Well not Josh Freeman, but second year QB, Josh Johnson will start next Saturday against the Washington Redskins.

Apparently, Raheem Morris believes Johnson earned it with his play in Sunday’s 4th quarter relief appearance. Johnson played 1 series, went 4 for 10 and had a whooping 36 passing yards. The drive came to an end as the Bucs turned the ball over on downs when they couldn’t punch it in for a touchdown 5 yards out.

I’m not sure what happened between today and yesterday, but Leftwich was week 4’s starter yesterday and today he’s week 4’s clipboard man. It doesn’t really matter who starts for the Tampa Buccaneers, because the Bucs aren’t a very good team. I will say having a mobile QB will help out a bit though, because that offensive line blows and Josh Johnson will be running for his life.

The question that is eating at me is why aren’t they starting the other Josh? The Josh that was drafted in the 1st round. The Josh that Raheem said he would have drafted before any other QB in last year’s draft. The Josh with the last name Freeman. If Josh Freeman is the QB of the future, then there’s no better time to start learning than now. Yep, he’ll get sacked and physically beat down. Yep, he’ll make bad decisions at the most inopportune time that will stall drives and probably lose games. All this is OK, because the Bucs aren’t going to make the playoffs and the experience Freeman gains now will be invaluable in the future.

Raheem, just think if you had listened to me you would still have you offensive coordinator around and you could have him as the scape goat and fired him this week. Then a few weeks later you could have blamed Leftwich and benched him. Then you pull the Johnson card and then midway through the season you start Freeman. Timing son, timing. Just look at your GM and owners, they haven’t fired you, because they know at the end of the season they are going to sacrifice you then and fire you.

It’ll go down something like “The Bucs appreciate Raheem Morris and the foundation he’s started for the Bucs organization. The attitude and philosophy he’s instilled will go a long ways to making the Bucs contenders in the near future, but the Bucs need to do what’s best for the organization now, so decided to move forward in a new direction with our head coaching position. We wish Raheem well.”