Quick turnaround by Lovie?

[stirs]

If the Bucs get Michael Johnson and then draft Khalil Mack, their defense will experience a very quick turnaround in my opinion.

 

I think this is where Lovie will concentrate to begin with and then in his second year, look to the offense for reconstruction.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/09/buccaneers-pushing-hard-to-sign-michael-johnson/

[Hammerin'Cameron34]

I think the Bucs and Saints will swap places this year. At least to a degree.

[jasonluckydog]

If history repeats itself the bucs have a good shot at winning the NFC South. ..Worst to first seems to be a trend.

[TheRumGone]

they already have great pieces on defense. they draft and sign those players they will be a force.

[CarolinaNCSU]

The Bucs have talent already...and room to add more. A competent HC and progression from Glennon and yeah, they could be good. 

[hepcat]

I really really wish they had kept Greg Schiano another year.  Lovie Smith is an actual NFL head coach that can win games....NFC South will be tough.

[t96]

Could you imagine if they signed Vick and Sproles too? They would be stacked on both sides of the ball and we'd be really worried about them. I know Vick will be injured for some games, but what he would bring to that offense would be scary.

[t96]

I really really wish they had kept Greg Schiano another year.  Lovie Smith is an actual NFL head coach that can win games....NFC South will be tough.

 

I wished that the Lions would get Lovie Smith.

[rayzor]

i think they'll work their way back up to .500

 

they'll have a top 10 D and a bottom half offense. 

 

nfcs is going to be tight next year. falcons record gets better as does the bucs, but we and the saints see some regression. i don't see two teams making it to the playoffs next year. I've got this knot in my stomach that says we have a winning record, but miss out in the playoffs, mainly because i think the conference stays strong but the nfcs levels out and there are no back to back winners of the division. i hope we are the first, but it will be hard to make that happen unless the offense can figure out how to put more points on the board than what we did the last half of the season.

[hepcat]

i think they'll work their way back up to .500

 

they'll have a top 10 D and a bottom half offense. 

 

nfcs is going to be tight next year. falcons record gets better as does the bucs, but we and the saints see some regression. i don't see two teams making it to the playoffs next year. I've got this knot in my stomach that says we have a winning record, but miss out in the playoffs, mainly because i think the conference stays strong but the nfcs levels out and there are no back to back winners of the division. i hope we are the first, but it will be hard to make that happen unless the offense can figure out how to put more points on the board than what we did the last half of the season.

 

Carolina is definitely taking a step back next year....no doubt about it.  Panthers are losing too much talent to be 12-4 again.  Also, the Bucs will be much better and the Falcons should be more competitive.  I just hope the Saints completely fall off the map, but that'd take Brees hitting the wall of age.

[doogy]

Bucs will be competitive this year, no doubt. Their defense is already a strength and as we know, if a strength is strengthened it can go a long way. If they stay healthy on offense and add a weapon or two, the Bucs will be dangerous. 

[Gin and Juice]

Yep! Just having Lovie as there coach is worth 4-6 extra wins with their talent

[t96]

Carolina is definitely taking a step back next year....no doubt about it.  Panthers are losing too much talent to be 12-4 again.  Also, the Bucs will be much better and the Falcons should be more competitive.  I just hope the Saints completely fall off the map, but that'd take Brees hitting the wall of age.

 

I completely disagree. We have no idea what will happen in the coming weeks and the draft. The only huge loss is Gross, the rest are pretty much just fill-in players that we signed last season to fill the roster who ended up playing well. We can definitely do similarly to last year through FA and we can do well in the draft and improve in areas we need improvement. Could we take a step back? Certainly. But will we definitely? No. Our entire front 7 will stay dominant which takes the pressure off of whoever we have in the secondary and with our young DT's having a year of experience, it'll be even better. Our defense will surely be top 5 if not top 2-3 again. On offense if we can get solid OTs and draft WR or get someone like Nicks, we'll be improving. Why does everyone think that we're definitely going to take a step back? We don't have Hurney any more and we've got Ron Rivera and DG, who are actually smart. 

[CelticCat]

Carolina is definitely taking a step back next year....no doubt about it.  Panthers are losing too much talent to be 12-4 again.  Also, the Bucs will be much better and the Falcons should be more competitive.  I just hope the Saints completely fall off the map, but that'd take Brees hitting the wall of age.

 

12-4 will be hard to repeat for sure. I imagine our schedule we again be tough having won the South. But are we really losing that much talent. We aren't really losing any core players. We're not losing anyone that was worth much more than a 1 year deal last year, we will find others to fill the holes.

 

It'll be interesting to see what we do have come camp.

 

Mitchell, Munnerlyn, LaFell and Ginn are really what we're talking about. Gross will be the big one but he'd be going anyway. Smitty too if that happens, hopefully not.

 

We stayed relatively healthy bar G, that'll be hard to repeat also.