I think Steve White is an arrogant, immature guy who can't handle when somebody strongly disagrees with him. A year or so ago, he blocked me on Twitter. So I know first hand how short his fuse can be. However, when it comes to analyzing Bucs "film," via All-22, nobody is as thorough as White. And I know a lot of people like his work. So here are his latest thoughts about Thursday's game from Twitter...I cleaned up the Twitter grammar/punctuation to make it easier to read...Stephen White - @sgw94Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can only take the first half of that game on all-22. Jeebus, man....Defensively....like....it just appears that not many guys know what the hell is going on. Or at least what in the hell they're supposed to do. And I'm talking just simple coverage rules and run fits. That's just bad. Real bad.I'm starting to be seriously skeptical that the LBs will ever stop being fooled by a play action fake. I mean is it that damn hard to hold your water or read a high hat vs low hat?More than anything else, I just dont understand why they look so confused when I know they've been working this stuff all offseason. Definitely discouraging to see repeatedly on film though.@ScottCarasik: To be fair, it was at least 5 backup defenders for most of the game.Stephen White @sgw94 · Has nothing to do with knowing what to do.Look, I havent even broached the talent deficit. I'm simply talking about lining up right and fitting in the right gap vs run or covering the right people vs pass. Whether you make the play or not.The one thing I think that maybe would help in the short term is throw out all the coverage disguises. Hey if its single high safety, line Barron up in the box at LB depth and dare the other team to run the ball. Same with man or Tampa 2 until everybody gets comfortable with their alignments and assignments. Not the best case scenario with some of the QBs we will be facing but hell, what we are doing now isn't working so great either. We gotta find another corner with speed. Have to. Banks lines up 7-8 yards off and never gets any closer to the WR before a catch is made. @MichaelPless: Should the Bucs move him to FS?@sgw94: I mean, maybe if they find a few more corners. But we kinda need him at corner now. On another note, English flashed some pass rush moves and Gholston was again hell vs the run game. Need McCoy back in the worst way though.OK, so I'm probably lying. I will eventually watch the second half, too. Just too pissed off to watch it right now.
