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I have no idea, nobody does at this point but Im expecting 4 games at least since he got 1 last season. And we have the Colts, Lions and Falcons in the 1st 3 weeks. Can get ugly quick. Hopefull his lawyer made a good case for Rodger to wait until his tial is settled but I doubt his faggot ass will do so.
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Faggot ass Goddell needs to GTFO.Originally posted by BigBucsChad Johnson >>>>>>
@Mason_Foster great hit last night,if u're fined I'll reimburse u boss.That's the way the game should b played.Stay healthy n have a good yr
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Them fucking commentators are such fucking bitches man. Dont see how a NE fan could tolerate them faggots.
SMH @ un unnecessary roughness penalty. I guess he should have caught him and laid him down gently.
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Roy: MLB Mason Foster fined $20,000 for blowing up Chad Ochocinco. Foster says fine won't alter the way he plays.
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Goodell meets with Titans' Britt, Bucs' Talib over legal issues
* NFL.com Wire Reports
* Published: Aug. 24, 2011 at 04:19 a.m.
* Updated: Aug. 24, 2011 at 08:12 a.m.
Titans receiver Kenny Britt said his meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in New York on Tuesday went well, and he expects to find out this week whether he will be punished for multiple run-ins with the law during the 4½-month NFL lockout.
"He didn’t scold me or anything. He was happy -- not happy that I was in there for those situations -- but he’s a nice type of guy, a very likable guy," Britt told The Tennessean Tuesday evening at Nashville International Airport. "We’ll find out sometime later this week what he decides to do."
Britt has a Sept. 13 court date in Nashville to answer for two counts of falsifying information on his Tennessee driver's license application.
He also has a Sept. 20 court date in Hoboken, N.J., after pleading not guilty to disorderly conduct charges stemming from a July incident at a car wash.
Earlier this offseason he was arrested after attempting to elude police trying make a traffic stop in his native New Jersey. He eventually pleaded guilty to careless driving.
"He (Goodell) asked me questions about certain situations and I told him what happened," Britt said. "I think it went well. I hope so. I have a smile on my face, I am still breathing. So everything is good."
Titans guard Jake Scott, the team's NFL Players Association representative, said Monday the union would challenge any fine or suspension for actions during the lockout.
Goodell also met Tuesday with Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib, who faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon stemming from his role in a shooting March 21 in Garland, Texas.
Bucs coach Raheem Morris said he planned to treat Talib's situation as if he were an injured player.
"For me, it's next man up," Morris told the St. Petersburg Times on Tuesday. "... It's the next guy out of the box. There's a reason you practice, there's a reason you practice with depth. There's a reason (general manager) Mark Dominik drafts and steals corners from people because we prepare for everything. We want to be the deepest team in the league and the youngest team in the league. Hungry. Go out and play.
"I wish Aqib nothing but the best, but next man up theory. Don't even blink."
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AUGUST 25, 2011
Report: Goodell struck deal with union to punish repeat offenders like Talib
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell agreed not to discipline approximately two dozen players for conduct during the lockout in exchange for punishing eight players he regards as repeat offenders, according to Michael Silver of Yahoo.com.
If true, it's further evidence that Goodell intends to suspend Bucs cornerback Aqib Talib, who met with him in New York Tuesday.
Talib was suspended one game last season for assaulting a St. Petersburg cab drive in 2009. He is scheduled to stand trial on charges of assault with a deadly weapon next spring for his role in a shooting March 21 in Garland, Texas.
Talib delined to comment Wednesday on his meeting with Goodell. He missed the Bucs two preseason games with a hamstring injury but is expected to play Saturday against the Miami Dolphins.
According to the report, "one source familiar with the negotiations claims Goodell, before resolving the issue of whether personal conduct violators during the lockout could be disciplined, “wanted eight names off the top who would definitely get punished, and apparently he got his way.”
'This was confirmed by a high-level union source, who said that in return for Goodell agreeing not to discipline approximately two dozen players for conduct during the lockout, he retained the right to hand down punishment to eight players he regards as repeat offenders.''
Posted by Rick Stroud at 11:56:21 am on August 25, 2011
We know where this is going.......suspension, probably, right after the final preseason game! 4 games......5 games?
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4 more than likely since he got 1 last season. Sucks, we have Megatron, Roddy White and Reggie Wayne the 1st 4 weeks. Fuck Goddell.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers give each player an iPad as a playbook
by Steven Sande Aug 25th 2011 at 1:00PM
When is a football playbook not a PlayBook? When it's an iPad! The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are now equipping all of the players on the team with iPads, and both players and management seem to love the idea. According to the St. Petersburg Times, the Tampa Bay players now just turn on their iPads to get up to speed rather than leafing through a phone directory-sized printed book to memorize plays.
The team started its love affair with iPads when coach Raheem Morris apparently used one to watch video of team prospects with GM Mark Dominik and player personnel director Dennis Hickey. Buccaneer players used to need to request a copy of a DVD if they wanted to watch film of past games, and then they were constantly using the fast-forward button on the remote to view plays that were applicable to their position. Now, the players simply flick through plays to watch those that are important to them.
Morris said that it took about two minutes for Buccaneer co-chairman Bryan Glazer to approve the purchase of 90 iPad 2s. Many of the players listen to their own personal soundtracks while watching past game footage and studying plays that are downloaded to the devices automatically. Should a player lose one of the iPads on the road -- while visiting the New England Patriots, for example -- the team can wipe all of the plays from the device remotely.
The Bucs are the first NFL team to embrace the iPad, but certainly won't be the last. As a baseball fan, I won't be happy until MLB players are using their iPads in the dugouts.
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Nice move. I just hope they help!
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Mark Dominik just addressed the media re: Aqib Talib's status & said that the matter is fully resolved for 2011. There will be no suspension
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Let's just pray he doesn't go to prison before next season.
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Bucs' slow starts leave much to be desired
By Ira Kaufman
With quarterback Josh Freeman leading the way, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have shown a propensity for exciting finishes.
Dynamic starts? Not so fast.
Tampa Bay scored only 43 first-quarter points last season, continuing a long-term trend of sluggish starts.
"New Orleans is a fast-starting club and that really changes the mindset of the opposing team,'' said Bucs offensive coordinator Greg Olson. "I always tell our guys that we've got a bunch of competitive players who will finish games strong. I don't worry about them finishing, but I don't like our mindset when we start a practice drill or line up in the first quarter.''
Tampa Bay's early offensive woes are taking on epic proportions, dating to the Jon Gruden era.
Since Nov. 25, 2007, when Tampa Bay scored 10 points in the opening quarter of a 19-13 victory against Washington, the offense has not generated more than seven first-quarter points in 54 consecutive games.
That's not a typo. Fifty-four.
"We've got to be sharper from the jump,'' said tight end Kellen Winslow. "We were successful last year, but to be an elite team, we have to be more productive early on offense. That will be a big step in our progress.''
While teams like the Saints and Patriots routinely exploit defenses from the start, Tampa Bay's attack takes a while to unfold.
"We've got to find a way to put more points on the board early,'' said Freeman, who engineered five comeback wins last year in the fourth quarter or overtime. "You'd like to play a great game all four quarters, but it's the NFL and it's not always going to be that way. The first couple of snaps, it's guys getting their feet wet.''
Freeman posted a pedestrian quarterback rating of 76.9 in the opening quarter last season, completing 54.9 percent of his throws with two touchdown passes.
In the fourth quarter, Freeman threw eight scoring passes, his completion rate jumped to 62.6 percent and his passer rating was 97.4.
"The biggest thing to me is our execution early in games,'' said veteran center Jeff Faine. "It's not as if we're playing slow. It's executing the plays that are called and making them work — playing smart, avoiding penalties and being focused. When we have slow starts, it's usually because we're sloppy and dealing with penalties that kill drives.''
Slow starts are particularly frustrating for Olson, who worked with Brees as Purdue's quarterbacks coach more than a decade ago.
Now Olson stands on the opposing sideline, watching Brees torture defenses before the first commercial break.
The New Orleans offense scored more than seven first-quarter points on five occasions last season and Brees threw 12 touchdown passes in the opening period, boasting a passer rating of 111.9.
"A year ago, we recognized in practice that at the start of every period there would be a mental error, an incomplete pass, a missed assignment,'' Olson said. "Our motto last year was 'start fast.' But as the season went on, even though we were having success as a team, we weren't starting fast.
"As a staff, we said let's not mention starting fast this year. Maybe it got in their heads a little bit last season. It's always going to be an emphasis around here and we've got to do a better job. If you can get up on some of these teams that don't have elite quarterbacks, you should be in good shape. All I know is we've got to be ready to go from the first whistle.''
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Kyle Moore and Tyrone Mckenzie cut.
I am really confused as to why McKenzie was cut... he didn't seem to be playing horrible, and he could definitely be a suitable backup. Also, the more time passes the more I am concerned with our backfield situation. Lumpkin did okay in the preseason, but can he really take on the Caddilac role? Earnest Graham did stellar, but is Lorig really a starting NFL fullback? Why the hell did we cut Rendrick Taylor when he played with the starters in Week 1 and did very well.
All I know is our depth is paper thin at HB, FB, LB, and DB. Injuries will test the "next man up" philosophy again this year and I doubt we can pull out with as good a record as we did last year, unless of course Freeman takes it to the next level.Comment
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They probably feel Derrell Smith will be a sufficient back up to Foster. Been hearing that he was turning heads in camp. not sure how well 2 rooks will work out being the 1 and 2 MLB. We shall see. I do hope to see another steal at RB with the upcoming cuts.
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Final Cuts Are In. Hope Gant clears waivers and he somehow makes it onto our practice squad but I doubt it.
Deep Cuts
Improved roster depth made this year’s cut-down to 53 players for the regular season tougher than ever for the Buccaneers, but they made the necessary 27 moves on Saturday
Final roster cuts in the NFL are never fun. Neither are they, strictly speaking, final.
Of course, NFL rosters are always in flex; teams sign and release players virtually every month of the year, in season and out. This weekend, however, is specifically fluid, as each team trims its roster and subsequently scours the waiver wire for interesting names released by their competitors. Tampa Bay Buccaneers General Manager Mark Dominik calls that process the “Second Draft,” and it’s how he added such key players as LeGarrette Blount, Ted Larsen and Dezmon Briscoe a year ago.
Still, the first step in that process took place on Saturday, as each of the NFL’s 32 teams trimmed reduced their rosters from 80 players down to the regular-season limit of 53. The Buccaneers met the limit with the 27 moves listed below.
Waived:
RB Armando Allen
C Matt Allen
T Will Barker
S Ahmad Black
T Cory Brandon
QB Rudy Carpenter
G Thomas Claiborne
QB Jonathan Crompton
G Marc Dile (injury settlement)
WR Ed Gant
TE Daniel Hardy
S Dominique Harris
LB Brandon Heath
LB Simoni Lawrence
RB Mossis Madu
DE Alex Magee
LB Tyrone McKenzie
DE Kyle Moore
TE Nathan Overbay
WR Maurice Price (injury settlement)
TE Ryan Purvis
LB/FB Nick Reveiz
K Jacob Rogers
LB Derrell Smith
DT Al Woods
Terminated/Vested Veteran:
DT John McCargo
Placed on Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform List:
LS Andrew Economos
The first 25 players listed have all accrued fewer than four years of free agency credit and are thus subject to the waiver wire, where they can be claimed by any team. If a player clears waivers, he is then free to sign with any team he chooses. McCargo, as a vested veteran, skips the waiver process and is immediately available to sign with any team.
Economos continues to recover from the Achilles’ heel injury he suffered during the offseason, and going on the P.U.P. list makes him ineligible to play during the first six weeks of the season. After that period, the Buccaneers would have several weeks, if needed, to determine whether to activate him to the 53-man roster, place him on injured reserve for the rest of the season or release him. The Buccaneers believe Economos will be fully recovered by the end of those six weeks, if not sooner, and ready to return immediately. Rookie Christian Yount made the Bucs’ active roster as the long-snapper after a pleasantly uneventful preseason.
After two seasons of seeing virtually all of their draft picks survive the cuts into the regular season, the Buccaneers have fashioned a deeper roster that is becoming harder for young players to crack. Thus, two members of the 2011 draft class were included in Saturday’s cuts: fifth-round safety Ahmad Black and seventh-round tight end Daniel Hardy. Black played only briefly in the preseason opener before sustaining an ankle injury that sidelined him for the rest of August.
Those were only two of the very difficult decisions the Buccaneers made on Saturday. That is a bittersweet situation for a coach or a personnel man because it indicates that the roster, overall, is getting stronger.
“This year was particularly tougher than the first two,” said Raheem Morris, who is in his third year as the Buccaneers’ head coach. “It’s probably rougher as a position coach because you are probably close to everybody in your room. But as a head coach, it doesn’t get any easier.”
Still, the Bucs did keep six of their eight 2011 draftees, including defensive ends Adrian Clayborn and Da’Quan Bowers, linebacker Mason Foster, tight end Luke Stocker, running back Allen Bradford and cornerback Anthony Gaitor. Clayborn and Foster have already cracked the starting lineup and Bowers and Stocker, while not technically starters, are expected to play quite a bit.
Gaitor is the fifth player chosen in the seventh round that the Buccaneers have kept in the last three years, as the team has made dramatically better use of the latter stages of the draft in recent seasons. Gaitor’s outstanding preseason performance suggests that he could follow in the footsteps of cornerback E.J. Biggers, wide receiver Sammie Stroughter, linebacker Dekoda Watson and fullback Erik Lorig and not only stick with the team but carve out a significant role.
In its current makeup, the Buccaneers’ 53-man roster for 2011 is balanced a little differently than usual between positions. For instance, only two spots were devoted to the quarterback position, and another two to tight end. Tampa Bay kept nine linemen on both sides of the ball, which is not terribly unusual, but also loaded up the secondary with a whopping 12 players. That includes seven cornerbacks, as the team’s excellent draft work – and “Second Draft” work – at that position has produced considerable depth. In addition to Gaitor, Biggers and starters Aqib Talib and Ronde Barber, the Buccaneers retained Myron Lewis, Elbert Mack and D.J. Johnson.
Johnson probably counts as one of the longer shots to make the 53-man roster, at least if one were to make predictions at the beginning of training camp. However, the third-year player out of Jackson State who joined the Bucs for the last six weeks of the 2010 season, led the team with seven passes defensed during the 2011 preseason and capped his work with an interception in the preseason finale on Thursday night.
The Bucs also kept defensive end George Johnson, who first came to the team as a tryout player in its 2010 rookie mini-camp. Johnson earned a spot on the training camp roster with a strong showing in that camp, but not immediately on the 53-man roster. He spent the first 13 weeks of 2010 on the Bucs’ practice squad before being promoted to the active roster in December. He also shined during this year’s preseason, leading the team with three sacks.
Other than Yount, the only undrafted free agent who made the 53-man roster this year is safety Devin Holland, signed after the draft out of McNeese State. Holland recorded eight tackles, one interception and two passes defensed during the preseason but probably secured his spot with his special teams play. Possessed of great speed and an obvious willingness to hit, Holland likely benefited from the NFL’s change to the game-day eligibility rules in 2011.
Previously, teams were allowed to keep 45 of their 53 players active on game day, plus an “inactive” third quarterback. That third quarterback could be brought into the game, but if he entered prior to the fourth quarter, that made the team’s other two quarterbacks instantly ineligible to return. Now, teams are allowed to have 46 players active, and that 46th spot does not have to be devoted to a quarterback. The Buccaneers’ kept only two quarterbacks on their 53-man roster and believe the 46th spot can be used to bolster the special teams units. Holland, who had three kick-coverage stops during the preseason, is a strong candidate to be that 46th man on game day.
Tampa Bay kept only five linebackers, but that is a testament to both Adam Hayward’s versatility and the team’s depth of talent in the secondary and on the front line. The Bucs kept nine defensive linemen, and that includes five recent first, second or third-round draft picks: Clayborn, Bowers, Gerald McCoy, Brian Price and Roy Miller. Johnson also forced his way into the equation, as did jumbo defensive tackle Frank Okam, picked up in the middle of last season after he was released by Houston. Michael Bennett, the starting left end ahead of Bowers, and Tim Crowder round out the group.
The Bucs also kept nine offensive linemen, including a pair of backup offensive tackles in Demar Dotson and James Lee. Jeremy Zuttah and Derek Hardman create interior depth, and Zuttah’s well-documented versatility makes that possible. Three of those four O-line reserves – Zuttah, Hardman and Lee – combined to make 22 starts last year, giving the team more experienced depth behind the starting five than usual.
The position that may have seen the least turnover since the end of last season is wide receiver. The Buccaneers kept six receivers on Saturday, all of whom were on the team at the end of last year (though Arrelious Benn was on injured reserve). The only wideout who finished 2010 with the Buccaneers who will not start 2011 with the team is Maurice Stovall, who departed via free agency. Otherwise, the Buccaneers are obviously very comfortable with all the young depth it has added over the last two years, keeping Benn along with Mike Williams, Dezmon Briscoe, Sammie Stroughter, Micheal Spurlock and Preston Parker.
Again, no position on the depth chart was necessarily finalized on Saturday. The cut-down to 53 was simply a necessary, if unpleasant, part of the process towards building a championship roster. Other moves lie ahead, including the formation of an eight-man practice squad in the next few days. On Saturday, the Buccaneers did what they had to do on the toughest day of the toughest weekend of the year.
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