Doubts Already About Koetter

While looking around NFL.com I discovered a story by Gregg Rosenthal describing in his opinion the struggling pick ups of the NFL. He pointed out Coach Koetter and Mike Smith as being struggling already. To me thats way to early and his reasonings are off as well as you can read below.

Koetter, promoted from offensive coordinator in January, has made some curious game-management decisions as the man in charge. In Week 2, he left quarterback Jameis Winston vulnerable to big hits late in a blowout loss. In Week 3, his hatchet job of the team's timeout situation robbed Winston of at least two to three more plays in crunch time of a defeat to the Rams.

For one Winston isn't a seasoned veteran that needs rest, he's still a 2nd year player and the more reps the better. I don't care what the announcers were saying during the broadcast and obviously Winston didn't want to come out of the game. Secondly, yes Koetter didn't take a time out late in the Rams game which I and his game management coach both said he should have but he did draw up a perfect play that if Winston delivered, would have made Koetter look like a genius!

#Bucsfilm2016wk3 Perfect play call against Rams zone here. Outside CB bites on Brate, had ... https://t.co/pODldutBlg

— Steven Cheah (@CHEAH_SAY) September 29, 2016

I truly believe Koetter is the right man for the Bucs right now. He isn't afraid to put his foot down and make a statement and makes sure players are accountable. He is only 3 games in and already getting scrutinized for one blow out where everything went wrong and one close game that could have gone either way. Give it time, you can't judge a coach by his first 3 games.

Now on to Mike Smith and the Defense. Against the Cardinals and Rams the safeties have looked downright retarded. Everyone sees where our biggest weakness is on defense and it is in the back end. The Dline may not be getting too much pressure on the QB ever since Ayers went down but that because all they have out our run stopping lineman and guess what, we are pretty good against the run only allowing 22, 54, and 85 to the lead rushers of each team we have faced. Let's see if the safeties can turn it around and prevent the big play as they did in the Falcons game. The defense needs improvement no doubt but I'm not going to jump ship just yet.