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Lee Bromfield, published 17 November 2003
Reasons to be cheerful
1 - If we can finish bottom of the division we'll get a high draft pick,
and a soft schedule to rebound
2 - Jon Gruden
3 - Chucky now has the mandate to clean house with a lot of these players,
who were holdovers from the Dungy era (Walker, Sapp etc)
4 - No more "we'll turn this thing around" speeches from Simeon Rice, or
anyone else for that matter
5 - Kenyatta Walker might break the NFL record for personal foul penalties
in a season
6 - Our punter is really good
7 - Will be easier to get a ticket at RJS again as all the Buccaneer
"johnny come lately's" get off the bandwagon and go and support the
Bengals/Panthers/Chiefs etc
8 - Keenan McCardell
9 - In next year's offense we might actually use the tight end a little bit
more
10 - Pittman might not get jailed
Reasons to be glum
1 - No more meaningful games until next September
2 - Our defense looks spent and I can't honestly see where the next win is
coming from
3 - 1-4 at home.....embarrassing
4 - Could be the worst defense of a SuperBowl crown, ever
5 - There's still six games left
6 - Our special teams do not stink......they are even worse than that
7 - Mike Alstott's neck injury prognosis
8 - 6 more "We'll turn this thing around" guarantees from Simeon
9 - At least 3 more national TV games in which we make further tits of
ourselves
10 - Keyshawn Johnson's salary
Usual script for us last night and can't really belive why we kicked it
away with 3 mins left asking our defense to come up with a stop, when they
hadn't really done so all day. Sapp, Mcfarland, Spires, Wyms, Rice, Brooks
and Quarles - what the hell is going on? They were virtually invisible last
night and collectively we couldn't come up with a stop when we needed one.
Since 1997 we've been spoiled really but we did not look a very good team
at all last night. The second quarter drive with all the false start
penalties (half the distance to the goaline, when we are already inside our
own 1 yard line!), and the further penalty on Kenyatta Walker summed it up
really - is Walker such an idiot or does some of the blame fall on our
coaches for failing to deal with this problem?
How does a wide receiver go offsides....twice......in his own stadium?
Answers in a media interview please Keyshawn. Thomas Jones - nice couple of
runs, but why on the first one, when he's got a whole open field, does he
run up the back of his own blocker allowing himself to be caught? Was it
the shock of not fumbling?
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