The losing continues, and so does the venting ...R.I.P. Bucs1. After losing our game vs. the Bengals yesterday, our overall record since 2009 dropped to 30-62, putting us 2 games out from owning the worst record in the NFL since '09. Both the Jags and Rams gained a game on us in the race for mediocrity since '09. Worst Records in the NFL since 20091. Jacksonville: 28-642. St. Louis: 29-62-13. Tampa Bay: 30-624. Cleveland: 30-625. Oakland: 30-626. Washington: 31-612. If it feels like it's been a year since the Bucs won a home game, it's because it has. Our last win for a home game during the regular season came against the Bills on Dec. 8, 2013. It will have been well over a year for the Bucs to even have a shot at winning a home game since we play two straight road games before hosting Green Bay on Dec. 21. With the Packers and Saints slotted as our final two home games, there's a pretty good chance the Bucs will go winless at Ray-Jay this year. I'm sure that will give season ticket holders great incentive to give the Glazers more of their hard-earned money next year. Even a Black Friday sale couldn't convince me to throw money at this crap.3. Speaking of home games, how pathetic have we been in defending our own turf? Not only have we not won a game, the Bucs are averaging 15.1 points scored per game at home this season. We haven't even scored over 17 points in a game at home in 2014. The St. Louis Rams are 5-7 and typically suck, too, but at least they give their fan base their money's worth from time to time, including the 52-0 ass whoop'n they handed the Raiders yesterday. When was the last time the Bucs won a game like that?4. I can't help but remind myself of the embarrassment the Bucs have become. Since 2009, we've had three different head coaches, two general managers and a 30-62 record. Our incompetence can be summed up by the fact that we've had three different coordinators hired and not even make it through their first full season (see Jeff Jagodzinski, Jim Bates and Jeff Tedford). Unlike Raheem Morris and Greg Schiano, we should expect more from Lovie Smith, who came to us with better credentials. What the hell happened with Tedford? And is Marcus Aroyo really the only guy that can call plays on offense for us? As bad as the other teams were, Lovie's team appears to be worse than any of the ones coached under Morris and Schiano. 5. Greg Schiano, where are you when we need you? So many of our players cried that they wanted to be treated like men and how Schiano ruled with an iron fist, so the players and media revolted on him. After watching us commit 13 freaking penalties yesterday, I'd say Schiano was treating them how they deserved to -- and needed to -- be treated. If they're going to act and play like children, then treat them like it dammit! Time for Lovie to show some tough love with some of these idiots! That includes his coaching staff and whoever else was responsible for having 12 players on the field on the play that would have put us in field goal range. Just unacceptable.6. So at the beginning of the season we lost two straight games to teams playing their backup QB's (Rams and Panthers). Yesterday might have been even worse as we lost to a Bengals team led by a QB that literally couldn't keep his food down and played with a stomach ailment in hot and humid Tampa. Andy Dalton was feeling better after the game while thousands of Bucs fans started exhibiting the symptoms he showed while ailing. Dalton lost his lunch while we lost yet another game! 7. I see posts and hear Bucs fans desperately grasping at straws to find some positives in this negative crap storm we're in. This includes saying how the defense is playing so much better. I see what you're saying, but last time I checked we still were losing games, so they're not playing well enough. And we've managed to blow a 10-0 lead two games in a row. Yeah, I'd say the defense still has a long way to go. 8. Anyone else see Johnny Manziel make his NFL debut after Brian Hoyer was benched in Buffalo in the fourth quarter yesterday? Yeah, Johnny "Football" took the Browns down the field and scored a touchdown on his first drive as a pro ... in a game where the Browns had been held without a TD up to that point. Not saying Manziel will be great, but the Bucs sure could use some of his playmaking ability and swagger at QB.9. If the draft was held today the Bucs would have the No. 2 overall pick, which would guarantee us either Mariotta or Winston at QB (if we're smart enough to actually draft a franchise QB). With Detroit, Carolina, Green Bay and New Orleans on our schedule, I see one win (in Carolina) at best. We've managed to screw up this season royally. Hopefully we don't screw it up so badly that we screw up our draft position as well by winning some meaningless game down the stretch. By all means, if the Bucs want to show real improvement by winning in convincing fashion vs. a great team like Green Bay, go for it. But even if we won yesterday it would have been by default and unimpressive. 10. The Bucs' regular season record since the Glazers started investing in Manchester United: 75-113. Sorry, Glazers, but I'm not ever going to let you off the hook for this mess. It starts at the top, and clearly you guys don't know what the hell you're doing, not to mention the fact that you stuck it to your fan base by raising ticket prices, implementing a spending freeze and giving us a crap product to watch. Here's to hoping you bastards sell the team after this debacle!
