Tampa Bay Buccaneers Leaning Toward Schottenheimer and Son?

Schottenhemier and Son—sounds like one of those old-fashioned haberdasheries, as they used to call 'em.

That may be what's about to happen with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This "exhaustive" coaching search by Mark Dominik and his overseers, the Glazer clan, has looked a lot like an AARP meeting. It's something straight out of an American Pickers episode where the boys, Frank and Mike, go on the road and search for worn-out, rusty, aging artifacts that they can convert into money.

What we have as of Tuesday is the possibility of your basic father-son team stepping forward at the front runners to try and a 2012 makeover of this ugly Tampa Bay Buccaneer football team.

First, dad Marty had a ball during his interview and says he'll be back for a second round, which tells us he's a finalist.

The second part of this puzzle may have fallen into place yesterday as well when the son of Marty, young Brian, jettisoned himself from the New York Jets, who have a lousy, under-performing quarterback and an under-achieving offense. Nice.

Which brings us back to One Buccaneer Place, where the two of them might reunite in a glorious moment of father-son glee.

Welcome to One Nepotism Place.

Maybe that's not so bad. When in doubt, let's go with the lesser of all evils.

After all, Marty's got what this band of ragamuffin Buccaneers really need and that's discipline and a lot of it. It needs order, a lot of it. It needs professional work habits, big-time and it needs someone who will take away the keys to the asylum from those inmates and by golly, Warden Marty would guarantee just that.

The Glazers already went out on a limb and made the risky move, the vogue move, the "youngry" move when they handed the keys to Raheem Morris. Sorry folks but the team ran over him like a band of desperadoes in an old western movie.

This time around, Dominik and his overseers will probably take the safe route. Let's restore law and order. Heck, after 2011's 4-12 record, 8-8 would look pretty damn refreshing.

Maybe, just maybe, Marty could find a defensive coordinator and staff who can teach guys to actually tackle someone in the opposing jersey.

No more shenanigans, and that would be refreshing as well.

Wouldn't it be nice for a change if some of these guys on the Buccaneer roster had to fear for their jobs. Fear is a great motivator. Maybe some of them would actually decide to play football on the days when they're not collecting their fat weekly pay check.

If Marty is indeed the front runner, well then so be it.

If Marty's kid comes along for the ride, so be it.

More than anything else, some butts need to be kicked out there and maybe Marty could weed out the garbage during OTAs.

One thing Marty will need and here's where it gets tricky:

The Glazers better be telling the truth when Joel last declared to us that they will spend "whatever it takes to win."

Say hello to a foreign concept in Tampa Bay.

It's called free agency.