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Wow.

I cannot believe this.

This is where One Buc place used to be.

That was where our offices were

and our offices were originally about that size.

No bigger than that.

There's nine offices and

we've got 13 coaches

and Herm Edwards took the closet as his office.

He'd have to push his chair out,

shut the door and stand up while he's talking on the phone.

And that set the tone for us, I think for our whole group.

No excuses, no explanations.

This is where our practice fields were.

100 yards going straight out that way for the offense.

100 yard field here for the defense.

And you hear the plane crank up.

That was our crowd noise.

We didn't have to pipe in music to get crowd noise.

And I was a young man coming here with dreams

and aspirations and saying,

"We're gonna make this a special place."

I remember my first day,

Rich McKay showing me the company car

that they had for the coach.

And he said, "This is your car."

It's emotional for me right now.

I've waited for a long time for that opportunity

and the Glazers gave it to me.

There's our crowd noise.

Here in Tampa opening day in the National Football League.

The Buccaneers have beaten the San Francisco 49ers.

San Francisco without a touchdown.

The first time the Niners have not scored one since 1991.

When we started in 1997,

winning that game against the San Francisco 49ers,

it was the coming out party.

Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

People across the country are realizing that Coach Dungy

was building a great team down in Tampa.

Buccaneers win in Detroit for the first time since 93.

Allstott up over the top.

He did not get it.

There's no-- second effort touchdown, Tampa Bay!

These guys promised to streak through downtown Tampa

if the Buccaneers got off to a 4-0 start.

I guess you could say these guys were Buc naked.

Caught! 25! 20! 15! 10!

5, touchdown! Touchdown Tampa Bay!

We go 5-0 to start the year.

And they put us on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Break up the Bucs, Warrick Dunn.

Now you have linkage from the past

and how far can these guys go.

We built on the tradition of those 1970s Tampa playoff teams.

When you come into this stadium,

you're going to play a team that's going to get after you

and make it tough for you to score.

When you go against a defense like that

and practice each and every day,

the offense lines are going to get better,

I'm going to get better, everybody's going to get better.

Handoff to Allstott,

he pounds it off left tackle, breaks the tackle!

When we started to win, people saw a gritty offense

with guys that just wouldn't be denied.

We said, hey, we're going to win a lot

of low-scoring close games

because of Monte Kiffin and his great defense.

They call me a defensive analyst.

I can't spell the word analyst,

but I can tell you one thing,

I know what the heck we're doing, okay?

Monte Kiffin, legendary coach,

defensive coordinator extraordinaire.

Let's be humming, let's be humming now!

He just had such a passion for the game of football

and he was a great teacher.

Great job, man!

So much energy.

Him dancing.

His hair would be 12 different ways.

You're going to sit back, relax, hey, watch out.

Here come the Bucs, sneak up, get them,

and get out of town before they realize it, okay?

I tell you a lot of things, but we're going to be quick,

we're going to be fast, and we're going to be physical.

56, 56, change it, 55, 55, let's go, bonsai!

Monte didn't know my name when I first got there,

he's like Randy.

Like I like to call him Randy Barber.

To this day, they see me, they call me Randy.

Monte Kiffin, for me and him, it was oil and water,

and then it was mashed potatoes and gravy.

He let everyone have a voice.

Rod Marinelli, as good a D-line coach as there's ever been.

Lovie Smith with the linebackers,

and then Herm Edwards, and everybody was coaching,

and it was like a symphony.

And you could feel kind of a groundswell of,

hey, we're going to be the guys that change this thing.

He's under trouble? Holy Toledo!

We can't play soft, we just got to go make tackles,

but don't give me anything big.

We don't give anything big,

and then we're going to get a heck of a win today, okay?

In 1997, the Buccaneers

had one of the best defenses in the league.

Aggressive, get after the quarterback,

create turnovers type of defense.

Intercepted Johnny Lynch!

And that really is what drove that turnaround

that this franchise had been waiting a decade and a half

to finally get done.

Final game of the season, we're playing the Chicago Bears.

If they win that game, they make it to the playoffs

for the first time since the 1982 season.

Brooks outside, breaks it to the 23, to the 25, 30 sideline,

40, 45, 50.

He's to the 40, to the 35, 30,

25, 10, 15.

Knocked out of bounds inside the 10.

Dilfer throws a pass downfield, caught!

Touchdown Tampa Bay!

I'm so proud to be a part of this team.

And just, I can't tell you,

this is probably a highlight of my life.

Tony Dungy told me last year at the end of the season,

he said, Malcolm, you won't be home for Christmas.

In 97, you know, they wound up hosting a home playoff game

for the first time in 18 years against the Detroit Lions

and Barry Sanders.

What a day!

Tampa's been waiting for this one for a long time.

When you're out of the playoffs for that long,

it's just, it's almost like a volcano exploding.

The place was electric. We're on national television.

I was taught that you don't ever fear anyone on a football field.

Now, if I'm telling the truth now,

because it's years later,

there were a couple guys I did fear.

One of them was named Barry Sanders.

If you see the highlight reels, you know why.

Trying to tackle Barry was just damn near impossible.

I'll never forget Barry getting in that stance.

I remember going, oh, no.

And I remember Brooks and Sapp helping me through that.

I said, look, we know it's tough.

Just bring it.

And if you miss him, you might slow them down

so the rest of us can catch him.

Yeah, make sure they come to see today, baby.

Big game, big game.

Control, block!

A wild card game in Tampa is underway.

The pass is picked off by the Buccaneers.

From the nine yard line, Dilfer drops, looks, looks.

Fires over the middle.

Caught! Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

And that game, Barry broke a run.

There was a linebacker flowing from inside.

There was a corner compressing from the outside

and Barry was stuck in that tunnel and he had nowhere to go.

Barry Sanders.

Bam.

Later on, Barry said,

I just got to tell you, I've never been hit like that, man.

We got to pound him now.

It also was just a classic Mike Allstott game

where he just imposed his will and beat the Detroit Lions.

Allstott, to the 25, to the 20, to the 15,

10, 5, touchdown, Tampa Bay!

Buccaneer players and fans have plenty to be excited about.

Tony Dungy, guided this team to the playoffs

for the first time in 15 seasons.

One down, many more to go.

One down, many more to go, baby.

That's the best record we've had in the history of the franchise.

You're ready to go up to Green Bay.

We'll go up there for one reason, one reason only.

That's to win the ball game, right?

There is bedlam at Lambeau Field in Green Bay

as the Packers get ready to host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Whoomp, there it is!

This man right here, we all understand that he's the MVP.

He's got to be the guy that's going to get the job done.

Hey, welcome to the party, baby.

We went up there to win.

We thought we were a better team at the time.

Maybe delusional, but we felt that way.

To take that next seat at the throne,

it had to go through Green Bay, Wisconsin.

And it was the mouth of the South, Warren Sapp,

the brash, arrogant, trash-talking, sack master,

the quarterback killer going up against Brett Favre.

That was the headline draw.

I came in, I think it was like 276 in August.

By the end of the year, I was 300-plus easily.

I remember him asking me that, how much you weigh?

I'm like, what, today?

Well, the program said 276.

I said, you know, they write that

at the beginning of the year, Brett.

And I looked at him, I said, well, so what,

do you think you're going to outrun me or something?

I said, don't worry.

You can get plenty of opportunity today.

Take the draw.

From behind by Warren Sapp.

I mean, that's what started it.

Sapp was still talking there to Favre.

Favre wants to go after Sapp.

Hold him back.

Brett Favre was right back up and right in his face

every single time.

Neither one of them was going to back down

from that confrontation.

They took it to another level,

and we had to step that up to match it.

The one guy that they really haven't calmed down

yet is Warren Sapp.

I kind of liked it a little bit.

They understand now, we're not the stepchildren.

We're not the guys that can just walk over.

They're going to have to deal with us

for an extended period of time.

Trent Dilfer's had a tough day today.

He's only completed six passes.

We knew we needed to score.

We felt like we needed to get in the 17 to 20 area.

If we could do that offensively, we could win the game.

Gets to Allstott.

Crosses the Packer 40.

It's going to be short.

Ultimately, they fell because they had no offense.

They scored seven points.

But the interaction between Sapp and Favre,

Buc fans ate it up. They absolutely loved it.

Sapp's arrogance, his brashness, his cockiness,

he willed this Buccaneer franchise into the limelight.

We're disappointed,

but I couldn't be more proud of our team,

and I think we'll be back.

We lost the game, but I remember walking off the field saying,

Yeah, I think we've got something special here.

- Tampa! - Bay!

On this morning after the big game,

the Bucs are still a main topic of conversation.

I'm excited about next year.

I think they're going to be winners for a long time coming.

They're going to win the Super Bowl.

From 97 forward, we were that team

that you didn't want to play us

because you were going to get your ass kicked physically,

and that's what we brought to the table,

because that's who that defense was.

We went to Hall of Fame one time,

played in the game.

I remember three people were late for the bus,

and that was Warren Sapp, Coach Dungy, and me.

Warren was sitting there looking for the spot

he was going to put his Hall of Fame bust at

where he could see it.

See, he saw this all the way.

Four, three, two, one.

Fire in the hole.

It is always tough to say goodbye to an old friend.

But as we say goodbye, we say a heart-warm thanks

to the Big Sombrero.

Some great Bucs football.

Some not so great Bucs football.

But through it all, fun.

And what a place to watch a game.

And now best of luck in Raymond James Stadium.

For now, we're going to go with the New Sombrero.

It's the brand-new Raymond James Stadium debut

of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The day it opened, flag being unfurled.

There was a flyover at that game, stadium packed.

The owner, Malcolm Glazer, his family buying the Bucs

a few years back, getting this stadium built.

My father, I think he was proud and happy.

We knew it was big, but it really was monumental.

This was a bold decision.

But it gave us an opportunity to save the team

for the Tampa Bay community.

The team was starting to believe in itself.

Hey, defense, let's go.

Defense was still playing well.

Again, we couldn't score points.

Here's the snap. Here comes a four-man rush.

Dilfer looks to his right.

Picked off intercepted at the 20, 15, 10, 5.

Touchdown, Detroit.

There was pressure from an offensive standpoint,

because our defense is so far ahead of us at the time.

We were trying to bring in some guys and do some things.

It was just, it wasn't transpiring.

The reality is we had a pretty dominant defense,

but the offense was not up to snuff, man.

They just weren't.

We didn't make the playoffs that year.

They finished 8-8 in 98.

So people weren't quite sure what to expect in 99.

Let's go!

The 1999 season is frustrating,

because we had one of the greatest defenses of all time.

The 99 Bucs were there as equals, if not better.

Oh, picked off!

- Barber. - Ronde Barer. with the pick.

The first seven games were three and four.

Do you blame the offense and Shula with play calling?

Do you blame the offensive line? Who is to blame?

Offensively...

We just, it just didn't happen.

We couldn't play complementary football.

It all got jumbled up in there. That's all right.

I hated the offense that we ran.

It did not allow my skill set to be used properly.

We're doing great on defense.

The offense, we're not scoring enough points.

Do we have the right mindset to fix the offense

so that we can match it up with this defense?

The frustration mounted.

If we could just get ourselves to average

on the offensive side of the ball,

we're going to win a championship.

At that point, everybody's saying,

"Oh, they're not going to the playoffs.

It's going to be another one of those years."

And then we go on and get on the run.

Hand off Allstott, left side, touchdown Tampa Bay.

There he is. Hit from behind.

Fumbled football, recovered!

Here's the kick by Gramatica.

He's got the leg. It is good!

When I came to the United States,

I didn't even know football existed.

In Argentina, you grew up, the first thing in your crib

is a soccer ball and a jersey.

So my goal was to be a soccer player

from the day I could walk.

So after I made the kick,

everybody talks about how excited I got.

For me, anytime I saw the ball go through the uprights,

I couldn't control it.

Every game was a World Cup to me.

Second down and 10, play action for Dilfer.

It was a night game in Seattle.

Dilfer's got to be hit, dropped at the 22.

Got to get rid of the football, and Dilfer's hurt.

I break my collarbone,

third-degree separation of my shoulder.

And the backup the quarterback is rookie Shaun King.

Play action, Shaun King, drop it, throw it in the pass.

Caught! Touchdown!

We ended up winning the game.

And we had to finish the season with Shaun King.

And he played very, very good football for a rookie.

End of the season,

we're playing as well as anybody in the league.

Donny Abraham will score a Tampa Bay touchdown.

Warren Dunn!

Just playing lights out football,

nobody wanted to see our defense.

Intercepted, Johnny Lynch.

We won as many games as any Buccaneer team in history,

but we got some unfinished business.

We got to win one more,

win a division championship, and get a first-round bye.

- That's what it's all about. - Yes! Woo!

Buc's down.

Got to try to punch it in on third down and goal.

Allstott the tailback. He'll get the call.

Running to his right.

Allstott follows the blocker. Touchdown, Tampa Bay!

Two turnovers have been converted into 10 points

by the Buccaneers.

1999 was definitely the best season

on my tenure with the Bucs.

I couldn't wait to get to the playoffs again.

We had experienced it once prior to that season.

And the Bears game was the final piece in making that happen.

The third quarter was kind of the last drive

we really needed to put the Bears away

and reach those goals.

King to throw, got the corner,

into the end zone, overthrow, looking for green.

There's a Buccaneer down. Looks like Paul Gruber.

The guard that was playing next to me

fell on the back of my leg.

That's the starting left tackle,

and that's key because that is where you want your protector,

your best protector.

I tried to stand up and my leg just would not support me.

Seems like Paul Gruber has been there forever.

12-year veteran out of Wisconsin,

number one draft pick way back in 1988.

You know, it's a great opportunity,

and I'm planning on living up to coach's expectations.

I think I'm probably still one of the only kids

to come out of Prarie du Sac in Wisconsin.

Most of my classmates from high school were dairy farmers.

We drafted Paul Gruber in the first round in 1988.

We all respected and loved Paul's tape,

and he was an easy pick.

Left tackle is a skill position in our league.

It's not easy to play.

To have an anchor sitting at that position

really gives you a chance to win.

I was fortunate throughout my career to play 183 games.

At that time, by far,

the longest tenure of any Buc player.

I also started every game I played in.

The team wasn't having the success

that we had all hoped for at the time,

so my first 10 seasons just getting into the playoffs

was the number one goal.

This is not good going into the playoffs.

We're looking at this as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan.

At the time, I didn't know it was going to be

the last game in my career.

Paul was the Buc for me.

Paul symbolized what it was to be a Buc.

He wasn't expecting to win many games,

and when we started winning for him to go down like that,

really sucked.

Really, really sucked,

because he deserved it more than anybody else.

That there's the loneliest ride you can take.

Come on, fellas.

Second down goal from the six of the Bears,

dropping to throw, rookie throws it down the middle

and it's caught! Daveworth, touchdown Tampa Bay!

Buccaneers have won the NFC Central Championship.

Who got to come in the house now?

Who got to come in the house?

Today, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

the reigning NFC Central Division champions,

take on the Washington Redskins.

Average people don't get this far in life.

It's on!

Let's go, baby.

Sapp gets to him!

Man, we were playing some defense.

We were dominant, but we could not get

anything going offensively.

And the Bucs misfire.

Mitchell farside, 10, 35, pass Gramatica.

He's going for a touchdown!

We needed something to turn the tide.

Defense! Defense!

Any time the game was on the line...

We'd always turn to each other.

We'd say, you know, it's time for a Johnny Lynch special.

- John Lynch special. - Johnny Lynch special.

What a Johnny Lynch special was: close game.

Warren Sapp, and the great defensive line,

creating pressure.

Quaterback throws the ball.

And Brad Johnson, flowing to his left.

You just knew John just had a way of making an interception

that would change a game...

And sure enough...

Picked up, intercepted Johnny Lynch at

the 27-yard line.

And I'll never forget, it was unlike me.

I said to the offense, let's go. Now it's your turn.

And I spiked the ball.

You know, we went on, got some offense going.

Hand off Allstott, running right.

Allstott shakes the tackle, shakes and bakes the tackle,

keeps his balance, goes back to the left.

Allstott 2-1, touchdown Tampa Bay.

He's just bouncing off eight different players,

but the guy doesn't go down.

The stadium's just going crazy.

He was like a pinball, a 260 pound pinball.

13:37 left.

Fourth quarter, dropping, play action is Johnson.

Hey, whoa, fumbled football! Fumbled football!

Fumbled football recovered at 31 by the Bucs.

Fumble football recovered by the Buccaneers!

- King takes the snap. - There he is.

Here's the pass, touchdown.

Touchdown, Tampa Bay.

Well, there's Rookie does it.

Shaun King.

Game over, Bucs win.

Well, we got a chance. We got a chance

to do something that no other Buccaneer team has ever done,

and that is play in the Super Bowl.

We got one more win to go.

Speech! Speech!

Let's get one more, all right?

Hold on now, as always, the ball says the last word.

The last word is that I think I have never given

a game ball to anybody in my life.

I don't even know how to do it.

But I'm handing this one to Tony.

Hi, folks, welcome to the TWA Dome

here in St. Louis, Missouri.

We're just a couple of minutes away now

from tee time between the St. Louis Rams

and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This is like a heavyweight championship of the world

because the winner here goes to the Super Bowl.

Let's go, Bucs! Let's go, Bucs!

Let's go, Bucs!

Game face on, baby!

When they made it to the NFC Championship game

against the St. Louis Rams,

all the talk was about the Greatest Show on Turf.

St. Louis Rams have now scored 575 points this season

Inside this building, they're undefeated

and they average 36 points a game.

Kurt Warner. Five touchdown passes last week.

I mean, this Ram offense is something special.

Everybody just assumed the Rams were going

to run through them,

they're going to be in the Super Bowl, no questions asked.

The Bucs weren't getting any credit

for the defense that they had.

I told our team, hurricanes.

They talk about them for weeks ahead of time.

Tornadoes, you never even know they're coming.

All of a sudden, they just got you.

That's where we wanna be.

We wanna be a tornado.

Anybody can knock a guy's block off.

I mean, I feel like a knock a guy's block off.

He's not looking at me.

Lynch is a guy who's gonna try to prove that he can,

you know, put us on our back a little bit.

And I don't, I don't believe he can.

All they do is play cover two.

They can't cover anyone.

And I remember like hitting the table

because I was so incensed.

John kind of looks over to Tony

and Tony just mouths the word tornado.

Well, you know, again, we'll see.

And I'm sure we'll have a chance to come in contact.

And I think I'll, I'll greet him

in a nice Tampa, Tampa hello.

Got the opportunity of a lifetime right in front of us,

like coach Dungy doesn't take anything out of the ordinary.

It takes us playing our fucking game. All right?

Hey, take these guys 15 rounds, 15 rounds.

Let's win this game.

Coach Dungy had a quiet confidence

about us going against St. Louis.

This is the team I believe he actually wanted us to play.

He said, let's go show the world

where the greatest defense in history

can do against the so-called Greatest Show on Turf.

And we're underway.

From the 23-yard line, play-action by Warner.

Dumps the ball, picked up, intercepted at the 20-yard line.

Very first play from Scrimmage.

A pick off.

Everybody to the ball.

Everybody's got to get to the ball here.

Second about four.

In the first quarter, Torry caught a little hitch pass.

The main, the blind side.

I'm running over there along with everyone.

Derrick Brooks put one on Torry Holt on that play.

Derrick drilled this guy.

The thud that I heard was Brooks' face mask

and Torry's ribs.

When we got there, Torry Holt is spitting blood.

The hit echoed in the stadium.

One of the things that they wanted to do,

they said, when they get the ball,

we want to drive them into the ground.

You're playing a Buccaneer defense now.

Holt has gone to the locker room for X-rays

from the hit he took earlier.

The whole game was like that afterwards.

They were absolute warriors with their hitting.

They ain't got shit.

They ain't got shit, they on their last leg.

This was an offense that was scoring 35, 40 points a game.

And we'd held them to five points.

It's ours, baby.

It is our destiny.

They could not, as they say, pee a drop against us.

Gramatica is true down the middle.

We make the kick, and then I say, oh, we're winning.

It was still a close game, but we

had the taste of going far in the playoffs

and also the motivation to know

that we're good enough to win a Super Bowl.

Has there ever been in the history of the championship game

a score like this?

Six to five.

Whoever heard of a score like that?

And it's late in the game.

I'm not talking about the middle of the second quarter.

We talked to Tony Dungy yesterday

and Monte Kiffin, the defensive coordinator,

and all the Buc players.

They all said the same thing.

We want it to be close in the fourth quarter,

and we'll win it there.

Let's go, fellas. Big series.

Big series. Hot TD. Let's go.

Third down call, and we call it a blitz.

And Kurt Warner had saw it.

Kurt Warner's going to have to spend a time out.

He comes walking over to referee Bill Corralo,

and says, give me a timeout, ref. 4:50 left.

Not only did they see the blitz,

Kurt Warner called time out.

We had a rule.

If we ever called one of our blitz and somebody saw it,

we went to two.

The late great Monte Kiffin,

he decided that we still could execute this blitz

because of our execution being better than theirs.

Somewhere between now and the end of the game,

someone's going to make a play

and put their team in the Super Bowl.

We saw the blitz.

Here comes everybody but the kitchen sink.

Pass to the far side line.

Warner going deep.

Touchdown. Touchdown.

Ricky Proehl in the corner.

And I can still see that ball

just going two or three inches over his fingertips.

I just couldn't believe it.

And Tampa Bay, they sold out with the blitz.

And man,

Kurt Warner, he just saw it early.

Years later, he told me,

one, not only did I call time out,

I went to the sideline and I changed the route.

I said, why are we running the hitch?

We're not going to get the first down.

I need to take him on a goal route.

Don't make me cuss Monte Kiffin out about the 99 championship game.

I love you, old man, but you should have called two.

You have to make yourself go on to the next play.

Okay, how are we going to do this?

King throws complete.

Remember, he's a rookie.

- Yeah. - Starting in a championship game.

Throws deep, he's got a man wide open.

Here it comes in, King.

Isn't it ironic, Pat, that the whole game comes down

to the Buc offense against the Ram defense?

Throws complete, Burt Emanuel made a crouching catch.

I'm not sure what's going on.

It looks like they might be reviewing something.

Burt catches the ball that has been a catch

for 100 years in the NFL.

It's never been questioned.

- Yeah, that's good. - That's a catch.

There's nothing wrong there.

Those five minutes that they were sitting there discussing,

it seemed like forever.

The last play, it was determined

that the pass was incomplete.

Tony Dungy, a little bit more animated than usual.

If ever I was going to lose character, that was it.

And the Rams have escaped, it would appear.

That's one play, right?

And our defense did the job.

The offense didn't, bottom line.

The stunned Buccaneers still not quite ready to accept.

It was a fantastic masterpiece by the Tampa Bay defense

and Monte Kiffin, and they just didn't have enough offense.

Any kind of offense would have put that team in the Super Bowl.

So it's going to be the St. Louis Rams

and the Tennessee Titans next week in Atlanta.

I'll never forget the Super Bowl,

Tennessee Titans being introduced, St. Louis Rams being introduced.

To me, that was a personal... just, just tore me apart,

because I felt we should have been there.

It's a bitter pill for us right now,

because even though no one gave us a chance,

we came here to win and thought we were going to win.

But you have to give them a lot of credit.

They made the plays in the fourth quarter to win it.

We knew stylistically we played to our defense.

So we played, hey, let's run the football,

let's not turn the ball over.

But yeah, at some point you get tired

of holding that team to 10 points and losing.

It was like, come on, what we're doing is not working.

In retrospect, that game in and of itself

made people really question whether Dungy was ever

going to be able to engineer a quality offense

and give Sapp and the group a fighting chance.

We just lost the championship game 11-6.

It was basically because our offense couldn't move.

So now I'm Defensive Player of the Year.

We at the Pro Bowl.

It's the AFC against the NFC.

The Pro Bowl from Hawaii.

All of a sudden, I get a knock on my door,

a six foot four, 215 pound receiver from the Jets.

Making the catch is Keyshawn Johnson.

He said, I can get you 14 points.

Me and you together, you on defense, I'm on offense.

We'll get this thing done.

So this conversation that was supposed to have taken place,

I don't ever recall it happening to be honest with you.

Whoa.

Now, if you ask me, did I ever say y'all need a receiver,

I could possibly have said that.

We needed some juice.

And we felt Keyshawn give us that juice.

Tampa Bay just struck a deal with the capped out Jets

to acquire Keyshawn in exchange for

the Buccaneers' two first round picks.

We gave two ones up for Keyshawn with the idea

that he was the piece we needed from a pass game standpoint.

I'm a win now person and want to win.

That's the first thing that I think about.

They needed some star power on the offensive side of the ball.

But also, they needed to look at the personnel side of things.

Mike Shula's the offensive coordinator at this time.

My personal feeling was that Mike did a great job,

did exactly what I wanted.

But the Glazers, they didn't think Mike

was the guy to lead us.

And they were at the top of the chain.

We really have had a general philosophy

to stay out of football operations.

We don't really want to tell people what to do.

But we felt like there need to be a change

at the offensive coordinator position.

You know, we're pushing on Tony a little bit to make changes.

It's like, Tony, look at the big picture.

The defense is your specialty. It's successful.

Let's help you get somebody that's an expert on offense

to help you be a better football coach

to take this pressure off of you.

At that point, we forced a change in Tony,

fired Mike Shula, and hired Les Steckel

to be the new offensive coordinator.

It was very early this morning when

fans in this health club heard the news

that Mike Shula had been fired,

given his walking papers late at night.

And it's great they finally pulled the trigger

and it shows that the ownership and Dungy will make a change.

I think it's great.

I was actually ecstatic by the news

that he was the probably number one problem with this offense.

I guess we should look at him as a scapegoat.

It wasn't all his fault, but the offense was boring.

The big question for the Bucs in 2000 is their offense.

Les Steckel replaces the fired Mike Shula as the offensive architect.

My main objective is to be a teacher,

and I enjoy teaching.

That's one thing that really makes me happy,

is to work with people and see them get better.

That's our objective as a coach.

It's opening day here at Foxborough Stadium,

the New England Patriots,

hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Here's the snap, and he spikes.

Oh, he throws the pass in the bar sideline.

It's caught! Touchdown Tampa Bay.

Wow.

The deep pass caught at the 35, 30.

The defense is getting picked apart now by Shaun King

and the Buccaneer offense.

We were trying to get the offense sparked up, and we did.

Johnson open, touchdown, Keyshawn Johnson.

I really think this ball should go to the offensive coaching staff.

Great job, offensive coaches.

- Hey, let's get it up. - Get it up.

On three, one, two, three.

First place!

An electric atmosphere at Raymond James Stadium.

What a matchup tonight on Monday Night Football,

the St. Louis Rams, the world champs

against the Tampa Bay Bucs.

If the Bucs win, they're in.

Dunn looks for room, swings to the outside,

and the Bucs have just gone 82 yards to take the lead.

It didn't seem like it was a normal game.

You know, you got the champs

and Marshall Faulk on the other side.

All the way to the end zone, and again.

We're going just back and forth.

Blitz, whips those.

Touchdown, Tampa Bay, Keyshawn Johnson,

Shaun King, throws a frozen rope for 19.

But we wanted to show that you may have beat us

last AMC championship game,

but we really won that game

and we wanted to go out and prove it on that Monday night

in that rematch.

- Oh! - Oh!

Big hole... explodes!

Lynch with a fore-arm at the 40 yard line.

Marshall Faulk's running to daylight

and the daylight's going to go out.

It's a night game. Warrick was ridiculous.

It was magical, man.

He's to the 50, 45-side line,

out of bounds, out of 20,

15 yard line,

10-5, touchdown, Tampa Bay!

He went all the way!

He's a magician for a touchdown, Tampa Bay!

The guy was exactly what he was brought in here to be.

Here we go! Fourth quarter!

Fourth quarter, baby!

There are the Rams since 1990.

0-and-52 when 10 or more down the 4th.

Trying to end that spell.

- Oh, man! - Oh!

It's not like that lead felt safe.

Warner comes back over the middle,

and he hits Holt,

and Holt turns it back into Buc territory.

Inside the 20, the 10,

touchdown St. Louis.

Nobody was stopping the Rams,

but nobody's got a bigger heart than Warrick Dunn.

This is the game right here for Tampa Bay.

With no time out, they got to get a touchdown.

Again, they blitz, they swing it out,

and this time, Dunn on a play similar,

and then he laterals it back to King.

- King! - Are you kidding me?

Is going to get the first down,

and get it to the 50-yard line.

When I was growing up, I played football in the street.

We would go out and just have fun.

We were just out there playing, and reacting.

That night just seems like one of those nights.

Toss to Dunn!

- Oh! - He's in!

Touchdown!

And this defense, they could only sit and watch

as an offense which really hasn't held up

it's part of the bargain comes through when they had to.

We're talking about a Tampa Bay team

that might go into the playoffs hitting on every cylinder.

Because this is what the defense needed to see out of these guys.

Let's go! Let's go home!

Let's go home!

I knew Warrick Dunn at Florida State.

He came in in 1993 as a freshman,

so draft year 1997 said when Warrick Dunn

was coming out of Florida State,

I took it upon myself to let Coach Dungy know how I felt.

Derrick is in my office every day pounding the table.

Look, please listen to me.

Warrick Dunn will be great.

Everything that you've been talking about

for the last year and a half, he embodies that.

And I know he will come in and have an immediate impact.

But more importantly, I know his heart.

And he just might have an even bigger impact

in our community.

I'm from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Born in New Orleans, raised in Baton Rouge.

Oldest of six.

I grew up in a single-parent household.

My mom was a Baton Rouge City police officer.

She only made $36,000 trying to raise six kids.

She was working a lot of hours

making sure we had a roof over our head.

Well, two days after my 18th birthday,

my mom was making a routine night deposit at a bank.

Um, then some guys opened fire on the police car.

My mom was shot and killed in the line of duty.

I went to the hospital to identify the body.

When you lose your everything, you know,

sometimes it's hard to move forward.

Being the oldest, I didn't have the time

to sit and cry and mourn.

I had to show my brothers and sisters that,

"Hey, I got your back, and we're going to,

we're going to get through all of this,"

and I had to step up.

With the 12th pick in the first round,

Tampa Bay selects Warrick Dunn running back Florida State.

Special teams.

My rookie year, Coach Dungy got all the rookies

in the locker room together and talked about giving back

and being part of the community,

and it's not just about football.

For me, his message resonated.

And that first year,

the Homes for Holidays program was born.

In conjunction with the city of Tampa,

Dunn selects three single mothers

who have already qualified

for low-interest loans

and makes the down payment on a new home for them.

My daughter passed away and she asked me to take care of her

children, and that's what I'm trying to do.

It was so important to Warrick, to honor his mother,

to go to single mother families

and put that down payment for the home, for the mother.

And it's an incredible thing that he does for the community.

Thank you so much!

When I handed the keys over to the recipients,

you know, they were all emotional.

It's like, wow, that is life changing.

Almost 20 years later,

we're up to 229 homes

that we've assisted with down payment assistance

and fully furnishing their home.

Don't cry.

This is what my mom would have wanted.

Coach Dungy was one of the architects behind that

because he challenged the rookie to give back

and do a lot in the community.

And I would say he's the reason a lot of us

on that team give back.

Coach Dungy kept building a team with character players.

He wanted us to be better men on and off the field.

Having Coach Dungy, a father figure,

his presence just made me better.

You know, it made all of us better.

For me, the greatest gift would have been

to win one with Coach Dungy.

Welcome back to Lambeau Field.

Game temperature here, 15 degrees.

At stake, the Buccaneers, they win.

They'll clinch a home playoff game.

So in the 2000 season,

going into the last game of the year,

we were in Green Bay.

And winning that game would give us

a first run-by in the playoffs.

We don't have to go straight to Philadelphia and play.

We got a lot of 14s on that scoreboard.

14 seconds left. 14-14.

And now Gramatica can send them home with a win.

To this day, if I close my eyes, I can still see it.

I can remember how cold it was.

I can remember the grass.

All the little details of Lambeau Field.

Gramatica will attempt the 40-yarder.

Snap is good. The hold is good.

The kick is wide right.

To this day, I can't believe that ball went wide right.

That's my biggest disappointment,

my biggest miss of my career.

And that's the difference in the win and in the loss.

Because of that kick, we didn't have the luxury of that bye.

So we had to go to Philadelphia the next week.

Here in Philadelphia, the Eagles advance.

They dominated Tampa Bay.

And won it by the score of 21-3.

So we lost to Philadelphia in the playoffs.

But our offense was statistically improved.

We have the greatest offense under Tony's coaching.

Broke all of our personal records in those years.

But for whatever reason,

Tony made the decision to fire Les at the end of that season.

What started a year earlier,

now Tony imposes his will.

And what had been very harmonious

started to become a little more stressed.

2001, we did make some changes.

We made a switch of coordinator.

Tony promoted Clyde Christensen.

At quarterback, we brought Brad Johnson in.

I got to be around Tony Dungy for three years in Minnesota.

So there was a relationship that was built.

And for me, selfishly, I want to be part of a franchise

that had a chance to win a Super Bowl.

The defense at the same time made a huge move.

And that was to sign Simeon Rice.

We had star power.

The eyeballs of the NFL was on Tampa Bay at this time.

2001, there's no more excuses.

We've got what it takes to get to the Super Bowl.

And we need to get to the Super Bowl now

because time is running out.

Johnson stands tall, throws a frozen rope,

it has batted in the air, picked off.

Intercepted at the two, that'll do it.

Keyshawn got it on his fingertips.

And Eric Kelly, a rookie, picks it off.

Vikings will win their first game of the year.

All that we did, it just didn't change the results on offense.

Oh, yeah, we got...

When you talk to some of those Buccaneer greats,

they love Tony Dungy.

There's nothing but love and admiration

and respect for the man.

But the blind spot was the offense.

2001, we were nine and seven.

We made the playoffs at nine and seven.

We go up to Philadelphia.

We'll play our nemesis, the Philadelphia Eagles.

In the city of Brotherly Love,

it's all good for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

as we get ready for the NFC Wild Card game

against the Philadelphia Eagles.

It's New Year, man. It's a New Year.

It's a New Year.

Warrick! Warrick!

It's cold today, ain't it?

We're getting ready to play the Eagles

the second year in a row in the playoffs.

You know, the Bucs had gone up there the year before.

If they get beat, they wouldn't score a touchdown.

So every year, the seasons seem to die in Philadelphia.

Back goes Brad Johnson.

He pumps. He swings it out

to Dunn who was headed to 15 and dropped.

The play will lose four yards,

and the Bucs will have to settle for a field goal attempt.

He is at the 20. He's at the 15.

He's at the 10. At the five.

He is in for the touchdown.

The day we're flying up to Philadelphia,

there's a headline in the paper.

The Bucs don't win, owners are going to make a change.

I knew the importance of the game as I think he did,

and everybody else did.

Keyshawn Johnson was supposed to be the answer

a wide receiver, but he has not gotten

a lot of yardage downfield after catches.

You can feel the tension in the air.

I remember I think seeing the Glazers on the field,

like pre-game, and I said,

"They're getting ready to fucking fire the coach."

You know, you could just feel it.

And it's picked up by Damon Moore.

Damon Moore will take it to the house.

You have to start wondering now

about the future of Tony Dungy with Tampa Bay.

Well, if that's the case,

it will have been his offenses over the last three years

that will have betrayed him.

And he's tried very hard to find the right combination.

Coming home on a plane and talking to Keyshawn,

Keyshawn's like, hey, you'll love Bill Parcells.

I'm like, what are you talking about?

And he's like, from what I understand,

Bill Parcells is going to be our next head coach.

You're going to love him. He loves guys like you.

Now, you've got to remember I was drafted by the Jets.

Bill Parcells is our coach my second year.

We're really good friends.

I had already knew that Bill was getting back into it,

and he wanted to do it, and all of these.

So I kind of knew. I just knew.

I'm his guy. I knew.

What the hell do you want me to say?

Keyshawn, he's telling us,

here's what Parcells thinks of everyone

on the team on the flight.

Oh, Marty, you're done. You're out of here.

Marty wanted to punch Keyshawn.

That game against the Eagles didn't play our best,

lost the game.

And I think the following day after that,

Rich called me and said, you know,

the Glazers want to speak to you at my house.

The Glazers were there with me, and I hate that day.

I hate the whole thing.

We were very, I think, kid-gloved for a while.

And then we weren't, and at some point, we weren't.

And we said, enough's enough, this can't continue on.

It's been a great six years,

and I choose to remember the really great things

and the fun times that we've had.

And it's been good.

We came with the idea of winning the Super Bowl,

and we didn't get that done.

It's been great. It's been fun.

The people of Tampa have been outstanding.

We've had great fan support.

We've tried to give them good football,

and hopefully they've appreciated it.

You do have a responsibility to the fans

to make sure we're doing everything we can to win.

I mean, we wanted to win the Super Bowl

while we had a window of opportunity.

And if you don't take advantage of it, it's lost forever.

We told them we had to make a change.

We had to make a change.

I was disappointed,

but I was still grateful for the opportunity.

We had some tremendous memories, some great times,

and that was their right to do what they thought

was best for the organization.

When we let him go, as he was leaving the house,

my wife was upstairs crying so loudly

that we could all hear her.

Tony said, "Hey, Terrin, don't worry.

I'll be fine. Nobody died today."

I remember the picture in the paper of Tony

with a box in his hand at One Buc Place.

We had let our leader down.

I said some things like, "I don't want to be here.

How could they betray you?"

It was a lot of emotions coming out of me.

Yeah, it was a real hurtful moment as a player

because I felt like if I would have done my job better,

he wouldn't have lost his job.

You know, I felt responsible.

You had kids, 23, 24, 25 years old.

He is basically our father, you know,

teaching us life lessons, not just X's and O's.

You know, minus all the winning, the playoff,

the good stuff we did, I mean, just gone.

But I knew what it was about. It was about a championship.

We're going to miss him,

but we'll begin looking for a new coach after this.

No decisions have been made on that front.

And we go from here.

My father has a saying, if you want to know the road ahead,

ask the person who's been there.

This doesn't need an overhaul.

This just needs somebody to push us over the top.

I'm not even going to get into Bill Parcell's situation.

That's not, I don't control that.

One has to wonder whether the Buccaneers

will be looking for a new general manager as well.

Joel, is Rich McKay's position in any way in jeopardy here?

Obviously, if Coach Parcell's comes, then I'm out.

We boxed up the office and knew this was the end.

We took our best shot.

I'm sitting at home on a Friday.

I get a phone call from Bill.

That kind of set us on a course of really a wild ride.

So the greatest Buccaneer of all time

is the captain, number 55, Derrick Brooks.

To me, it's not even close.

It's the three defenders of the era, the Super Bowl era.

It's Warren Sapp,

it's John Lynch, and Derrick Brooks.

If you said I had to pick one,

I'd say Derrick just because he outlasted them all.

Only franchise he's ever played for.

I don't even know how many Pro-bowls he went to,

how many All-Pros he's made.

He was the Defensive Player of the Year.

He won the Super Bowl.

He's in a Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Nicest guy alive.

I mean, honestly, sweetheart of a human.

You're like, how can you be so brutal on the field

and be so kind?

I don't know anybody else that can even beat that case,

to be honest with you.

Don't even know.

It's Derrick Brooks. It's got to be Derrick Brooks.

Who else would it be?

Tony Dungy, righted the ship.

It never changes without Tony.

You don't get coaches like Monte Kiffin

and Tom Lin and Lovie Smith and the countless others.

You never establish it as a legendary defensive team.

I don't think you could just name one.

We all bring a certain value.

I'm sorry. I couldn't just pick one.

I don't like nobody like that that much, you know.

It's definitely Derrick Brooks.

Anybody that says it's not Derrick Brooks is full of shit.