Morris sees improvement, but same losing result Six points. That was all the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had to show for what was the fifth-best yardage output in history. A day later, it still had Coach Raheem Morris shaking his head. Not that Morris didn't know where the problem was. On a day in which he sensed his team improved in many areas, the Bucs' 16-6 loss to the Panthers on Sunday came down to one thing – a bad day by rookie quarterback Josh Freeman. "That's what it was,'' Morris said. "I mean, you get to the red zone, you do it consistently and you're not one-dimensional. You're running the football, you're throwing the football, you're getting the ball to big time players. You're getting the ball to guys that are good in the run game, and (Freeman is) going through his progressions - a checkdown here, a shot there, a throw there, a scramble here. "And you get to the red zone and you make three critical mistakes. You just can't do that. But that's the NFL. It's an 8-8 league, and you have to find a way to get four of those games that you lose. And we're not able to do that right now.'' The Bucs fell to 1-11 with the loss, largely because they failed to score a touchdown in four trips inside the Panthers' 20-yard line and four other trips inside the 30-yard line. Still, Morris said, he saw progress from his team. "There's progress in how we're playing,'' he said. "We just have to make better decisions at the end. We've got to make better plays at the end. We're still looking for that guy to stand up and be the closer for us. We've got one at quarterback. He just didn't have a good day (Sunday) in the red zone.'' Roy Cummings, The Tampa Tribune 7 December 2009