The Planning Lesson
June 6th, 2021
Team Glazer armbars with Bucco Bruce Arians
Joe hates looking past these glorious glory days of Bucs football.
It’s best to live in the moment, but it’s just too hard to not think about the future once in a while.
Three-time Super Bowl champion Ted Johnson, a 10-year Belicheats linebacker, now works in Boston sports radio and is one of Joe’s favorite analysts you probably never listened to.
Johnson is a straight shooter, and he’s paid for it through the years.
Speaking last week on SiriusXM NFL Radio, Johnson dove into how frustrated and motivated Bill Belicheat is because his team crumbled to 7-9 while Tom Brady won a Super Bowl in Tampa. Johnson explained how Belicheat really got no rope in New England because Pats fans and media don’t believe there was any post-Brady plan in place.
“It is blood-sport up here,” Johnson said, referring to the constant media barrage against Belicheat.
This got Joe thinking about the Bucs’ post-Brady, post-Arians plan.
The reality is both of those guys could ride off into the sunset after another Super Bowl win this season — or following a disappointing year that could lead to Brady mailing it in.
Are there clear post-Brady and post-Arians plans in place?
Joe sure hopes Team Glazer has built out a what-next war room at One Buc Palace. That’s what you need when your QB is 44 and your head coach is 69. And Joe sure hopes Team Glazer figures out exactly what in-house candidate they desires to replace Arians if he retires in six months.
It sure wouldn’t hurt if Team Glazer formally interviewed Byron Leftwich and Todd Bowles at the Bucs’ Week 9 bye.
As for a quarterback after Brady, at least the Bucs made the wise move to draft a legitimate QB prospect and let him learn from The Goat and a sea of excellent QB coaches.
June 6th, 2021 at 8:54 pm
Don’t worry so soon Joe… Tom’s going for three!
Mix an undefeated season in there and he MIGHT be satisfied.
Belicheat is gone after another losing season and Kraft figures out who the real leader was.
June 6th, 2021 at 9:08 pm
I think there are numerous scenarios that the Glazers have gone over. There is even a plan B if the Trask experiment goes south. I think the franchise is set to be competitive once Brady and the older vets are gone. i believe the defense will once again have to carry this franchise post Brady.
June 6th, 2021 at 9:09 pm
Super bowl replay on now
June 6th, 2021 at 9:17 pm
Even after Brady I believe the Bucs can be in position to keep the ball rolling and keep competing. We have a lot of really really good young players.
Of course finding a quality QB to take over the reigns is much easier said then done.
And if it dont work out and the team needs to start a rebuild I sincerely hope the Glazers have learned that giving a coach 2 measely seasons is a recipe for disaster(admittedly sometimes necessary) It can easily leads to a decade or more of losing…….I do think there a good chance they learned that patience can lead to good things. How they handled Licht as GM suggests that.
GO BUCS!!!!
June 6th, 2021 at 9:27 pm
Keep building the trenches. We’ll be competitive at least till we can fine tune later.
June 6th, 2021 at 9:27 pm
We lucked into Arians and Brady after repeated failures, so while I’m hoping that ownership has learned from past mistakes, I have my doubts. As long as Licht is in charge, I feel pretty confident going forward despite ownership though. Hiring Brady as an advisor when he retires like the Dolphins did with Marino couldn’t hurt either.
June 6th, 2021 at 9:28 pm
Thats why I cherish these days we have had, the last year it could all be gone tomorrow, we got Another SB and I will always remember this last year wow what a ride, even when we keep on winning it will not replace how special this last year turned out to be, imha
June 6th, 2021 at 9:34 pm
Peyton’s final season with Denver had him mostly handing off, throwing short passes. (FIRST half of that season he was killing it. I suspect something happened to his neck) STILL, Peyton’s leadership made him more effective than any other options at QB on that team, and they won a Super Bowl.
Brady is 10X the leader Peyton was
June 6th, 2021 at 9:41 pm
I’m not sweating Arians retirement. We have a very strong coaching staff. We have options of good coaches to move into HC and be much easier to keep the bunch together with the knowledge of the team. Who the hell knows when Brady will stop. Hopefully he gets the HC or OC job the day after his retirement of playing QB. I’ll settle for Licht’s right hand man in the front office, also.
June 6th, 2021 at 9:54 pm
Jason Licht is a very good GM with a very good staff on and off the field. Trust me, they already have a game plan beyond Arians and Brady.
June 6th, 2021 at 10:14 pm
‘ Hopefully he gets the HC or OC job’
No way. He’s building a house in the Miami area. Prob won’t be finished until late 2022. His wife’s biz interests are down there. I think Gabbert will be given a Bucs job coaching with Leftweitch given the head coach job if Trask makes the grade. New QB and new offense won’t work to well.
June 6th, 2021 at 10:23 pm
The key to long-term success is a franchise QB and I’m not so sure you can capture lightning in a bottle twice. Hopefully, Trask will work out and Leftwich will get the head coaching gig once Arians retires. But, everyone is right to live in the now. It was a glorious year and hopefully another will follow in 2021. Beyond that it’s a total crap shoot.
June 6th, 2021 at 10:52 pm
All i know is….we better savor this season b/c the team is gonna look a lot different after that.
June 6th, 2021 at 11:07 pm
Perhaps Jamies will have learned by then & we give him another shot. (Joke)
June 6th, 2021 at 11:14 pm
As much as we believe their offense and defense are going to be more consistent and awesome….
I’m watching the Saints v Bucs playoff game and it is midway through the third and the Buccaneers offense hasn’t done a single thing besides one drive that was a field goal. The defense gave up a lot of drives but held a couple to field goals. special-teams gave up some returns.
Basically it was a struggle for most the game and even without Brees, the Saints are going to be pretty damn good next year.
June 6th, 2021 at 11:28 pm
Agreed Pete… 🌈 🏳️🌈 💩
Be Changing
June 7th, 2021 at 1:53 am
Beeej says:
“Peyton’s final season with Denver had him mostly handing off, throwing short passes. (FIRST half of that season he was killing it. I suspect something happened to his neck)”
I would love to have you show me where Manning was “killing it” in 2015. He was so bad he got benched for Brock Osweiler. He threw 9TD and 17Int. through 9 games. He had a total of one game with a rating over 100. They finally put him back in during the middle of the last game of the season because the other guys were even worse and they had a historically great defense. And the only thing that happened to his neck was he couldn’t get his HGH delivered to his wife anymore. After three years of enlarging his forehead the Denver Manning fraud was over.
June 7th, 2021 at 7:17 am
Brady would not have made it to the SB if he had stayed with the Patriots.There is no way they would gotten past KC or Buffalo. His only chance at another championship was with the Bucs or possibly the Chargers. Brady recognized the talent that was already in place in Tampa. The Bucs will win with him, and I believe they will continue to win after he is gone. There is a foundation of young players who will keep it together even with a transition of coaches. They have bonded under the toughest possible conditions. That bond won’t be broken anytime soon.
June 7th, 2021 at 9:06 am
“I would love to have you show me where Manning was “killing it” in 2015. He was so bad he got benched for Brock Osweiler. He threw 9TD and 17Int. through 9 games. He had a total of one game with a rating over 100. They finally put him back in during the middle of the last game of the season because the other guys were even worse and they had a historically great defense. And the only thing that happened to his neck was he couldn’t get his HGH delivered to his wife anymore. After three years of enlarging his forehead the Denver Manning fraud was over”
The first season there, he blew away the league, then they were curb stomped in the Super Bowl. His s second season started off the same way, then something happened, (again, I suspect his neck) his play dropped off so badly he was benched. Eventually, they put him back in at playoff time, bit he played like Drew Brees after he came off IR. Mebbe I’m remembering it wrong
June 7th, 2021 at 12:36 pm
Hey Pete, If the Bucs win another Super bowl this year and that’s a very big if, tell me who will be the first player with a shot at a Super triple that is going to walk away. I can picture Brady And Suh playing for the league minimum before this dream ends. Everybody is going to try to get on the express train to Canton….
June 7th, 2021 at 5:49 pm
I predict Super Bowl Winds here as long as Brady continues to play QB here; then BA with about three Super Bowl rings will retire and the Bucs would be very smart to offer the Bucs Head Coach position to Brady who could then Coach Trask to continue winning Super Bowls for us and every top player should take a big cut in pay to play for us and get training from HC Brady and keep the Super Bowl wins a tradition here. Then the Bucs will be the top Franchise in the NFL! What a turn around! It can happen!
June 7th, 2021 at 5:49 pm
Wins not Winds.