Raheem Morris' Creampuffs Need To Man Up with Weirdness Breaching Overload

These poor Bucs can't seem to catch a break. 

With a six-game losing streak hitting its stride, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have had their plate mounted with a heaping pile of awkward and weird.

For starters, a Tampa TV station aired its personal action shot of "Guess that Buccaneer," providing an inside look to the locker room. Too close for comfort I would say. The station mistakenly put a player's "private parts" up for all fans who thought they would be enjoying some quality coverage of their blundering hometown team.

Well, you were probably hoping it was the starter that could only be so unpleasant. Nope.

Here comes the main course, a chunk of QB Josh Freeman's thumb. According to sources, Freeman was shooting at a gun range and the recoil "cut" his throwing hand's thumb. All of this after a sprained thumb against the Chicago Bears in London.

I'm sorry Josh but why are you at the gun range on Halloween? Shouldn't you be at home, relaxing out on the stoop with some lineman passing out candy to trick or treaters? I don't know how severe the injury was or if it even had that much of an effect on Freeman's numbers this season, but it hasn't been pretty in the slightest.

At least there's dessert...yeah, right.

The only player that has been close to a positive for the Buccaneers this season, running back LeGarrette Blount, now finds himself at the center of some serious controversy. Supposedly, Blount was the head coach of a fan beatdown back in September, directing his friends or family or whoever to slug a guy who had slammed into a car owned by Blount's sister.

Again, I'm sorry random dude. You're not going to win this one and if you do, it'll be by some ludicrous act of the unknown. Blount's attorney claims it is simply a Hail Mary pass for a money grab. I'm with the attorney on this one, "It's absurd."

Sadly, that's not all. 

From Josh Freeman's fourth-quarter folly in Tennessee to the young quarterback's hampering shoulder and from Raheem Morris' F-word debacle to the booting of defense tackle Brian Price, these Buccaneers are truly in the thick of it now.

It isn't a playoff run, sadly.

Raheem Morris isn't one for excuses. Youth. No offseason. Injuries. None of that flies with the youngest head coach in the NFL. The six straight losses...they don't fly either.

If cutting back and returning to a simpler scheme is the trick, let's hope it can be real, productive magic. But with the way that these Bucs got manhandled this past Sunday, the final four games are really the last four strikes on Morris. 

"That's the nature of our beast," relays Morris. 

But it isn't fair. The coaching staff can only do so much when it comes to on-the-field production. Execution, or a lack thereof, and the hundreds of "foolish" penalties come down to the players at the end of the day.

The throwback game in the creamsicle jerseys is always fun to watch. But not when it ends up being the Cam Newton show—one that makes these Bucs look like absolute creampuffs.

Morris often praises the play of rookies Mason Foster, Adrian Clayborn and Da'Quan Bowers. To be honest and factual, they have been the only Buccaneers on defense that have played with consistent effort on every down.

"They've gone out and played in a man's league."

Do you hear that Buccaneers?

It's time to man up and cut the bull. Stop hanging out at gun ranges. Simply write down a license plate number. Walk back to the huddle when a play is over. Listen to your head coach.

It can't get any simpler than that.

Can it?