Take that, all those folks who thought Warrick Dunn was too small to play in the NFL, who figured he would last no more than a year or two before they ran him out of the league - probably on a stretcher. via NFL Football Sports Betting News
“But when you look at it, you got to look at the opportunities and some of the types of systems and the things that other people do in their offenses. There’s a different type of situation I’m in, or other guys are in that I’m not in.” Minnesota Vikings receiver Troy Williamson has only […]
It was Sept. 13, 1992 when quarterback Brett Favre first entered a regular season game as a member of the Green Bay Packers, not quite giving an indication of his future legendary status in a 31-3 loss to the … via KEYE-TV Austin
“Everybody is asking for Bennett” The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost featured running back Cadillac Williams for the season to an injury on Sept. via FloridaToday
“Since then, he has been tested for banned substances on a weekly basis and has passed every test. He will continue to be tested for the rest of his NFL career and will pass every time. He learned from a past mistake and has grown from it.” An attorney for former Dallas Cowboys lineman […]
The NFC South is a division in chaos. If the Atlanta Falcons have their way, things will only get crazier on Sunday, when Bobby Petrino’s club plays host to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a potentially telling … via Kansas City Star
“He’s taken every single snap from the time he got here” TAMPA - Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jeff Garcia is fine. Rumors floated around the Tampa Bay area this week that he was having arm woes. via News Press
“Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons football players.” By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News jtrahan@dallasnews.com A former Dallas Cowboys lineman who was suspended while he played for the Atlanta Falcons for violating the league’s banned substance policy is … via Denton Record-Chronicle
“We’ve been hit hard by injuries” Want to play quarterback for Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden? Then be prepared: Your ears will be ringing after each game and not necessarily because of the crowd. via WTSP-TV Saint Petersburg
“I like where we’re going and I’m pleased with the fact we have the train back on the track” Some very important ankles were back at work Monday for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. via The Orlando Sentinel
“It was clear the guy stepped out of bounds from our standpoint, but it was one of those things that you can’t control.” Kent Somers and Dan Bickley The Arizona Republic Nov. 4, 2007 08:52 PM Key performer Tampa Bay running back Earnest Graham gained 124 yards on 34 carries as Tampa possessed the […]
“But one official came in and overruled him. I was well aware I couldn’t challenge it because I didn’t have timeouts.” Mike Tulumello , Tribune TAMPA, FLA. - The call was wrong. Replays seemed to show as much “conclusively.” But it didn’t matter. via East Valley Tribune
“Either catch the touchdown or make the field goal and that game’s out of reach.” The Buccaneers’ drive that began midway through the third quarter and ended early in the fourth quarter was “a thing of beauty,” coach Jon Gruden said. via The Ledger
“All the talk all week was, - How do you stop Michael Vick? How do you stop Michael Vick.’ I made it clear that we respected what he could do, but nobody in America said, - How will he fare against the Buccaneers’ defense.” This year marks the 10th anniversary of when Raymond James […]
“Pending on how that goes we might give the players Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off” The Buccaneers have an open week this week , so what does coach Jon Gruden have planned for his team. via Lakeland Ledger
“I’m disgusted, I’m embarrassed” Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner summed up his club’s 17-10 loss to Tampa Bay perfectly on Sunday. via Sports Network
“If we’ve got to do it that way, we’ve got to do it that way. You’d like to have a mainstay who you know can carry it 20 times and give the other guy the extras. I don’t know if Kolby can carry it 20 times. Who knows?” If the Kansas City Chiefs could […]
“And do it, he did. “He made some great traffic runs, he didn’t fumble and he had a couple of really good receptions, one on third down. It’s a credit to him. He’s exhausted.” TAMPA - Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Earnest Graham never had visions of playing in front of 65,267 fans as […]
“You just shake your head and think if we can do that, we can do that the next time” It was the kind of drive football coaches dream of and offensive linemen live for. It was 19 plays and traveled 86 yards and lasted one second shy of 12 minutes.And produced not a single […]
“Just that one ankle kept getting rolled on and fallen on from behind” The stat line doesn’t look all that impressive: one solo tackle, two quarterback hurries and one pass breakup.But make no mistake, Sunday was a big day for Tampa Bay’s Gaines Adams.Adams, the fourth overall pick in the 2007 NFL draft, made […]
“It’s in English now, so I can say that” For running back Michael Bennett, who joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a little more than two weeks ago via a trade with the Kansas City Chiefs, his new playbook still is essentially a foreign language. via Tampa Bay Buccaneers
“When I was a sophomore, he was a senior” TAMPA - Running backs Earnest Graham and Edgerrin James once competed for the 1995 Southwest Florida high school rushing title. via News Press
Tampa Bay defensive end Greg Spires sat out Sunday’s game against Arizona, giving rookie Gaines Adams his first start for the Buccaneers. via KVOA-TV Tucson
“We have to find a way to finish games that we didn’t finish in the first half” Soft-spoken Gaines Adams measured his words in a calm and deliberate manner, hardly resembling the discouraged rookie who slung his helmet in frustration when he was removed from a game last week. via St. Augustine Record
Yes, while Halloween causes people to think about ghouls and goblins, trick-or-treating, scaring anyone anyway you can, and scary movies, I can think of something scarier than all of that. via MVN - Recent Articles
“I’m going to make sure we do whatever we can to start the second half on the right foot and we go out and play good football” It’s time to revisit an old subject concerning the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I’ve written this before, but now it’s even more important than it was two months […]
“I just did the bench press. I couldn’t do anything else. That was the tough part. “I knew I was pretty good. I just needed somebody to give me a shot.” Donald Penn knew almost exactly how Luke Petitgout felt when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers starting left tackle went down for the season with […]
When it comes to their seasonal prospects, teams in the National Football League often walk the fine line between unbridled optimism and sheer panic. via Tacoma News Tribune
From a table in a noisy Indianapolis watering hole to a conference room in the Napa Marriott, Monte Kiffin and Al Davis each had their own visions of the future. via Inside Bay Area
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have placed cornerback Torrie Cox on injured reserve because of a knee injury that will require surgery. via ABC15.com
