Booger Slaps Bucs, Jags
June 12th, 2015
NFL gurus were all fired up when Chip Kelly was playing innovative head coach, but now they’re freaking out watching Kelly play head-chopping, wheeling-and-dealing general manager, too.
Discussion of Kelly’s latest roster purging of a 10-6 football team (Imagine what Kelly would do with a 2-14 ballclub!) had former Bucs stud defensive tackle Booger McFarland getting passionate while he co-hosted SiriusXM NFL Radio this morning.
Booger ranted about how Kelly seems to think coaching and system are more important than talented players. In the NFL, predicting a team’s chances and overall performance is rather easy, Booger continued, because talent dictates and dominates. It will always be a players’ league ruled by raw ability, he maintained.
While explaining this to a caller, Booger illustrated his point by saying it was easy to predict the Buccaneers and Jaguars are going nowhere this season, even if they might be improved.
Ouch. Those are pretty harsh words from a big Lovie Smith guy like Booger — for a team that’s got a boatload of veterans on defense in a sour division.
Yes, the Bucs have talent deficiencies. No matter how much summer optimism flows, the Bucs have a steep climb back to the winning ranks in 2015.
June 12th, 2015 at 1:52 pm
when was booger a stud?
oh, the same way your fake title for jameis works!
america’s quarterback tom brady. jameis might be florida’s quaterback, or ybor’s quarterback right now.
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June 12th, 2015 at 1:54 pm
I disagree with Mr. Booger… And so would Bill Belichick… I have seen many highly talented have horrible seasons… It tales more than just superior talent to win in the NFL on a regular basis in 2015…
You better have both… Does Brady still win four Super Bowls with Greg Schiano runn the team? Does Belichick win without Brady? I doubt it…
June 12th, 2015 at 1:55 pm
also, the exaggeration of mike evans being close to rookie of the year…
joes, bucs’ hyperbolists!
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June 12th, 2015 at 2:02 pm
The fact that Booger is a Lovie guy explains this article completely. He’s backing the coach, saying the losing season is on the lack of talent. Not giving any of the fault on Lovie, which we know is preposterous.
June 12th, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Meh everyone in the NFL is talented and new players that no one expects to do well emerge as superstars and at the same time a bunch of supposedly safe talented players have bad drop offs in production. Talent is big but I always look at it as the sum of talent / coaching / team chemistry with all being weighted heavily
June 12th, 2015 at 2:41 pm
Booger is flying against the CW here. Basketball IS THE PLAYERS GAME. One or two guys can make such a difference. Are you more concerned with having LeBron playing for your team or Steve Kerr coaching your team. Both are GREAT at what they do but cmon man. It’s going to be LeBron until the next big guy comes along.
Football just has too many moving pieces for a single player to decide a game. Even a franchise QB cannot win with a crappy team and there have been franchise QB’s who have been held back by crappy coaches!
I like Booger…seems like a super nice guy…but after listening to his radio show while he was on in this market his football expertise is not all that great.
June 12th, 2015 at 3:02 pm
Booooooooog! Too bad he was hurt for the SB! He got the ring but it I’m sure he would have loved to participate in it.
June 12th, 2015 at 3:40 pm
lurker
You’ve got it all wrong, Jameis Christ is God’s Quarterback.
June 12th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
I had high hopes back when the Bucs took Booger. I don’t think he ever lived up to those expectations. The Bucs vs the Jags is now the official game of the two teams going nowhere misery.
June 12th, 2015 at 3:52 pm
It’s rather the opposite. That’s why you rarely see teams do better after signing a big name free agent and you see that player not live up to the contract
June 12th, 2015 at 3:57 pm
I picked a 3lb booger once….and my head caved in and was a bitch to flick.
June 12th, 2015 at 4:19 pm
its so funny that lovie’s supporters will rather attack Booger for his opinion than sit back and objectively look at the roster and the accomplishments of the failure known as Lovie smith. Hilarious. Lovie has won nothing. when your only argument is “He never had a franchise QB” or “he LOST a super bowl with Rex GRossman” it’s beyond comical. It’s one thing to be loyal to your favorite coach or players but its another thing to live in fantasy land and attack those that do not share your same delusions. And please stop acting like a bunch of injury prone rejects from the cowboys 28th rank defense are going to magically make the bucs successful just based on the fact they are familiar with an outdated / passive scheme. Players win championships NOT schemes. call it hate, call it pessimism, call it what ever you want but the facts are lovie has already done long term damage to the bucs. In one year Lovie created more dead money than the entire payroll during Raheem’s first year. Chicago is still paying for Lovies’ bad signings and draft picks. But Free Pass Smith is not accountable for anything. It’s always someone else’s fault or he did not have this or he did not have that even when ti was he who had final say on rosters in both the last part of chciago and now with tampa. And by the way he did not build those 2 playoff teams WAY back in 05… Lovie has never taken a team to back to back playoffs with a roster he was in charge of. If you don’t like Licht or think he is a puppet that’s fine but Licht is a Lovie Smith hire so Lovie does not have to shoulder any responsibility for that either, I would guess.
June 12th, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Tmaxcon, quit turning words around and as usual, you are wrong about so many things. First of all, Jerry Angelo played a big role in both the roster and player acquisition.
Second of all, the Bears went 10-6 the year after he was fired. The next year they had a losing season. How long does he get credit or blame for his tenure
I believe it was you who said Lovie was to stubborn to draft a franchise QB so he proved you wrong again….I hope.
BTW, I looked at Lovie in Wikipedia and it stated there I belive that Lovie wasn’t enamored with Jay Cutler and didn’t think he was a franchise QB.
Looks like he was right.
Also, Brad Culpepper was a much better DT than Booger ever was. Boogers a legend in his own mind.
June 12th, 2015 at 5:15 pm
Who knows what this season is going to result in as far as wins and losses. Here is the most sure prediction to date, we will end up somewhere between 0-16 and 16-0.
June 12th, 2015 at 5:38 pm
What Booger is saying is the fact that we and the Jags are rebuilding and rebuilding take time, but then again there is that possibility that we can win now while rebuilding exactly like we did in 2010.
June 12th, 2015 at 10:33 pm
You guys just don’t get it.
EVEN IF we drafted great players, which was a longshot at best, it will take time for them to adjust to the NFL.
Booger is 100 percent right.
The Bucs ARE going nowhere this year. No way around it.
Maybe if 2-3 good free agent signings had occurred, but no, they signed nothing but injury prone veterans and inexperienced players.
Just take the time to look at the stats of the players brought in…namely games played each season. It is downright scarey.
But some of you wish to live in a fantasy, and when you are snapped into reality, you’ll start complaining. But you’ve been warned ahead of time. So deal with it.
June 12th, 2015 at 10:34 pm
BTW, let me add. Teams that turn it around in a year? They have good drafts AND bring in vets that can bridge the gaps. The Buccaneers got some good picks, but a bridge has to play a season at least, and I can name 14 plays signed as free agents who will not last a season health wise…and half of them will be starters.
June 13th, 2015 at 6:50 am
22.5 sacks in his career, 10 of those first two years in the league with a great BUCS D, he was a bust at the 14th pick, GMC has almost that many in lat two seasons with the worst Defenses the Bucs have ever seen…………RESERVE STUD FOR ACTUAL STUDS…………
June 14th, 2015 at 2:40 am
Most of us realists or even slight optimists know that the playoffs seem like light years away. I’m just hoping to see improvement. I’ll even take 6 wins and call it improvement.