As new Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano continues to add to his coaching staff, former coach Raheem Morris, fired last season, looks back and thinks, well, everything during his tenure was fine. “I wouldn’t change anything about it,†Moriss told WDAE in Tampa, via sportsradiointerviews.com. “You put yourself in a position of power and you put yourself out there and you want to go out there and want to be great and we had the opportunity and almost pulled it off. I take no ill-will, no negative feelings toward those guys, toward the Bucs organization at all. … Now we’ve separated and I wish those guys nothing but the best.†In reality, Morris, out of three years in charge in Tampa Bay, had one good season -- in 2010 when the team went 10-6 (otherwise, his record was an unimpressive 17-31). But last season, it was clear the team had plenty of problems, including a lack of discipline and players that seemed to quit toward the end of the year. Source: CBS Sports
well, it's probably too soon for Raheem to have really reflected on how things could have gone better ............. i have a feeling if Raheem is asked the same question in 5 years, he would admit that he lost that locker room because anyone with half of a brain could see he lost those guys this season.
I don't know that its all on Raheem ti necessarily "lose" the locker room. Where was the veteran leadership in the team? where was the rest of the coaching staff? Where was ownership? Back to the players, there is no heart on the team, no leadership. If they don't improve that, they'll wind up the same way they did in 2011. It's not all on the head coach to bring that out. Domes got to come from within and from teammates.
that's fine if your opinion is that the players and assistant coaches are responsible for creating and maintaining the culture and attitude in a locker room. personally, for me, it's not the job of the employees to control the direction, culture, and attitude of the locker room. It's the job of an NFL head coach. He's the captain of the ship and it is his job to put the right people in the right places and build the type of culture and attitudes he wants in the locker room. An NFL head coach is more like a CEO of a big company. His important goals/tasks are of a macro nature, which is where the overall attitude/culture is defined and established. And if the vision/mission of the head coach goes off course, it is then the head coaches job to determine where the problem(s) lie, and take care of them immediately to get the ship back on course.
