That '02 Bucs defense gets overshadowed by the '00 Ravens D, but they were an all-time unit. HOFers at every level. Brooks, Sapp, Lynch, Ronde, Rice... loaded squad.
In the 2002 playoffs, their defense gave up 37 points in 3 games but scored 24 points themselves.
That season opposing QBs had a 50.8% completion percentage with 10 TDs and 31 INTs vs. that defense. Insanity.
Kiffin was the architecht of that historic defense.
One of the greats and the players seemed to love playing for him. I looked into him years ago and learned he was a player at Nebraska and also was the DC for two NC Nebraska teams in the 70's.
Monte was deathly afraid of snakes, so his college friends wanted to play a prank on him. They hid a few non-venomous snakes in his dorm room while Monte was at practice.
Later that day, his friends hear screams coming from Kiffin’s dorm room. The guys run down the hallway to find Monte standing on his bed screaming and aiming hunting rifle at the blast the damn things.
That '02 Bucs defense gets overshadowed by the '00 Ravens D, but they were an all-time unit. HOFers at every level. Brooks, Sapp, Lynch, Ronde, Rice... loaded squad.
In the 2002 playoffs, their defense gave up 37 points in 3 games but scored 24 points themselves.
That season opposing QBs had a 50.8% completion percentage with 10 TDs and 31 INTs vs. that defense. Insanity.
Kiffin was the architecht of that historic defense.
Later that day, his friends hear screams coming from Kiffin’s dorm room. The guys run down the hallway to find Monte standing on his bed screaming and aiming hunting rifle at the blast the damn things.