Calling Pfizer, do you make something for goal line dysfunction?

I had to chuckle this past weekend as I heard a report on the news that professional athletes might soon be tested for the erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra, as some athletes are using it to enhance performance. ON THE FIELD, get your mind out of the gutter. Bucs qb Jeff Garcia should be a spokesman for the product if he's trying it out, his Playboy playmate of the year wife is pregnant again. If athletes are really starting to turn to Viagra for enhanced performance, there might be a great new venture capital business in a new line of athletic supporters needed in the coming few years. I'm just trying to help jumpstart the sagging economy here.

I wonder if Viagra could make a drug for goal line dysfunction because when it comes to a quick score, the Bucs are at the end of the line. 12 players have carried the ball this year for the Bucs, and the team has totaled a paltry 1600 yards and 9 touchdowns. Look at the top 5 rushing yardage leaders in the NFL currently,

Adrian Peterson, MIN 1581-9tds
Michael Turner, ATL 1421-15tds
Clinton Portis, WASH 1337-7tds
DeAngelo Williams CAR 1229-14 tds
Thomas Jones NY JETS 1222- 13 tds (former Buc player)

And here are 4 players in the top 20 rushing leaders who split the majority of their playing time with other teammates which have scored more singularly than the Bucs have as a team:

Brandon Jacobs Giants 1002-12tds
Ronnie Brown MIA 827-10tds
LenDale White TEN 700-14tds
Maurice Jones-Drew JAX 655-12tds

The Bucs have scored 9 rushing tds and 16 passing tds all year. 25 scores offensively through 14 games. 1.635 touchdowns a game. There are Pinellas county school teachers scoring with their students more often than the Bucs find the endzone on offense.

The past two years, the Bucs have focused on upgrading the offensive line though the draft and free agency. Donald Penn, LT, is an undrafted free agent. LG, Aaron Sears is a second round draft choice from 2007. C Jeff Faine, is a free agent acquired from New Orleans and is the highest paid Center in the league. RG Davin Joseph is a 1st round pick in 2006 and RT Jeremy Trueblood is a second round pick in the 2006 draft. This is the youngest offensive line in the NFL and while it was showing promise last year and earlier this season, it is regressing now and Trueblood is quickly morphing into another OL bust known to Bucs fans as, Kenyatta "false start" Walker which played the same position, right tackle.

I doubt the test kitchens at Pfizer can cook up some sort of concoction to help the Bucs cure their season long scoring woes by Sunday, but there needs to be some sort of cure this offseason. Since Monte is leaving, and most likely the defense will see the end of the Barber and Brooks era, along with Carter, perhaps ownership might look at taking the team in a new direction, especially if after a 9-3 start, the Bucs fail to make the playoffs. Even if they make the playoffs as a wildcard, one and done on he road doesn't cut it. Look at what former Buc assistant defensive coach Mike Tomlin is doing in Pittsburgh. We've got our own Mike Tomlin here in Tampa in Raheem Morris, the Glazers should not let this young talent get away. If the Bucs finish 10-6 or worse and miss the playoffs, release Gruden and let this young man take the reigns. Players love playing for this man.