Harsh review.
Buccaneers legend Rondé Barber works weekly inside the walls of One Buc Palace as part of his duties on the official team website.
So Barber was asked on his latest [WFLA streaming show](https://www.wfla.com/ronde-barber-show/) to share the mood at team headquarters in the hours since the Bucs’ miserable loss to the bumbling Browns.
Barber doesn’t like the vibe.
> “Look, the mood is not great,” Barber said. ” There’s too many mistakes. There’s a lack of urgency, if you will, in my mind when I look at them going onto the field. There’s got to be a little bit of a sense of a defining characteristic of your team through Week 2. I don’t know what that is. It’s mistakes. It’s busts. It’s lack of execution.”
Timeout. Todd Bowles said additions like A’Shawn Robinson and Rakeem “Nacho” Nuñez-Roches delivered a new attitude. And now Barber doesn’t like the urgency when players are taking the field?
Barber went to further describe how the Bucs haven’t looked ready for the season.
> “Week 2 can’t be the fifth preseason game,” Barber continued.
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> “At some point you have to start hitting your stride. And it doesn’t feel like they’re in their stride right now on either side of the ball.”
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> “I feel like for much of the secondary, especially the coverage unit, they’re so focused on what they’re trying to do, that they don’t know how to do it now.”
Barber seems baffled as to why veteran newcomer linebacker Alex Anzalone has become the kind of player he wasn’t in Detroit last season, missing tackles and struggling in coverage.
> “There’s some dynamic going on, whether it’s not understanding what his role is in the defense, not understanding angles, maybe not having enough tackles in the preseason, I don’t know what it is,” Barber said. ” … Something is hamstringing this defense in critical moments.”
An ardent Bucs optimist most of the time, Barber has stopped throwing around lollipops and candy corn.