TAMPA — A look of anguish — or maybe anxiousness — washed over the face of Bucs general manager Jason Licht Thursday as he described the clumsy dismissal of coach Lovie Smith after two seasons.
Licht and Smith had worked arm in arm as the Bucs went 8-24. The Glazer family which owns the team was scattered to parts unknown. That left the 44-year-old Licht, who had never fired nor hired a head coach, to talk about how he suddenly had been entrusted with doing both.
"We came in together two years ago with a shared vision of winning," Licht said of him and Smith.