byron Leftwich running the show as an interim coach?
January 27th, 2021 at 11:28 am
Let’s not act like we didn’t stink in those days. And let’s be real we would not be here if Brady wasn’t here. Brady is King. Arians ain’t King. Arians didn’t know how to do any of this until Brady got here. No one in Tampa knew how to do it……for years!!!!
January 27th, 2021 at 12:30 pm
He was wrong about Arians, but wasn’t wrong about the problems with the offense.
And Joe, you were agreeing! You wrote dozens of articles about how AriansLeftwich were being dumb by doing something “Tom Brady can’t do anymore”.
Or did you forget about all those statements lol?
The offense was broken at that point. Now it’s fixed. Simple as that.
January 27th, 2021 at 1:01 pm
lambeau
Wow I never knew Pack fans to be such sore losers. So let me see if I’m reading your post right. The Green Bay defense sucks which is why you believe we should have been able to run the ball better. LMAO
WHO brought TB12 here? Yeah give TB12 all the credit you want but he wouldn’t be here without BA and TL. When they sensed TB12 was leaving BB they JUMPED on it. They didn’t hesitate to dump the “Franchise” QB…the savior…the #1 overall pick in the draft after the Bucs had invested five years.
There were a lot of moving parts to bring together and polish. D.R. explained it well.
January 27th, 2021 at 2:05 pm
I like Greenberg. There was a stretch of extreme inconsistency. They stopped running the ball and got away from play action. They were 7-5!
So, I see where he was coming from.
I think it was just a matter of BA, BL, and GOAT getting on the same page and figuring out what works and what doesn’t.
They probably won’t have Fournette and Brown, but I fully expect this offense and defense to be even better next year with everyone else back and a full training camp.
January 27th, 2021 at 6:52 pm
This dude was mildly entertaining on the radio show with the much better Mike. Lol, his takes did not age very well. On to the Superbowl naysayers!