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What are Tampa fans saying about Hickey?

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Has anyone seen any chatter from Buccs fans regarding this hire?

I only saw a comment from a Buccs fan on another Dolphins forum and this was the content of his post:

"Bwahahahahhahahahaha"
 
Found this review of the Hickey hire on Walterfootball.com

Dolphins hire GM Dennis Hickey: F Grade
Dennis Hickey was with the Buccaneers beforehand, so I'll let Charlie Campbell handle the write-up for this grade:

Sources with the Buccaneers told WalterFootball.com that internally, many staff members expected director of player personnel Dennis Hickey to be let go after the draft. Many around the league and with the Buccaneers were surprised that Hickey wasn't fired with former general manager Mark Dominik and head coach Greg Schiano. Hickey took over running the Bucs drafts in 2006, and their poor performance in the drafts played a huge role in the Bucs' 28-52 record over the past five seasons. Sources with the Buccaneers said that Hickey's future would be up to the new general manager to decide, but many staffers didn't believe he'd survive the post-draft turnover in scouting departments.

Some sources found it laughable that Hickey was interviewed for the Dolphins general manager position and believe that was further proof that Miami owner Stephen Ross doesn't know what he's doing. Some in the league view Hickey as a coach and general-manager killer. In the scouting community, Hickey has the reputation of making a lot of poor evaluations that have led to a plethora of busted picks for Tampa Bay. Making matters worse, Hickey has terrible people skills; some of the Buccaneers' top scouts left the team because they didn't like working with him. The Patriots, Jets and Bills just got a gift.
 
Nublar7 said:
Maybe, but it would be like us giving insight on Brian Gaine. A lot of it is speculation and guess work about what his job actually entailed and how much power he had.
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I think it's a bit different since Hickey has been in TB for 18 years. They should know a little something about him by now
 
Some laughing, some wishing Hickey luck. Normal fan stuff.

Most stuff I have seen tend to say this though "Not sure what failure is on him, what failure isn't". Held his job for awhile. Not a fan of some stuff, but a likable guy.

Most just laughing at our fans. Think Miami fans are pricks and love that this move would piss us off
 
Hickey was the Director of Player Personnel -> Look at their Roster and look at our current Roster and see for yourself who has the most glaring holes -> "holes" on the roster -> for Mark Hominck to receive all the praise is like saying that Bellichek works in a silo

They have 4 Rbs who are better than our famed Miller and DT -> that's scouting

They had issues in the interior of their Oline and yet blew us up on national TV; I am not sure how you link Hickey to Greg Schiano; J. Freeman was looking promising and was completely mishandled, he just shut down under Mr Schiano tactics
 
Freeman was a bad draft choice.

He wasn't badly handled by the staff-- Freeman just has serious attitude problems in addition to not being a particularly good QB in the first place. Apparently he had the exact same problems in Minny in his half season there that he did in Tampa.
 
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