Bucs Don’t Want Plaxico Burress, Tiki Barber
June 7th, 2011
"Yo, Mark, I had pimps throwing passes to me each day in the prison yard."
The minute convicted felon and former prison inmate Plaxico Burress walked out of a New York pen yesterday, some Bucs fans spent the previous evening trying to concoct ways to justify the Bucs sullying their roster with the previous NFL malcontent.
Some Bucs fans previously had hoped a rusty Tiki Barber, having stepped away from his NBC News and sports gig, would help the Bucs (not an absurd thought).
In the mind of eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune, these fans are wasting their time. The longtime Bucs beat writer took to Twitter this morning to suggest the folly of such dreams, via TBO’s Bucs Twitter feed.
Anyone who thinks the Bucs are interested in Plaxico Burress or Tiki Barber is dreaming. Too much age, too much baggage for this team.
Joe pointed out yesterday how, under further study, signing Burress doesn’t fit Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik’s philosophy.
Now Joe has no idea what kind of football shape Tiki is in and given how well Ricky Williams played after taking time off to pull bongs with the aborigines, maybe Tiki has tread left on the tires?
But Tiki was known as a clubhouse lawyer of sorts and some think he back-stabbed Giants coach Tom Coughlin and quarterback Eli Manning. If that is remotely accurate, Joe doubts Dominik would want such issues in the Bucs locker room.
June 7th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Duh..why would we…
June 7th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Yeah, but has he learned gun control yet? Or, at least gotten a holster, so the gun doesn’t slip down his pant leg and go off? Inquiring minds want to know!
June 7th, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Too much age – maybe. Too much money – maybe. Too much baggage. huh?
This team is loaded with baggage, it ought to be renamed the Tampa Bay Baggageneers. We signed Blount after punching a teammate; Mike Will was kicked off and quit his college team in 2 consecutive years; THC Jax smoked his way to the suspended list; Talib is about to jailed after numerous other offenses and there is no team action taken to date; Geno Taze was well tasered for disorderly conduct; Alex Magee arrested for drug possession; coaches and management employees nailed on DUI charges. I know that I am forgetting incidents also.
Ira the list goes on and on and on. How would adding PLax or Tiki add anything on the baggage front? Plax makes the team better and if he is cheap enough – they should sign him. This org would sign Charles Manson tomorrow if he could play like Reggie White at a salary similar to Styles White. Tiki is carrying way too much rust so forget about him – unless he would play for free – then he would be right up the Glazer’s alley.
It wasn’t always this way but it is today, since MANU at least – whether there is a connection who knows? Hopefully one day we will.
June 7th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
I forgt Trueblood’s arrest; Jerramy Steven arrest and Jermaine Phillip’s arrest but at least in those last two cases they did not retain the players who the org had of course already given up on.
I am excepting the Mike Will arrest b/c he didn’t do anything criminal but did do something stupid (out after 2am drinking when the team was leaving for a west coast away game in literally 4 or 5 hours).