PLEASE RAHEEM PLEASE NO JASON PIERRE PAUL!!!!!

In 2003 the Raiders were in the Super Bowl, and lost memorably to the Bucs as we all know. Since then, they haven’t won more than 5 games in a single season. Their fall was more abrupt – from Super Bowl winner to joke of the league and they’ve never shown improvement since.

The Bucs, though, now have one consecutive losing season. That’s not a fall from grace. That’s one losing season. We’ll see next year what happens, I wouldn’t expect a winning season but I’d definitely expect progress.

I dont understand what your arguement is? Would you rather be in the Raiders situation or the Bucs? Atleast we can still have hope, unlike Raiders fans who probably only have hope of Al Davis selling the team, or taking his MEDS.

But Belichick had a lot more talent to work with.
Bill Walsh had two.

And yes, I think we now have a core to build around that we didn’t have then. Most notably with Freeman, Stroughter and WInslow on the offensive side. And I think we’ll have a much stronger core after the draft.

Gruden got more than a year, I’m saying they should give Morris more than a year (and they already have). It is easy to blame Morris and Dominik, it was their team and it faltered a little. But the circumstances around it and the improvement near the end was enough to warrant another year of trying. Is gruden/allen still being paid or was their contract up after last year (not sure if allen got another job)? I would imagine the Glaziers wouldn’t be wanting to pay 3 contracts or more after a year of having Morris.

Releasing AB was a good call. It would have been very hard to sign him to anything less than what he made last year. And after last year its really really hard to convince me that he’ll be back to form this year. Its a gamble, plain and simple. If he had a really good year without injury last year I’d want to resign him for something reasonable. If he has the most excellent year ever next year, then good for him. It has nothing to do with his supposed “attitude” or whatever people say about him. He had a year to prove himself to be the reciever he was the year before. Maybe he caught a bad break, injured, 3 different QBs, 2 OC’s. It happens. Life goes on.

It would seem that we completely disagree on the philosophy applied here. You’re more reactionary than I am. All I ask (and you really don’t have much of a choice unless the Glazier’s fire dominik and morris) is that you keep an open mind and see what happens. After another 3-13 season I’ll be wanting a change too. But I hope that doesn’t happen. I hope morris and dominik prove themselves and we have a more winning team.

The difference between most Buc’em readers and regular Buc fans is we understand that Gruden and his core players were never going to be Super Bowl contenders. Alot of casual fans look at the Gruden firing and hiring of Morris the way you do because they dont understand Gruden was not doing a good job. That is how the Anti-Morris ban wagon started.

The casual fans feel that we down graded just because they have never heard of Morris before. So before the season even started they were upset, and then the 3-13 happend and they think it was a direct result of Morris

The more avid fan like most Buc’em readers understand that it is IMPOSSIBLE to judge a coach on one season. Especially if that season was a rebuilding year full of old crippled players and a bunch of bench warmers.

I am in no way endorsing Morris, all I am saying is; ONE YEAR is not enough to judge. If he shows no progress in the 2010 season then I can understand why you would want to blame him. When I say progress, I dont mean turning a 3-13 team into Super Bowl contenders, even if they only win 6 games next year that still twice as many. So the record isnt everything, its mostly about the team heading in the right direction and not standing still like the Lions, Rams, Raiders.

Lets become the fan base who always uses the coach as an escape goat, and they are always cycling through coaches just to please the fans.

Lets not