Going into the 2011 season with the "Youngry" Bucs coming off a 10-6 record, I told my father, "This is the year."
Heading into the 2013 season with Pro-Bowlers Darrelle Revis and Dashon Goldson plugging up the holes in the porous secondary responsible for the 7-9 mark the year before, I insisted to my coworkers, "I’m telling you guys, this is the year."
At this point, I might just be the boy who cried wolf to my family and friends. So when training camp rolls around and I tell them, "This is the year the Buccaneers are going to make some noise," once again, they’ll probably just roll their eyes.