Gerald McCoy has said that Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans are taking calls to dismiss head coach Greg Schiano too far.
A local radio station has commissioned billboards reading 'Fire Schiano' after the NFC South side lost their opening seven games of the season, while fans chanted for his dismissal during their 31-13 loss to the Carolina Panthers on Thursday.
The defensive tackle told ESPN: "If you want to be angry about the game or what's going on, be angry because we're angry, too. But don't disrespect him as a man.
"That man has a wife. He has kids at home. We have wives and kids. Just keep it to football. Don't take it outside of that. If you want to be whatever in football, that's OK. Be angry. We expect you to be angry. Nobody wants to be 0-7. But just leave everything else alone.
"Just keep it to the game. It's still just a game. We've got lives outside of football. When you disrespect a man as a person, then you're taking it too far."
The Buccaneers have won just one of their last 13 regular season games.
Sian Cowper
