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Love Tony but Ted was the last coach that I really was fired up about
and wanted to go to war with. It's been a long time. |
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I appreciate that Dungy allowed Tom Moore and Peyton to pretty much have a free reign on offense. |
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sherck (09-14-2017) |
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a QB like Manning I think he'd have developed him like he did Jones. And regardless his teams were hardnosed, hard hitting and came to play every day. There were no softness issues with his teams. |
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Don't get me wrong, I loved Marchibroda as a coach, but Dungy IMO, knew the game on both sides of the ball, and that gives me the edge for him over Marchibroda. |
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Bert Jones credited him with turning him from a pumpkin to a jack o latern. If Ted was so conservative its hard to see how Jones won the MVP in '76 and how that offense was one of the most prolific of that time. An ultra conservative coach would have stuck with Erickson in '95 and wouldn't have told Harbaugh to just let 'er rip. And defensively I'd put that '95 squad over anything Tony had in Indy. We'll just have to agree to disagree on our preferences, commish. It's just how I feel in the gut. The one thing we can agree on is that we're nowhere near those coaches right now. Last edited by bertjones; 09-14-2017 at 12:32 AM. |
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I'm a huge fan of Marchibroda. If I had any complaint about his first stint with the team its that he and Szymanski had some horrible drafts after Thomas' ouster. As far as his return engagement I was pretty happy with him and was disappointed to see him go.
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After the Bucs ditched Tony, Jon Gruden took the same team that floundered in the playoffs under Dungy to the Super Bowl and won. I do, however, wonder how much of the problem with the failure to rack up more than one Super Bowl can be traced to Bill Polian's abject failure to provide him a quality lineup. Draft after draft was wasted on nonentities like Quinn Pitcock, Ben Hartsock and Gilbert Gardner. In 14 years of drafting, he managed to pick exactly a dozen guys who ever made a pro bowl, and those include Marcus Washington, Cato June and Bertrand Berry. Free Agency yielded nothing. |
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After that SB season Gruden pretty much ran that franchise into the ground. |
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. |
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Puck (09-15-2017) |
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The 2000 Bucs had 9 pro bowlers, and they lost in the wild card game 21-3. Two years later, Gruden had 7 pro bowlers and won the Super Bowl. Two years after that, they were down to two. Exemplative of that was the fact that their starting QB in the Super Bowl was 34 year old Brad Johnson. Two years after his moment of glory, he was riding the bench, and the Bucs spent a decade and a half searching for a replacement. You can blame Gruden for a lot of things, and I'm not sure I'd want him as our coach; but you can't blame him because he couldn't win any races with a half dead horse. |
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