Another week, another loss. So let the venting continue ...RIP Bucs Part Deux1. I used to have to wait to watch one of my favorite shows until 9PM on Sundays, but this year I've had the opportunity to watch The Walking Dead hours earlier in the form of the Buccaneers. How bad are the Bucs? The NFC South is the worst division in football with a 11-24 overall record. The first place Saints have a losing record (4-5) and the awful Bucs are only three games out of first place. But don't get delusional; the Bucs won't win three games this year, so the division is far gone. What does it say for us that we are 1-8 in the worst division the league has this year and that two of the three wins for the Falcons, who are another bad team, came against us? 2. So we are 0-5 at home. Can't wait to see how many people renew their season tickets next year after this train wreck. And for the first time in NFL history you may see a fan base petitioning the NFL to make Bucs games blacked out because they're so bad to watch. I can think of a lot of other things I'd rather put my hard earned money into before I'd put it in the Glazers' pocket to support mediocrity and incompetence.3. Speaking of pockets, I hope Austin Sefarian-Jenkins' is a lot lighter today as a result of his arrogance and stupidity yesterday. So let me get this straight. You score a TD and decide you are going to go out of your way to use the ball as a prop to celebrate (clearly something you spent way too much time working on during the week). But you do this as part of a one-win team, and while the game still is hanging in the balance. You deemed your celebration more important than field position, and your 15-year personal foul penalty for celebrating helped set up the Falcons' game-winning drive. Clearly you didn't learn anything from a few weeks ago when you arrogantly celebrated a TD just to fumble away the game to the Vikings in OT. And your celebration took place in a game where you had a false start penalty, a holding penalty and a dropped pass. AJS, you sir, are a moron. The Bucs need another TE, or you need to grow up ... in a hurry! 4. So Gerald McCoy says the Bucs are the most undisciplined team he's ever played on. Last year, all we heard was how there was too much discipline and how the players wanted to be treated like men. Oh, the irony. Somewhere Greg Schiano is smiling. 5. Hey, PR. Where are your pitchforks for Lovie Smith? You jumped out of the gate with those to have Schiano fired last year. Hell, you literally led the charge for his firing. Why the kid gloves for Lovie and Co.? You can make a strong argument that this team is far worse than the debacle Schiano was in charge of last year. 6. Add Michael Koenen to the long list of bad picks/signings by former Bucs GM Mark Dominick. While PR will have you think that Dom was one of the most underrated GM's in the NFL ever, reality clearly says he was one of the worst GM's the NFL has ever seen. Signing Koenen to a six-year deal worth $19.5 million that included $6.5 million in guaranteed money in 2011 and a $3 million base salary this season sure supports that notion. The Bucs should make the rest of the season somewhat interesting by letting random fans punt for us from here on out. And I'm willing to bet some of those fans would get off better punts than Koenen has this year. 7. Be hard on Josh McCown for being a bad QB, not for being upset that the Bucs are 1-8. So he was emotional after yet another loss yesterday. So what? I know fans that cry watching this mess, so imagine how you'd feel playing in it? It shows me McCown actually cares and has a pulse. And maybe we shouldn't be so hard on McCown for his QB play either. He is, after all, what he's been for the majority of his NFL career. Six different teams and even one year out of the league before Lovie and Licht anointed him our QB savior. Oops. Then again, Lovie's expectations don't appear to be too high for the QB position. He's the same guy that tolerated Rex Grossman in Chicago. 8. It's nice to see Mike Evans coming on strong while the rest of our team continues to implode. By taking him with a top 10 pick, Evans has to pan out. Putting together 14 catches for 249 yards and 3 TDs over the past two games is encouraging. Just imagine what he could do if we had a running game and QB worth a damn. 9. Been reading a lot of chatter on the boards (and hearing it on talk radio) from the fans that say hiring Lovie was a mistake, therefore we should fire him. And we need to continue to tank it so we secure a top 3 draft pick and a franchise QB in 2015. I'm not disagreeing with those sentiments, but who here has confidence that the Glazers would actually get another firing/hiring right the next time around? Who is willing to bet anything that the Bucs would nail a draft after so many blown picks over the past several years? Sorry, but I just have no confidence that ownership or the coaching/scouting staff are competent at this point. 10. Keep up the good work, Bucs. You're in prime position to take the lead in the Race for Mediocrity contest in the NFL over the past 6 seasons (2009-2014):1. Jacksonville: 27-632. St. Louis: 27-61-13. Tampa Bay: 29-604. Cleveland: 29-605. Oakland: 29-606. Washington: 31-58Final Thought: Bucs' record since the Glazers started investing in Manchester United in 2003: 74-111.
