Bucs Get New Face

As Steve and I spoke with Roy Cummings, long-time beat writer of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just a few moments before the Bucs made their first pick in the draft, our discussion was about how big of a smoke screen all the attention given toward Kansas State Quarterback Josh Freeman was. Not only was it not a smokescreen, Bucs Head Coach Raheem Morris said Freeman was the no. 1 player on their whole board. Morris was more than an excited cheerleader for their new “franchise” QB.

I don’t know what the agreement was with the Bucs’ owner about his job security, but unless the Bucs look pretty good pretty fast, I don’t think Morris will get a chance to coach Freeman as the Bucs QB.

I was disappointed in my own career about how I thought things were going to go and how they ended up, so I can empathize with Luke McCown’s plight to see his chance at leading an NFL team go up in smoke. I don’t think the coaching staff will wait very long to get the huge, strong-armed youngster into the lineup on a permanent basis.

I wasn’t an advocate for this pick, but now that it is a done deal, I say let him go get experience from the beginning. Why wait for Luke McCown to mature into the role only to put a still inexperienced Josh Freeman in the following year. And finally, I thought Josh Freeman handled himself like a true professional in his press conference and subsequent interviews. He is ready to start! Oh, boy.

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