Raheem To Olson: Scale Back Playbook
December 14th, 2009
Raheem the Dream seems to love working with his defense.
Now it seems he’s starting to get involved with the offense after Sunday’s debacle against the Jets. But is it too late?
In speaking to Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune, Raheem the Dream said that Olson force fed rookie quarterback Josh Freeman too much of Chucky’s playbook and as a result, Freeman is beginning to implode.
In short, Raheem the Dream is telling Olson to scale back the playbook.
“We’ve got to calm him down a little bit,” Morris said. “We’ve got to establish our offensive identity as far as the run, get him some easy completions, get him back to his hard core play-action passes.
“You know we talked about it, talked about it as a staff. We asked ourselves, ‘When do you give him too much? When do you stop giving him too much?’ And we kind of found out. So, now we have to reel him in a little bit.
“You don’t want to overdo it and put him in remedial classes, but at the same time you want to take a little pressure off the young man and put it back on the coaches and the guys around him so he can get going faster, like when he started.”
Glad that Raheem the Dream has been able to figure this out. It was clear to Joe, if not the vast majority of Bucs fans, last week when Freeman threw five interceptions.
How come Olson couldn’t figure this out?
December 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Olsen sucks
December 14th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
“You don’t want to overdo it and put him in remedial classes, but at the same time you want to take a little pressure off the young man and put it back on the coaches and the guys around him so he can get going faster, like when he started.”
This statement is absurd, Freeman was successful in the begining because the NFL had no film on him. People don’t understand that these NFL athletes have the same athletic ability as some people on the street, what seperates them is their ability to break down film and identify tendencies. When this factor is removed it is a equal playing field. I can bring up josh johnson’s explosion onto the scene, leftwich’s assualt on dallas this year, or brian griese running off four in a row last year as examples but that would be way to easy. I will go back to when the bucs played against the san francisco 49ers three or four years ago and that clown cody whatever his last name is was the emergency qb and had been playing the season as a special teams coverage person steppedin and led the 49ers to victory and that was because nobody had film on that fool. Learn from the past ra-er radiohead
December 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Duemig pretty much just said he’d rather have Raheem over Bill Cowher
December 14th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Duemig is a Raheem homer. He backs him because Raheem gives him access that Chucky wouldn’t.
December 14th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
please delete my radiohead quote I thought I had deleted it thanks
December 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Now you know why this guy was listed 3rd on the depth chart to start with, great arm, dumb as a box of rocks
December 14th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
“Raheem To Olson: Scale Back Playbook”……..
between those uninspired words of leadership..
and the FACT that the opposing defenses are doing a fantastic job already…..this is by FAR the most bizaare chapter in Buccaneer history…..I seen it all……and this is OUT THERE……
December 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Rah how about you put someone in the OC job to begin with whose not in over his head. Why did Olsen go back to Chucky’s Playbook? Because he too is a moron who has no business being an Offensive Coordinator at Armwood nonetheless the NFL.
December 15th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
It just seems that our team is being run by Amateurs. These amateurs make big money like the other coaches, not huge, but big. Is anyone as perplexed as I am that I could probably do as well as these idiots and I have not even played the game on a competitive level since the early 1980’s. I can’t wait til the end of the season yet I’m not so sure that anything will be done to fix the problem.