Is being a badass team all about swagger and toughness? "Our whole thing is about competing," Bucs coach Dirk Koetter says. (Loren Elliott | Times)
TAMPA —The draft had just ended in April and the Bucs were celebrating a rookie class that included Alabama tight end O.J. Howard, who unexpectedly fell to them with the 19th overall pick. With camera lights glaring, coach Dirk Koetter was asked what he wanted the identity of his team to be.
He answered in straight-forward Koetter fashion: a little blunt, very brash and barely printable:
"A badass football team!" Koetter said.