Gerald McCoy Offered To Ride Bench For Bucs Last Season Just To Coach Up Messy, Ineffective Pass Rush
April 18th, 2023
It seems six-time Bucs Pro Bowl defensive tackle Gerald McCoy thinks the Bucs needed a coaching upgrade the past two seasons.
That was the clear message during McCoy’s appearance on the recent Green Light podcast.
“I even told Tampa, ‘Hey listen, I don’t have to play; I just want to be a mentor because y’all doing a lot of wrong up front,” McCoy said of the Bucs’ defensive line.
“You have talent and y’all not rushing together. Guys are not getting on edges. They’re just running down [the] middle of people. It’s just bull [rush], bull, bull and I seen a lot things I could help with just teaching guys, ‘ok, this is how you rush together.’ And I told them, ‘hey listen, I don’t have to play. Like, even if I’m on practice squad I’m still sitting in the meetings.”
Of course, McCoy was never signed and he officially retired this month.
McCoy said he ended up getting his Bucs-coaching fix in via texting players he knew well, like Rakeem Nuñez-Roches and Vita Vea, among others.
April 18th, 2023 at 10:52 am
Why not give him a chance ? It is not like we have any real pass rush at the moment
April 18th, 2023 at 10:55 am
Better yet…sign him as a lower level assistant coach…it can’t hurt and doesn’t count toward the cap or the roster limit.
April 18th, 2023 at 10:55 am
Bowles way or the highway…. Even though he is meh at developing players. Just an observation. LOL
April 18th, 2023 at 10:57 am
It doesn’t surprise me that he didn’t get what he wanted though…you don’t tell a defensive head coach he’s doing it all wrong and then ask him for a job.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:05 am
I wonder, Joe…will this finally be the year we start using a fullback again? Or a 265 monster TE who can double as a FB? (hint)
Every year I hope we break the mold and draft one. We have not had a running game since the NFL stopped using FBs. Just saying.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:06 am
Enough with this guy.
He ended his own career when he switched to his vegan diet. Why does anyone want that influence around?
April 18th, 2023 at 11:09 am
The last thing any coaching staff wants is that ego walking through the door.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:12 am
Vita is the only one on the team who can get by with a bullrush
April 18th, 2023 at 11:12 am
who is he?
April 18th, 2023 at 11:16 am
@robert
He’s the taco truck guy!
April 18th, 2023 at 11:18 am
Gerald “It’s not about winning, it’s about having fun” McCoy,
No thanks to having his loser mentality and ego in the locker room.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:22 am
Gerald was a great player on some pretty bad teams. Often he had no help in the trenches and was almost always double teamed. Often, he was the Bucs entire defensive line. Give the guy a break, not his fault the coaching and his team mates were garbage.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:23 am
I think McCoy could have helped in a limited role last year as a rotational player. I dont think he played with coaches that showed him how to control his rush. to many times on run plays he would blow past the play and create a big hole from his position. His pass rush was fine he just came when everybody had Sapp fresh in their minds and Sapp was special.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:24 am
We didn’t have the roster space to just hold a guy who wasn’t going to play, probably why GMC was willing to take a roster spot on the practice squad, but even then we were battling a lot of injuries on both sides of the ball at different point in the 2021 season. Makes me wonder whether it was players just falling into old habits, the coaches not making these habits known to players as being reductive to the collective effort or a little bit of both and then some.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:27 am
Buccaneer Bonzai Says:
April 18th, 2023 at 11:05 am
I wonder, Joe…will this finally be the year we start using a fullback again? Or a 265 monster TE who can double as a FB? (hint)
Every year I hope we break the mold and draft one. We have not had a running game since the NFL stopped using FBs. Just saying.
I would love to see a TE/FB player on this team with more plays with a FB. I do think kieft would fit that role though.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:31 am
Sure seems like Bob Sanders may have just mailed it in during his one season in TB. Sure feels like a handout to an old Arians friend that Bowles wasn’t eager for.
As for GMC, I have to believe Bowles was the ringleader in releasing him from the team when he first arrived in 2019. Doesn’t surprise me that Bowles wasn’t interested in adding him as a practice squad mentor (probably because he’d be dancing on the sidelines…).
I’m excited to see what George Edwards can do. The man had a hand in developing Micah Parsons into one of the elite pass rushers in the game. Maybe he can get JTS to be a serviceable starter and maybe help DW become an even greater pass rusher (assuming he’s still on the team).
April 18th, 2023 at 11:44 am
Gerald doesnt know what defense was called for him to say if it was wrong or not
April 18th, 2023 at 11:57 am
I always thought that Gerald was just a superior athlete that knew how to exploit his speed and be a gap disrupter. However, when it came to end of the game heroics because he diagnosed something the offense was doing that could be exploited, it never happened.
I don’t see him being an effective coach at all. Was never a real leader or teacher in my memory of him.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:03 pm
What a sacrifice by the Great Geraldini. “Hey, Bucs. Lemme come waste a roster spot on me and collect a paycheck while I give pointers on how to rush the passer. Now I know a guy that doesn’t play and just coaches is usually called a “coach” but my ego wants to see me suit up one last time and years after I was actually decent.” Cool story, Geraldine. There are lots of habits and tips that we’d prefer you kept to yourself… mainly which was how to disappear during times you were needed the most. Hard pass. Maybe you can con another team into taking you up on your player-coach offer.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:07 pm
So likely someone disagreed with his assessment but to be fair he grew up in a 4-3.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:24 pm
gotbbucs Says:
Enough with this guy.
He ended his own career when he switched to his vegan diet. Why does anyone want that influence around?
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Personally, I am very much a carnivore but there are elite athletes who are vegan including Barny du Plessis who won the Mr. Universe title back in 2014.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:26 pm
“He should go into the ice cream truck business. Seriously!,” Batman
April 18th, 2023 at 12:38 pm
The Bucs are kinda stupid, why wouldn’t you bring in a 6x Pro Bowler and 3x All-Pro who clearly wants to be there and be involved? So you could keep some scrub who is inactive every week on the roster? Just dumb.
Reminds me of when Simeon Rice wanted to come to camp and try to make the team a few years back. Was he going to be able to do it at 45, or whatever his age was at the time? Probably not. But why wouldn’t you want a guy, with a direct link to the glory days, who’s a star, who wants to be there, in camp to work with a bunch of nobodies that probably don’t even know the Bucs won a SB (this is pre-2020).
The Bucs have a really bad habit of just throwing away their past, as if it has no value.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:39 pm
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April 18th, 2023 at 12:41 pm
@BucsFanSince1996
Doesn’t work in football. Only results in multitudes of soft tissue injuries.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:50 pm
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April 18th, 2023 at 12:56 pm
Tsss tsss career loser go play with your dolls
April 18th, 2023 at 1:55 pm
You can’t tell me he wouldn’t be an upgrade over Lori Locust
April 18th, 2023 at 2:31 pm
It may not have been as much about the roster spot or the cap, but much more to do with McCoy second guessing the coaches actually under contract to coach the D-line and defense. I understand why the coaches weren’t as keen on bringing him in. Not that it may have been the right call.
April 18th, 2023 at 2:44 pm
He’s not wrong.
April 18th, 2023 at 3:35 pm
My first reaction was very similar to DoooshLaRue. 😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂
No offense to Gerald McCoy and maybe he’s a great coach.
But we already have guys that can’t finish the play.
April 18th, 2023 at 3:48 pm
Best decision ever to not bring this soft cancer into what was a superbowl hopefull
April 18th, 2023 at 3:56 pm
All joking aside. Gerald McCoy was a great DT when he played for Tampa. He would routinely get double teamed. That would allow our linebackers to run free. When McCoy went down for injury the defense suffered. With that being said I never thought of McCoy as a great pass rusher. He had an elite first step but he never seemed to be able to pair that quick first step with another effective move. It took him 2yrs to develop a swim move. He also didn’t have the power to bull rush through the O-line and collapse the pocket. So after that big first step he more often than not played peek a boo with the qb.
April 18th, 2023 at 4:13 pm
Go back to the Panthers like you did last time. McCoy destroyed his own legacy signing with Carolina
April 18th, 2023 at 4:39 pm
JeffreyLane77 – Uh oh, you’re going to trigger the McCoy Mob, they get… GRRRR!!!! ANGRY!!!! when you mention McCoy, because he helped up a QB that he just nailed in the ribs, and he … GRRRR!!!!! …. reads comic books! THAT MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!!!! GRRRR!!!! SOFT SOFT !!!! GRRRRR!!!!
April 18th, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Rod Munch. Lol
It’s a divisive topic for sure. But you have to admit McCoy was the best DT this team had at the time. His pass rush wasn’t special by any means. But he was a good DT.
April 18th, 2023 at 5:17 pm
One more thing. I bet if McCoy showed up to practice and asked to hangout and watch. They probably would have let him. Then he could have pulled guys aside after and talked to them about technique. Not strategy.
April 18th, 2023 at 5:26 pm
As if Gerald the powder puff could have helped.
April 18th, 2023 at 6:04 pm
All the armchair DT’s preaching to McCoy, is comical.
April 18th, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Voted the best beautician from Brandon to the Bay…Hairdresser Hot Rod Mulch updated his Ring of Honor Power Poll:
1) Winny The Saint
2) Gerald ( Grr. )
3) Matt Gay…the one that got away.
April 18th, 2023 at 6:18 pm
McCoy made millions playing football.
Who is the loser?
April 18th, 2023 at 8:22 pm
Winny Testaverde, I made this for you. I hope you get the help you need…
Winny Testaverde, a man of steel
He never shows emotion, never reveals
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If only he could let love be shown.
April 18th, 2023 at 9:35 pm
Add “Precious Poet” to Hairdresser Hot Rod’s multi-page resumè! Just when you thought he couldn’t get fruitier…
April 18th, 2023 at 10:17 pm
I missed the story that GMC officially retired. He had a nice career and was unfairly dogged by Bucs fans for not being Warren Sapp. Good player, better person.
April 18th, 2023 at 10:51 pm
Time to close the book on Cancer93
April 18th, 2023 at 11:30 pm
Winny – soften your heart.
April 19th, 2023 at 1:53 am
The Answer Is That Our Coaches Have Big Egos! Yes Todd too!
Imagine Gerald showing up on the bench and the pass rush improved!
April 19th, 2023 at 1:57 am
It’s not without precident folks.
Hardy Nickerson came to camp a few years ago and coached the guys up.
April 19th, 2023 at 12:36 pm
Is Hardy Nickerson still alive? If so bring him back to coach. The guy was nails and the first man to change the tone and attitude on defense. He belongs in the ROH.
April 19th, 2023 at 6:14 pm
@Jon Grudin Nickerson would be great but last I remember he stepped down from coaching due to health reasons, his wisdom would be nice.