Bucs Nation · Jul 8, 2018
How well did the 2017 Buccaneers handle pressure?
The 2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers are under a tremendous amount of pressure. Head coach Dirk Koetter and his coaching staff, and perhaps general manager Jason Licht and his front office, are all potentially facing the prospect of losing their jobs and having to uproot their families if Tampa Bay can’t make the playoffs. Licht hand-picked Koetter, passing him the torch after Lovie Smith showed he wasn’t up to the task of rebuilding a team that crumbled years earlier when Jon Gruden was fired. Now Koetter prepares to face his own judgement.
Oh, and the Bucs now own the league’s second-longest playoff drought (ten years) behind only the perennial laughingstock Cleveland Browns (fifteen years).
