Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2011 Team Made John Lynch 'Sick'

This one's a no-brainer—we could sure use a man like Johnny Lynch in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers secondary.

Lynch, one of the mainstays of the great Buccaneers defenses under Tony Dungy and then Jon Gruden, didn't pull any punches on Friday when he visited with Ian Beckles on the 620 AM Ron and Ian Show.

The former Bucs safety, who now does a really nice job as a football analyst for Fox Sports, got to see some of the ugliness of the 2011 Buccaneers firsthand.

"It made me sick at the end," Lynch told Beckles, recalling the Bucs' run of 10 consecutive losses and the lack of effort that led to the dismissal of Raheem Morris from his head coaching duties.

"Raheem didn't lay down the hammer early," Lynch observed, and that was one of his main downfalls. Lynch went on to say that he agreed with the assessment of former players like Deion Sanders and suggested that the team "quit."

Lynch pointed out the differences in this Bucs team from when he was a young player.

"You had myself, Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks and Ronde Barber, we were all young guys but we had great role models like Hardy Nickerson. That's what this team lacks."

Lynch went on to talk about what happens when a team perceives that the coach is probably going to get fired, which is where a lot of the ugliness bubbled up with the Buccaneers.

"You had guys out there playing and making a business decision not to play hard," Lynch added.

"It has to get to the point where teammates don't accept that."

The point Lynch made in general is that there needs to be a cleanup in attitude and culture with the 2012 version of the Buccaneers. It's something that general manager Mark Dominik and the ownership clan—the Glazers—better take into account as this coaching search drags on.

New attitude, new culture.

Sounds like a good place to start.