Bucs made right call on LeGarrette Blount January, 13, 2014 By Pat Yasinskas | ESPN.com 
TAMPA, Fla. -- Go ahead and say it. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers never should have given up on LeGarrette Blount. I know that opinion has plenty of backers after Blount rushed for 166 yards and four touchdowns for the New England Patriots in their Saturday night victory against Indianapolis. I see the logic. But the fact is, even after Saturday night, I still believe the Bucs made the right move when they traded Blount to the Patriots for Olympic sprinter Jeff Demps and a seventh-round pick last April. Yeah, I know some will say the Bucs sure could have used Blount after starter Doug Martin got hurt early last season. But Mike James and Bobby Rainey filled in adequately for Martin. The bottom line is that former coach Greg Schiano never was sold on Blount. The running back had fumbling issues, problems getting to practice and meetings on time and he was one-dimensional. Blount wasn’t much of a receiver and he failed to pick up blocking assignments. Blount’s only real strength is running straight ahead and it’s not like he has great vision. Blount was more of a headache than he was worth. New coach Lovie Smith likely wouldn’t have wanted someone like Blount around. Maybe Schiano did the Patriots a favor by trading Blount to them. But Schiano did the Bucs an even bigger favor by getting Blount out of Tampa Bay.
Pat must have very little to write about. This article could have been a tweet.
Guys with questionable attitudes sometimes turn it around when they are in a strong locker room with an established culture. We dont have that so what we saw from Blount was what we would have gotten for years. Personally, Im glad he has a chance to better himself as a player and person up in NE. We got Mike James out of it and Im fairly happy with him thus far.
James and Rainey seem to be adequate depth but I don't ever see them being the talk of the NFL like Blount is right now.
I agree with Pat here.
was blount a cancer or distraction the one year he played for Schiano? I know he didn't get any playing time but I don't recall him causing any trouble either. from what we know about Lovie, he knows how to manage players and motivated them and they love playing for him. Don't see why he couldn't have the same results as Bill Bilichick.
I agree with Pat here.
so are you saying that Lovie isn't as good a coach as Belichick and wouldn't be able to get production out of Blount? that's what it sounds like. I disagree.
It was a mistake and people can try to justify it in a dozen different ways but it was still a mistake. I said that the second they traded him.
I agree with Pat here.
so are you saying that Lovie isn't as good a coach as Belichick and wouldn't be able to get production out of Blount? that's what it sounds like. I disagree.
Nope.... I never said any of that. Good try tho.I just agree with the fumbling issues, not getting to practice on time and being one dimensional part. Blount has been on a roll in NE but his act had some cleaning up to do.
the good coaches can clean it up. the bad ones trade the talent away for 7th rounders. don't buy Pats argument. from what we all know of Lovie, hes a good coach.
the good coaches can clean it up. the bad ones trade the talent away for 7th rounders. don't buy Pats argument. from what we all know of Lovie, hes a good coach.
Jeff Fisher is a good coach but he let him go.Bill Belichek is a great coach and he had a murderer on the his team. How come he couldn't clean him up?Blount rode the pine for a year and was dealt a slice of the humble pie then was traded so maybe that had something to do with him getting together too.
Titans let a UFA go because there wasn't a roster spot open. I believe they had intended to sign him to their practice squad. Hernandez is probably rotton to the core and there is no cleaning that up but as far as production was concerned, he got that out of him.
