“Swaggy” Issues Statement
February 20th, 2018
Grateful.
In the wake of having his access card to One Buc Palace deactivated today, former Bucs defender Chris “Swaggy” Baker is not without gratitude.
The former offsides-jumping, belly shirt-wearing, practice-hating, kicker-heckling, tree-grinding , non-contact-football-loving, chicken-wings-grilling, playing-time-squawking, TV-cooking-star, half-sack Bucs defensive tackle thanked several people for expanding his retirement portfolio giving him a chance with the Bucs last season.
I am thankful to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Organization, Glazer Family, Coach Koetter, and GM Jason Licht for the opportunity last season. I am looking forward to the next chapter in my career. I am thankful for the chance to continue to follow my dreams. God always has a plan. pic.twitter.com/gYbY4FDJlm
— Chris Baker (@cbakerswaggy) February 20, 2018
Wonder if God advised Swaggy to take his theft earnings from 2017 and invest in Google stock, Amazon stock or Bitcoin?
February 20th, 2018 at 5:44 pm
Lol Joe!!!! Retirement portfolio…dang, ain’t that the truth!
February 20th, 2018 at 5:44 pm
He had to take the high road, his game tape I’m sure looks awful, gonna make it worse by taking shots at a franchise that putup with his sorry effort? If you can’t cut it in Tampa your probably done in the nfl.
February 20th, 2018 at 5:45 pm
Swaggy is proof positive that FA is not an exact science… When a team is looking at a player in FA they must ask themselves two questions 1) Why is the guy a FA and 2) Why didn’t his previous team fight harder to keep him?
Hopefully, Jason Licht follows suit in the future….
February 20th, 2018 at 5:47 pm
The Washington organization knew what they were doing letting him walk.
February 20th, 2018 at 5:49 pm
lol
February 20th, 2018 at 6:00 pm
What a fine physical specimen he is…….
Don’t let that sugga gitcha now!
Why my foot be tang
February 20th, 2018 at 6:01 pm
Bucs defensive tackle thanked several people for expanding his retirement portfolio giving him a chance with the Bucs last season.
—————
Quick let’s sign Julius peppers. 🙄
February 20th, 2018 at 6:07 pm
He burned his NFL bridge with his play….his words are not going to help….
February 20th, 2018 at 6:23 pm
I’m sure that once Buckner watched a few of his game tapes, he was like hell no I’m not even trying to deal with that dude!
February 20th, 2018 at 6:30 pm
The guys that only play hard in contract years. One of my biggest pet peeves in sports
Need to Stay away from these inconsistent half a$$ers
February 20th, 2018 at 6:30 pm
I am a little disappointed. I was really looking forward to Koetter growing a pair and riding Baker into the dirt every day in training camp until he either got in shape or flat out quit.
I used to like Koetter, but this team has no balls. How about a little payback for robbing you last season.
February 20th, 2018 at 6:32 pm
Chris “Saggy” Baker. … Never met a burger he didn’t like.
February 20th, 2018 at 6:32 pm
Dang he had the energy to issue a statement. Rare. Adios saggy.
February 20th, 2018 at 6:33 pm
I Blame ayers a little for him. They are boys
He gets after slackers.
I’m sure he vowged for him. Mistake
February 20th, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Somewhere Roberto the kicker is smiling…
February 20th, 2018 at 7:18 pm
I’m gonna just say please do not these players go off and succeed somewhere else, I agree that yeah, they had to go, but what’s the plan…., I guess we will find out
February 20th, 2018 at 7:22 pm
Na Na Na Na. Na Na Na Na. Hey Hey Hey. Goodbye
February 20th, 2018 at 7:28 pm
Well… bye.
February 20th, 2018 at 7:34 pm
Our GM is so good at cutting loose his bad decisions…..if only he avoided them in the first place we might not be in 4th in our division 75% of his GM career.
February 20th, 2018 at 7:42 pm
Like to the Bucs for paying me so much money to be a fat, lazy, piece of sh!te that humps trees and no one liked.
February 20th, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Last yr at this time I was BEGGING for Calais Campbell! I even called NosBos and was singing Campbell’s praises. Guess that mysterious 17Mil that we supposedly didn’t have laying around came back to bite us in the arse!
February 20th, 2018 at 8:01 pm
Obviously he did not thank the fans…Swaggy…the feeling is mutual you clown
February 20th, 2018 at 8:03 pm
Hey a quality LG just got released by the Bears, we should be taking a look at Josh Sitton. We need some combo of Sitton, Jensen, and Norwell.
February 20th, 2018 at 8:05 pm
Hit the bricks Tankass you stealing, 320 lbs. piece of sh!t waste of space!!!
February 20th, 2018 at 8:07 pm
What USFBUC just said!^^^^
February 20th, 2018 at 8:13 pm
Swaggy — Worthless as breasts on a boar hog.
February 20th, 2018 at 8:14 pm
Swaggy…..As useful as an elevator in an outhouse!
February 20th, 2018 at 8:18 pm
Funny
Why does very talented dline comes to Tampa and look like crap?? Why??
February 20th, 2018 at 8:22 pm
@SB
Whatever happened to my buddy NOSBOS?
February 20th, 2018 at 8:32 pm
Bucs fans once again showing “common decency” Go Bucs!
February 20th, 2018 at 8:35 pm
Haha. Classic joe. Expanding his retirement portfolio.
February 20th, 2018 at 8:50 pm
The last time I talked to him on the phone was a few months ago and he told me he was having a problem with Joe moderating his comments all the time and some of them disappearing he stopped coming so much. Then he got a new GF so I haven’t gotten many texts lately. His last one was talking about us getting rid of JW3, ( Yes a Nole said this) and drafting Baker Mayfield believe it or not.
February 20th, 2018 at 9:00 pm
Again dismayed how an organiztion can not do proper due diligence with a player that was widely known to dislike practice and was horribly out of shape, obese and had attitude issues! Who in the heck is evaluating these players?
February 20th, 2018 at 9:14 pm
I said during camp last year that Swaggy was at least 30lbs overweight….a Mike Smith kind of guy! CONTINUE TO BUILD THE WALL ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BAY….NI GOID WILL CONE FROM THE BACK/STABBING….GM / COACH K BE GONE!!!
February 20th, 2018 at 9:32 pm
FatBaker…possibly the WORST FA signing ever by our Bucs… Burt Emmanuel, Alvin Harper, Ghost Johnson, FatBaker – theBucs FA Hall of Shame
February 20th, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Haynesworth…remember?
February 20th, 2018 at 9:52 pm
Finally! Buckner getting stuff done!! And we already knew DM22 was gone.
Now to replace them with Big Vita and a 3rd round RB (Penny). Barkley is gone, forget about that pick. D line first 2 picks please….Big V and an edge rush unless Chubb is there @7 (which I doubt).
February 20th, 2018 at 10:02 pm
Who cares about this Fatty Baker at this point, the Tampa Bay purge continues… Steven Souza traded for a dude with 25 innings pitched and a 17 Earned Runs and a 5.96 ERA, LOL, they also got a 2nd baseman from the Yankees minors and 2 players to be named later. It could be worse for the Bucs… Sternburg could own them. Looking forward to TJ Ward being gone, but only because Mike Smith didn’t know how to use him. Would like for Sweezy to get a look in camp to see if he is stronger now. We rehabbed Revis a year after ACL, I don’t want to rehab this guy a year after Back Surgery and have him go off and be successful
February 20th, 2018 at 10:10 pm
Chris Baker was not as bad as everyone is making him to be. Everyone is looking past the the biggest point of all. He was willing to play in Tampa.
February 20th, 2018 at 10:19 pm
Godzilla…for the amount of money he stole, he would have played in Afghanistan
February 20th, 2018 at 10:31 pm
Godzilla
Agree. Baker wasn’t a huge bust as hyped. He did pretty good a stretch and took on leadership role
Again these are not 4-3 guys.
February 20th, 2018 at 10:39 pm
One more big move should be coming soon – Trade Gerald McCoy
February 20th, 2018 at 11:47 pm
He thanked the owners, GM and HC but not his DC … hmmmm ….
February 21st, 2018 at 12:22 am
“Next up after the break, former NFL lineman Chris Baker talks about life after losing a leg to diabetes.”
February 21st, 2018 at 12:31 am
Smitty has some good defenses in Jax under DelRio, using some leftover talent/men from Coughiin.
His defenses in Atlanta were always weak and soft. Spare me the CEO HC excuse.
His defenses have been beyond putrid and embarrassing here.
Maybe the third year will be different?
February 21st, 2018 at 12:33 am
Thanks for NGAF Swaggy!
February 21st, 2018 at 12:52 am
His agent wrote it.
February 21st, 2018 at 7:41 am
#swaggytime. Lmao I will begin yelling that everytime I sit down to eat chicken wings now
February 21st, 2018 at 8:29 am
I think any GM willing to hire him now, after seeing how bad a teammate he is, should be fired.
February 21st, 2018 at 8:36 am
Gimme the $$$$$ then tell me goooooood bye.
Why should i bust my butt,
when you have me the big bucks.
February 21st, 2018 at 8:37 am
Gimme the $$$$$ then tell me goooooood bye.
Why should i bust my butt,
when you give me the big bucks.
February 21st, 2018 at 10:49 am
I love the way Jason drafts… But man his free agent moves really leave me scratching my head lololol…. Idk what else to say.
February 21st, 2018 at 12:41 pm
The Swaggy nickname should’ve been a big enough red flag to not sign the dude… then the fact he hated to practice… Redskins couldn’t let him go fast enough…. still can’t believe we signed him…. my faith is gone in Licht’s ability to evaluate and sign FA’s to help the team. His batting average is beyond putrid.
February 21st, 2018 at 4:53 pm
I agree with MadMax 100% If ChubB is gone we MUST Draft Vita Vea !! Nelson would be a great option too but Vea is a fantastic pick!! A DE in the second, best runningback in the third and DEFENSE with the rest of the draft!!! FIX the DEFENCE NOW!!!