Bucs effort against Jacksonville Sunday may have sealed Raheem Morris's fate

TAMPA - I’m pretty much an easy-going, patient person.

God knows how patient my parents had to be with me. I would get just enough slack to either screw up or success.

Through it all, my parents never fired me from the family.

We had a lifetime contract between us.

Such is not the life in the NFL.

Mostly, you’re only as good as your last game.

Should you be on a seven game losing streak, those last game’s become a distant memory.

Enter the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

I’m not going to give a play-by-play analysis of what happened Sunday against Jacksonville.

I think we all saw it.  Seven turnovers, a dozen penalties, and absolutely no progress made.

If you are a consistent reader of my Bucs takes, all I’ve asked from the Bucs was signs of progress, and if they won a couple of games along the way, fine.

Time is running out on the season.

Worst yet, time may have run out for Raheem Morris and staff.

I hate writing about this stuff.

I’ve been canned more than once in my career. Comes with the job, as it does in the NFL.

What’s the saying, hired to be fired. Cruel and cold as it might be, it is reality.

I know if I was in Morris’s shoes, I’d be putting on that positive position knowing full well in the back of my mind things are not working out this season.

From my perspective, change is coming.  It has to.

Unless the Glazer’s come out and admit this whole youth plan was their idea, someone is going to pay.

Usually the head coach. I’ve been hoping that the Bucs would show that sign of progress I’m looking for.  Why?

Because that’s what I believe the Glazer’s are looking for. Neither of us observes through rose-colored glasses.

What we’ve been seeing week to week is hard to watch.

Worst yet, what I’m hearing in the locker room when I’m there is always the same stuff.

All they do is yap, and go out every week and commit the same mistakes, over and over again.

Part of that is coaching.  Part of that is the player's fault.

Totally non-professional. To be talking about fundamentals at their level is totally unacceptable.

Maybe on occasion, not week to week.

That is a sign of trouble.  Either the players are tuned out or their just not to damn smart.

Either way, I’m afraid it is going to cost Raheem Morris his job.

Truthfully, if I was the owner and watched that garbage on the field Sunday, I’d make a move this week.

Trouble is who do put in there on an interim basis? 

Does it really matter?

Look, the Bucs are headed for a quasi-nationally televised game on the NFL Network next Saturday night against Dallas.

The vultures will be flying around Ray Jay. Would the Glazers be better served to at least wait until after that game are just wait until the end of the season to do something.

Something they will do. I just don’t think they have a choice.

I’d like to find reasons why they shouldn’t, but I just can’t.