Take what you want.

New Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard didn’t come out and say it, but it sounded just a little bit to Joe yesterday like Grizzard has a touch of Al Davis in him.

Davis, the legendary owner of the Raiders, often liked to brag how he would take the age-old football cliché “Take what the defense gives you” and turn it on its ear, saying “We’ll take what we want.”

Grizzard said he wants his offense to attack a defense in a variety of ways, not just run and not just pass. In other words, the Bucs want to take what they want… if they believe a defense is vulnerable to a specific playcall.

Still, Grizzard said, he wants to run the ball because if a team can run effectively it rips the heart out of a defense.

“At the end of the day, we want to be physical,” Grizzard said. “We want to be physical because the trenches win. When you’re able to run the ball and you’re able to press on a defense for four quarters, that’s what wins ballgames.

“We also want to be [multifaceted]. It could be a week where we need to throw the ball more or we need to run the ball more.”

Grizzard emphasized that a team cannot be pass-only or run-only. Injuries do and will happen. An offense has to be flexible in order to adjust to injured starters.

“Like last year, the guys get hurt and how do you have guys step up?” Grizzard explained. “With the scheme you saw last year, we were able to change plays at the line of scrimmage. … By doing that, we put the pressure on the defense.”

Being equal parts dangerous on the ground and in the air keeps defenses guessing, he said, especially in the red zone.

And winning in the red zone often leads to victories.

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