Bernie Kosar & Bucs Film
October 27th, 2018
Quarterbacking 13 years through the 1980’s and 1990’s makes Bernie Kosar a true expert when it comes to breaking down film.
Some great stuff here, courtesy of the Browns website crew.
In the first video below, you’ll see Kosar explain that Bucs rookie cornerback M.J. Stewart is tipping the coverage of the Bucs defense — presnap — because of how he follows the Browns receiver in motion without much enthusiasm. Also, you’ll get a look at Justin Evans inexplicably backing up into the end zone with nobody behind him.
In this next video, Kosar looks specifically at the Bucs defense and he’s appalled by the poor recognition of the Bucs linebackers against Atlanta (Kwon and Lavonte) in a play that saw Stewart look slow, as he often does. He also goes back to the Bucs-Bears game, which may be too painful for some.
October 27th, 2018 at 7:20 am
Good stuff Joe!
Good to see what a different defense we experience last week.
Now if we could hit Jackson deep playoffs are in the future.
Go Bucs!!!
BTW I want Winston to be our quarterback!!!!!!!!
October 27th, 2018 at 7:24 am
Wide open receivers. Who woulda thought?
October 27th, 2018 at 7:26 am
Wow Kosar may be a legendary browns quarterback but he’s brutal on TV or whatever this was. That was painful to watch and not just because we had to relive poor coverage from our Bucs.
October 27th, 2018 at 7:27 am
Weekend at Bernie’s! Nm, he isn’t drunk here. Or is he?
October 27th, 2018 at 7:40 am
Looks like Bernie took one to many hits during his playing days.
October 27th, 2018 at 7:44 am
I think Bernie has been doing Tequila shots just before filming!
October 27th, 2018 at 8:42 am
Hahahahahaha
Everyone laughed at Cowherd when he said the Bucs coaching staff was a joke.
October 27th, 2018 at 8:43 am
That second video was straight up f#%\?!! embarrassing.
October 27th, 2018 at 8:47 am
Bernie is right about one thing: after the coach gets fired, the players might be next. They are playing for their jobs.
October 27th, 2018 at 8:50 am
Bernie’s daughter is a “movie star” too.
October 27th, 2018 at 8:56 am
He’s just explaining why Smith got fired.
October 27th, 2018 at 9:40 am
No one in Cleveland takes Kosar seriously.
October 27th, 2018 at 9:50 am
Actually he’s explaining why this entire staff willing be fired. Think what you want about Kosar but he’s telling us exactly what everyone saw when licht chose Stewart with all the over available options. The is slightly better than his running back choice of last year.
Javien Elliott hasn’t seen action, I doubt he would be much worse in the slot. Question for licht, if that veteran can’t beat out a slow unaware rookie, why did you cut Elliot and put him back on the practice squad?
October 27th, 2018 at 10:21 am
Kosar can see it and our coaches can’t and then tell Stewart to get a brain or he’s down the drain? And if he truly is a moron, how did he escape the scrutiny of Licht and company. I remember a guy named Josh Jackson, that almost everyone had rated hire than him, taller and faster, and we picked Slowert. Another bonehead high draft pick.
October 27th, 2018 at 10:22 am
higher of course… and much more of this play and we can’t watch him without a few adult beverages.
October 27th, 2018 at 10:59 am
How do we know our coaches aren’t showing our players the same video and giving the same lectures we are this morning?
Here’s a radical thought. Perhaps it takes some guys longer to get to game speed, NFL knowledge, and learn to eliminate some of these mistakes. It seems to me that virtually all of Bernie’s observations are “correctable” mistakes. If so…we can get better which is really the name of the game as we near a possible run to the playoffs.
I do not absolve our coaches of THEIR mistakes and Smitty obviously needed to go. But I never assume when a player is out of position or makes a move like not showing enough enthusiasm shadowing a motion guy that’s it’s the coaches fault.
Perhaps the player doesn’t have the talent…the experience and I hate to be crude perhaps he’s just a cement head and mental acuity is not really a skill set he can bring to the Bucs. That of course would then be on Jason and not DK and staff.
October 27th, 2018 at 11:31 am
Awesome Article Joe. MORE please.
October 27th, 2018 at 11:42 am
Josh Jackson was picked 12 of the 2nd round and Steward was pick 2/21. So Jackson wasn’t a option when they choose MJ. Are corners will be fine they just got ask to do too much too soon their rookie years.
October 27th, 2018 at 12:49 pm
Stangl… thirteenth I think…but no matter…after all,we did get Jones at 38th, ahead of Jackson, so with him tearing up the league, I guess corners aren’t as important.
October 27th, 2018 at 2:21 pm
Stewart seems like he’d be a better fit at Strong Safety than at corner.
October 27th, 2018 at 4:35 pm
Best thing I’ve seen in a while- honest critique of how far out head is up our ***
October 27th, 2018 at 8:14 pm
You guys keep talking about playoff run… Yadda yadda yadda! I would be the first one loving a playoff run believe me… Look at these players on defence! Look at our running game & now look at Winston’s mistakes! Yeah, that’s what I thought!
October 27th, 2018 at 9:43 pm
I’m not going to call a rookie corner who is forced to play too early a bust, but Stewart hasn’t looked good, and I don’t recall anyone that thought the Bucs taking him as highly as they did was a good thing. His 40 time was bad for a corner and he looked slow on tape, it was a pick that didn’t make much sense and so far he’s lived up to that billing. Now, with that said Ryan Smith isn’t slow, he’s just terrible – so being faster doesn’t mean he’d be better if he runs around lost all the time.
Again, you can’t call a guy this early in the year who shouldn’t be on the field a bust, sometimes guys play slow when they don’t know what is going on. The example I always give is Ronde Barber didn’t play his rookie year, he sat and learned the defense – and at the time I very much remember people saying he’s a bust. But obviously the Bucs had good corners then so they didn’t need to play him, which gave him the luxury of not needing to step in and play day one.
October 28th, 2018 at 8:04 am
I’ve said it several times over the past month that many of these communication breakdowns fall squarely on Kwon Alexander. Folks, if you ignore the pro bowl nod he isn’t as good as some of you think he is. It doesn’t mean the Bucs shouldn’t resign him or that he isn’t a good leader, but he is not a top shelf MLB.