Doesn't start yesterday

"...going 0-7 doesn’t start yesterday. It didn’t start at the beginning of the season when we played Dallas. It started in weight training, it started in OTA days, it started in training camp. Everything we’ve done to this point is who we are. These guys are holding up, but we’ve got to do more than hold up. We’re not in here to hold up. Holding up gets you to 0-7. We’re here to fight through, we’re here to power through, we’re here to be our best selves. We’re not about holding up.”
From bucshots.blogs.heraldtribune.com

♫ Bye, bye, bye ♫

"The bye week never comes at a good time when you don't have a win."
"The bye week is always good to get a little healthier, to get a little better, to get more in shape, but right now it makes Sunday just as miserable as it was last week for us."
From tbo.com

BONUS: Classic John McKay quote

“They kicked the living hell out of us and we stood there and took it. If we play like that we’ll never win a another game. We’re going to make some changes. You can only make so many because you only have 45 people.”
From tampabayfootball.net
Wednesday's tend to be a slow day so I'll try to post a classic quote from a former Bucs coach.

On players slipping on the Wembley turf

"The Patriots slipped as well. They slipped to 35 points and we slipped to 7 and gave up 35 and two interceptions."
From Pewter Report
♫ Don't get caught slippin' ♫

Number Five is Alive

"Number five."
From heraldtribune.com
After the Patriots scored their fifth touchdown, Morris went to the bat phone and conferred with Mark Dominik. He then turned to Coach Olson and held up five fingers indicating it was time to put Josh Freeman in the game.

On the Patriots

Morris says the Patriots have many assets, including "their head coach, their quarterback, their receiving corps, their defense. Everything about the New England Patriots is a great model to follow."
From AP (via Google News)

BONUS: John Fox quote, on Stroughter's kickoff return for a TD

"We had some new guys out there."
From gastongazette.com
After a loss, coaches routinely say, "I'm not going to make excuses." Apparently Coach Fox has no problem making excuses.
Again, it's another opposing coach quote, but this one was also too good to pass up. 

Missing Pieces

"It has to come in pieces. Everything is built in pieces. Right now, we're building the character of young men. We're building a team … . Now that's no excuse for losing. We're still responsible for winning and we still want to win. We still want to win every single week."
"In the process, it would be nice to win a bunch of these games on our way to the top."
From tbo.com

Character

"Losing does not build character. It reveals character,"
From tbo.com
I think I've heard others coaches say this, so I'm not implying that Raheem made this up. It's just a cool quote.

On the critics

"I'm glad they are (criticizing). It's only going to make it sweeter in the end. Once you start reading that stuff, you get caught up and start believing it. You get mentally weak and you get soft. You get less violent. We're not going to do that."
From tbo.com

Fun!

"I think our guys appear to be spirited and highly motivated to win. Everyone wants to play the Patriots. That's fun, whether you're a bad team or a good team. It's a lot of fun to play those types of teams.''
From tbo.com

BONUS: Bill Belichick quote, on facing the Bucs

"The Bucs can hurt you in a lot of ways. They're explosive and they're dangerous. I hope we'll be able to be competitive against them."
From tbo.com
Please forgive me for quoting a non-Bucs coach, but this was just too good to ignore.

Kind of an understatement

"B.J. Askew the other morning had a fender-bender. He got into an accident."
From blogs.tampabay.com/bucs/
Due to the injuries sustained in the accident, Askew was placed on the non-football injury list, ending his season. Get well soon, B. J.

BONUS: Classic John Mckay quote

"There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home."
From tampabayfootball.net
 The midweek tends to be slow so I'll try to post a classic quote from a former Bucs coach.

Tests

"You can't be tired of tests," Morris said. "When you get tired of tests, it's time for you to leave."
From tbo.com

Up Front

"We either need to get better up front or we need to get better people.''
From news-press.com
By "up front", I hope he means the front office.

Writing the story

"This week I held up a white piece of paper and I let those guys know, that’s how this week begins, now you write the story, you tell them how the story begins. They are writing the story right now in practice. We are writing the story right now of what we are going to be this week."
From blogs.tampabay.com

On all the Tony Dungy talk

"I kind of feel bad for Coach Dungy because he's just at home trying to enjoy his family and kids and everybody wants to put him back to work"
From blogs.tampabay.com
Coach Dungy denied being contacted by the Buccaneers.  ”I have had no contact with the Bucs and have no interest in doing anything other than what I am doing,” Dungy said in a statement released by NBC Sports.
From bucshots.blogs.heraldtribune.com 

On how he has to improve as a coach.

"I've got to find a way to make [Michael] Clayton catch the ball."
From blogs.tampabay.com

Facing the music

"We canned the music today. We've got to get back into it," Morris said. "We can't use music to motivate us. We can't go out and stretch and need music to help us. What's going to motivate you? How are you going to be motivated? We motivated ourselves today by reliving that sick feeling from Sunday that we've been having. ... That's how we practiced today. You can tell. You could see the anger in practice."
From tbo.com

On underachieving players

 ”The ones that I got to get better, I will,” Morris said. “And I’ll tolerate them until I replace them, period.”
From bucshots.blogs.heraldtribune.com

On Clayton asking for more chances and then dropping the ball

"You've got to be accountable, so careful what you ask for, careful what you wish for."
From tampabay.com

Toy soldiers

“The only way you get a win is you know you’re not alone. I know I got 53 soldiers. There better be 53 soldiers ready for me to come in and meet with them guys right now. Be ready to deal with getting that next win,”
From JoeBucsFan
♫ Step by step, Heart to heart, Left, right, left, We all fall down, Like toy soldiers ♫

Faces ripped off

“We had our coaches meeting this morning. We got our faces ripped off as a coaching staff, me included,”
From JoeBucsFan
They warned him not to open the Ark of the Covenant.

Raheem, is this a well-coached football team?

Morris pauses. He thinks for a moment. Then he gives you an answer that may be different in your home version of the game.
"I think it's a really well-coached football team," he said.
From tampabay.com
Coaches are judged by wins and losses alone. A winless team by definition is not a well-coached team.

Drop it like it's hot

“The ones that bother me are the excuses being made by each other – by the players and acting like it’s okay because it’s not," Morris said. “I don’t think dropping a ball is mental. I think that’s physical. You’ve just got to catch the ball. You get paid to catch the ball. You’ve got to catch it – everybody."
From Pewter Report

Perseverance

"The drives aren't getting longer," he said." I'm not going to ride the emotional roller coaster. After my radio show, it's done. I move on.
From theledger.com
I rode on Space Mountain once. I was sadly talked into getting on, and happy when it ended. THAT'S an emotional roller coaster!

On kickers

"You never know with kickers," Morris said. "(placekicker Mike) Nugent went 6-for-6 every week here in practice. … That's just something where you've got to throw the young man into the fire, let him go out there and kick it under the lights and with all the people screaming and see how it goes. … I can sit here and make some stuff up to you about technique and operation time and all that type of stuff, but I'm looking at it like you right now. I'm a fan. Does it go in? Good."
From tampabay.com
Kickers give him cat scratch fever.

Ruud: Slient but Deadly

"Realistically, throughout his career, he's always been kind of that silent killer that really doesn't have the big interception that he runs back for a touchdown"
From tampabay.com
Ruud's first interception of the season came eight days later.

BONUS: Classic Tony Dungy quote

“It took a long time to get that first (win). After three weeks, it seemed like every week was 10 or 12 days.”
From thinkexist.com
Classic, yet remarkably relevant. It's like deja vu.

BONUS: Classic John Mckay quote

"We couldn't score against a strong wind."
 From tampabayfootball.net
 The midweek tends to be slow so I'll try to post a classic quote from a former Bucs coach.

On the return of Tanard Jackson

"I haven't seen Tanard in four weeks. We have to get him back in the building, let him practice. To be fair to Will Allen, to be fair to Sabby (Piscitelli), to be fair to Tanard. You have to find out what Tanard is, what he can do and what he can't do."
From Bay News 9
I hope we find out what he is: Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?

On Johnson in Washington

“His last game on a field in a starting role was at a Division I-AA school out in California and yesterday he was under the big lights in Washington D.C. A big time media market, not that you guys aren’t, but up there in that northeast and the lights were on and they were showing. That was his first game.”
From examiner.com
He wasn't the first Johnson to step into a new role in Washington after his predecessor was taken out by a young gunslinger hailing from New Orleans. 
It took me half a day to come up with that line.

Should they have won?

"I hate to hear people say we should have (won). No, you shouldn't have because you lost," he said. "But those are games you feel like you gave yourself an opportunity, gave yourself a chance... let's just go get those."
From The Ledger

Managers

“We’ve got to become better managers. We’ve got to become better finishers. We’ve got to become guys that come out of halftime and absolutely draw blood when we have the ball. We didn’t smell it today."
From Pewter Report
Did you get the memo about the new cover sheet?

Bounce everywhere

Coach Morris' favorite thing to yell when he wants a livelier practice is, "Bounce around, men! Bounce around!"
From TBBuccaneers Twitter page

On improving the defense

"I wouldn't say big strides, but they made strides," he said. "It's about tackling. It's about hustling. It's about hitting. … The people who were supposed to accept responsibility accepted it. The people who missed a tackle … know how to fix it."
From tampabay.com

Is Stylez "The Answer"?

"Jimmy has done some right stuff before for us," Morris said. "When [Tim] Crowder comes in and plays a little left for us like he's been doing you can sneak Jimmy over for a couple of the reps. I don't think that our Allen Iverson, Stylez G. White, can go 60 or 70 snaps over there."
From Pewter Report

On moving forward

"I go back to when I was little. When I think back to that, I was the cat who, no matter how big you were, I wasn't running. At some point, I was going to catch you slipping. And that has to be our mentality right now."
From tampabay.com

Toughness

"For the most part, it's about mental toughness," Morris said Thursday. "I'm not built like a loser, I guess. But I'm not spoiled, either. I'm not one of those people who react like, 'Man, I've never lost before.'
"What I would say is that I guess I'm not afraid to get my back dirty"
From tampabay.com