Buccaneers Fire Lovie Smith

By Kevin Schroeder
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Updated: January 7, 2016

Tonight, the Bucs fired head coach Lovie Smith. After going 2-14 last year, the Bucs went 6-10 this year. That’s what you hope to see during a rebuilding effort, but I guess the idiots running that team expected a Super Bowl win. I’m not going to say this Bucs team was a great one – it wasn’t. I’m not sure I’d even call it good. They got shellacked by Tennessee week one, blew a big lead to Washington, which sparked that idiotic catchphrase, and didn’t really beat anybody good. But still, progress was made. You don’t fire a guy two years into a rebuilding project that you knew was going to be a rebuilding project when you hired the guy. Schiano was a different case. It was clear that that was going nowhere. Mark Dominik was part of the problem, too. But Lovie started the rebuilding process the right way – he started completely over, willing to put the time in to actually build something and not just put a Band-Aid over things like the last guy did. These guys haven’t had a clue in years. Firing Gruden was a bad idea, hiring Raheem Morris was a worse one, Schiano made me think Morris was actually pretty good, and then they fired him, hired a real coach, and fired him two years into the rebuilding process, because reasons. And now whoever the next coach is is going to end up taking a step backward while they start molding the team to fit what they want to do. Dominik, who works for tWWL now, because of course they think a guy who was mostly a bust as a GM is a good fit to be an analyst, said on Twitter he thinks OC Dirk Koetter would take over as coach. He’s never been a head coach in the NFL, his last college head coaching job was ten years ago and he wasn’t particularly good there. After a couple very good years at Boise State, he went to Arizona State and went 40-34 in six years before getting canned. Could he be a good NFL head coach? Sure. Would I bank on that? Absolutely not. I know we joke a lot about what teams should do, but at this point, I legitimately believe I could run that team better than they are. Lavonte David pretty much summed it up: