Six days before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 2016 campaign came to an end, Head Coach Dirk Koetter was asked how he would assess his team's full-season performance. Koetter responded that the most appropriate way to judge a team, in his estimation, was to determine how close it came to meeting its full potential. He also deferred that judgment to a later day in order to stay focused on preparations for the team's season finale.
On Sunday, not long after the Buccaneers won that last game, 17-16 over the Carolina Panthers, Koetter gave an indication of how he might be leaning in that assessment.