See, Joe didn’t expect Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Cohen to broadcast how he would attack the Dixie Chicks on Creamsicle Sunday without Mike Evans or Chris Godwin.
Joe has been writing since last year that running back Rachaad White should be moved to the slot (before Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Cohen smartly moved Godwin back to the slot) because Joe recognizes that White is a real weapon as a receiver and just a guy in the run .
Joe wrote this morning that now is the time to move White into the slot with Evans and Godwin injured.
While no specific players were named, Cohen said the team is looking at all options, including perhaps a Bucs running back playing some receiver.
“It’s definitely going to be something we have to take a hard look at,” Cohen said today. “We need our receivers to continue to develop, but yes, I would say [a running back at receiver is] something we have to continue to look at as a staff.”
The trick, Cohen said, is that he doesn’t want to throw the running back into a full-time receiver role.
“It’s something that takes time – like it takes time to tell Rachaad [White] or Bucky [Irving] or whoever to line up at receiver and line up here and line up there,” Cohen said. “That takes time to be able to do, so how much of that, we’ll see.”
Well, just watching the Bucs’ curb stomping at the hands of the Crows on Monday night, White lined up repeatedly at receiver after moving out of the backfield. So it’s not like he’s playing receiver for him.
In fact, the way White produces in the passing game and rarely produces in the running game, it could be argued that White’s place should have been at receiver all along.