Poor Fundamentals Correctable
September 30th, 2015
It still stings that the Bucs lost a close game to an awful team last week in Houston.
But fear not, Bucs fans! Those many, many mistakes last week could be cleaned up as early as Sunday when the Bucs host the Stinking Panthers at the Den of Depression.
That’s the word from Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune, when he appeared on something called the “Miller and Moulton show” yesterday on WWCN-FM 99.3 in Fort Myers.
“I think for the second week in a row you only gave up 19 points,” Cummings noted of positive takeaways from the Houston loss. “That is a good thing that is something you can build on.
“The thing I think is the best takeaway from this: The problems the Bucs had last week were all fundamental mistakes: dropped passes, missed tackles, missed field goals. These are all a result of poor execution of the fundamentals. And that, to me, is a good sign, because if there is one thing you should correct and correct quickly is fundamental mistakes.
“Pay a little more attention to details whether it is pushing your leg all the way through on a kick, whether it is wrapping up on a tackle or taking the proper angle, just follow the ball into your hands as a receiver. Those are easily correctable mistakes and that, to me, is an indication that they are not that far off.”
There is a lot of truth to what Cummings said. For Joe, Cummings missed the most glaring, feel-good moment in Houston. That was zero sacks on America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston.
With that shaky Bucs offensive line facing J.J. Watt, Jadeveon Clowney and Vince Wilfork, if you would have bet Joe $100 that the Bucs would not give up a sack, Joe couldn’t have pulled the cash out of the ATM quick enough for the wager.
The offensive line keeping Jameis’ jersey clean against that defensive front may very well be the high-water mark thus far this young season.
To hear the full interview with Cummings, click the orange button below.
September 30th, 2015 at 8:18 am
How many years are we going to have to listen to “oh it’s fundamentals.” These players are in the national football league. This is coaches not putting them in a position to succeed, or identifying the right personnel (on defense).
September 30th, 2015 at 8:21 am
This is precisely what I was trying to convince Tampabaybucfan and others yesterday debating David’s poor tackling.
Poor fundamentals = poor coaching
September 30th, 2015 at 8:29 am
I do think that Joe is missing an important point. Even if Jameis had pulled out the miracle last Sunday, Many of us would still be very disappointed in the team. It is just plain, sloppy and unwatchable week in and week out!!! This Lovie coached team is tied at the bottom with 33 penalties!!! The “fundamentals” are bad!!! And what do we get to hear, Its correctable, Its correctable. Well its 19 games and counting!!!!!
September 30th, 2015 at 8:36 am
No better time than the 4th game of the season (sarcasm). You could just kind of feel from preseason how the season may start. This gets so old and frustrating when they lose a game then regroup and say well we didn’t do 20 things right so lets fix it for the upcoming game. Then that game comes around and stuff is still not corrected. Bucs life I guess.
September 30th, 2015 at 8:52 am
when one awful team plays another awful team someone is going to lose.
September 30th, 2015 at 8:54 am
This reminds me of a preseason JAX game where Sabby and the gang got smoked time and time again. Afterwards they said their mistakes were fixable. They were not.
If game 3 comes around are you are still talking about fixing fundamental errors, those errors are not going to be fixed anytime soon.
September 30th, 2015 at 9:07 am
It was not game 3. It was game 19! Same old breakdowns. Tiresome.
September 30th, 2015 at 9:18 am
The Bucs will play better against the Carolina Pink Panthers at RJS. Will it be enough to get the win? Uh, it’s hard to go out on a limb and pick the upset. Um, I can’t do it.
September 30th, 2015 at 10:45 am
It’s a shame the Bucs didn’t have an off season and a preseason to work on fundamentals.
September 30th, 2015 at 10:50 am
Sigh…
Rinse, lather repeat…
1-2 against the NFL’s basement and we are still being force fed the fixable fables. The excuse factory is probably the most consistent aspect of this team. Coaches and players alike.
September 30th, 2015 at 10:59 am
Someone needs to pull the tape of Schiano’s old tackling and ball circuits!…. FAST!
September 30th, 2015 at 1:31 pm
Weren’t they correctable last year too?
September 30th, 2015 at 1:34 pm
No sacks but Winston was pressured several times and hit a few others. Not a relaxing day back there at all.
September 30th, 2015 at 1:36 pm
The fundamentals havent been corrected in almost 20 games but no fear, Lovie has done such a great job so far that it’ll all be fixed next week right? Lovie’s 84% Losing percentage in Tampa is just a mirage. His 0 wins at home and 1 win in division is just a thing of the past cuz its all the players fault. Not to mention his team is repeatedly a top the league in penalties. LoL. It’s tough being a Bucs fan. Hope the Glazers are watching.
September 30th, 2015 at 2:00 pm
@dallasbucs..did you read the post? how is a kicker not pushing his leg thru a kick poor coaching? or lvd not wrapping up on a tackle..or m.evans not looking the ball into his hands before he makes a move to run up field…you practice fundamentals during training camp..i attended most of the practices and watched and even heard lovie preaching fundamentals and attention to detail..these are NFL players..not pop warner, not hs, and not college players..these are grown a$$ professional men…you have to hold the players accountable for their actions as well…everything cant be lovies fault…there only 5 teams that haven’t lost a game yet..sunday I watched about 7 head coaches say the same exact thing, we had a bad day, poor tackling dropped balls penalties…its part of the game gentlemen…its going to happen..but you cant sit here and say the team has consistently played the same way from week1 to week2 to week 3..there has been progress and improvement but most people on this site wouldnt be satisfied even if the team played like the patriots….GO BUCS!!!
September 30th, 2015 at 2:13 pm
@couchfan..this is a new season…I wish people would stop bringing last years record into this year…we have to be the only fan base on earth to do this…im half way with you on this…I do see how some of the penalties can be coach related but tell me..how do you stop a guy from a false start or offsides or holding or offensive pi or defensive pi…I understand 12 players on the field but 95% of the penalties are mental mistakes by the players themselves…if an employee come to work late the supervisor has to take action if its an repeated offence..the ceo of the company doesn’t fire the supervisor…the supervisor fires the employee and replaces his a$$ with someone who can show up on time…all this fire lovie because of dropped ball and penalties and miss tackling is crazy nonsense…GO BUCS!!!
September 30th, 2015 at 2:26 pm
I am tired of blaming coach after coach I am looking directly at the players. I have played football all of my life and not once when I made a bad throw or dropped a snap or had a receiver drop a pass did I think man those coaches sure didn’t prepared me/us for that. I was thinking about how I can do it better next time or what we can do to fix the error. Players at every level have to take ownership of their performance and make sure they are doing their job correctly. Coaches at this level ate too put players in position to succeed and I’d you have a wide open catch, or a kick, or a tackle to be made there is not much more a coach can do to help them at that point.