January 02, 2012

Buccaneers Make Raheem Morris Walk the Plank: One year after leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to their biggest single-season turnaround in wins in franchise history, Raheem Morris was fired as head coach after a 4-12 season that ended with 10 straight losses. "You don't have that and survive in this league and we all know that," said Morris, who was 17-31 at the helm.

posted by rcade to football at 01:35 PM - 4 comments

"You don't I did go from being a coach of the year candidate to being the worst coach in the league to getting fired within a year."

posted by phaedon at 03:15 PM on January 02, 2012

Well deserved. The Bucs were dreadful this season.

posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 09:04 PM on January 02, 2012

Not that I don't think Raheem should have been fired, but I'm not sure anyone else is going to do much better with the Bucs. Unless they can find some hot young OC/QB Coach to help out Josh Freeman, and make some real moves in the Free Agency market on defense.

posted by Bonkers at 08:33 AM on January 03, 2012

The team is without much talent. They were playing over their heads last year, but have come back to reality now. They decided to go with a youth movement which meant purging their roster of almost everyone over 30. That has been a failure, but it is a failure that goes all the way up to ownership. The roster and the coach are a result of the owners not wanting to spend any money on this team. They have more interesting things going on across the pond.

posted by bperk at 11:09 AM on January 03, 2012

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