Article: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Raheem Morris a Victim of His Own Success and Failure
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Blast from the past about our DC Morris. Interesting stuff here. Maybe he isn't the "players coach" that he is supposed to be? It might also explain why he hasn't been a HC since.
Sounds like his players "quit" on him. That's the ultimate sign of disrespect.
My favorite line of the article: "What he got was softer, slower and dumber."
I know some won't like this and I fully expect to be told how I am hater and I am wrong but there are some who agree. This article is for them. If you disagree, no problem!
Draw your own conclusions...
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Raheem Morris a Victim of His Own Success and Failure
Tom EdringtonDecember 28, 2011
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Barring a miracle of seasonal proportions, the owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Glazers, will most likely have no other choice than to relieve Raheem Morris of his command when the season is mercifully over after this coming final game with the Atlanta Falcons.
It is a shame that it has come to this, a shame that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have fallen into the dregs of the NFL where they are today, the worst-performing team in the league the past nine weeks.
What is worse is that somewhere along the line, Morris' team quit on him. It wasn't just the losses, it was the manner, the way this team lost.
Every week Morris preached "harder, faster, smarter."
What he got was softer, slower and dumber.
Raheem got Talibed, he got Jonesed, he got Quincyed and he got Winslowed. This was a team whose defense showed up on Sundays without determined defenders, and it was Morris who is the team's defensive coordinator. And that's exhibit No. 1 for the prosecution.
Somewhere between 10-6 and 4-11, Morris let the inmates take over this asylum. This was a man who went from secondary coach to defensive coordinator for a week and suddenly to head coach. The Glazers chose him, a man without much of a coaching resume, and put him in charge.
Immediately, he was "Rah" to his players—not Coach Morris, just "Rah"—and in the end, they didn't stand up for their "buddy" they just went through the motions and he's now dangling in the den of dismissal.
This demise was a head-scratcher. It was obvious that there was a flaw in "the plan." And you'll recall "the plan" was to build through the draft, let the young guys play now, forgo any serious free agency, don't sprinkle in veterans into the mix, let's just go young, really young.
If Morris is going to be an eventual victim of "the plan" then shouldn't Mark Dominik go down with him?
If the Glazers do indeed pink-slip Morris next week, a lot of prospects may not want Dominik, and he could be out the door as well.
When you speak of head-scratching, the regression of Josh Freeman may be the biggest issue on this team, aside from the "we can't tackle anyone" defense.
Former Bucs quarterback Shaun King spoke candidly on his 1010 radio King David Show this week and he called Freeman's mechanics "awful."
King also had something else you'd find of great interest and it was a confession of sorts.
"I didn't prepare properly," he said, recalling his days with the Tony Dungy-coached Buccaneers. "I didn't prepare well enough to earn the respect of the veteran players." King went on to say he didn't understand the depth of preparation required until he spent time around Peyton Manning. And that's where Freeman comes in.
"He needs a taskmaster, someone who will demand perfection from him," King said of Freeman and whoever his new quarterback coach may be. If you want to hand out some blame, then you have to look at Alex Van Pelt as exhibit No. 2 for the prosecution. "Freeman doesn't know how to prepare, he thinks he does but he doesn't," King said and you have to buy that coming from a guy who was honest enough to admit his own shortcomings on air.
When you look at shortcomings, this team is loaded.
It wasn't the losing, it was the helplessness of the blowouts. Even the untrained eye could see a lack of effort and that's the most damning argument of all.
"I will never fire myself," Morris told us this week.
The disconcerting thing about that is that if this was all up to him, he might just bring back the same cast of staff next year and a lot of the same players who quit on him.
"You don't go from being a Coach of the Year candidate to being the worst coach in the league to getting fired within a year," was another Morris declaration this week.
If that is true, then how does a team go from 10-6 to basically not showing up week after week?
In case Morris didn't notice, other bad teams showed up in December. Indianapolis showed up two weeks in a row. Kansas City showed up for Romeo Crennel, who wants them to remove "interim" from his coaching title, and evidently so do his players.
The Miami Dolphins rallied.
The Buccaneers?
They checked out several weeks ago and went home early.
The team that says it loves "Rah," the players who are supposed to be his "guys," are the guilty party in all of this mess.
It won't be the Glazers who fire Morris next week.
The players beat them to it.
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2023 02:03PM by Ramsdude.
Sounds like his players "quit" on him. That's the ultimate sign of disrespect.
My favorite line of the article: "What he got was softer, slower and dumber."
I know some won't like this and I fully expect to be told how I am hater and I am wrong but there are some who agree. This article is for them. If you disagree, no problem!
Draw your own conclusions...
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Raheem Morris a Victim of His Own Success and Failure
Tom EdringtonDecember 28, 2011
link
Barring a miracle of seasonal proportions, the owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Glazers, will most likely have no other choice than to relieve Raheem Morris of his command when the season is mercifully over after this coming final game with the Atlanta Falcons.
It is a shame that it has come to this, a shame that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have fallen into the dregs of the NFL where they are today, the worst-performing team in the league the past nine weeks.
What is worse is that somewhere along the line, Morris' team quit on him. It wasn't just the losses, it was the manner, the way this team lost.
Every week Morris preached "harder, faster, smarter."
What he got was softer, slower and dumber.
Raheem got Talibed, he got Jonesed, he got Quincyed and he got Winslowed. This was a team whose defense showed up on Sundays without determined defenders, and it was Morris who is the team's defensive coordinator. And that's exhibit No. 1 for the prosecution.
Somewhere between 10-6 and 4-11, Morris let the inmates take over this asylum. This was a man who went from secondary coach to defensive coordinator for a week and suddenly to head coach. The Glazers chose him, a man without much of a coaching resume, and put him in charge.
Immediately, he was "Rah" to his players—not Coach Morris, just "Rah"—and in the end, they didn't stand up for their "buddy" they just went through the motions and he's now dangling in the den of dismissal.
This demise was a head-scratcher. It was obvious that there was a flaw in "the plan." And you'll recall "the plan" was to build through the draft, let the young guys play now, forgo any serious free agency, don't sprinkle in veterans into the mix, let's just go young, really young.
If Morris is going to be an eventual victim of "the plan" then shouldn't Mark Dominik go down with him?
If the Glazers do indeed pink-slip Morris next week, a lot of prospects may not want Dominik, and he could be out the door as well.
When you speak of head-scratching, the regression of Josh Freeman may be the biggest issue on this team, aside from the "we can't tackle anyone" defense.
Former Bucs quarterback Shaun King spoke candidly on his 1010 radio King David Show this week and he called Freeman's mechanics "awful."
King also had something else you'd find of great interest and it was a confession of sorts.
"I didn't prepare properly," he said, recalling his days with the Tony Dungy-coached Buccaneers. "I didn't prepare well enough to earn the respect of the veteran players." King went on to say he didn't understand the depth of preparation required until he spent time around Peyton Manning. And that's where Freeman comes in.
"He needs a taskmaster, someone who will demand perfection from him," King said of Freeman and whoever his new quarterback coach may be. If you want to hand out some blame, then you have to look at Alex Van Pelt as exhibit No. 2 for the prosecution. "Freeman doesn't know how to prepare, he thinks he does but he doesn't," King said and you have to buy that coming from a guy who was honest enough to admit his own shortcomings on air.
When you look at shortcomings, this team is loaded.
It wasn't the losing, it was the helplessness of the blowouts. Even the untrained eye could see a lack of effort and that's the most damning argument of all.
"I will never fire myself," Morris told us this week.
The disconcerting thing about that is that if this was all up to him, he might just bring back the same cast of staff next year and a lot of the same players who quit on him.
"You don't go from being a Coach of the Year candidate to being the worst coach in the league to getting fired within a year," was another Morris declaration this week.
If that is true, then how does a team go from 10-6 to basically not showing up week after week?
In case Morris didn't notice, other bad teams showed up in December. Indianapolis showed up two weeks in a row. Kansas City showed up for Romeo Crennel, who wants them to remove "interim" from his coaching title, and evidently so do his players.
The Miami Dolphins rallied.
The Buccaneers?
They checked out several weeks ago and went home early.
The team that says it loves "Rah," the players who are supposed to be his "guys," are the guilty party in all of this mess.
It won't be the Glazers who fire Morris next week.
The players beat them to it.
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2023 02:03PM by Ramsdude.
