_“Jason, we must look to the future.”_
Yesterday, Joe ended a story on the turmoil of the Bucs with a simple question.
> _“Are there any adults in the building at One Buc Palace?”_
Feel free to cite names if you wish but due to a series of moves the past year, both unforeseen and misguided, the Bucs find themselves with perhaps the worst offensive coordinator in football and a starting quarterback who is broken and the team is stuck with him through at least next season, the same quarterback who also hasn’t had a decent game in 13 months.
You aren’t going to move forward very far as a franchise if you have to wait 13 months between good games from your franchise signal-caller.
To compound matters, roughly 26 hours before the trade deadline, your head coach — who may also be on thin ice come January — decides the worst passing attack in the league is good enough and he declares no changes are coming to the leadership of the offense.
Joe thinks KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles may have set himself up to get launched in two months with that shaky decision.
What exactly gives Bowles the idea the passing offense is going to magically be better when after nine games the passing offense, in Bowles’ own words, has regressed?
Bowles stepped in a few weeks ago to have failed Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson change the offense. After a handful of promising games, it’s back to Square-One.
It now appears Bowles will have make a second trip to Robinson’s office to remake the Bucs’ offense. Again.
Isn’t that what got Josh Grizzard run last year, that Bowles had to spend so much time with the offense? Right now Grizzard looks like Mike Martz compared to Robinson.
Joe typed on Sunday night that if Robinson is run, the Bucs need to make some trades to help the offense out because the Bucs would still have a chance to win the division.
Retaining Robinson, Joe considered that a white flag and in the end, the kiss of death. Well, hope folks have ChapStick.
So unless someone in a higher authority pulls the trigger, then the Bucs, with Robinson, need to start selling off parts for draft picks because it sure looks like the Bucs might be hunting for a quarterback to draft next spring.
There are people higher up the Bucs food chain than Bowles. Joe hopes those folks talk sense into Bowles and take the decision to retain Robinson out of Bowles’ hands.
But, if the higher ups at One Buc Palace kick the proverbial can down the road and shrug their shoulders and don’t act on Robinson, then players need to be moved by 4 p.m. today, the trade deadline.
Yes, after this coming Sunday’s games, the Bucs will be a full game out of first place with eight games to go. Still a good chance, with someone other than Robinson calling plays, to leapfrog other NFC South landfill teams and seize control of the division.
We saw on Sunday night that the passing offense of the Bucs is so horrible, that not even five turnovers forced by the Bucs defense and a blocked punt by the special teams can boost the the offense to win a game against a team with a winning record.
A team that is serious about a playoff berth would never tolerate the incomptence that Robinson’s offense has displayed this season.