1990 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

1990 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

Infobox NFL_season
team = Tampa Bay Buccaneers
year = 1990
record = 6-10
division_place = 2nd NFC Central
coach = Ray Perkins
stadium = Tampa Stadium
playoffs = "Did not qualify"
The 1990 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season began with the team trying to improve on an embarrassing 5-11 season. Bucs fans were getting tired of head coach Ray Perkins and Bucs players were getting fed up with his 3 a day training camp practices. Leaving many players complaining of fatigue late in the year, and with injuries that never really healed themselves throughout the end of the season.

Still, after starting 4-2 including 4 wins against divisional opponents, the Buccaneers dropped two out of three games to a weak Dallas Cowboys team. Later in the year, quarterback Vinny Testaverde and receiver Willie Drewery combined on an 89 yard touchdown pass in week 13 for the longest play in franchise history. Coach Perkins was fired after that game and the team fell short of a possible break even season with two losses to end the season.

Offensive coordinator Richard Williamson was made head coach for the 1991 season based on his 1-2 record, and because of his cheap asking salary demands. Tax records showed the Buccaneers were one of the most profitable teams during this time, even though owner Hugh Culverhouse announced the Bucs were losing money and needed to play games in Orlando, Florida to gain income. It was this discrepancy that revealed Culverhouse ran the Bucs as a profit first business, letting players go who were good, that deserved big contracts. And thus, the 14 year losing streak is mostly ownerships fault, not the fault of proven coaches like Ray Perkins and later Sam Wyche.

Offseason

NFL Draft

Roster

References

* [http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/tam/1990.htm Buccaneers on Pro Football Reference]


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