The offseason began with speculation and reports that Greg Schiano did not see Josh Freeman as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' long-term answer at quarterback. In the months since, Schiano has done his best to shoot down that line of thinking. The coach has spoken positively about Freeman's progress, and he did it again on Monday when NFL Network's Andrew Siciliano asked Schiano who was his quarterback. "We only have one," Schiano said on "NFL Total Access." "It's Josh Freeman." The Bucs selected Mike Glennon in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft, but it's become apparent there will be no quarterback battle come training camp. "I believe in competition, and Mike Glennon is going to be a tremendous quarterback in his time," Schiano said. "But we have a quarterback, it's Josh Freeman. He had a really good spring. I think it's really coming together, being in this system for a second year now and hearing the things over again after being able to study it, I'm really encouraged. "I know Mike Sullivan, our offensive coordinator, he's encouraged. We're looking forward to big things. Josh is going to have a big year." It's put up or shut up time for Freeman, who is entering the final year of his contract and probably will be elsewhere if he doesn't develop into a more consistent player. Source: NFL.com
Well no sh!t. Glennon sucks. Waste of a f*cking 3rd. That's the Bucs though. Stupid butt bastards. Why couldn't my family raise me a Steelers fan? My whole dad's side of the fam is from Pitt. My mom's side is from Chi, but that is besides the point. F*CK!
I'm more interested in how that expensive secondary is going to affect signing other players, and if they'll be able to shut down the Saints and Falcons
Darrelle Revis contract: how is the Buccaneers' future salary cap affected? - Bucs Nation This answered one of my questions pretty thoroughly
well, schiano has had to spend much of the off-season lifting up Freeman as 'his' guy because of some things he said at the end of last season which indicated he may not have been sold on him.
This was written on April 22nd. The Bucs has $18,278,471 in cap space. We did not sign Ronde, as he retired. If Donald Penn doesn't step it up this year, he will be forced to take a pat cut. Gerald McCoy will probably be forced to take a pay cut as he is still on his rookie contract that is paying him 10 mill this year, 13 mill next year. It's not like the Bucs are the Rams, who have 214,088 in cap space. Source: » Over the Cap- NFL Salary Cap Space 2013
As to part 1 of my intial post, I was just wondering how the spending they did this offseason would affect them in the future. And obviously I'm not the only person who was wondering. It doesn't matter when the article was written to me, just how specific the writer was in looking at the available options they could consider
