[vincesanity82]

These truly are desperate times at One Buc Place. The proof is in the string of seemingly desperate moves the Bucs have made in recent weeks.
The string began on the first day of the draft, when the Bucs used their first pick on Clemson defensive end Gaines Adams, one of three prospects who had admitted to experimenting with marijuana.
It continued a few picks later when the Bucs chose Syracuse defensive back Tanard Jackson, who was stabbed during a frat fight as a junior and suspended from the team as a senior for contract detrimental to the team.
Then, within minutes of completing the draft, the Bucs signed free-agent tight end Jerramy Stevens, who dropped off the radar of almost every other team in March when he was arrested on a DUI charge.
As if that wasn't enough, the Bucs then granted a tryout to Olympic gold medal sprinter Justin Gatlin, who is serving an eight-year ban from the track and field circuit for his involvement in a 2006 doping scandal.
Now, we're not against giving people second chances. And Adams, who is paying a high price for simply being honest, seems truly conciliatory regarding his lapse in judgment.
But it seems odd that during a period in which the NFL is clearly trying to erase the soiled image the public has of some of its players, the Bucs have added several players with legitimate character concerns.
That they've done all this in the wake of releasing linebacker Shelton Quarles, one of the league's model citizens, only adds to the curiosity.
The Bucs will deny it, of course, but unlike the Jacksonville Jaguars, who cut cornerback Ahmad Carroll just two days after he was arrested on weapon and drug charges, they seem to be overlooking character.
It seems that skill, ability and winning are what matter most to the Bucs, and that's understandable. This is, after all, a bottom-line business, and this regime is running out of bottom lines.
As best as anyone can tell, this team is in a must-win-now situation. Still, it would be nice if the Bucs won with a roster full of players they can truly trust to be there when they need them and be proud of.

Desperate Measures For A Desperate Team

[Tank59]

ahmen playa! ill take a whiskey drinker anyday
besides any man who is perfectly clean is full of ****, and there is a place and time for everything and it is called college which three of the four are fresh out of. then you add into the equation all the new substense abuse rules and the whole pacman incedent, and i dont think anybody, especially a rookie, is going to try anything this season