Hands down, Raheem The Dream has to be one of the most entertaining coaches in the NFL.

The things he says, the intense, rambling answers to the media and fans, Coach Rah has a style all his own.

Some fans, like Joe, laugh. Some fans cry. Others are left scratching their heads. 

Yesterday, in an exchange with a caller on his weekly radio show on 620 WDAE-AM, Raheem The Dream hinted that he can’t always comfortably show his face around town. And the head coach implied the Rams might be faking their flu woes before qualifiying his statement on that.

(For the record, it was JoeBucsFan.com that suggested the Rams were going overboard with their flu precautions last week, not the radio show caller the coach was responding to. Could it be Raheem The Dream reads Joe? Or might he have pondered whether the Rams were playing games?)

Here is the transcript of the Monday phone call to Raheem The Dream on 620 WDAE-AM.

Caller  “Aussie D”: The Rams have got the swine flu virus. And why the hell can’t we pick up a bit of it? Do we want to win or don’t we? I know guys want to win and you want to win, but me, from a fan, I’m thinking, ‘Oh, God. Don’t win. Because we want to get this guy [Ndamukong] Suh.’ Is a win more important than the focus on the draft?

Raheem The Dream: For the draft, as far as that is concerned, just to hear your voice and to hear how excited you are and how excited people are around town today. Today is the day I can actually go outside and get lunch.

And seeing how excited people are about one win let’s me know what our objective is, what we need to do, and to me it’s to finish as strong as we can, to finish as strong as we possibly can because winning is a habit. And once you form that habit, your team gets used to it. You build a certain morale. You build a certain thing around it.

You can’t focus yourself on getting one person to think that’s going to change your fortunes. What changes your fortunes is everybody in this building, and adding people to the people in this building and going out and being your very best self. And that’s always going to be my focus. That’s always going to be this buidling’s focus. We’ll never come down with any form of swine flu in order to fake things to, and I’m not saying the Rams are faking, but we’re never going to come up with anything to fake any motives that we have to better our draft status. That’s just not our focus.

Again, Joe thanks the head coach for the laughs. His answers to media and fans questions have been the only consistent form of entertainment from the Bucs in this 2-12 season.