Hot Takes Welcome (Post Tampa Bay Loss)

My multiple hot takes:

Kubiak is poor at in-game adjustment.

DA is good at picking secondary players.

Putting Willie Gay on Chris Godwin is pants-on-head.

Alontae Taylor is the best player on the defense right now.

Rattler needs more practice individually with Shaheed. He's gotta get his timing down with him. Carr has played with super-speedy guys before; Rattler hasn't played with anyone who remotely resembles Shaheed's ability to take the top off a defense.

Rattler played well for a rookie, but he's gotta keep his eyes more downfield in the red zone. He did miss a wide open Holker. The other TD pass he missed, I can let slide because there's a possibility he simply couldn't see the open receiver.

Right now we have two decent-good OTs and the guys between them are just barely serviceable if not outright bad. We miss McCoy, Patrick, and Ruiz in the worst way.

Kubiak needs to keep those designed rollouts for Spencer coming. That's exactly his game. Know who else excelled at that? Jameis (seriously, his statistics outside the pocket for his career are gaudy).

Brees was absolutely the GOAT of pocket passers. He was an absolute master of pocket feel, manipulation, and stepping up. That said, he'd get killed behind this OL because the replacement guards are THAT BAD.

I think Kubiak's only real problem is he's just out of ammo in terms of what he has to work with. He can only roll out a QB so many times before a team starts playing for it and his QB gets killed. One thing you'll see Tampa do in the second half is start playing the edges wider making it harder to roll out. With a third/fourth string interior offensive line, a rookie LT, a below average but improving RT, no Hill, no Olave, Kamara playing through injury, AND a backup rookie QB making his first career start... we need to be realistic when talking about the offense and Kubiak right now. Just look at Sean Payton without Drew Brees in 2021.

27 points should be more than enough to win a football game with an elite defensive team...