Glennon Welcomes Back Jackson, Williams
September 27th, 2013
Joe would love to see the Bucs get back to slant routes from their top guns
The greatest news to come out of One Buc Palace today was the return of Vincent Jackson and Mike Williams to the practice fields. There’s no doubt that the Arizona Cardinals will load up the defensive box to stop Doug Marin on Sunday, and the Bucs’ new quarterback will need his elite weapons to step up in a big way.
Hopefully, the Bucs will get Mike Williams back to running the slant passes he ran so effectively early in his career.
Joe would also love to see screen passes return to the Bucs’ offense. Glennon’s height — and his accuracy that impresses Greg Schiano — has to be an advantage there.
September 27th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
now if the bucs crush the cardinals does schiano become a genius? and all the haters shut up?
September 27th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Wow
September 27th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Yes Joe….screens, slants, w/r bubble screens or anything that is less than a 7 step drop back with a 30 second route tree!! The playcalling needs to be stepped up BADLY!!!!!!
September 27th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Let’s go kick some butt! Go Bucs!
September 27th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
Get us a win and start uniting the fan base Mike, And while you’re at it shut the national media the hell up and let them focus on an 0-4 Giants or 0-4 Redskins team instead.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:04 pm
Yeah let’s do better play calling now that Josh is a distant memory. Fail
September 27th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
At least he shouldn’t have many bat-downs with his height and his clean, over-the-top delivery. Freeman shouldn’t have had so many bat-downs for a guy his size, but his wonky, half-sidearm throwing motion made the ball come out way lower than it should have.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:06 pm
oh, thats right. theres a game this weekend!!!
September 27th, 2013 at 4:09 pm
I don’t think ive ever seen a “veteran” quarterback miss as many wide open throws in the flat as Ive seen from Josh Freeman. Its like throwing paper into a garbage can from 3 feet away, and missing. constantly. Painful to watch.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:13 pm
After the Bucs and Mike Glennon beat the Arizona Cardinals, will the media back off Greg Schiano? Probably not.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Schiano is on the media’s hitlist. Theres no getting off of it. They might quiet down if he starts winning, but they’ll pounce at the first chance they get.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:17 pm
I agree shut the buc up Freeman was the worst short passer I ever seen all he ever did was throw it up for grabs and Vincent would come up with it.Glennon will throw 3 TD sunday and lead the BUCS to victory.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:18 pm
I’ve got the fire back. It may be short lived but I’m going to enjoy it for as long as it lasts.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Bucs will go on a 4 game win streak.Cards,eagls,panthers,falcons.BOOK IT
September 27th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
What time was my last post.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Should do a better job at playcalling regardless of who is at QB…..smh
September 27th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
A win Sunday with 2 weeks of media time until the next game?
That will make a sweet start to October.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:32 pm
rbell LOL
already predicting that sully/system will be the reason Glennon lights it up.
way to stay ahead of the curve on something. 🙂
September 27th, 2013 at 4:35 pm
RBell- Again I say.. Dumbing down the playbook for a rookie is one thing. Dumbing it down for a 5 year starter tells you he shouldn’t be starting.
September 27th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
I didn’t call it dumbing down, I said now we’ll finally change it to something that works more than 50% of the time.
September 27th, 2013 at 5:13 pm
I fully expect the Cards to load the box & make Glennon beat them. I expect the O-Line & WRs to step to another level to help out.
September 27th, 2013 at 5:23 pm
Just get 1st down instead of throwing deep jumpball or back shoulders.. And God please extend the play by moving in the pocket or get rid of the ball!!
The rest will be fine.. Except maybe for coaching…
September 27th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
That’s great news, hopefully they will be at 100 percent.
September 27th, 2013 at 5:47 pm
dumbing it down? this is no offense, its stupid offense and has no underneath routes when corners have tight coverage. its not like mike williams and vjack are burners, back shoulder fades alll game long yea i would be frustrated to. dumbing down the offense is completely different than changing the route tree and if they do for glennon what they didnt do for josh and they still fail then maybe schiano is gone
lol people are saying glennon has time to look over his mistakes which is true OR he’ll have time to adjust after sully and schiano get the boot which will happen regardless of what our record is because schiano brought a side show and this ownership doesnt like that for sure….to buy out all the season tickets? something they wouldnt do for raheem when they turned over the entire roster lol….lol you call me negative, i call you slow
September 27th, 2013 at 5:54 pm
in the same offense……Eli Manning has the most interceptions since 2010, we run that offense and these idiots couldnt game plan against the people they took the offense from….college coaches, what about that last year that leaking out. You called for josh freeman’s head now he’s gone but if we are picking in the top 10 are people really slow enough to think that schiano wont be to blame? glennon is from the era where qb’s come in and immediately produce so if he succeeds in the SAME offense as freeman then freeman is more gargabe than we realized but if he not….either way i hope we have a new coach for glennon next year
September 27th, 2013 at 6:11 pm
I hope he plays like a liger this Sunday. Good luck Napol – Glennon! Go Bucs!!!
September 27th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Joe
I have a bone to pick. I haven’t had time to post on most articles but I have three comments by the Joe that I have a real problem with.
Let’s be generous here. If we add the drops that Doug Martin and Kevin Ogletree have, along with Vincent Jackson and a few others, (why are people outing only Vincent Jackson for dropping passes and not Martin?), let’s give Freeman, say, 10 more completions, shall we? That gives him 53 completions on 94 attempts.
Freeman would still be in the bottom rung of completion percentage at 56.3 percent.
Sadly, this just reinforces something Joe has long thought about Freeman: He struggles to overcome adversity. He gets rattled.
Then there’s:
No, Joe really doesn’t believe Freeman will get benched this season. And, no, at this point, Joe cannot foresee Freeman returning to the Bucs unless he immediately turns his fortunes completely around.
Finally this:
The Bucs are going to run the ball relentlessly and surely will put Glennon in favorable situations. The guy’s got to throw for at least 55 percent. Joe just can’t put the minimum standards lower than that. If Glennon threw for 55 percent, then that would give Glennon the second-worst completion rate for a starter, based on current stats, just ahead of Jets rookie Geno Smith.
Joe,
Are you kidding me? First you make excuses for Josh’s completion percentage, then you say there is no way he gets benched and then you say that Glennon must throw for 55 percent or more, stating that the 55 percent would be just higher than Geno Smith. Geno has been practicing with the 1st string offense in NY prior to the 3rd preseason game in which Geno started and the starters play the most amount of snaps in that game.
This will be the first time Glennon will be playing or even practicing with the ones.
Let me get this straight, Freeman a 5th year player and 2nd in this offense throws for 45 percent in 3 games looks terrible most of the time and the rookie who just started learning the offense after the draft must have a better completion percentage than the Franchise QB (your words not mine) Freeman.
I’m not a member of the MGM, I just didn’t think Josh was even a mediocre NFL QB. I was actually disappointed with the Glennon pick (but not nearly as disappointed in the Freeman pick) in the draft but I will give the kid a chance and if he moves the offense, scores TD’s, has a better and it could be 1 percent better completion percentage than Freeman I’ll be happy for this season. Remember he is a rookie that is just now getting to practice with the 1st string.
I blame this on Dominik and not taking what he could get in the offseason if people were actually interested in Freeman. He should have sucked it up and admitted that he shouldn’t have listened to RahRah and drafted someone else, anyone else. He set our rebuild back 4 years.
September 27th, 2013 at 6:42 pm
Fu*k, against all common sense I’m getting really excited about Sunday’s game. I guess I’m just a hopeless optimist and a sucker for a fresh start.
I have these visions of a bunch of short passes, accurate and on time, shredding defenses with our top 2 WRs.
Nothing Glennon did in the preseason supports my optimism, but I guess there’s a part of my brain thinking “he’s a rookie and has had a bunch more practice time now”.
Oh well, in all likelihood the game will send me back to reality. But until then I’m getting pretty excited.
September 27th, 2013 at 7:51 pm
If you watched the Bears game, they changed the offense so Cutler releases in less than 3 seconds. The Bucs offense needs to be like that.
Don’t let Mike get hit, run 10 to 15 yard routes, hit the backs and tight ends leaking out. I’m excited to see what Glennon can do. I think he could have a pretty good debut.
September 27th, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Good luck Glennon.
Freemans actions are responsible for this.
This ship was sinking with Freeman.
Lets get behind Glennon and see what he can the next 13 games.
September 27th, 2013 at 9:38 pm
wow the MGM is really confident this kid is the real deal even though when they last seen him play it was an awful display against lesser talent then he’ll face sunday….keep on blaming freeman for this nonsense happening just because you dont like his demeanor and completion % same offense as eli manning who has 8 int’s by the way but anyway we see so many back shoulder fades and “50/50 balls” because THATS MIKE SULLIVAN’S OFFENSE. if they change it for glennon then schiano will get killed by the media for not changing the offense for freeman….forget changing for freeman they could have changed it for the sake of winning games
lol it makes me laugh because even though it was clear none of our corners knew that actually have to put their hands on the receiver and jam them in press corner but did he change it much….nope not until he took over the defense and won against atlanta so he looks good…this guys fake
MGM HATE FREEMAN SO MUCH THEY ARE GLOSSING OVER ALL THE EVIDENCE THEY ARE BEING LIED TO FOR ONE SIMPLE REASON
September 27th, 2013 at 9:44 pm
buc4lyfe,
The Glazers did not buy up all the season tickets.
They said that all the homes arexso close to selling out that they are willing to guarantee no more blackouts. BIG DIFFERENCE.
September 27th, 2013 at 9:47 pm
@Daffy Buc
UUMMM ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE ROUTES THE RECEIVERS ARE RUNNING ARE LOW % THROWS BECAUSE THATS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE. IF TO YOU IT MAKES SENSE TO THROW SHORT ROUTES, CROSSING ROUTES THEN YOUR NOT SEEING THE BIG PICTURE BECAUSE I MEAN REALLY THATS WHAT THE REST OF THE LEAGUE IS DOING BUT THATS NOT WHAT THEY ASKED FREEMAN TO DO, THE MIDDLE IS WIDE OPEN EVERY WEEK BECAUSE TEAMS ARENT DEFENDING IT, YEA IM ALL FOR THROWING TO THE TIGHT END LIKE THE TOUCHDOWN DROP FROM LAST WEEK…NOTICE HOW ALMOST EVERY THROW IS CONTESTED? IS VJACK REALLY THAT SLOW…WELL MAYBE HE GOT WALKED DOWN BY A LINEBACKER SO WHO KNOWS. YOU MEAN FOR GLENNON SCHIANO WONT HAVE THE MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY MENTALITY?
September 27th, 2013 at 9:52 pm
If the offense suddenly changes now that Glennon is in I will lose what little respect I had left for Schiano b/c it would only prove how he intentionally sabotage Freeman from the beginning. All these so called 50/50 balls are by design, Mike Williams’s best route is the slant yet he runs very few now. Our receivers aren’t burners but we still send them deep on almost every play and don’t get me started on our lack of a threat in the middle of the field.
September 27th, 2013 at 9:52 pm
@BuccaneerBonzai
LOL DAMN BUC FANS ARE SO GULLIABLE….SURE THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ALL THE NEGATIVE PRESS THEY WERE GETTING BUT WHATEVER EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT GLENNON BUT NO BUC FAN HAS EVER KNOWN WHAT A FRANCHISE QUARTERBACK LOOKS LIKE EXCEPT ON SUNDAYS WHEN WE ARE PLAYING AGAINST ONE….I DONT HOPE FOR CHANGE I SEE CHANGE…SCHIANO IS TRENDING BACKWARDS LIKE RAHEEM MORRIS BUT I GUESS WHEN EVERYONE WAS GOING CRAZY TALKING PLAYOFFS LAST YEAR BEFORE ALL THOSE LOSSES IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FREEMAN, HE’S ONLY GETTING CREDIT FOR THE LOSSES OK WELL ONLY A FRANCHISE QUARTERBACK IS GONNA CATCH UP TO FREEMANS OVERALL NUMBERS BECAUSE HE DOES HAVE A FEW FRANCHISE RECORDS WHICH SAYS ALOT ABOUT HOW WELL WE DRAFT QB’S
September 28th, 2013 at 8:16 am
Oh typing in all caps. So intimidating. Freeman sucks. Get over it. Mike Glennon is our Franchise QB! GO BUCS!!
September 28th, 2013 at 9:24 am
Freeman is no longer the starting QB why are you haters keep bringing him up. It will not be long and you all will be starting the Glennon hate mob. Tampa has never been happy with there QB there is always a better one on the bench or in next years draft. We have never developed a franchise QB and with this coaching staff will never develop one because the don’t adjust there offense to the QB the try to force there QB to fit their system. Glennon is in the same mold as Freeman big arm not accurate makes some great passes then some bone headed ones no very mobile I expect same results this is not a knock on Glennon because he is in a position to fail. I hope I am wrong and the change the offensive game plan up.
September 28th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Screw Schiano. He is a piece of crap in my mind and hope he gets fired. It was dirty what he did to Freeman. And guess what shitty Glennon went 33/70 in the preseason. That’s 47%. Same as Freeman. I love my Bucs but hate the coach.