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The Buccaneers finished 8-9 and failed to reach the playoffs for a sixth consecutive season. When asked about ways they could improve, RB Rachaad White thinks HC Todd Bowles can relinquish defensive playcalling duties so he can focus on the rest of the team.
“You can clip this or whatever, but it is what it is. I’m just being real,” White said, via PewterReport.com. “I do feel like Coach Bowles, I do think it would be easier on him. I do think he should let somebody else call defense and he just be a head coach. I feel like he’d probably be better off by doing that so he can just focus on really just the head coaching job, and just trust that he has the right defensive staff and things like that.”
With the amount of turnover on Tampa Bay’s coaching staff, White didn’t exactly offer a rousing endorsement for Bowles to stay on. It’s probably worth noting at this point that White is a pending free agent.
“Obviously I’m not an executive on none of this,” White said. “I just think you get rid of a lot of the staff, you kind of should just go ahead … and I’m not wishing for nobody’s job to get taken, but just get a new everything. But I do understand where they’re (the Glazers) and where he’s (Bowles’) coming from in the aspect of ‘Yeah, another year. Won’t be bad. We won’t be a bad (I guess) chance to just see.’ Obviously we know what it is and everybody knows what it is with this year and what’s going on with him and go from there. Get a new staff so hopefully he can hire the right guys, which is tough. But you try to do the best you can and just see if you can go from there. I think that’s the biggest thing.”
The Falcons brought in former QB Matt Ryan as their new president of football, leaving his analyst job with CBS. Ryan feels returning to Atlanta was the “right opportunity,” and they have the right ownership in Arthur Blank to turn things around.
“I think it’s the right opportunity,” Ryan said, via PFT. “No. 1, I think when you look at organizations and you think about places you’d like to be, it comes down to ownership, ownership, ownership, ownership. Bill Cowher, I’ve sat next to him for the last three years, and he would hammer that home all the time. He would joke, the three most important people in the building are the owner, the owner, and the owner. So when you get an opportunity with a previous relationship and knowing what Arthur [Blank] stands for and what his family stands for, and you respect all of those core values, to me, that’s what makes it so exciting in terms of an opportunity.”
Ryan is excited to return to the competitive nature of the NFL and is confident he’ll be able to...
