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Time to Shake Things Up

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This team looks exactly like last year's team.  Some new faces with familiar results.  The offensive line has been and continues to be the biggest roadblock between this team and any semblance of consistency.  Our wide receivers are vastly overrated.  Our defense is still playing too much soft zone and getting chewed up down the field.  Our special teams continues to rack up penalties and miss tackles.  Bortles continues to lose confidence in himself as a result of being neutered and being constantly put into bad situations.

Some things to throw out there:

- Find a trade market for Allen Robinson.  He isn't worth what he is going to demand in free agency and still would fetch a decent return, especially if a receiver goes down on a contender.  He gets no separation, gives up on plays, and is a very difficult receiver to get on rhythm with.  He is a solid number 2, but you can't run an offense through a receiver who is so one dimensional.  Dede Westbrook and Keelan Cole have beyond a doubt been the best and most consistent receivers since offseason workouts... Which leads me to...

- Start Dede Westbrook and Keelan Cole next week.  Enough of the facade of competition and make it a true competition.  Lee and Hurns have been injured and Robinson has been bad.  Let the rookies prove that they deserve to not only make this roster, but see significant playing time.

- Find a trade market for Blake Bortles.  I'm solidly in the Blake Bortles is a good quarterback camp.  It's become a distraction at this point though.  Get something for him before his value takes even more of a hit.  We will look back at this later as a bad deal, but I am starting to think it has to be done now.  There is nothing he can do to endear himself to the media and know-nothings out there at this point.

- Release Chris Ivory.  His pass protection is incredibly bad and he isn't offering anything in the run game - not that I blame him entirely for it.  He's just going to take reps from Fournette and we already have two other younger, cheaper players that can fill all the roles needed.

- Bring in real kicker competition.  None of these undrafted legs from D-5 colleges that went 50% for a career.  Real, legit, competition.

- There is really nothing we can do with offensive line at this point which is a shame.  Hopefully we can negotiate some sort of trade to bring in at least one starting quality veteran.

- Both coordinators need to be replaced for next season.  The offense was the most predictable offense in the NFL last season and you could see today that the Bucs were fooled by absolutely nothing.  Obviously no run game plays a part of it, but playaction fooled nobody and only gave the quarterbacks less time to look downfield.  They confused the blocking scheme multiple times and went untouched.  Any runs to the outside are sniffed out and stretched out in the backfield by a swarm of defenders.  Todd Wash and Gus Bradley already lost the team last season on defense with the garbage soft zone crap and we doubled down on it.  It's a distraction.  Players don't want to play in it, fans don't want to watch it, get rid of it.

- Blake really needs to start scrambling more.  Most mobile quarterbacks have to be told to keep their eyes downfield and look to pass before run.  For him, its been the opposite.  There were many times last season where he had an easy 1st down by running and he threw incomplete into coverage or an illegal forward pass.  He is scrambling less and less and his legs are a legit threat that can give him some room to pass later on if he would just use them.  You can see that the offense opened up for Brandon Allen because he actually was a threat to scramble.  When you have no run game, this can be a huge difference maker.
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