Originally published at: Report: Zac Robinson Hired as Tampa Bay Buccaneers Next Offensive Coordinator Thanks to Push by Baker Mayfield
Robinson landed with the Bucs “thanks in part to his connection to Mayfield.”
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This is kind of a double edge sword , I hope Zac is successful but I’m not fond of Baker You hear every team he’s on he’s really popular, just too cocky for me
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Glad Zac got his next gig. Will be difficult to cheer for him when the QB is the ever cocky Faker Bu$tfield. ATL Failcants screwed up firing their HC and Zac and everyone else IMO, they were showing improvement.
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No doubt. The saying by us OU fans is 'Baker is a dbag. But hes our Dbag". Id hate him if he played for someone else
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I feel for Zac, but Baker isn’t his issue. He’ll be challenged because he basically went from one bad defensive-minded head coach to another. Baker is a better QB than what he had in Atlanta, but Zac will be hamstrung by a porous defense and a head coach in Todd Bowles that will force him to be ultra-conservative in his play calling. So expect Zac to be looking for a new job next year too. I’m kind of surprised that Zac would attach himself to a coach that’s literally starting next year as numero uno on the NFL coaching hot seat list.
Gotta disagree on this: Raheem Morris is not a good head coach and needed to be fired. I don’t get why Zac then tied himself to Todd Bowles who is basically the carbon copy of Raheem Morris and is dead man walking next year.
Yeah this isnt college football and Bowles isnt Marty Schottenheimer. The Bucs this year werent real good, but a lot of that was injuries and Mayfield didnt play as well. The 24’ season the Bucs were one of the best offenses in the NFL, and Bowles was the HC. The NFL does a far better job of letting a coordinator run things than what it does in college. Bowles isnt a hands on guy. Robinson would not have taken that job if he was. “Im kind of surprised that Zach would attach himself to a coach thats literally…on the NFL coaching hot seat” Again, this isnt college. There are a few ways in which you can get an NFL gig. Taking over as the interim after your HC has been fired is one of them. The list goes on and on. Especially if the guy getting fired is a Defensive guy and youre an offensive guy.
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This is a much better deal for Zac than OSU HC. I don’t think he could have put together the structure to recruit and build practically from scratch at OSU like Morris. Morris had experience and a ready-made team to pull it off. Zac is on the NFL career path and he is better off to stay in the NFL. If he can have a good year or two with Mayfield, he will be sought out for an NFL head coach gig. The NFL is all about results. Nobody cares where anybody went to college.
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Im not gonna defend Raheem Morris and say hes a really good coach, but who knows. His three years at Tamp Bay he had no QB. Then he went 8-9 in two seasons at Atl. They did win their division this year. I wont scream from the mountaintops that hes a great coach, but to say a guy who won his division “needed to be fired” is a little odd to me
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I really cant argue this. Good points. I think he obvisouly couldve potentially done a good job in Stillwater and may have the opportunity to do so in the future. I did not understand the people on here clamoring for him because of his OSU ties. You hire the best guy, who cares where he went to school
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Ketch,
Couple things. RM didn’t win the division. He tied at 8-9 and finished 3rd after tiebreakers. Carolina won the division. As for the Bucs, I can tell you as someone who lives in Tampa and follows the team, TB is not the reason they won the conference last year, and Mayfield isn’t the reason we failed this year. Bowles is a mediocre coach who enforced ultra-conservative playcalling on his OC in order to milk the clock and keep his porous defense off the field. Mayfield proved he can play well-enough based on his performance last year with Liam Cohen as his OC, who amazingly also made Trevor Lawrence look legit. But as the TB defense (and Special Teams) went south, you could see TB reigning in the offense to be more run heavy even with both guards on IR and having the entire WR core back by the last quarter of the season. I promise you, its not without reason, that 90% of the Tampa Bay fan base was irate that TB didn’t get the hook this year.
Edit: also, just watch the games. You can see that both RM and TB are poor coaches based on how poorly they manage the games. TB punted on 4th and 1 from the 50 in a game where he was down in the 4th quarter with 6 minutes to go (and his defense never got the ball back). The number of moronic time management gaffes by both of those coaches is ample proof that neither is HC caliber.
Indeed which is why many of us wanted Morris. Besides the kids from UNT who followed him, and before we knew they would, his relationships built with Texas HS coaches is crucial. No doubt a personable guy like Robinson could eventually built those, but it would’ve taken many more years than what a guy like Morris already had in his back pockets! They 100% made the right choice!
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