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This was supposed to be a football battle for NFC South supremacy. The Carolina Panthers entered Sunday’s game at Tampa with a 4-1 record and a perch at the top of the NFC South standings. The Buccaneers were 3-2, one game back, with a chance to tie the Panthers with a ...

Tampa Bay quarterback Brian Griese’s injured throwing shoulder and elbow from last week’s loss in Denver haven’t healed enough to allow him to throw a football. As a result, it is looking like former starter Jeff Garcia will get the nod for Sunday’s game against the Car ...

After being in a Denver uniform for the first five years of his career, there is no doubt that Brian Griese wanted to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers go on the road and stick it to the Broncos last Sunday. At one time, Griese was in line to be the heir apparent to John El ...

In this day and age of instant gratification, most football fans want to be able to brag that their team’s quarterback is the Man. They want a QB who goes out every week and throws for 300-plus yards, multiple touchdowns, doesn't turn the ball over and comes out with a ...

Rookies in the NFL get their first chance to show how tough they are by going against their teammates. Buccaneers rookies Aqib Talib and Cory Boyd got an early start on beating up on their teammates by supposedly getting in a brawl at the rookie symposium Wednesday. ...

Pro Football Reference's ongoing series ranking the best players by franchise extends into the NFC West. According to PFR's Approximate Value method, Buccaneers LB Derrick Brooks is the best player in the history of the four teams in the NFC West - Tampa Bay, New Orle ...

Tampa Bay came to an agreement on a three-year contract extension with RB Earnest Graham, the team announced Sunday. Graham rushed for 898 yards and caught 49 passes for 324 yards last season while replacing starter Cadillac Williams and backup Michael Pittman. The de ...

Tampa Bay came to terms with fourth-round defensive tackle Dre Moore and sixth=round linebacker Geno Hayes on contracts this past weekend. Those two, along with RB Cory Boyd, give the Bucs three signed draft picks. Four more remain, including first-round pick Aqib Tali ...

Embattled Buccaneers QB Chris Simms is saying thanks, but no thanks, to the Glazer family ownership in Tampa Bay. He told the St. Petersburg Times he feels he's "being held hostage," and his release in 2008 is imminent. According to the Times, Bucs head coach Jon Grude ...

The NFL announced Wednesday that Buccaneers TE Jerramy Stevens will be suspended for the first two games of the 2008 season and docked an additional game check for failing to comply with the league's substance-abuse policy. Any further violation of the policy between ...

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 l ...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan forum The Captain's Deck recently weighed in on the team's decision to re-sign TE Jerramy Stevens. The fans' general reaction was perhaps a little different than what some may have expected. It was optimistic. Stevens has been involved in se ...

Tampa Bay announced Friday that it released former sixth-round QB Bruce Gradkowski and signed TE Jerramy Stevens. Stevens had four touchdowns and started three games for the Buccaneers last season. Gradkowski appeared in four contests last season, but he did not start ...

On Sunday, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Thomas McHale was found dead at a friend's home. He was 45 years old. Commentary: The Pasco County Sheriff's Office indicated that McHale was found by a friend in a Tampa-area home. At this time, foul play is not suspec ...

When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers re-signed Michael Bennett on Friday, they confirmed two things: Cadillac Williams is nowhere close to ready to play and Michael Pittman is headed elsewhere. Williams was lost to a gruesome knee injury -- a torn patellar tendon -- last Sept ...

Apparently Malcolm Glazer's sons think Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers headed in the right direction. At least that was the message the owners of the Buccaneers sent Tuesday when they re-signed Gruden, the coach, and Allen, the general manager, ...

Jeff Garcia will return as Tampa Bay's quarterback this week, bumping Luke McCown back to the bench. And Garcia will be the Bucs' quarterback as long as he is healthy through the playoffs. But next year could be, as they say, a whole 'nother story. Garcia is a smalli ...

Hey, finally the Tampa Bay Buccaneers went the opposite direction. Instead of losing a running back, they gained one. And a pretty decent one at that. In a trade that could really help the Bucs (4-2) as they try to fend off Carolina (4-2) for the NFC South title this ...

It wasn't pretty Sunday, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will certainly take their 13-10 win over the Tennessee Titans. At 4-2, the Buccaneers are now looking like the prohibitive favorites to win the NFC South, surprisingly. After this corner-turning, sit-up-and-take-noti ...

If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are going to continue a promising start and reclaim the NFC South title they won in 2005, they're going to have to stop losing running backs every week. Cadillac Williams was lost for the year in Week 4. Then Michael Pittman went down with a ...