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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers only won three games this season, but what the team showed late in 2009 apparently was enough to keep Raheem Morris around for 2010. Morris, 33 and the youngest coach in the NFL, met Monday with Bucs co-chairmen Joel and Bryan Glazer and got the blessing of the family ownership to stay the course he set with his young team and franchise quarterback Josh Freeman.
"We are committed to the plan that we began 12 months ago with Coach Morris, and we look forward to building on the pieces that were put in place this season," Joel Glazer said in a statement posted on the team's Web site late Monday night.
The Bucs lost their season finale Sunday at home, 20-10 to Atlanta, dropping the team to 3-13 and equaling the club's worst record since the 1991 season.
But Tampa Bay got all three of its victories after Morris fired defensive coordinator Jim Bates and took over calling the signals, and after Freeman, the rookie first-round pick, was installed as a starter in Week 9. Two of those wins came on the road at Seattle and New Orleans in December, a month during which the Bucs were a combined 3-11 the previous three seasons under coach Jon Gruden.
"To see this team stick together, after what we've been through, that was enough for me," safety Tanard Jackson said after Sunday's loss. "We all want him back."
Ultimately, ownership did, also.
"I have a feeling that year two will be a lot less dramatic for me," said Morris, who watched management release icon linebacker Derrick Brooks and other key veterans in a purge last spring, then dealt with the firing of both coordinators (Jeff Jagodzinski, charged with running the offense, was dismissed during the preseason). "This year, we just have to keep building and keep progressing. We have to find our direction, keep going that way and getting better."
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