Right. So why go any further?
The hope here is that Lovie combines Dungy's strengths with more offense. IMHO Lovie could have more upside than any coach we have had.
Except it's a very negative way of assessing the post-Super Bowl Era. He had two seasons of 4 or 5 wins and a total of 4 of 9 or more. Do you trade 3 division titles for 2 awful years? Every time, even if you add the 7-9 year too. He didn't draft well. He was a victim of bad luck with injuries, but his whole demise goes back to the Clayton pick. Take Steven Jackson then Rodgers is the 2005 pick and history is different. Such is life. It's the Lovie Era. Let's hope he is better than all of them.
Its a truthful way of assessing it. Those division titles were garbage....as evidenced by our early departures.As for the Clayton pick, we definitely agree on that. I still have the broken remote amongst my Bucs memorabilia.
No division title is garbage.the 2007 team was weak, but the 2005 team got ripped off. If 11 wins is garbage then only 2002 mattered. That's not so.
jerseybucsfan: "The hope here is that Lovie combines Dungy's strengths with more offense."In spite of all evidence to the contrary. One of the worst offensive records of the last decade.
Let's sit back and see how Lovie Lee Smith does with his "Hand-Picked GM"
