Bucs Should Target Sears For Final Game
November 19th, 2009
Arron Sears is back at One Buc Place from whatever caused his mysterious absence and he’ll be working with the Bucs’ condidtioning staff for at least a week to get into shape. And then he’ll presumably work toward getting into football shape and onto the practice field.
Woody Cummings, of the Tampa Tribune, was among those in the MSM given an official update on Sears on Wednesday.
Sears will spend this week working out on his own. It will be next week at the earliest before he returns to the practice field and possibly next season before he sees game action again.
As for the problem that has beset the Bucs young guard, the Bucs still aren’t saying. Nor is Sears. As part of his slow indoctrination back into pro football, the Bucs plan to keep him away from the media until next week at the earliest as well.
Sears returned to the Bucs on his own, according to Bucs general manager Mark Dominik and is “hungry’’ to get back on the field.
Joe’s pleased to hear Sears is “hungry” to play, and it’s understandable the Bucs don’t want to put any pressure on him to play this season.
But Joe has to go on the record and say Sears has must get on the field this year not only for himself, but for the team’s best interest.
It seems Sears is understandably way out of shape. So if it takes him two weeks to feel like an athlete again, and then three weeks to practice and get in better shape and study the playbook, that’ll put him at two games left in the season: at New Orleans and home for Atlanta on Jan. 3.
If Sears remains in a state of mind that allows him to work full-time at his job, then there’s no reason to keep him out of the lineup on Jan 3.
Imagine the positive feeling for Sears to line up on the field at that point alongside Jeff Faine and Donald Penn. Joe believes he’ll get quite an ovation from the home crowd.
What a rush of confidence heading into next season. And frankly, the Bucs need to see him play at least a half, recover and still want to play football.
Joe’s rooting for Sears big time. And if his head is OK, he’s got to get on the field this season.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
They should throw is ass there the first game he is back on the 53…
a little perspective for him
November 19th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
I like this take much more than the whole “fans got a right to know” take of earlier days. Our cultural sense of entitlement these days makes everything a “right”. Work him in. Let him adjust back to the game and to the organization. Props to the Bucs for their approach. Like Joe said, seeing him in action during the latter part of this year would be promising.
As for Rasta’s “throw his ass, perspective” take….I think this one deserves a softer approach, for the man and the team. If we had championship leverage, maybe so. But at 1-7, we need to build, not tear down.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
If Sears can get 1 of our running backs somew 100 yard games. I will be willing on behalf off all Buc fans to have a don’t ask, don’t tell policy with Sears,
Seriously, we need good players around here. We all know that the Bucs aren’t going to out coach anybody.