Arians Makes A Move
November 15th, 2020
New position.
Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians isn’t farting around.
Appalled by the way Joe Haeg turned the left side of the Bucs offensive line into a total sieve last week and nearly got Bucs quarterback Tom Brady maimed, Arians is pulling the trigger.
With Ali Marpet out in concussion protocol, Arians has benched Haeg and will juggle the offensive line, reports Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.
One more on this: While Ryan Jensen has played very well at center, he’s also versatile enough to play guard. AQ Shipley is only a center. That’s why this works. https://t.co/LMUz0TXajn
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 15, 2020
Joe is also going to assume Haeg will resume his normal duties as a max-protect tackle who comes in on some passing downs.
The way Joe looks at this is it cannot be much worse than it was last weekend. Remember, A.Q. Shipley was unemployed for a reason. And Joe guesses that reason wasn’t that he blocked like a brick wall.
So this move could be robbing Paul to pay Peter. The Bucs will surely get better blocking on the left side, but what about up the middle? Brady is often flustered when pressured up the middle.
Or is Arians doing this to stop Brian Burns? Yeah, Joe knows Burns usually plays on the Stinking Panther’s left side. But if you were Carolina coach Matt Rhule, and he’s no dummy, would you take your shot with your best pass rusher against Tristan Wirfs or Donovan Smith?
November 15th, 2020 at 11:31 am
Why is it that when we play teams with beat up O-Lines, their o-lines MANHANDLE us.
When we have a beat up o-line, it’s going to be….WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!
November 15th, 2020 at 11:37 am
Well we will see what happens, can’t be worse then the Saints blasting a hole in the Left side last week. A band-aid until Ali gets back. As I have said many times ” KEEP TOM ALIVE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVE” because Gabbert is taking this team nowhere. GO BUCS!!!!
November 15th, 2020 at 11:42 am
If Joe Haeg is not any good why is he on the team. Looks like a slap in his face to me.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:42 am
Scotty – damn right, every single team in the NFL has had backups play and they’ve managed reasonably well for the most part. The Bucs have been the only team with the same 5 starters all yr. Now when we have 1 (ONE) god damn injury it becomes a calamity of epic proportions? Unacceptable of the highest order. Figure it out
November 15th, 2020 at 11:44 am
This is a smart move by Arians no matter what. Gives our O-Line some flexibility for later in the season should there be an injury or an adjustment needing to be made.
This is just very, very SMART.
As ‘nasty’ as Jensen is, I always thought he might be more effective as a Guard anyway. Mauling people on running plays, etc.
This will be really interesting to see how this plays out today.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:50 am
ALSO…
Did Jimmy Dean and Sean Murphy-Bed hopefully miss the plane last night and won’t play?
We can only hope.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:52 am
I don’t really know why but I’m skeptical….I guess it’s because we are changing 2 positions instead of 1…..I sure hope I’m wrong.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:53 am
If we don’t establish the run and continue to mix in the run, expect the losses to pile up. BL needs to get a clue.
November 15th, 2020 at 11:53 am
well how many bad snaps gonna happen today?
November 15th, 2020 at 11:56 am
I’m good with this. Jensen gives us our running game back on that side and helps cover for part time tackle Donovan Smith.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:11 pm
The coaching by this huge staff is more and more suspect every week. And Leftfoot is high on the prospective HC list?
Take him please.
November 15th, 2020 at 12:14 pm
🤔
November 15th, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Well losing marpet hurt players on both sides.. so LT,LG,C all effected… I’m worried now with the shift we will have average to poor okay from LT,LG,C,RG (we will see how good cappa is or not with maybe not so good center play next to him)
November 15th, 2020 at 12:36 pm
No excuses this backups get paid so they need to do there damn job so Brady can get the ball out. Can’t wait for Marpet to get back
November 15th, 2020 at 12:53 pm
TBBF, we should be skeptical. Moving two players bc Haeg was so bad last week screams us having concern. I was excited when we signed Haeg; “great depth move”, so we all thought. WTF HAPPENED there?!
Is Haeg hurt?😳 Is it bad coaching?😒 WTH? Are they blaming Haeg so Donvan’s feeling aren’t hurt?😂
November 15th, 2020 at 12:53 pm
I like the fact they’re TRYING something different. No more days of Caleb Benenoch remaining the starter when he wasn’t doing the job.
November 15th, 2020 at 1:51 pm
Watching the Buccaneers this year. Actually I’m impressed with the defense to an extent. Last week was 😳 not sure. But after watching the Buc’s Giants game
I was thinking something is not right. This should be a 10-14 point lead. If not more. So really I was not surprised y the Saints win. Just the blowout score.
It seems every loss this year BA attacked TB12’s performance. 😂 really Bruce, your the coach. Accept some responsibility here.
November 15th, 2020 at 3:46 pm
OMG ITS ABOUT TIME. WE LOVED BRADY AS A PATEIOT AND HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR HIM AND THE BUCS. THE TEAM WAS LOOKING LIKE CRAP AND NOT BECAUSE OF BRADY. THE TEAM WAS SLACKING BAD. WAS HOPING ARIANS WOULD WAKE UP. YOU GOT THE BEST WITH BRADY. LET HIM TAKE YOU TO SUPERBOWL!!
November 15th, 2020 at 5:23 pm
Karen, can you keep it down next time? That really hurt my ears!
November 15th, 2020 at 6:09 pm
Come on, Bucs fans, injuries happen, O-lines get juggled like this all the time. Y’all know that. Hope your O-line improves!
November 16th, 2020 at 7:38 am
Everyone thinks LEFTWICH is so great as a OC am sorry the guy is terrible with all the matchups that could be LEFTWICH can’t figure out where the ball goes . The best Tight end in game and you got him blocking almost every down . Flood one side of the field with Grong and Evan’s and AB the defense has no answer for that .
November 16th, 2020 at 11:07 am
As an Arizona Cardinals fan that knows pretty well about Bruce Arians and even in his time in Indianapolis offensive lions were always a big problem during his reign as Arizona Cardinals coach to give Buccaneers fans an idea as to what Cardinals fans dealt with in frustration was the lack of decent cohesive offensive line play it’s been a hallmark of his coaching unfortunately it’s what cost the Cardinals from going to the super Bowl during his years as coach here You guys are going to start experiencing the same