Earlier this week Joe was wondering why the Bucs media relations staff kept Aqib Talib away from those pesky guys and gals with the Tampa Bay chapter of the pen and mic club.

Days after the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, “The Big Dog,” Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, broke the news that Talib and Raheem the Dream got into a cursing contest with each other in the lobby of a London hotel at 2 a.m., Talib was nowhere to be found at One Buc Palace.

At the same time, Raheem the Dream was doing his best not to admit in his denial that the incident actually happened.

Well, Talib finally faced reporters Thursday and Tom Balog of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune wasn’t exactly buying what Talib was selling.

Talib did not take the opportunity to deny that he cursed at Morris, apologize, or set the record straight about the circumstances that led to their meeting of the minds.

His comment sounded like something he was advised to say from someone in the team’s media relations department, two days after Morris denied that Talib showed him any disrespect after he broke his coach’s curfew by two hours.

“Raheem already told you guys what happened so I’m not really going to get into that,” Talib said. “I’m sticking to football questions. ’Rah’ kind of already explained to you guys what happened, so I’ll leave it at that. . . . I’m not going to get into it all.”

Let Joe just say that he thinks if Talib was wronged by inaccurate reports about cursing out his head coach and blowing curfew, he’d be chomping at the bit to tell his side of the story so long as there were no legal ramifications involved.