Don't Forget The Offense

Cadillac proved last year that he can still play. He did this without having the offseason to prepare. 800+ yards doesn’t seem like much, but he was working out of a 3 RB swap meet senario for the 1st half of the year. They realized how much he still had in him at the end, so they started giving him more of the reps.

Also, we are changing our philosophy of our run game back to what it was next year which should help. That and having Cadillac for the OTA’s will work, and hopefully have Sears back for the OTA’s will add even more stability to our O-Line.

As for receivers, I agree with you completely. The only receiver we have worth anything right now is Stroughter. Not knowing if AB is going to come back. If he doesn’t come back, I forsee a trade for a high quality receiver like Marshall or Boldin happening in March.

I totally overlooked him. I have to disagree on Cadillac. I hope I am wrong but I just can’t rely on the guy. My hope is he takes off this year after staying healthy last year. I just think the chances of him being our go to RB, when this team is good again, are very low. I really do hope I am wrong because he is one of my favorites.

But how are we set on offense?. It seems to me we have a young quarterback with little help. We don’t have a starting receiver. It seems highly unlikely that Bryant will be back. Clayton is awful. Stovall is Clayton lite. Stroughter I like but he is most likely a slot receiver. So we don’t have starting receivers at this time. I think we have to bring in 2 quality guys there. We do have a good TE. Again I see Freeman as the most important piece to our future. We have to get him a lot of help. We don’t have to go offense at 3, but it also just can’t be dismissed . I also saw improvements on D when we went back to the Tampa 2. My guess would be that we could at least be average on D next year with a couple of minor additions. I think we need a lot more help on O to get to average. Bottom line is their our holes everywhere.

I agree that Trueblood and Zuttah are the weakest links. I think it’s a little harder to find an effective RT. Hopefully Sears comes back strong. That would go a long way towards improving the line. Seems like a bunch of hopes. I hope Caddy stay’s healthy. I hope the oline improves and I hope we can find some receivers. It would be nice to know a couple of things. Scary.

Bucs have always been built on defense and it should stay that way. The offense for now is fine and i’d rather build up our D. YOu are talking to or three t=years from now, but we will also have two or three drafts during that time to add to the O. The Bucs obviously are settling for Freeman, which i was against and still am a little, and the line is young. there are defensive pieces there, but we have NO D line. I like Roy and everything, but we have DE unproven and not showing anything and there is no threat. you put a possible marquee DT on the line and it changes the whole complextion of the D. I mean look at it, when we had Sapp in his prime, Shelton Quarles looked legit. w/o Sapp Quarles was average at best. there are other examples, but don’t feel like tyoping them all. YOu always start from the inside out and right now the D line is what needs help and starting in to out is our best option. I’m just praying STL takes a QB or we move up without giving up too much