Former Bucs front office executive and current Bears general manager Jerry Angelo claimed the Bucs trading for Meshawn Johnson in 2000, were "burned." Joe doesn't see it.

Not trying to play revisionist history here, but Joe found an interesting item buried in Peter King’s “Monday Morning Quarterback,” which Joe linked to earlier in the post about the Bucs nearly acquiring Jay Cutler.

In King’s column, he discusses how the Cutler trade to Chicago went down last week. Bears general manager Jerry Angelo was a high priest in the Bucs organization in 2000, when the Bucs parted with a pair of first round draft picks to get a player, as Angelo did for Cutler.

Only nine years ago (was it really that long?) the Bucs traded for wide receiver Meshawn Johnson.

In King’s column, Angelo admitted the Meshawn Johnson trade crossed his mind when he pulled the trigger on the Cutler deal.

A few things went though Angelo’s mind, including the last time he was part of a staff that traded two No. 1’s for a player. “We did Keyshawn Johnson for two ones in Tampa Bay, and we really got burned by it,” he told me Friday night. “But this is a quarterback. Maybe a really good quarterback.”

How exactly did the Bucs get “burned?”

Sure, Meshawn melted down and was kicked to the curb by Chucky and then-general manager Rich McKay. But Joe cannot figure out how the Bucs got burned?

Johnson, like Chucky, was acquired to get the Bucs a Super Bowl win, no? At the time, the Bucs wide receiving corps were sorely lacking. Last time Joe checked, Johnson was a key cog in the Bucs winning a Super Bowl; caught a key touchdown in the NFC title game over Philadelphia.

Would the Bucs have won a Super Bowl without Meshawn? Hard to say. But Joe does know the Bucs did win a Super Bowl with Meshawn.

In Joe’s eyes: Case closed. Meshawn was worth it. The end justified the means. The Bucs hoisted the Vince Lombardi trophy.