Garcia has forgotten his place—and how to count

By Chris Cluff  |   Thursday, June 05, 2008  |  Comments( 11 )

 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Jeff Garcia apparently doesn’t know how to count. How else do you explain his ridiculously unfounded complaining about his contract? He is scheduled to make $2 million in 2008, and he thinks he’s underpaid even though he is 38 and missed three games with injuries last year in his first season as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ starting ...
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Os Davis		 12:55 AM
06/06/2008
Dude, "grossly inflated sense of his importance to the Bucs"? Who thinks TB would have made the playoffs without Garcia in 2007?

"he is lucky the Buccaneers were desperate enough to make him one of them"? Come on, after he wowed (and won, repeatedly) with his second-half performance with the 2006 Eagles?

"he is 38 and missed three games with injuries last year." The former may be true, but remember that Garcia only debuted -- a la Kurt Warner -- in the NFL at age 29; he's taken far less punishment than the average 38-year-old pro. As for the injuries, as you speculated, Garcia certainly thought himself well enough to play.

Griese a good second option? He wasn't even a good second option for a team starting Rex Grossman.

I'm telling ya, man, the Buccaneers'll go 10-6 this season, make the playoffs, they'll cut Garcia loose; he'll end up coming in for the second half of the 2009 season for the Chicago Bears while Gruden loses his job because he can't coach a guy signficantly younger than him.

Viva Garcia!
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bardley80		 08:54 AM
06/06/2008
Garcia is still solid starting QB in the NFL, which I think speaks to the current lack of talent at the position then his own ability.

Yes, they made the playoffs with him at the helm, but RB Earnest Graham was probably the biggest factor in their success. I think Garcia's history has proven he can't carry an offense, but if he has a good running game he can be very good.
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GissoniC		 02:28 PM
06/06/2008
I agree with the article but wouldn't be so agressive as Chris Cluff...

I think Garcia should stay quiet and do the job he's supposed but in other hand, having space to work on the cap, the Bucs could've been more flexible...

The fact is that now there's no way to attend to Garcia's demand because the organization simply cannot - sorry for the expression - "open it's legs" and give what a player publicly claim to be his, even more the way he did.

Facts:

- The Bucs could have aproached Garcia first to elaborate some deal

- Garcia coul have negotiated with reason since it not happened

- Griese and McCown both can start, but shouldn't

Results:

The way I see... The Bucs have shitted on it's front porch, Garcia then rolled on it...

Now the Bucs have it's property smelling and Garcia is full of shit...

Both sides have lost...
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