I feel badly about it primarily for the fans. "I regret that we didn't win more than we did. That's when your leadership among players comes in. "One of the problems there is you have a certain amount of players that thought they knew what it took to win when they had never been on a winning team. But when you start having to appease players, that's when you get into trouble," Perkins said.
"I don't know anything I would change in the sense of work ethic. Perkins said he may have erred in some of his draft decisions but his overall blueprint was identical to what he did previously with the New York Giants and Alabama. "If people want to say it's all my fault, fine." What happened in Tampa doesn't say that I'm not a good football coach," Perkins said. Perkins infers that a lack of commitment from Vinny Testaverde, a lack of leadership among players and a lack of support from Culverhouse all aided his downfall. He admits the team was not a success but doesn't think he should have been fired. Perkins was fired by the Bucs in December. Will I be miserable? No, I won't be miserable." "I'm happy for a lot of things in life but I won't be happy not coaching. Generally speaking, I'm unhappy," he said.
Perkins is home, he's wealthy, he's got all the time in the world. Perkins, 49, will draw a salary of $800,000 this year from Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Hugh Culverhouse _ a valuable souvenir left over from the five-year contract he signed as head coach in 1987 _ for doing nothing.
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