Buccaneers' Assistant Coach on Rookie LB Trotter: 'He is Mean'
Beyond his famous lineage, Josiah Trotter brings old-school aggression to Tampa Bay. Coaches laud the rookie’s "mean" streak and elite instincts as he prepares to anchor the defense.
Right this second, Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie LB Josiah Trotter is best known as “Jeremiah Trotter’s son. ” That’s gonna happen when your dad is a multi-time All-Pro who played fairly recently (retired in 2009). But that’s not what the Buccaneers know him as.
The Bucs see Trotter as a player who can help lead this defense into the post-Lavonte David era. "He is mean," Run Game Coordinator and Outside Linebackers Coach Larry Foote told reporters this past Tuesday. "I was happy that we got him.
I do not think since we have been here that we have had that true Mike linebacker. What I mean by that is he is able to hit the guard and make the play and get off very easily. He can strike those guys, there is a little old-school football.
I am pretty sure he gets that from his daddy. He is the definition of that Mike linebacker. To Foote’s point, the last formidable Mike the Bucs had was probably Barrett Rudd, who last played for the team in 2010, overlapping with Josiah’s father for the first five seasons of his career.