TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator Todd Monken isn't holding back his feelings on the Bucs' red zone struggles in 2017.
"I got a chance to meet with the team and I don't sugarcoat things very much and we absolutely chose to suck," said Monken, now entering his third year with the team. "We made that decision as an offense to play poorly -- we did."
"We did enough things that you can't do -- you do if you're a bad team," Monken said. "Bad football loses before good football wins. We're talking about quarterback/center exchanges, costly penalties, missed opportunities to put games away.