Tampa Bay Buccaneers Send Woeful Message to Raheem Morris and Everyone Else

Welcome to another day in paradise, the day after a night in football hell, compliments of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Welcome to Raheem Morris' nightmare, welcome to 4-10, welcome to an eighth straight loss, welcome to another total embarrassment.

That should cover the preliminaries.

For those of you who bothered to watch the latest chapter in the book by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, How To Screw Up a Season Without Really Trying, you watched in dismay as the Buccaneers once again managed to live down to what are already really low expectations.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than Jacksonville, the Bucs gave us the first half against the Dallas Cowboys. It is the best evidence yet that the days of Morris are now probably numbered.

It was 28-0 and it wasn't bad, it was beyond bad. The Bucs of 1976, the 0-14 Bucs, never looked that bad.

How do you play 30 minutes of football and come up with one first down?

How do you play 30 minutes of football and pass for 14 yards?

How does Josh Freeman play 30 minutes of football and complete two passes?

How does LeGarrette Blount run eight times and gain only 20 yards?

How did any Buccaneer fans even manage to stay in the stands after that?

This was supposed to be the Buccaneer players out to "play for Raheem" in front of a national audience and in front of a rare sellout crowd that the Glazer ownership so covets.

If this was Morris' guys playing to save his job, well, sorry Raheem, but it appears that your own players are at the top of the list of folks who want to see you go.

The Buc defense continued to display its core belief—make the other guys look like world-beaters.

Tony Romo looked like the second coming of Joe Montana during those horrendous 30 minutes that saw the Cowboys take an insurmountable 28-0 lead at intermission. Romo went 18-of-22 for 189 yards and three touchdowns and a Tom Brady-like quarterback rating of 142.

Morris told us this week he'd make things even simpler.

It can't get any simpler than what we saw: three-and-outs on offense, give up plenty of yards on defense.

Yeah, that's pretty simple. Simply horrible, simply unthinkable, simply embarrassing.

No, the score was not as close at the 31-15 final indicated.

The shame in all of this is that it was easy to pick out the guys who were playing their hearts out—Adrian Clayborn and Ronde Barber.

Clayborn set up one of the two Buc TDs with his strip and sack of Romo in the third. Ronde? Well, as bad as it gets, Ronde shows us every week what a professional effort looks like. Too bad his teammates refuse to follow his example.

It should be pretty apparent by now that Morris' team has quit on him.

That was very apparent to Hall of Famer Deion Sanders who told the NFL Network audience at halftime that he saw players quit on Morris, "A lot of their guys have quit, man....I know quit when I see quit."

There are still two games left in this debacle of a season. There's nothing left Morris can tell us. This has all gone to hell in a hand basket and it's not going to get any better. Just when you think it can't get worse, the Bucs still have 120 minutes of football to prove us wrong.

Last week, the world's most overpaid tight end, Kellen Winslow Jr., told us that getting rid of Morris would "ruin the team."

Well, it is now apparent that Winslow and a lot of his teammates have already ruined this team.

They've ruined it themselves and they've got no one to blame but themselves.

Somewhere between 4-2 and 4-10, Morris lost his team and now that team will probably cost him his job.