Bucs Were “This Close” To Getting Limas Sweed
May 3rd, 2010
Joe had written and pontificated on more than one occasion that since serial (alleged) molester horny Ben Roethlisberger was in legal hot water for getting way to handsy with women and not exactly keeping the barn door closed (allegedly), the Bucs could ship off quarterback Byron Leftwich to the Steelers for wide receiver Limas Sweed.
It seems Joe was onto something and that great minds think alike. Per Adam Schefter’s Twitterings this morning, Bucs general manager Mark Dominik was “this close” to acquiring Sweed.
Twists of life are odd. Last month Pittsburgh was thisclose to trading WR Limas Sweed to Tampa. It didn’t. He stayed – and hurt Achilles.
Of course, Sweed was hurt over the weekend in offseason drills with the Steelers and may be out for the year. Had he been traded to the Bucs… well, this is like wondering what would have happened if U.S. Armed Forces officials in Hawaii had trusted their embryonic radar technology on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
Also interesting that a member of the local Fourth Estate got preachy last week, warning Bucs fans to be wary of blogs, and that to be truly informed, one must only trust dispatches from someone who has access to Bucs players and officials, yet this is the second Bucs’ trade-related item in the past week Joe has learned of from trusted sources without access to One Buc Palace.
How strange?
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:45 am
OK, so where are all the negative nancys that complained about the Bucs not pursuing Holmes and saying that it was all about money?
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:33 pm
@JimBuc, this article is about Sweed, not Holmes.
May 3rd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
I understand that. LOL.
May 3rd, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Adam’s source for that info that we were “close” was probably this site, lol.
May 3rd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
In a bit of irony, a trade to the Bucs might have saved his career.
If Sweed is traded he is obviously going to go to a different field, work with different people, train in a different environment etc. That change in his destiny saves him from the fluke injury that he received in Pitt.
He would go to a team with little WR depth and have been emboldened by the fresh start and lack of star players to keep him on the sideline.
Of course he could’ve done God-knows-what when he got here. But you can probably put a fork in him at this point.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Dominik needs to work his magic here. Trade Clayton to the Steelers for a 7th round draft pick.
May 5th, 2010 at 2:57 am
FLorida Girl, unfortunately, the Bucs will probably have to give up THEIR 7th round pick to a team to take Clayton!