Throwback Video:Trick Play- Gary Anderson to Vinny to McDowell
Were going to take a break from preseason clips for a little to bring you some Sam Foolery! Gary Anderson to Vinny Testeverde who tosses to a wide open Anthony McDowell for the TD and early 7-0 lead.
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They used to say Sam Wyche would rather fool you than beat you. Well he fooled the San Francisco 49ers in 1992 with the help of this flea flicker play. The Bucs early lead shocked the 49ers, and kept the Bucs in close all game. They lost 21-14, and to be honest, makes you wonder how the 93-95 seasons would have gone had Vinny Testeverde stayed instead of Craig Erickson in those years.
Yesterday’s Clip
Pewter Video: Bill Schroeder
Nice Brad Johnson to Bill Schroeder combo that unfortunately, did not really develop during the regular season.
Click Here to Watch the Video FULL normal size....Bill was a nice pick up for new GM Bruce Allen, who was trying to retool the Bucs to make another run at the Super Bowl. Problem was, Brad Johnson was too old, Deese, Stussie and Stinchcomb were NOT Oben, Jenkins and Christie, and the best wide receivers on the team, Keyshawn and Keenan McCardell, were gone. The Bucs started 0-4 before Brian Griese made the season exciting to watch again.
At some point, you begin to get tired hammering a point over and over to any one person or an audience.
I never get tired of this point.
T.J. Houshmandzadeh has no business in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform.
T.J. is NOT washed up, and can still play.
So your saying, how can you contradict yourself like that Niko?
Well I’m not. He would be a good receiver for this team, but every action you EVER take has consequences. In this case, either Arrelious Benn, Mike Williams, or Sammy Stroughter will regress in their progress with this young team. They will regress because TJ will get the reps, instead, and that is NOT how you build a young team.
If you are a real Bucs fan, you should be happy with what the Bucs are doing right now. You should be able to see what is happening. You will NOT have to watch a new QB come in every other 3 years, then some receivers, etc.
Josh Freeman, Mike Williams, Benn, Cadillac, Stroughter, Price, McCoy, Black, Hayes, Talib, T Jack, these are all players that are going to be here for a very long time. This is the foundation of this team, a team that is going to get better and better each year, and continue to fight for playoff spots and championships.
It may not happen this year, but if it doesnt, it will next year. So you may have to sacrifice having a winning team this year, but you will be able to enjoy the football games this year as this young team finds heart, and fights to win their games as they grow together.
Gone is Brent Bowden, who actually punted pretty well for the Bucs this preseason. Except for a couple of unforgivable 25 yard shanks with no one near him. Apparently it was too much for the Bucs coaching staff who picked up punter Chris Bryan from the Green Bay Packers who punted well this preseason; without shanks.
Mark Dominik and Raheem Morris, along with the rest of the pro scouts, have been very busy the last few days picking up some of the bubble players from OTHER teams rosters. This is nothing new for the Bucs lately, as they have bolstered their roster with other teams good players that simply couldn’t survive the numbers. Donald Penn is an example of one of these types of players, as Dominik plucked Penn off of Minnesota’s practice Squad.
The roster is likely to be in flux over the next couple of days, and then will settle down.
The Bucs went into the season without their two veteran receivers, Keyshawn Johnson and Keenan McCardell. Instead , a rookie wideout from LSU named Michael Clayton took the Bucs by storm. At first expecting to be Chris Simms’ guy, Clayton became a favorite Target of Brian Griese, and set himself up with a 1,000 yard season and probably would have been rookie of the year if not for Big Ben in Pittsburgh.
Well, It’s over now.
Tampa Bay has Cut Michael Clayton.
For some, its not soon enough; yet as angry as we got with MC, we cheered him when we heard the words “MC is looking good in Camp”…
…we Wanted him to succeed. We wanted him to get 80 catches, 1200 yards, etc.
Some of you may remember some of my first video work on Bucem, the two part video on Clayton.
Did he fall out of favor?
Did he not get the chances?
Its probably a bit of everything all put together. But in the end, MC will ALWAYS be remembered as the guy who had a great rookie year, but never was able to get it together again.
Was he a Bust?
No…he just was a mystery, wrapped up as a wide receiver in another no. 80 jersey.
ROSTER CUTS FOR 2010:
The following players were released:
CB Brandon Anderson
S Vince Anderson
RB Carlos Brown
WR Michael Clayton
OL Marc Dile
T Xavier Fulton
DE George Johnson
TE Jeron Mastrud
LB Rico McCoy
DT Dre Moore
DT Carlton Powell
TE Ryan Purvis
C Donovan Raiola
CB Derrick Roberson
LB Lee Robinson
DE James Ruffin
QB Jevan Snead
FB Rendrick Taylor
CB Trae Williams
The following player was waived/injured:
C Jonathan Compas
The following player was placed on Injured Reserve:
T Demar Dotson
In addition, the following player was placed on the Reserve/Suspended list:
You can count stats all you want to; passes defended, how many (or few) TDs you’ve given up, etc. But if you want to play defense for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you need to come up with splash plays. Interceptions are good; but INTs for TouchDowns? That’s Buc Football.
Corey Lynch knows how to play the Buccaneer brand of football folks. Lynch not only picks off Orlofsky late in the 2nd quarter to end one drive, but before that he picks off Orlofsky deep in Bucs territory to kill a Texan drive and refuses to be caught on the return and scores the Touchdown that makes it 10-0 Bucs.
Lynch has so far become known as a play-maker with his special teams prowess. He has already blocked one kick this preseason, and makes a habit of doing so whenever he is on the field. Now Lynch is scoring on picks, and you have to wonder how far this ride will take him on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Coaches, players, all joined in on the crime; 15 yard penalty for excessive celebration. It never counted because it was preseason, but in the minds of Bucs coaches , it was great to see the man named Arrelious but who goes by Regious had himself one heck of a night.
So far, Benn has been overshadowed by fellow receiving draft mate Mike Williams who was taken in the 4th round but has excelled and won himself a starting job at on the Bucs. Its not that Benn has disappointed, he simply is coming along at the normal pace for a rookie, and after his performance at Houston, has shown why the Buccaneers made him their second draft pick this year.
So far Sammy Stroughter seems to be penciled in as the starter opposite Mike Williams, but how long until Regious can get in there and form the triumvirate that Mark Dominik and Bucs brass envisioned to grow together ala Manning/Harrison, Montana/Rice etc. Here he makes a nice move to come back to the ball for the score.
The name went to Earnest Graham, who consistently performed at a high level during the practice sessions in August, but saw little light after that. Well eventually, Graham became a starter, and saw little action in the second half of preseason games.
Well without a doubt, this year that title goes to Kareem Huggins, who, with perhaps a little bit of good fortune (for him, not for Derrick Ward) has probably won himself a starting spot on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for 2010.
Here is an example of his hard running style that has won him the 2nd string tailback job;
Josh Freeman (not this picture) is seen throwing the ball around at Reliant Stadium, without pain.
This report just coming off of WDAE 620′s live broadcast from Houston, TX where T.J. Reeves is reporting that Josh Freeman is warming up as if he were going to start the game, and is throwing the ball just fine without pain.
T.J. says he fired some bullets and did not wince once, nor did he shake the hand or anything that would resemble any kind of pain.
This does NOT mean Freeman will play at all tonight, but simply means that Josh Freeman looks to definitely practice this week as planned for the Cleveland game, and probably should have no problem starting at QB in the opener.
With only 10 days until the season opener at Raymond James stadium, all eyes are on Josh Freeman to see if he will be of good enough health to start. Since most Quarterbacks do not get much action in the last game, and since he was at One Buc Place all offseason, missing the one game he missed is really not that big of a deal.
Tonight, take a nice look at Josh Freeman instead to see how he fares, as its getting more and more unlikely a starting QB is able to go a full 16 games without requiring help from the back up.
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The Bucstop Video Vault comes from the largest collection of Tampa Bay Buccaneers games on the Planet. I have acquired this collection painstakingly over the last 4 years, by scouring garage sales, Craigslist.com, even Ebay.com back in the day! Now, the selling of games is strictly prohibited.
Feel Free to send any requests you may have for a certain player, or scene, or favorite game or moment from a game, and I will try my best to add it!
I appreciate everyone's patience as I try to figure out the best bit rates to use for 2010 HD videos. Some browsers I have been told are not showing the videos unless you click on the actual link.
1977-1987 seasons have been ripped so far from the disastrous loss of hdd, and a new 2 TB hdd is on the way to add to the 1.5 TB hdd to hold the 551 Bucs games Video_TS folders. Hopefully 3.5 TB will do the trick!
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Q: How long did the Bucs have losing seasons in Tampa Bay?
Karen Stilletou, Palm Harbor,FL
A: Im assuming you mean the big stretch of losing years that Bucs fans like myself had to endure without message boards to bash the team, coaches, and players with like Negative Nancys do today simply over ONE year?
Tampa Bay started out as a losing franchise because of the rules of the NFL in 1976, and went 0-14 and 2-14 in their first two years. Then the Bucs went to the playoffs for 3 of the next 4 seasons. But in 1983, Doug Williams was allowed to leave the Bucs for the USFL, and Tampa Bay had to endure 14 straight losing seasons. 12 of them were double digit losing seasons from '83 to '94, then in 1995 the double digit streak was broken with a 7-9 year. Tony Dungy came on board in 1996 but the Bucs had to learn a whole new system and went a little backwards going 6-10 before the turn around happened in 1997 when Tampa Bay got to experience a 10-6 campaign and did not have another losing year until 2003!
Source: www.BucPower.com and 30 years of Bucs football knowledge.
Some of you may remember some of my first video work on Bucem, the two part video on Clayton.
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