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Over the past months, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have completely overhauled their coaching staff and added numerous new players. They're desperately trying to improve the product on the field, but that's not Greg Schiano's only focus. When Raheem Morris was fired, fans were angry about the Bucs. The Glazers were seen as cheap - and have been seen as cheap for a long time. The fans were livid...
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It's the offseason, nothing is really happening and we have little to discuss. But there's one major sporting event happening right now, and this is a sports-based blog after all. So, let's have an open thread about it. Chelsea vs Bayern Munich. Battle of the ages? Well, an excuse to drink some beers at least. Of course, you're welcome to discuss anything else here besides the soccer game....
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The last time we did a poll like this , the results were okay, but hardly spectacular. That's a pretty big turnaround from last year, when Dominik looked like a genius and Raheem Morris appeared to be the next big NFL coach. But Dominik has done plenty since then, signing a few more backups and, most notably, leading what appears to have been one stellar draft for the Bucs. Of course, it's...
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Price on his sister's death: "She was my guardian angel.' | tampabay.com & Tampa Bay Times :(. Bucs' Price Dealt Another Tragic Blow | Pewter Report :(. Looking at NFC South front offices - NFC South Blog - ESPN Mark Dominik is kind of on the hot seat. 'The Essential Smart Football' - Question And Answer With Author Chris Brown Of SmartFootball.com - Big East Coast Bias Read this,...
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During every practice session this offseason, Ronde Barber has lined up safety. It seems like a foregone conclusion that Barber will end up playing free safety during the season, although the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the cornerback himself are keeping the door open for him to move back to cornerback. Can the veteran succeed in his new role? I'm not so sure about that. Let's start with the...
TampaBay.com (Rick Stroud) —
Brian Price closes his eyes but sleep rarely comes, not more than for an hour a day, not since the hit-and-run automobile accident last week that killed his sister and left two nephews who call him dad without their mother. “Yeah, she was like my personal cheerleader, like my No. 1 fan,'' Price said Friday of his sister, Bridget James, 33, who died in surgery from injuries...
Buccaneers Gab (Matt Loede) —
The Buccaneers have signed second-round draft pick Lavonte David to a four-year contract. The linebacker out of Nebraska was the 58th overall selection in the draft. He is expected to compete for a starting job on a defense that ranked among the worst in the NFL last season. David was a highly productive player in [...]
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed their second-round draft pick Lavonte David to a four-year contract. The Nebraska linebacker was selected with the 58th overall pick of the 2012 NFL draft. As with every other draft pick beyond the first round, David signed a four-year contract. Lavonte David is projected to be a three-down starter at weakside linebacker, as the undersized but versatile...
TampaBay.com (Rick Stroud) —
The Bucs are slowly signing their draft picks from the bottom up. Linebacker Lavonte David, Tampa Bay's second-round pick, signed a four-year contract, the club announced Friday. David was the 58th overall choice from Nebraska, where he started all 27 games he played. In just two seasons, he recorded the fourth-most tackles with 285 along with 28 tackles for loss and 11.5...
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Bucs' Price loses sister who was his bedrock | TBO.com :(. Tragedy strikes Bucs DT Price again as sister dies in car accident | tampabay.com & Tampa Bay Times This is really, really sad. Pressure point: Buccaneers - NFC South Blog - ESPN Gerald McCoy . Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Defensive schemes to expect and their impact | What The Buc? Interesting look at what the Bucs could run this...
TampaBay.com (Rick Stroud) —
Bucs defensive tackle Brian Price was at Los Angeles International Airport last week preparing to board a flight to Tampa when he got a phone call informing him that his sister Bridget had been involved an automobile accident. For Price, who lost a second brother to a gang-related shooting eight years ago, the news was nearly too much to bear. "He got the call, and it might have...
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CBS Sports' Pete Prisco has published his annual list of the top 100 players in the NFL, and one Tampa Bay Buccaneer makes the list: Carl Nicks . The newly signed Buccaneer doesn't just make the list, though. He's listed near the top at #17, the highest ranking for any offensive lineman. Prisco has some nice things to say about the dominant left guard: This mauler in the run game is as...
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In another hilarious twist in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, Jonathan Vilma has decided to sue Roger Goodell for defamation . Vilma claims that Goodell "in relation to the Bounty scandal in relation to purported efforts designed to injure opposing players, made public statements concerning Vilma which were false, defamatory and injurious to Vilma's professional and personal...
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed Connor Barth to a four-year, $13.2 million deal with $4 million in guaranteed money, according to Adam Schefter . Barth has been supremely accurate throughout his career with the Buccaneers, hitting 84% of his field goals in the NFL, and making 26 of 28 field goals last season. He hasn't wilted under pressure, either, as he has hit game-winning field...
Buccaneers Gab (Matt Loede) —
Tampa Bay has announced they’ve signed franchise kicker Connor Barth to a four-year deal. No word on the terms of the deal have been announced. Since joining the Bucs midway through the 2009 season, Barth is 63 of 75 (84 percent) on field goal attempts, including 26 of 28 in 2011, which set a club [...]