Tampa Bay Buccaneers' offensive coordinator Todd Monken responded to a report that there's increasing friction between Jameis Winston and Dirk Koetter.

"I've been here almost two years and from a coach-player relationship, I have never seen anything close to what's being talked about between our head coach and our quarterback -- not one thing," Monken said. "What I want people to understand is this: The majority of players that I've ever coached in my life, at some point in our relationship, it's been strained. Fact. If you asked any player I've ever coached, 'Have you had strains in your relationship?' 'You bet.'

"The best man in my wedding was my roommate in college. You don't think we had strains in our relationship at times? My wife of 26 years -- that I wouldn't be who I am today without her -- that we haven't had times in our life where we've had strains in our relationship? And all a sudden it becomes news, that all of a sudden there's a strain? You know what's a strain? The frustration of being 4-9. That's a frustration, when you put everything into it [and it doesn't go according to plan].

"What you've got is a quarterback that's very competitive, a guy that wants to be great and has had a frustrating year -- probably some things on and off the field -- and a head coach that does an unbelievable job coaching our players and our quarterback. And that becomes news? Holy cow. News flash: We've got a strain in a relationship. There's not one person that can't say that that's ever happened before. That is a flat-out joke that that even becomes news."