The defense needed to get younger and it did. I think Phillips will be a beast at OLB. It’d be nice to see Adams take a step forward (he sure gave FSU problems in college). I think the depth at DT is weak. Didn’t you pick up Miller in the draft? The offense needed a QB, but Freeman is a project. I don’t think he’s in the same class out of college as Ryan/Flacco. The WRs look good. OL is a little suspect. Picking up Bradshaw was a good win. It will be interesting to see how he handlesbeing the feature back. Turner showed us that the B/Us can be great. Winslow can be great, or he could be the next version of the 08 Jeremy Shockey (not a factor). The problem with the Bucs will be expectations. They do have talent, but have lots of holes and only time will tell if they filled them in the draft/FA. Fans will point to the 08 Falcons/Dolphins/Ravens, but the situation is not the same. The Ravens were always a QB away from being playoff ready. The Falcons and Dolphins purged their “dead weight”, hit home runs in the draft, and found the right coach. Not all teams have the same result. Look at the 08 Redskins. They didn’t make it, and they are the closet to the Bucs in comparison. Fresh young coach, lots of talent but more than a few holes, questions at the QB spot. I think if given a year to develop Freeman, and let the team adjust to the new coach, they could be a force in ’10. The problems this year is that the NFC South has a TOUGH schedule. This is not the year you wanna be rebuilding while expecting miracles. I wish you luck in 14 of your games. The other two, not so much… =)

I kid about that. Aside for the obvious reasons, I am going to be taking a bit more of an interest in how the Bucs do this season. I am fascinated by this recent trend of hiring head coaches who are barely of legal age. Alright maybe not that young, but you know what I mean. In their early 30’s.

I will say this though, my gut tells me that Raheem Morris is going to do way better than Josh MacDaniel in Denver. I can’t help but feel that he just has no friggin clue as to how to be a head coach. and it’s not just because of that whole Cutler thing.

I hope they’re terrible.

But I’m not incredibly optimistic. I think they’ll be better quicker than anyone expects.

I think they will suck, They may get better as they go but to be honest I dont really care. I just want the Falcon’s to whip that arse on both occasions this season.