Penn Doesn’t Want To Be Turned Loose
December 26th, 2008
Unlike some of his teammates, Donald Penn wants to stay in Tampa Bay and play for the Bucs for a long time.
Tis’ the season for whining jocks crying about how they are disrespected and will leave Tampa Bay the moment the gun is fired to end the last Bucs game of the season. So motiviated some of these players are to bolt, they have the U-Haul loaded up, ready to roll.
Don’t count Donald Penn among those. The Bucs starting left tackle is a free agent after the season and very much wants to stay in Tampa Bay, so reports Anwar Richardson of the Tampa Tribune.
“To tell you the truth, I truly, truly, truly hope so,” Penn said. “My wife likes it out here. I love being here. I love the fans. We got a young offensive line. We have a chance to be great and hopefully they do keep us together. I would love to be here.”
Though Penn’s agent probably cringed when reading that comment (it sort of puts an agent at a disadvantage in contract negotiations) Joe loves to see that kind of a quote. This tells Joe that Penn is motivated. Joe would much rather have a player with a fire burning in him then some talented guy who is just going through the motions.
December 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Penn’s agent would prefer that Penn not profess a desire to stay here but I don’t know that it hurts his negotiating position.
If you’re the Bucs, you know roughly what you’re going to offer him and if I’m Bruce Allen I’d much rather know the guy wants to be here than that he is simply taking the biggest paycheck.
December 26th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Penn’s OK, but he’ll get big bucks as a young and improving left tackle. The bucs need a big time running back so we can see fi this offensive rline is really for real.