What do the fans think about the firing of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Head Coach, Dirk Koetter?
News Channel 8’s Gabrielle Shirley discovered, while some fans fully agree with the decision, other fans had hoped Koetter would spend one more year with the team.
We pulled the opinions from the constant chatter of a popular Tampa sports bar.
Maximilianl Gonzalez, who actually attended the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football game on Sunday, believes a coaching change may not create a winning team. He says, “Bringing in someone else is not necessarily going to be a better thing, having someone that has had time to work with the team sometimes that click.”
He mentions the magic word but would Koetter have been able to do it, to generate some clicks, in his fourth season after two losing seasons?
Gonzalez says, “I think he has a lot of talent with the team, bringing in a new coach is just going to mess that up, the cohesion he had built with the team this year.”
Ron McGill has a different view. He quickly squashed the idea of a fourth year under the leadership of Koetter.
“No, we have not been going upwards in the last few years,” McGill tells us. “It has been more of a downward [slope] and all of the other coaches have gotten their team going much faster so, yes, I think it was the right move.”
McGill is a self-proclaimed “Brandon boy” and he has followed the team for decades.
“Earliest Bucs memory?” he asks himself. “When we weren’t good, the Vinny Testaverde days.
He remembers the Super Bowl team too so we asked him, “What do you think it is going to take to get back there?”
McGill tells us, “A lot of work, a lot of work.”
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization has “a lot of work” ahead of them now as they start the search for a new head coach.
