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Morris should return to coach Bucs in 2010.

Surprise.

Buc'em readers are a smart bunch, dedicated, you come back for more and you absorb it all like a chamois at a car wash. So the Headline should surprise no one.... and yet its time to defend it like Morris did his team at yesterday's press conference.

"The team had no quit" he said. Truth is, it may never have. Even the ugly finish at the end of last season, may have been the best 45 men that could possibly be on the field. Yet didn't you see more fire Sunday than you did in that season finale in 2008 vs the Raiders? ...and against a better team?

Keep in mind this Bucs football team is a unit that has drafted the following players in the first round of the first half of this decade; Kenyatta Walker, and Michael Clayton.

Only recent years are the Bucs starting to use their first picks wisely; Davin Joeseph in 2006, Aqib Talib in 2008 and Josh Freeman this year. Still, Gaines Adams stains the 2007 draft, a reward for finishing 4-12. A reward the Bucs cannot allow themselves to indulge themselves with the #3 pick next April.

There are those whose opinions are not easily swayed. People who remember the Giants, Philly and Jets games like they lived in Queens or just off the Walt Whitman Bridge. Atlanta is where you have to start though if you want to be honest. The week Raheem Morris took charge of the defense and admitted a mistake; something good rookies do.

Because its not really that different if you have a rookie QB or a rookie Head Coach. You still go into the season expecting them to learn and grow. Morris has done both; his clock management and game time decisions have improved tremendously. Some will say an NFL Head Coaching position is not where you should get "on the job' training. But its ok for Quarterbacks to get theirs? Arn't they harder to find?

Star-divide

Starting today, Josh Freeman begins the offseason as the Starting QB for the Bucs. There will be no Luke McCown/Leftwich competition. The Question marks on Cadillac Williams knees have been removed and replaced with explanation points. He was the only back yesterday. and he gained 40 yards entirely on his own. No one will question whether Michael Clayton can be a starting  wide receiver anymore. The answer has been obvious the last month. Oh, and the IR Stalag will release all of its POWs for re-enlistment in 2010. In there are two of the three guys who have returned kick off and punt returns for TDs.                                                                       

Yet there will still be those who will say "How can you want Raheem Morris back after this train wreck"? Yet when you look at it from afar and it looks different from various points, as if a real Amtrak did slide off its railings. You see the front is all mashed up, but the tail end looks relatively unscathed.

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This is a good thing

Im glad to see this, the players have responded well to Morris’s youthful coaching style and he deserves to coach another year.

by BucfaninAZ on Jan 4, 2010 3:27 AM EST reply actions  

Right on Niko

Many BUC fans are looking for someone to blame and rightfully so but Morris has done well with what he was given..he started poorly but has improved with each game and i do feel he should get another year or two to see if rebuilding was worth it..Poor draft picks led us here but people seem to forget that..look at the roster and you’ll see that we dont have much 1st or 2nd round guys from the past 6 years and that is not MORRIS fault..He deserves a second chance

by Buc-Drunk on Jan 4, 2010 7:03 AM EST reply actions  

1 more year

Morris has made a lot of mistakes, which I expected. He’s also corrected a lot of those mistakes. I think he should get 1 more year with this team to show what he can do. It is not fair to can him after a single year coaching a team with huge talent holes. We KNEW this would be an ugly year going in.

by aakks on Jan 4, 2010 7:56 AM EST reply actions  

Nice point out

They did play much better lately than they played during the last four games of 2008. They looked like they gave up last year, which was strange, because they actually had something to play for then. I still have pale blue and black nightmares, where Carolina shoes are running all over the Buc’s D.

Gary Williams for President!
Put Rose in the Hall of Fame

by terp12 on Jan 4, 2010 10:53 AM EST reply actions  

The train wreck

Are you saying Raheem is the tail end of something Niko, or that his tail end is looking ok? lol. I do agree with you though; I hope that he will be back and get some continuity going with some improved talent. I have a lot of questions though about Olson; the offensive play calling seemed really bad at times; especially the Carolina game with all the redzone opportunities. Some people were blaming Morris for the defensive problems yesterday but our players were not big enough or strong enough against the power running back.

by ftballfan on Jan 4, 2010 11:04 AM EST reply actions  

lol! Neither!

Glazers wont Cowher to pressure, Morris will be back in 2010

by Niko Houllis on Jan 4, 2010 3:03 PM EST up reply actions  

Do I need to comment? lol

He shouldn’t have been hired in the first place, no reason to prolong our misery by keeping him.

I don’t hate the guy, I don’t call him “Radio” or anything like that (The Holy Morris think is only because Niko puts this guy on the highest pedestal in the world and is not name calling).

He just wasn’t ready, he should have been allowed to be our DC for a couple years before getting the HC job.

So what happens when we go 0-5 next year with the weakest schedule I’ve ever seen? Does he get fired then? Then we’re starting all over again and it will never end.

Now is the right time to cut ties with Morris and get some experience in here to build the team to where it should be, contending every year.

by bucnut1 on Jan 4, 2010 12:08 PM EST reply actions  

If you have read my articles and posts, youll know I do NOT put Raheem Morris on a pedestal.

I do not say anything about Morris anything more than he should be back next year, that is all.
I only say we have no idea what we have in him. I know he is a good defensive minded coach, who says a lot of the right things.

and NO ONE calls him names on here, we, as a group, do not tolerate that.

But I respect your opinion, even though I disagree with you. I see improvement, and I dont see “Coaching related problems” with the Bucs.

Glazers wont Cowher to pressure, Morris will be back in 2010

by Niko Houllis on Jan 4, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions  

we have no idea what we have in him.

And that’s exactly why I have said all along that he should not have been hired as the head coach. My stance has never changed from that, I do not go back and forth with my opinion about this, my position is firm. I just don’t believe in on the job training for NFL head coaches and 3-13 is the perfect example of why.

If they had let him stay at DC for a year or two then promoted him, I’d be with you on this, but they didn’t and I’m not.

by bucnut1 on Jan 4, 2010 4:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I'm not putting anyone on a pedestal

But the one and done thing is short-sighted and not conducive to long-term success. I live in the DC area and I see what’s happened to the local team (only one playoff win this decade) despite a lot of money and high-priced coming through the door.

I’d much rather model after New England (my other fav team) or Pittsburgh. Pitt has had three head coaches in the last 30 years. They don’t go to the Super Bowl every year, but they’ve developed a persona. The Patriots draft smart and play smart.

This year was set up to be a rebuilding year. We cut a lot of veterans b/c they had lost a step. If we hire a Cowher or a Shanahan, they aren’t going to build for the future, they’re going to build for right now. And you don’t establish a dynasty playing for right now. You make a playoff run and then you suck for five years.

by CelticPride on Jan 4, 2010 1:21 PM EST reply actions  

You missed the point. The teams you mentioned all had HC's that had experience.

We hired one that has 0. You can’t build a house on a sand foundation.

by bucnut1 on Jan 4, 2010 1:26 PM EST up reply actions  

what teams have HC with experience??

Washington with Zorn?
Pittsburgh with Tomlin?
Only New England, and their HC was a defensive guy who was given a chance, after failing in Cleveland. You think cleveland is happy they let Bilichick back?

Glazers wont Cowher to pressure, Morris will be back in 2010

by Niko Houllis on Jan 4, 2010 3:09 PM EST up reply actions  

Never was a fan

Glad to see this season over. I made comments early in the season about Morris, I never liked him and his coaching style. I don’t want to see a coach who is going to be buddy buddy with the players, That always

by redtribe14 on Jan 4, 2010 1:57 PM EST reply actions  

sorry

ends in disasters. I want Bill Cowher and I’ve been saying it all season

by redtribe14 on Jan 4, 2010 1:58 PM EST reply actions  

Being buddy buddy with players is just a style. seems to me Cowher was VERY buddy buddy with players.

Not everyone can be a Dungy, Ditka or Belichick

Glazers wont Cowher to pressure, Morris will be back in 2010

by Niko Houllis on Jan 4, 2010 3:12 PM EST up reply actions  

Bring Raheem Back

About six games into the season I was on the fire Rah bandwagon, but the last 2 months of the season showed alot of whats to come. As Niko said he made mistakes and corrected them. I think it took a while for him to find the identity of this team he came in wanting to change the defense and change the offense to zone run blocking pass the ball down the feel type scheme. Nothing says more to me then saying you’ve made a mistake and making the necessary adjustments to fix them. The team competed all the way to the end and I believe he’s young and bright and is only going to get better. He’s had some growing pains but the fact is he’s growing up as a head coach. He just needs some better assistants around him and pay the special teams coach whatever he wants.

by whatdabuc on Jan 4, 2010 2:41 PM EST reply actions  

Isnt it funny how no one is calling for the Rams or Lions HC jobs? When they finished worse?

Isnt it funny? We are picking third, ended up the season on a 2 of 3 game winning streak, but people want Raheem Morris fired. Funny how no one is talking about Spagnola getting fired for going 1-15, or Detroit Lions HC Schwartz, only Morris.

While Morris was the only Coach who had his team playing better with less talent.

Glazers wont Cowher to pressure, Morris will be back in 2010

by Niko Houllis on Jan 4, 2010 3:17 PM EST reply actions  

Well the Rams and Lions are perpetual garbage

They didn’t finish 9-7 last year, or nearly miss the playoffs. They didn’t fire coordinators, juggle quarterbacks or any of that mess. Those teams were expected to lose and are accustomed to losing (in recent history at least).

Morris and Dominik have a lot to answer for, and they should be held accountable. I am on the fence about whether I want Raheem back, I think he deserves another year, but on the other hand I don’t think he is going to be a very good head coach, so what’s the point in delaying his firing another year?

"Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs" - John McKay

by LeeCaz on Jan 4, 2010 3:57 PM EST up reply actions  

Dominik/Raheem

drafted their franchise QB this year. He has half a year under his belt, if JF doesn’t show improvement in the next year, I say go fire these folks.

Desean Jackson is one hell of a guy

by 4QB on Jan 4, 2010 5:07 PM EST up reply actions  

Why as a Bucs fan/season ticket holder would I care what those teams do?

Lions fans are probably happy to have one win much less two, they did 200% better this year. Also, those teams were in really, really bad shape. They didn’t go from 9-7 to 3-13 like we did. And before you start your rant about how we shouldn’t have been 9-7 last year, we were still 9-7 and we could have been a lot better if we had the right head coach here this year.

by bucnut1 on Jan 4, 2010 4:37 PM EST up reply actions  

My heart says get a new coach, my head says "why pay for three?"

Why should we next year pay Gruden, Morris and an expensive head coach? Give Morris another shot and see what happens, he earned it the last 4… Although, if he sucks halfway through 2010 fire him.

Go Magic/Bucs/Gators/Rays!

by chiefs_55 on Jan 4, 2010 7:59 PM EST reply actions  

Give him a chance...

Maybe it took alittle longer to win this year than what we wanted but what matters is how the team performs. Throw the first half of the season in the garbage sure but the second half looked very promising for the future. When Morris did finally get the team headed in the right direction it was late in the year but the team did respond, the D improved alot, sure its fair to criticize Olsen im not a fan of Grudens playbook either but he did get Drew Brees to take him under his wing this offseason and train together. IMO I say lets ride this thing another year before we start hanging coaches, we will never win if that continues lol

by BucfaninAZ on Jan 4, 2010 9:07 PM EST reply actions  

What I'm saying is

That 1 and done with a rookie head coach is stupid. I understand not wanting to have him hired in the first place (no experience) I expected double-digit losses and that’s what we got. But now he and his franchise QB have some PT under their belt. I want to see .500 football next year (or better) in 2010.

by CelticPride on Jan 4, 2010 9:12 PM EST reply actions  

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