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Slate.

Sean McVay, take one.

Marker.

I'm Sean McVay.

I was an offensive assistant,

really like a glorified secretary

in 2008 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

And what a typical day was,

was just kind of being able to assist.

It might have been picking up dry cleaning.

It might have been helping Monte Kiffin with setting up

his turkey sandwiches

where he had seven turkey sandwiches

and he'd eat one every single day like clockwork.

It might be drawing cards, putting formations on there.

No job was too small for me to do

and I was happy to help any way that I could.

Kyle Shanahan, quality control, 2003 to 2005.

Take one.

They called us the Gruden Grinders

because that's really how he did it.

Nobody is bigger than this football team, nobody.

I had been out of college for literally eight months

and I wasn't used to getting up at 3:30 in the morning.

I got in pretty early. I pissed Gruden off.

I got in before him one time and I said,

"Eh, let's not do that anymore."

My dad's Mike Shanahan,

so he's been a coach for a long time.

He just said, "Hey, you're going to learn

all this stuff from John and that's important."

But nothing's more important than understanding defense

and learning defense.

Across the hallway, there was a huge open room

where all the defensive coaches were,

that was the coolest thing to me about the building

because the staff that they had with Monte Kiffin,

with Raheem, Mike Tomlin,

they just held this legendary staff

and they all kind of worked in the same room.

And all I tried to do was soak in defensive football

while I learned the offense from John

because I wanted one day to be a play caller

and those guys helped me out so much

and they still mess with me now,

saying that they gave me too many secrets.

Now they have to go against me,

but I think that was probably

the most important part of my career.

When you look at the success that Tampa's had

in terms of all these coaches going on to have success

after they've been a part of that special organization

and that family, it's about the people.

We made the decision to part ways with John and Bruce.

We felt like we had some people in our organization

that understood the way we'd operated around here.

We have this bright rising star on our coaching staff

in Raheem Morris.

I was told by the Glazers that I was their first choice.

Knowing I had the blessings from the Glazer family,

I wanted to go present my best self

and give it my best efforts.

I told Raheem, trust your instincts, man.

You've been preparing yourself for this.

Go for it, man.

And, uh, rooting for you.

The new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Raheem Morris.

He was a young coach.

He was about Ronde's age.

He was 32 years old.

But I can relate to these guys.

They relate to me.

We move well together.

And I think that's what the Glazer family likes.

Mark Dominik became the GM.

He had been with this franchise for well over 15 years.

He was someone that had a great football background

and also someone that we could communicate and work well with.

And that's half the battle.

We took a chance and we said,

Okay, let's put this team together.

The team we had had gotten old.

Maybe the best thing to do at this point in time

is to start over and give them the opportunity

to build a team again.

Let's build a team that can grow up together.

Let's go with the youth movement.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers cleared house on Wednesday,

releasing five players,

including 11-time Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Brooks.

They're basically telling Derrick Brooks

they don't think he can play at a high level anymore.

I hope they know what they're doing.

This was the veteran fabric of this football team.

It was not a great place to start your new regime.

Some say he's the best player to ever wear a Buccaneer uniform.

2,198 tackles,

seven defensive touchdowns,

11 Pro Bowl appearances, one Super Bowl win.

Derrick Brooks officially retired today.

Transitioning away from the game is something

that I always tell players to be prepared to do,

because you never know when that last snap is going to be.

I understood the business of football,

that's part of business.

But that doesn't stop the emotional hurt

that you go through.

It took a great deal of pride with me

knowing that I would go into the Hall of Fame

all my years as a Buc.

Didn't wear any other color, but this one.

As a servant leader, I just want to do the best I can

to make something better than it is when I come in touch with it.

That number 55, it represents the relationship

that I have here at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

And I try to represent them

in the most positive light that I can.

It was unfortunate for Brooks' career to end with us that way.

Derrick was a true icon in this organization, still is.

A beloved member of our community, and that was tough.

When you got to let go just critical veterans

and you got to start to rebuild,

that was a tough duty as well.

But the joy definitely kicked in when you start the draft.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Josh Freeman.

Here's Freeman. Post with flag routes with the heads up.

It's caught, end zone, touchdown Tampa Bay!

We only won a total of three games,

but at least with Josh, there was some sense of hope.

The goal was to build a team through youth.

Maybe we have to take a step back to take a step forward.

With the third pick in the 2010 NFL draft,

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Gerald McCoy.

You get drafted third overall.

You were the third overall pick because the season prior,

they were not very good.

So they're bringing you in to revamp this defense,

and you're supposed to be the piston that drives the engine.

What you guys think Gerald McCoy is,

is what I'm going to bring to Tampa,

and I don't plan to disappoint.

You want to talk about a presence, a smile,

face of the franchise.

A guy that can come in and potentially be the heir apparent

to what you had seen in Warren Sapp,

and to bring that type of presence to your D-line.

Okay, and this is the building block of hopefully what

Tampa can rebuild upon,

and then things really started turning around in 2010,

where we really felt like the team

was going in the right direction.

Find a way to win more games, find a way to get into playoffs.

That's the only thing we play for.

That was the year of the race to 10.

They are out in full force here at Raymond James Stadium.

14 straight points for Tampa,

and they've won it here on opening day.

Buc 17 and Cleveland 14.

That was his theme for the year, a race to 10

to try to get 10 wins.

That would get us, hopefully, in the playoffs.

And the Buccaneers go to 2-0, winning 20-7.

And they were succeeding against the odds.

Attack, attack, attack, attack.

Here's the snap. Here comes pressure.

Freeman rolling right.

Towards the end zone, caught!

Buccaneers win.

As the Bucs become the best team in the NFC.

That's what we do.

Are we the best team of the NFC?

We're playing like it, aren't we?

These Buccaneers come to play every Sunday.

I give Raheem Morris so much credit...

because I did not think he was ready to lead this team.

Big game for the Buccaneers at home hosting the Lions.

They're trying to stay in the playoff race.

Tampa's defense unable to get off the field

as we start over time.

Dave Rayner to try to win it for the Lions.

And the kick is up, and it's good.

And the Detroit Lions put a dagger

into Tampa Bay's playoff hopes.

Taught me then.

Getting in the playoffs is extremely difficult.

And we don't control anything about anything else

but what we do next week.

Next week, we got to go to New Orleans.

That's our playoff game.

We got a chance to get 10 wins.

Let's just go out and get it.

Freeman drops back to throw on fourth down.

Throws a fade route toward the end zone, it is caught!

Touchdown Tampa Bay!

The Buccaneers reach 10 wins.

And unfortunately, it was not in the playoffs

because of how well the rest of our division did.

But we built that franchise and got those guys

as the youngest team in football to go out there

and win 10 football games.

And I thought it was absolutely outstanding.

At that point, you're thinking, okay,

the future is going to be very bright.

We're heading in the right direction.

We're building a young team.

Fans were excited. They had an exciting team.

Things looked up and up.

You being the youngest coach in the NFL,

your team being the youngest team in the NFL.

How does that translate on a day-in, day-out message

to your ball club?

We got a "yungry" ball club.

Some of the best things that could have happened to us

might have been last year not making it with 10 wins.

Did you just create a word on me and say, "yungry"?

Young and hungry, I'm telling you.

Trying to say young and hungry.

And it came out all together with my Jersey accent.

And I said, "yungry."

We just stuck with it.

It's the home opener for the Vikings.

Handoff, Leggarette running right.

Leggarette, touchdown Tampa Bay.

Josh Freeman has just engineered his eighth career

fourth quarter comeback.

How about them Tampa Bay Buccaneers?

So that season starts like the last season ended.

It's exciting. This the future is here.

It's going to be fantastic.

Here's a quick snap. Ryan dropping back.

He's hit! He's hit!

- It's a fumble. - Fumble recovery.

Recovered by the Buccaneers.

Here's a quarterback sneak by Josh Freeman.

He's going to touchdown Tampa Bay.

Good show for the hometown crowd.

We're able to start fast.

We're able to get these guys going.

We start off 4 and 2.

The Bucs are tied with New Orleans

first place in the NFC South.

Sometimes athletes don't deal well with success.

A lot of these cats were acting like they were good.

It's not about acting like you're good.

It's about putting in the time and being prepared.

Being prepared is not being out all damn night

and being out every night of the week

and acting a fool and coming into the complex

hungover and stuff like that.

Young guys go out and party, have a good time

and whatever goes along with that.

That had a major effect on that group of players.

Freeman throws, and it is intercepted.

Buccaneers drop to four and three.

Well, Raheem Morris, he was so close in age

to some of our players that it was like,

he's just one of the guys.

I don't got to be different.

I just get in line with my team.

And we got away with a lot of things

with how meetings were being ran,

how freelance it was around the building,

and it caught up to us.

I think it really came down to discipline today.

You can't afford to self-destruct.

You talk about a fall from grace.

We fell off the side of a mountain.

Young football team making mistakes on the road.

Buc's fall to 4 and 6.

Week in and week out, we just weren't performing on the field.

The discipline wasn't there.

And then we just kept losing and kept losing.

And our loss will extend to nine in a row.

And it was just such a difference from one year

where everything feels like it's going right

to nothing goes right for the rest of the season.

The 2011 season will end on a 10-game losing note.

The Buccaneers got to regroup, get ready for 2012.

At the end of that season,

we didn't want to be put in a position to have to fire Raheem.

At that point, we had no choice.

Raheem Morris fired Monday after the Buccaneers

ended their season on a 10-game losing streak,

this after a 10-win season last year.

Continuity in the NFL is very important.

You got to get the right guys.

The Glazers, they wanted a championship.

And they were going to find their next head coach,

whoever it was, that was going to get them

another Super Bowl ring.

We are going to spend whatever it takes to win,

to put the best team on the field.

From the start, someone that Mark Dominik

was very intrigued by and focused on was Greg Schiano.

He had been at Rutgers, turned that program around.

We kind of looked at our situation

and felt that he'd be the right person for the job.

Our team will be built around a humble,

unselfish attitude of sacrifice.

As a coaching staff and a team and an organization,

we have to hold each other accountable.

Tampa, win it out of the huddle! Let's go!

When I accepted the job,

I didn't know a lot about what

the state of the locker room was.

It became apparent pretty quickly

that some of the discipline that was needed

to have a successful team maybe was lacking.

Take the field with attitude, attitude, attitude!

Get there! Brake foot, drive foot, brake foot, drive foot!

Our very first practice, Coach Schiano loses his mind.

Stop it! I said, toes on the line.

Start over. We not doing that.

Start the whole thing over.

Yeah, we all looking around like,

man, who the Glazers hired?

And he walked up and down the line

to point at everybody's toes

to make sure we were on the line.

Look at this.

Instead of landing on the line, his foot landed back here.

How many plays you missed by this?

Greg was very demanding that way,

and it rubbed some of the players wrong.

These were high-class, top-level professional athletes.

Vincent Jackson, Ronde Barber,

Davin Joseph.

These are All-Pro players that he's doing this to.

So, it's not going over well at all.

Everybody flying around, a little bit anxious,

figuring it out. What are these guys about?

What is practice going to be like?

All right, now you know what practice is going to be like.

To this day, I don't know why I played another year.

Transition to safety that year,

so I had to learn a lot of new things about football.

The easy thing maybe for him would have been

to go to another team or to just retire.

Yet, Ronde came back for another season.

I was pleased not only with the way he played,

but having him on our team,

he served kind of as the elder statesman.

He continues to add to his Hall of Fame resume.

Ronde Barber, the old one, the veteran,

186 consecutive starts.

The team needed some age.

At that point, I'm 36 years old,

and they're all looking at me like I'm their uncle.

But probably the best thing for me was the transition of power.

We drafted Lavonte David.

A terrific play by Lavonte David,

who is just having a spectacular night.

It's hard just to put into words

when you see a young guy that has talent

that actually wants to be really good at what he does.

And that was him.

His attitude was right. I noticed it right away.

For me, personally, I just love the game of football.

So I'm very passionate about it, no matter what.

Being a linebacker,

you always want to play in an aggressive defense,

a defense that's always attacking.

Lavonte David, another tackle for loss

by the Buccaneer defense.

One thing I remember about Lavonte David,

I sat there and go, gosh, this guy,

he just feels like Derrick Brooks.

He's not Derrick Brooks.

Nobody's Derrick Brooks.

But he was damn close.

Look at that closing speed by Lavonte David.

Our very first OTA.

It was the very first play.

He ran past every single person

at a speed I had never seen a linebacker run.

And I said, what the heck was that and who is that?

And Coach said, oh, that's, you know, a rookie,

Lavonte David.

And it was that day that I coined him The Flash.

Hey, Lavonte, you real fast, dawg.

You fast as heck.

The Carolina Panthers found a quarterback a year ago.

Rookie phenom Cam Newton.

They'll run the option and hit the backfield.

Cam Newton's clobbered.

2012, we got a really good roster.

We got Vincent Jackson.

What a grab by Vincent Jackson.

Doug Martin.

Breaks a tackle at the 40.

Is there anything number 22 can't do?

That's the play of the day.

That year we went seven and nine,

but there was the infamous game against the Giants.

What I do with our football team is we fight

until they tell us game over.

Freeman over the middle intercepted

and the Giants have their first win of the year.

Across the league, it's league-wide known that

when the game is over, the offense comes up.

Hey, fellas, we taking a knee.

All right, cool. Take the knee, game over.

Greg had this philosophy that

the game's never over until he says it's over.

The Giants are in victory formation,

and he ordered his defense to come off the ball hard

and low and try to get a fumble

in a kneel-down situation.

We had practiced this in practice.

Well, now it's time to show the world.

So Eli Manning comes up, like every offense does,

and says, hey, fellas, we gonna take a knee,

and we all look at each other like, we doing this?

It's like, hey, here we go.

Eli, none of them were having it.

The Giants were pushing and shoving.

Giants didn't like that get that was aggressive

and put Eli Manning on his backside.

They're like, what the f was that?

What was that?

They start stomping on us and punching on us,

and we at the bottom,

we're like, "Our coach made us do it!

Our coach made us do it!"

And it rubbed Eli Manning wrong,

and it certainly rubbed Tom Cofflin wrong

and rubbed the football world wrong.

What are you doing?

Going for the ball? You're trying to hurt the quarterback.

You don't do that in this league.

I mean, you jeopardize the offensive line.

You jeopardize the quarterback.

I totally disagree with the way they handled it.

I totally disagree with his opinion.

What I did was right, and if you don't like it, too bad.

And I think at that moment,

the world kind of turned on Greg.

It's unfortunate because I think

Greg was trying everything he could

to get the ship turned around.

When you think of some of the most iconic Buccaneers,

number 20, Ronde Barber, comes to mind.

Today, after 16 years in the NFL, all with the Buccaneers,

Ronde announced he was retiring.

When I got drafted in 97,

to say I had talent is a gross overstatement.

Where my struggle came from is

I didn't know what it meant to be a pro.

It's not that I didn't want to be.

I just didn't know what it meant.

And I think I spent that whole year with Herm Edwards

learning how to be a pro,

how to prepare, how to be curious.

And so I would say it was about 99.

Guys like Sapp would start mentioning my name.

And they weren't talking about me messing up.

The proof was in the plays that I was making on the field.

And then from then on, it was a chase for greatness.

I had the winds in my sails, had my teammates support.

It was just a race for the next 13 years.

Now, I came up here not really knowing what to say,

but I think the best way to end it is to say,

I had fun.

I loved coming to work every day.

I love football. I'll always love football.

And I'm ready to move on.

That's intercepted at the 10 to the 20.

Going coast to coast, Ronde Barber to the 50, to the 40.

Barber to the 30. Nobody's going to touch him.

Ronde Barber, 10, 5. Touchdown Tampa Bay.

Ronde Barber, my good friend,

welcome to the pro football Hall of Fame class of 2023.

Oh my God, Derrick.

We teammates forever.

My football journey that I've been on

for 40 years has reached its zenith.

And with that realization comes a pretty good reflection.

Sapp, Brooks, Lynch...

Let's go lose ourselves in another moment, boys.

God bless you all and God bless America.

Out of all the years I've covered the Bucs

and it's been a lot, 2013 stands alone,

I think, as the most bizarre season,

I think in Buc history in a lot of ways.

19 different signs saying fire Schiano having lost

11 of their last 12 games.

They had MRSA in the building.

Three players with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

diagnosed with an infection known as MRSA.

What many people are calling the super bug.

The season was just awful.

The Glazers had no choice.

Schiano's lost control of the whole team

and I think he should be terminated.

Team owners fired head coach Greg Schiano Monday morning.

It was a perfect storm for it not to work.

I thought we had the makings of something

that first year and then it kind of fell apart.

But I do think that some of the things we did

when we first got here were the foundation of future success.

When you look at Lavonte, he was constantly

about the team first and that's why he's still

playing this many years later.

It didn't work out for me here at Tampa,

but I walk away with a lot of lessons learned

and a lot of relationships made still to this day that I value.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking not only

for a new head coach, but a general manager as well.

We had a very, very, very short list of coaches

and Lovie Smith was the person we thought would be best suited.

Lovie had been a coach on Tony Dungy's coaching staff.

He'd had tremendous success with the Bears.

Lovie leads Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl

against Coach Dungy with the Colts.

Two Black head coaches, first time in history

and they both coached for the Bucs.

People kept asking me, who do you think will win?

I said, the game of football wins.

We realized what you've gone through

the last couple of years

and it's time for a new day here at Tampa Bay.

It's very important to have a good working relationship

between the coach and general manager.

The one person that came out of that process was Jason Licht.

The better teams in the NFL, that repeat in the playoffs

year after year are the teams that draft the best.

We're going to build a championship team

and bring winning back to this community.

So Jason Licht comes to town in 2014

and he's a self-described meathead scout

and that's exactly what this organization needed.

They needed a general manager who would roll up his sleeves,

do the dirty work and build this team through the draft.

So my first draft, we needed a quarterback that year

and I spent the first, I don't know how many,

hundreds of hours watching

all the quarterbacks in that year's draft

and the one that piqued the most interest

for me was Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M.

Manziel takes off again.

Everybody's talking about Johnny Manziel,

Texas A&M, Johnny Football, Johnny Football.

Wait, hold up.

Who's a big light-skinned kid he keeps throwing the ball to?

As we watched more and more of Johnny Manziel,

I became more and more in love with the receiver

of most of his throws, and it was Mike Evans.

Who made who here? The quarterback or the receiver?

I just always knew early on life is extremely difficult.

Things happen.

It's about how you respond.

My mother had me at 14 years old.

There was domestic violence, issues in the household,

which ultimately led to my father

being killed by my mom's brother, my uncle.

Me and my uncle, we were tight,

but we didn't spend much time together.

Neither did I spend as much time with my father.

They both were locked up for a long time.

They got out of prison around the same time.

And we all are living under the same household.

But as a nine-year-old kid,

I don't understand the magnitude of what was about to happen.

My uncle hears all the stories about the toxic relationship

my mom and my father had with the domestic violence and abuse.

I was sleeping, he came home and he saw my dad,

my mom wasn't there, and he just started stabbing.

My pops tried to get away and he shot him from a distance

and then he walked up on him and he killed him.

I mean, as a nine-year-old kid,

I was heartbroken because no kid wants

their dad gone from this earth forever.

I always loved sports so much

and I think that was the reason how I was able to push through.

I was able to channel my anger and rage with sports.

Touchdown!

Mike Evans, this is Jason Licht,

the general manager of Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

How you doing?

With the the seventh pick in the 2014 NFL draft,

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select

Mike Evans, wide receiver, Texas A&M.

It didn't even feel like real in the moment.

It's something I can't even explain,

like something took over my body.

You know, I just started crying, I couldn't control it,

and I'm holding my two-year-old daughter just

knowing that I'm going to have the opportunity

to take care of her and live out my dreams.

He's what today's NFL wide receiver is all about.

It just felt right.

If you know who you got, you know you feel 100%

that this guy's going to be a superstar, which we did.

You have to take the guy.

This is why they drafted him in the first round

for this playmaking ability.

Mike was unique.

He wants to be the best.

He wants to be the best teammate.

He's authentic as a player, authentic as a person.

He's become a very important part of our life,

my life, my family's life.

Mike is as close to family as it gets for me.

Breaking News, right now at five,

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just announcing

team owner Malcolm Glazer has died.

Malcolm Glazer's passing, it was a sad day

because of what he had meant to Tampa Bay

and certainly what he had meant to the Bucs.

They're the Buccaneers!

If you haven't heard about them, you heard about them today.

So my father, Malcolm,

was born in 1928 and he was poor his whole young life.

Malcolm was born working.

He was an amazing businessman.

He had a paper route when he was ten years old

and when his father died, he was 15.

He would be up there running the business.

He was supporting the family.

He was selling watches when he was growing up,

one at a time.

But he gave me these stories about how he worked himself

into the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

I would say his secrets to success

were unbelievable determination.

Nothing could stand in his way.

He believed you could do anything.

I first give Malcolm a lot of credit.

They came into this venture doing it as a family.

And I think because they shared it as a family,

it gave the kids a great deal of experience.

Putting their value system to work

to make the Buccaneers what they hoped it would be.

He would push us as his children always to give it a shot.

Everybody will tell you what you can't do.

Let's see what we can do and we'd give it a try.

We started the Glazer Family Foundation in 1999

because we really wanted to give back to this community.

One, two, three!

Go, Bucs!

We later started a Glazer Vision Foundation.

My father felt that when he got a pair of glasses

when he was little,

it really changed the trajectory of his life.

And so we really wanted to honor that

and give away glasses to all the underserved kids

that would need them.

Malcolm, I could never, ever, ever repay him

of everything that he did.

He explained to me how to run this business,

how to treat people.

And I knew I am working for a person

that for the rest of my life,

I don't have to doubt that they're going

to take care of me because I know they would.

Malcolm Glazer was quiet,

but what a warm, really caring person he was.

I mean, he talked to me about thinking big,

think outside the box,

and he gave me some really good pieces of advice,

and I wanted to win for him.

How about that, Mr. Glazer?

We did it, man!

Best in the world, man!

Yeah, I love you, man.

If it wasn't for Malcolm Glazer,

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would not be what it is today.

It would not have been successful like it was,

it would not have the culture it does,

and it stands to this day.

We honor the memory of our late owner, Mr. Malcolm Glazer,

as we unveil the newest member

of the Buccaneers' Ring of Honor.

If he were here right now, he would simply say

"thank you," put his thumbs in the air, and go, "Go Bucs!"

Go Bucs! Go Bucs!

Go Bucs!

Well, the offense fails again for Tampa Bay.

It's hard to watch this week in and week out.

The first year with Lovie Smith, it just doesn't go well.

We're 2-14.

You know, it really is hard to lose 14 games.

Last game of the season, we're playing the Saints.

If we lose, we secure the first-round pick.

The biggest decision on the overall

of this offense has got to be the quarterback.

In the 2015 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select

Jameis Winston, quarterback.

What's it like for you now going to a city

that's expecting you to really turn their fortunes around?

My dream was always to be an NFL quarterback.

Like, man, I'm trying to show this city, this organization.

Let's win a Super Bowl.

It is finally here, opening day in the National Football League.

It's time to siege the day

and there is something special in the air.

Opening day, we're at home.

Jameis is comfortable.

We're like, Jay, we got your back.

We're going to show everybody we made the right pick.

First pass.

First pass, intercepted.

Touchdown Titans.

It was like, oh, my God. What have we done?

You know, the first game was a game that,

like, it didn't go as I planned.

Jameis Winston has taken a beating today

and NFL game number one means loss number one.

But as the season got going, like, we kept building.

We kept building. We kept fighting.

Great throw to Vincent Jackson from Jameis Winston.

Any of y'all doubters on Jameis Winston?

He is a gunslinger.

Throws a pass towards the end zone.

Caught ball, touchdown Buccaneers.

He has no fear.

He is a very excitable player.

We got to protect our pride.

We got to protect our babies.

We are in the house and it's a beautiful day in Tampa Bay.

And he had a knack for creating plays.

He's still alive, he throws the ball to outfield.

Good catch!

What a play by Jameis Winston!

His games were exciting. They were never dull.

A lot of highs, a lot of lows, a lot of turnovers.

The second interception thrown in today's ball game

by rookie Jameis Winston.

And this is just a bad decision by Jameis Winston.

You know, we end up going six and ten.

Even though we only won six games,

Jameis had done very well in offense.

He was playing good football.

And at that point, you have to make a tough decision

because you have a first year quarterback

and you want to make sure that he's given the best shot

he had to succeed in the NFL.

Dirk Koetter was his offensive coordinator.

So we make the decision to promote Dirk

to the head coach and we move on from Lovie Smith.

The Buccaneers just announcing that the head coach

Lovie Smith has been fired.

Six to ten was the record,

two and fourteen the previous season.

It was really tough for me to tell Lovie

that we were going in a different direction,

especially since, you know, he was the one

that recommended me for this job.

It is a new era for the Buccaneers.

A lot of fans are absolutely hopeful

that this will be a good thing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This franchise is headed in the right direction.

Ready for the responsibility, ready for the challenge.

It's going to be a heck of a journey.

Winston with time. Throwing deep for the end zone.

Jenkins holds on for touchdown.

It definitely looked like the Bucs were going to be okay

because they were having fun and they were winning.

You see how we play as a family.

You see what we can do as a family.

It's all about us.

His energy, his aura,

the excitement that he brings to everybody at all times.

He just gave you confidence that everything's going to be okay.

We'll win our third consecutive game in a row

and we'll improve to six and five.

He's a natural born leader,

he took command of the team from the jump.

Do your job. We together.

We're not going out there alone.

It's not a single man's fight.

Intercepted! Bucs win.

They can't say we're not a good team anymore.

That's five in a row.

Jameis Winston had gotten them to a nine and seven record.

Great job.

They just missed the playoffs.

There's almost this feeling of like they've arrived

and Jameis is now going to deliver us to the promised land.

- One, two, three! - Family!

Minnesota is where 27 teams just starts to trickle down.

I'm rolling to the right, I throw a pass,

and Anthony Barr tackles me,

and I fall right on my right shoulder.

That was the beginning of a right AC sprain

that I dealt with for the remainder of the season.

The thing is, with an AC sprain,

the only thing that could help it is, is rest.

And when you play a football game,

any time you fall on that shoulder, you re-injure it.

And if you're not resting,

there's no way that you can heal an AC sprain.

The next week, I'm at practice,

Mike Evans did a double move route on the outside,

and I just checked the ball down.

Dirk gets mad at me saying,

we got Mike Evans running full speed around,

and you want to check the ball down?

Because I was like, man, coach,

I can't really throw, I want to be able to play on game day.

And he was like, hey, like,

if you're going to freaking throw on game day,

you can throw in practice.

I'm just like, you're the head coach of the team,

and you going to call me out?

It was just like an alpha male contest between Dirk and I.

This is a must-win game for Jameis Winston

and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

They've lost four in a row.

In my rookie year, Saints, Bucs rivalry,

like, it's always rocking whenever we go into New Orleans.

We're on a four-game losing streak,

like, this is going to be the game,

and we about to get a win.

So I'm just putting all our thought energy to,

let's eat a W, like, let's dominate this game.

Let's go.

That's a W.

Let's eat one.

That's kind of odd, you know?

Nobody's ever seen nothing like that before,

and you're trying your hardest to get into it,

but you're just couldn't, because it was just odd.

Let's eat one! That's a W!

How many people want to eat a W tonight?

I started eating the W, and I'm walking around,

I'm getting guys' hype.

You look in the background, you see DeSean Jackson.

He's got, like, his look on his face,

and you're like, man, what the heck is he doing?

There were a lot of collective eye rolls during that.

I'm going to eat a W.

There's absolutely no way that I'm about to dap this guy up

after he just was like eating his fingers.

I'm like, nah, dawg, I got you with the elbow.

We was walking in the locker room and said,

"Man, I ain't never said this a day in my life,

"but I'ma say it now.

We ain't winning today."

That is not what we needed to go ahead and win this game.

So on top of that, second half, I get benched.

The first game that I ever got benched my whole life.

The Buccaneers lose here, fifth in a row,

and what will the future hold for Jameis Winston?

Quarterback Jameis Winston will be suspended by the NFL

for the first three games of this season.

How are the Bucs reacting to today's news

and what it potentially means for their season?

Probably, realistically,

we're not starting out 3-0 even with Winston.

So if you can win a game, maybe two,

with a little bit of Fitz magic,

you then can get that bump when Winston comes back in week four.

We have Ryan Fitzpatrick, great energy guy,

great character guy, and highly intelligent,

and he could play the game.

That's gonna be a Buccaneer touchdown.

Fitz is dealing like he's throwing

a back shoulder touchdown to me.

Touchdown, Chris Godwin.

He's throwing deep balls to Mike.

Mike Evans, Buccaneer touchdown!

Deep balls to D-Jack,

and we go in and we stun them in New Orleans.

I'm happy to announce Fitzmagic is alive and well.

♪ Oh, oh, oh, it's magic ♪

We're a defensive team historically.

We don't have a lot of offense,

and it was so exciting to see just us airing the ball out

in just in a way we'd never had before.

Going deep to the DeSean Jackson

on the first play from scrimmage,

and takes it all the way, 75 yards

for a Buccaneers touchdown.

Well, the Bucs gotta feel really good about this W.

The chains, the tight jackets, the sunglasses.

No, it's just game day. Game day wear.

He truly became Fitzmagic at that legendary press conference.

I'd look up at the stands, I would see the sunglasses,

the chains, the open collar,

the chest hair, and the beard.

It took off like wildfire.

Social media's been lit up today because of Fitzpatrick

and the outfit and everything else.

Wearing silly clothes.

A. hilarious.

B. Separated at birth from Connor McGregor.

It's nothing.

I think we just have to stay humble. You know?

People are already saying this is Fitzpatrick's team.

He is rolling, and you can't make a switch.

What's your take?

Honestly, man, he's playing on fire right now.

If Ryan Fitzpatrick looks like that,

Jameis Winston is your future,

but you keep Ryan Fitzpatrick in there

for the rest of this season.

Oh, boy.

We've got ourselves a quarterback controversy right about now.

But here's the problem.

Fitzmagic has two different sides.

He has the Fitzmagic side and he has this doodoo side

that you see once every four games.

Picked off ball as they try to hurry the play.

I loved the way he competed.

I liked him as a person. I liked his swag.

But when you have an old quarterback in here,

the organization is not really going anywhere.

And then when Jameis came back,

then it kind of created this yo-yo effect a little bit

that the Buccaneers really didn't overcome

towards the end of that season.

It was just up and down, up and down, up and down.

So we decided it's time to make a change again.

No one seemed surprised that the Buc's head coach,

Dirk Koetter is out of a job today.

There needed to be change.

It had to come from somebody.

So, I mean, you start at the head

and you work your way down, I guess.

I met with the owners and they asked me to put a list together.

And on that list,

I had Bruce Arians with a question mark.

And they said, do we know if BA would be interested?

And I said, I really don't.

And I didn't know much about Bruce.

So I went online and I realized that there

was a show that followed Bruce called "All or Nothing."

I got about 10 seconds into the first episode

and I started getting goosebumps.

And he says...

As far as goals go, we have one:

Putting a fucking ring on our finger.

Everybody cool?

I paused it and I said, this is our guy.

At the time of the coaching search,

Bruce Arians had been retired.

And Jason had a relationship with Bruce

from his days in Arizona.

He was here earlier that year working for CBS.

And he had told me how much he loved his job and how,

you know, there was no stress.

And so I didn't know if he would be interested.

I literally walked out of that meeting with the owners

and I get a text from BA that said,

"Hey, bro, keep me in mind."

So I guess he was interested.

The conversation started with my son, Jake, who's my agent.

And, you know, he said, "Dad, what about Tampa Bay?"

We had Jameis in the 10th grade in our football camp

in Birmingham, loved him,

knew how talented he was, how hard a worker he was.

Next thing I know, Todd Bowles is available.

Byron Lefwich is available.

Keith Armstrong is available.

18 of my coaches were available.

I took that as a sign.

So when you do these coaching interviews,

they have their books. They have their binders.

I went and picked BA up at the hotel we had him at.

And I said, do you have any books or anything?

He goes, everything's right here, baby.

He could be himself.

He could be this larger-than-life character.

You know, there was swear words coming out.

Motherfuckers ain't playing good enough to get

a goddamn penalty.

One of the questions that the owners asked,

what is your main tent pole in your coaching style?

And he, without wasting any time, says,

"fucking accountability."

Guys don't have to like each other,

but they have to be accountable to each other.

The decisions they make on and off the field affect all of us.

And if those decisions are being made to win the championship,

then we got a problem.

The Buccaneers will have a different face

of the franchise in 2019.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finalizing a deal

with Bruce Arians to become the next head coach of the Bucs.

What's up, brother?

- Ready to go? - I'm ready.

Hopefully they can flip the script in 2019.

I think we have the core here to win quickly.

I'm not about building. I'm about reloading.

Drop, step, and run. Drop, step, and run.

Good ball. Good ball. Good ball.

When we did our homework on the roster,

Jason had already built the core to have a Mike Evans.

Mike Evans snags another one.

Have a Chris Godwin, Ali Marpet, Lavonte Davis.

What Vita brings is just fantastic.

One of my favorite of all time is Jason Pierre-Paul.

Adding Shaq Barrett from the Denver Broncos,

one of the classiest guys I've ever coached.

And the other guy that we added that year was Ndamukong Suh.

Really core, hard-nosed players,

and that permeates throughout your locker room

about toughness.

You have a popular motto, no risk it, no biscuit.

I don't... It's just the way I've lived my life.

Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

We are going to pressure people on defense.

We're going to take high-risk, high-reward chances.

We started off hot.

We showed the world that we can win some key football games.

I threw a lot of touchdowns to Mike Evans.

I remember they sent a cover zero blitz.

I faked the trap, and I let it go early

because I'm about to get clobbered.

And Mike Evans just finds a way to run up on that ball

and scores like a 60-yard touchdown.

The no risk it, no biscuit

is something we've never experienced before.

There are times you say,

gee, I don't know if I agree with this.

And then you'd see such success.

It's like, okay, he knows what he's doing.

Unfortunately, though, in his first year with Jameis,

he also got a lot of turnovers.

Jameis had the ability to put it in a pigeonhole.

Sometimes that's a great thing for a quarterback.

Sometimes it's not,

because you think you can get

in that pigeonhole every single time.

He probably should have took sacks more.

Just take the sack, live to play another down.

And he didn't have that in his, like, mindset.

He just was wired different.

Like, I have to make this play.

They're seven and seven going into the last two games.

They had an outside chance for the playoffs.

They lose to Houston at home.

Last game of the year.

First snap of overtime.

It's picked off, intercepted. Game is over.

Bucs finished seven and nine.

After the game, Bruce Arian's walking off the field

was his longtime assistant, Tom Moore.

And he looks at Tom Moore and he says, well, that's it.

What it meant was that's it for Jameis Winston.

He was no longer going to be the quarterback in Tampa Bay.

Became the first quarterback in NFL history

where his last pass and first pass for organization

to be both pick sixes.

Could we save Jameis?

I don't think there's any doubt.

We would have made him much better.

And he'd gotten better the second year.

But as an organization, you owe it to the owners,

you owe it to the rest of your teammates to see

what's behind door number two.

Gerald McCoy Interview, ABC mark.

Chris Simms, take one.

Lavonte David take three, marker.

Gosh, you're an asshole for asking this question.

The greatest Buc of all time

has to be Derrick Brooks.

It's down to two in Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks, right?

It's one of those two right there.

Probably go Derrick Brooks.

Derrick Brooks played his entire career as a Buccaneer.

He went through the transition from

wearing the creamsicles into

the new generation of the uniforms

and the turnaround that created

what the Bucs ended up becoming.

I'm going to hear it from one or the other,

no matter who I pick here.

I guess, I guess I'll go with Derrick Brooks.

It's very, very rare.

when defensive player of the year,

get all the interceptions that he did,

get all the tackles that he did, to make all the All-Pros,

make all the Pro-Bowls at a consistent basis.

He was a little bit of like the quarterback of the defense.

I felt like he embodied everything

that the Buccaneers wanted their players to be,

what the Glazer family wanted their players to be.

Never got in trouble.

Family man, everything about him is what the Bucs represented.

If I have to pick one, I got to go with Derrick Brooks.