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QuikSand

02-28-2008, 07:17 AM

The Highlander Challenge

It’s been a while since I played a public, documented, solo FOF career. I thought I would give it a shot once again. I will again make a try to come up with a set of rules that make the game a long-term challenge for me – what I want is for the game to be interesting to play, challenging to win, but allow me to play “all out” within the rules that I have adopted up front. You may have heard me refer to this as a holy grail… it’s tougher than it seems.

So, my current thinking is that I’ll try a set of rules where I am allowed to do lots of different things – but none of them more than once per season. Thus, the play-on-words title of the challenge, which I hope won’t be lost on quite everyone.

So, here are the limitations for the career. In any given season:

-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a one-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a two-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a three-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a four-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a five-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a six-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a seven-year contract
-there can be only one year on any new offer made to a restricted free agent
-there can be only one renegotiation before the season starts
-there can be only one renegotiation toward the end of the season
-there can be only one trade, either within the current draft or AI-initiated

Yes, I include my own out-of-contract players among the limits for FA signees. I am also aware that the ability to sign contracts for longer than three years generally means committing either huge money or else stuffing huge backends to the deals forcing a release some way through – so in essence, it will be very difficult for me to keep players around in this career, I expect. That is absolutely by design – the worry I’m targeting here is that I generally find it far too easy to just re-sign lots and lots of decent role players for minsal or a bit more year after year – and all of my solo teams turn into cohesion monsters as a result.

So, basically – my rookie draftees are mine through their rookie contract and for whatever I can sign them to as restricted free agents – meaning that I can get an easy four years out of most of them who turn out to be worth keeping. Past that, I will have a pretty limited ability to keep players around.

I’m also limiting my ability to sign undrafted rookies here. I’ll have to bend these rules as I initially build a team (empty cupboard will demand it) and fill in with one year rookies, but my intention is to have these limits apply to those players too.

kurtism

02-28-2008, 07:47 AM

The Kurgan approves.

QuikSand

02-28-2008, 06:45 PM

Startup

I am starting with a career that I seemingly abandoned some time ago, where I have possession of (in an NFL-mirror universe) the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. No particular reason why that I know of – they were willing to take me, I reckon, so they must have been bad. It’s the start of the 2023 season, and I have cut everyone who was under contract. We still have $93m of the $169m salary cap available to use this year, so we have the ability to use our limited FA powers to try to get a few foundation pieces into place, perhaps.

Some bending of the long-term rules will be required to field a team in these first years, and I guess the thing to do is essentially load this team up with gobs of undrafted free agents. I don’t want to have a 30-player exodus after they all switch from 4th to 5th year player status, though, so I will probably need to “phase in” the rules a bit.

So, in our first free agency, here are the initial players we pursue – easy to list by years:

1YR – DT Mitch Busby, $7m
2YR – CB Paul Woods, $14m
3YR – QB Chester Caruso, $12m
4YR – OT Pat O’Neill, $16m (6m bonus, even salary)
5YR – WR Melvin Hevey, $32.5m (7.5m bonus, even salary)
6YR – WR Jake Stuart, $123M (13th yr guy, won’t see the back end)
7YR – LB Gilbert Wilkerson, $118M (basically 4yr, $19m)

If we land them all (no reason to think we won’t) we will have three important offensive slots filled (QB-WR-WR) and a few key guys elsewhere. Filling in with nothing but rookies and maybe a few chemistry foundation guys is going to mean this team will be bad – but we won’t be starting from absolute zero, at least. My goal here is to make the out-years interesting… I already know that any set of rules make it fairly interesting to build a team. I want these rules to make it interesting to keep the team together – so the sooner we are basically up and running the better, I think.

I have to up my offer to CB Woods to land him, but that’s okay – I don’t think we will even approach the cap these two years. I don’t know if he’s a long term commitment for us, but he’s a pretty solid player at a tough-to-fill position, so this makes sense for now. I’m trying not to completely throw away these first few years.

I toy with the idea of going out and landing a bunch of high personality chemistry types to build a foundation – but candidly I think that focusing in chemistry in this career will make it more time-consuming than I want. Plus, I don’t want to be in the spot of wasting precious FA contracts on these guys – so they’d be out the door in a few years anyway. Nope, I’ll keep it simple… we will surround this year’s crop of free agents with rookies and just take it from there.

QuikSand

02-28-2008, 06:46 PM

2023 Draft

We hold pick #4 overall, and then it appears that we don’t eve have our picks in rounds 4, 5, and 6. That is unfortunate… might need to do some dealing just to get some guys onto the field out here. More rule bending indeed.

I decide the best remedy here is to deal down in the draft, forego the one big splash player, and pick up multiple picks. So, we do – from 1.4 to 1.17 and getting the top five picks from San Diego in the deal. That should help us, even though we won’t get the impact DE that would likely have awaited us at pick 1.4.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post
1.17 DE Arnold Ingram 6.0 6.6 ---- 33 -- ---- ----- -- 54% VU 49/63
2.07 DT Bo Bolsins (DE) 5.9 6.4 4.93 38 32 7.58 9-05 -- 33% NA 23/47
2.15 S Chuck Kemnitzer (CB) 5.6 5.3 4.36 26 21 7.50 8-01 47 58% UR 36/55
3.05 LT Junior Pruett 5.1 5.6 5.44 39 39 7.64 8-08 -- 27% NA 31/58
3.18 WR Warren Dickens 4.5 4.7 4.58 31 15 7.20 9-00 56 20% NA 24/49
4.17 C Phil Brennan 5.3 4.6 5.05 39 30 7.94 7-07 -- 17% NA 19/55
5.16 S Jessie Blythe (CB) 4.1 3.8 4.61 39 21 7.58 8-05 39 17% NA 20/57
7.06 WR Rich Richmond 4.2 4.4 4.55 16 8 7.06 9-00 52 37% VU 17/40

Well, it turns out we do get a pretty solid-looking DE out of this draft after all – not one the the elite players I saw at the top of the heap, but a guy who ought to be very good for us, I think. In a QB-weak draft, the one guy I was watching got snapped up at the top of round two, wiping out my theory of grabbing a QB-of-the-future in round two. Instead, I’m switching to basically BPA now for our next picks.

We target another pass-rushing defensive lineman in round two, and then a safety who will presumably be better suited to play as a cover corner. I am hoping to see a combine stud OG slip to our round three pick, but he goes just ahead of us – probably for the best that we focus on hard-to-fill positions anyhow. Tackle is much harder to fill, and we get a guy in round three who looks like an excellent pass blocker.

Nothing too spectacular from here on out – drafted a number of guys we didn’t interview, which is troubling but also a reflection of our less-than-stellar scout, in whom I don’t place a ton of faith. I’d like to think we got some late-round steals… but then again I always think that at this point.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:13 AM

Deciding on a Style

On defense, I already know what I want to do – I’m trying to learn more about using the 3-4 front, so I’m going to use my pretty vanilla 3-4 defensive setup. That means that we already have our entire DL set of starters in place with two rookies and one veteran DT. We do have three starting LB jobs to fill from the free agent pile, though – we’ll get by with whomever we land there.

On offense, I have two veteran receivers, two rookie receivers, and not a sole at RB. I think we are going to be passing the ball a good deal, and I expect that I will set up a sort of downfield derivative offense to start things off. I might seek to make extra use of multi-WR sets – our QB Caruso knows 15 formations so we ought to be okay running a lot of 3-WR and 4-WR sets, I think. I’ll look for some RBs with the ability to make things happen from out of the backfield.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:15 AM

2023 Camp<o:p></o:p>
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Okay – I’m going to do this a little bit unusually. I’m going to run through camp without signing the rest of my roster. That way, all these hanger-on veterans will be gone, and right after training camp we will go out and fill up with rookies. That way also, I don’t have any particular insider access to whether the young’ns I’m filling up with are creepers or whatnot. I don’t want to inadvertently gain by going out and picking up all these rookies. So – we head into training camp with just 15 players. Down the line, I will make this a more standard process, this is a one-time hiccup.<o:p></o:p>
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[FONT=&quot]Tampa Bay Player Report (TB 2023a - TB 2023b)<o:p></o:p>[/FONT]

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Okay – a lot of downgrading going on for our veterans, no shock there. But it does look like we got hits on both of our young pass rushers, and our top cover man – all were nice camp bumpers. Mixed bag, but I can’t be too surprised that we saw erosion among the older players – thought honestly I wasn’t expecting quite as much from nearly everyone. And, to little surprise, no major breakouts from our later round players.<o:p></o:p>
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So, we build up to 46 players (no need to do more than that here) and are ready for season one. I leave LB Wilkerson in the SILB slot, and I fully expect him to post an ungodly sum of tackles this season. Longer term, his perfect role might actually turn out to be somewhere else – he’s an excellent pass rusher but also pretty good in coverage, so maybe at the strong outside slot? Past that, there aren’t really many tough calls to make here. This is going to be a very shaky team, I suspect.<o:p></o:p>

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 07:45 AM

2023 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 1 (last)
Cohesion – 52-56-57-52 (last in all)

My predictions:

Gilbert Wilkerson makes first team LB with 130 tackles
Chester Caruso posts roughly 20 TD and 20 Int
Converted QB Jackie Hoffman posts almost 1,000 total yards
We finish 2-14 and secure a very tidy draft slot for next season

Season narrative:

I don’t expect much at all, needless to say – so I’m blown away when we hang up 37 points in our opener to get a win. Turns out it was aided by a defensive TD and a few fluky plays, but we did mange 386 yards of offense – so maybe we aren’t a 2-win team after all.

We get to 3-1 in the early season, and I am totally alarmed. This was supposed to be a long-term build. We can’t already be there! Here is the summary at the halfway point… I don’t know what to say…

Front Office Football 2007
2023 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2023
Record 5-3
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 117-163
Winning Pct. .417
Playoffs 0-2
Playoff Visits 2
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Matt Curtis
Record 5-3
Winning Pct. .625
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. Z. Huntley

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 29.9 12
Rushing Yards 126.5 8
Yards Per Carry 4.23 12
Pass Attempts 28.5 28
Completions 16.6 29
Completion Pct. 58.3 21
Passing Yards 210.0 22
Yards Per Attempt 7.37 7
Yards Per Catch 12.63 6
Total Yardage Gained 325.4 15
3rd Down Conversions 40.0 12 (T)
Points Per Game 23.5 9
Pass Rush Pct. 21.3 7
Pass Defense Pct. 52.9 18
Turnovers 11 10 (T)
Turnover Margin +7 5 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 30.6 26
Rushing Yards 124.9 25
Yards Per Carry 4.08 16
Pass Attempts 31.6 11
Completions 19.3 11
Completion Pct. 60.9 17
Passing Yards 230.4 22
Yards Per Attempt 7.28 27
Yards Per Catch 11.97 28
Total Yardage Gained 342.5 23
3rd Down Conversions 38.6 13
Points Per Game 22.3 24
Pass Rush Pct. 21.7 24
Pass Defense Pct. 67.4 26
Turnovers 18 3 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 37 CAR 25
2 25 JAX 21
3 17 SEA 27
4 31 at ATL 17
5 21 at MIN 32
6 23 NOS 21
7 17 at DET 25
9 17 GBY 10
10 CHI
11 at CAR
12 at LRK
13 at WAS
14 IND
15 at NOS
16 at TEN
17 ATL

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
14 C. Caruso QB 228 133 1680 7.37 14 10 83.6
**Team --- 228 133 1680 7.37 14 10 83.6
$$Opp --- 253 154 1843 7.28 9 10 78.5

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
5 J. Hoffman RB 121 456 3.77 1 1
47 T. Duncan RB 86 421 4.90 5 1
14 C. Caruso QB 27 124 4.59 0 5
**Team --- 239 1012 4.23 6 9
$$Opp --- 245 999 4.08 10 12

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
81 M. Hevey WR 64 37 547 14.78 8.55 1 5
88 J. Stuart WR 60 36 496 13.78 8.27 2 2
18 W. Dickens WR 38 20 302 15.10 7.95 0 4
86 R. Richmond WR 24 12 133 11.08 5.54 2 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
93 G. Wilkerson ILB 50 17 0.0 1 3 3 80.7
25 P. Woods CB 38 17 0.0 0 3 1 72.3
36 T. Kaplan S 37 13 1.0 1 0 6 84.7
91 M. Busby DT 34 10 3.0 9 0 0 81.3
56 W. Simmons OLB 32 8 1.0 0 0 1 68.2
99 B. Bolsins DE 26 13 4.0 6 0 0 81.4
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 18 3 0.0 0 1 3 77.6
98 A. Ingram DE 17 6 2.5 10 0 0 82.0
35 R. Shapiro CB 16 2 0.0 0 1 1 80.5
74 B. Connell DT 14 4 2.0 1 0 0 79.5
45 G. Sanderson S 14 4 0.0 0 1 5 88.2
96 D. Kerry DT 13 5 0.5 2 0 0 82.5
55 V. Hubbard OLB 13 5 0.0 1 0 1 72.9
95 A. Herndon OLB 13 5 1.0 0 0 0 77.2
53 J. Marcheck ILB 12 3 0.0 0 0 1 70.0
26 V. Martin S 10 5 0.0 0 1 1 82.2
39 T. Hopkins CB 8 2 0.0 0 0 0 72.4

Just to be clear about the nature of this team, let me betray my previous intentions, and post what my scout thinks of this team:

Front Office Football 2007
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Caruso, Chester 14 QB QB 7 47 50 3 yrs
Jacobs, Glenn 9 QB 1 12 32 1 yr.
Harvill, Nick 15 QB 1 11 35 1 yr.
Duncan, Trevor 47 RB 1 13 17 1 yr.
Hoffman, Jackie 5 RB RB 1 11 22 1 yr.
Dole, Emmanuel 42 FB FB 1 14 24 1 yr.
Horowitz, Jimmie 28 FB 1 9 16 1 yr.
Horibe, Korey 82 TE TE 1 10 17 1 yr.
Jamieson, Tommy 87 TE 1 9 17 1 yr.
Hevey, Melvin 81 FL FL 5 54 54 5 yrs
Dickens, Warren 18 FL 1 32 46 4 yrs
Stuart, Jake 88 SE SE 13 45 45 6 yrs
Richmond, Rich 86 SE 1 19 35 3 yrs
Brennan, Phil 54 C C 1 29 54 4 yrs
Grant, Tyrell 61 LG RG 1 12 26 1 yr.
Money, Steven 75 LG LG 1 12 29 1 yr.
Thierry, Jack 60 LG 1 10 22 1 yr.
Pruett, Junior 64 LT LT 1 37 59 4 yrs
O'Neill, Pat 73 RT RT 5 52 52 4 yrs
Clevenger, Britt 77 RT 1 12 25 1 yr.
Collier, Colin 16 P 1 26 43 1 yr.
Cooper, Carlton 17 K 1 28 35 1 yr.
Ingram, Arnold 98 LDE LDE 1 60 66 4 yrs
Henson, Nolan 79 LDE 1 9 18 1 yr.
Bolsins, Bo 99 RDE RDE 1 30 52 4 yrs
Tovar, Frank 70 RDE 1 10 18 1 yr.
**Kerry, Daniel 96 RDT RDT 1 11 16 1 yr.
Busby, Mitch 91 NT LDT 5 45 45 1 yr.
Connell, Billy Joe 74 NT 1 10 34 1 yr.
Wilkerson, Gilbert 93 SILB MLB 7 56 56 7 yrs
Marcheck, Jesse 53 WILB 1 9 24 1 yr.
Strickland, Gabe 52 WILB 1 6 18 1 yr.
Weintraub, Daryl 50 MLB 1 8 30 1 yr.
Simmons, William 56 SLB SLB 1 8 17 1 yr.
Hubbard, Van 55 SLB 1 7 16 1 yr.
Herndon, Aaron 95 WLB WLB 1 9 17 1 yr.
Kemnitzer, Chuck 33 LCB LCB 1 51 58 3 yrs
**Shapiro, Russell 35 LCB 1 15 34 1 yr.
Hopkins, Trent 39 LCB 1 12 27 1 yr.
Woods, Paul 25 RCB RCB 6 51 51 2 yrs
Blythe, Jessie 46 RCB 1 24 50 3 yrs
Dodge, Paul 43 RCB 1 11 23 1 yr.
Kaplan, Terrance 36 SS SS 1 12 18 1 yr.
Biru, Ronnie 23 SS 1 11 23 1 yr.
Martin, Van 26 FS FS 1 13 35 1 yr.
Sanderson, Greg 45 FS 1 12 30 1 yr.

Just so you’re seeing what I’m seeing – that’s an awful lot of guys with current ratings of 10 or so… and many of them are starters. S Terrance Kaplan is rated 12/18 by my scout, and he’s posting a PD% of 84.7 (without even being puffed up by interceptions) – I can’t even get that out of my 75/75 top draft pick in most leagues! Hell, my $9 million cornerback Woods across the field from this guy has three picks and he’s sitting on a PD% of 72/3 – and this is a pretty solid 51/51 veteran. What gives?

I assume this is substantially sample size at work – but I have had tons of empty cupboard teams start out barely able to remain competitive. I guess the handful of free agents here are really making a huge difference, after all.

Okay… things come back to earth in the second half, as we really get swallowed up by the league. We finish at 6-10 for the year, which is much more like what I had been expecting. Not that I’m happy to lose games – I just wasn’t sure what the hell was going on in the early going there. I’m writing it off as an encouraging, but nonetheless fluky, run of good luck.

Here’s the year end summary printout:

Front Office Football 2007
2023 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2023
Record 6-10
Winning Pct. .375
All-Time 118-170
Winning Pct. .409
Playoffs 0-2
Playoff Visits 2
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Matt Curtis
Record 6-10
Winning Pct. .375
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. Z. Huntley

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.5 18
Rushing Yards 113.9 17
Yards Per Carry 4.14 11
Pass Attempts 31.4 21
Completions 17.6 26 (T)
Completion Pct. 55.9 26
Passing Yards 229.7 13
Yards Per Attempt 7.31 9
Yards Per Catch 13.08 2
Total Yardage Gained 329.1 11
3rd Down Conversions 42.2 7 (T)
Points Per Game 19.1 20
Pass Rush Pct. 18.8 20 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 49.5 23
Turnovers 27 16 (T)
Turnover Margin +1 11 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 31.7 29
Rushing Yards 128.6 27
Yards Per Carry 4.06 21
Pass Attempts 30.0 3
Completions 19.2 10 (T)
Completion Pct. 64.0 30
Passing Yards 239.5 25
Yards Per Attempt 7.98 31
Yards Per Catch 12.48 30
Total Yardage Gained 357.4 30
3rd Down Conversions 42.2 29
Points Per Game 24.4 28
Pass Rush Pct. 21.6 26
Pass Defense Pct. 63.5 24
Turnovers 28 16 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 37 CAR 25
2 25 JAX 21
3 17 SEA 27
4 31 at ATL 17
5 21 at MIN 32
6 23 NOS 21
7 17 at DET 25
9 17 GBY 10
10 14 CHI 24
11 14 at CAR 45
12 29 at LRK 35
13 30 at WAS 24
14 7 IND 13
15 0 at NOS 20
16 3 at TEN 28
17 21 ATL 24

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
14 C. Caruso QB 500 280 3664 7.33 24 16 81.9
**Team --- 503 281 3675 7.31 24 17 80.9
$$Opp --- 480 307 3832 7.98 27 16 93.5

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
47 T. Duncan RB 180 750 4.17 6 3
5 J. Hoffman RB 176 728 4.14 4 4
14 C. Caruso QB 45 213 4.73 0 10
**Team --- 440 1822 4.14 10 27
$$Opp --- 507 2058 4.06 19 23

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
81 M. Hevey WR 157 90 1383 15.37 8.81 11 8
88 J. Stuart WR 114 60 959 15.98 8.41 10 6
18 W. Dickens WR 78 38 457 12.03 5.86 2 5
86 R. Richmond WR 55 27 336 12.44 6.11 6 1
82 K. Horibe TE 21 16 150 9.38 7.14 2 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
93 G. Wilkerson ILB 114 39 1.0 1 4 5 78.1
25 P. Woods CB 65 28 0.0 1 3 7 75.0
36 T. Kaplan S 61 27 1.0 2 0 8 82.4
56 W. Simmons OLB 59 15 2.0 0 0 4 68.3
91 M. Busby DT 55 18 5.0 12 0 0 81.8
99 B. Bolsins DE 49 28 6.0 16 0 0 81.3
98 A. Ingram DE 40 19 7.0 15 0 0 82.0
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 39 7 0.0 0 2 10 79.1
74 B. Connell DT 38 12 2.0 2 0 0 79.6
55 V. Hubbard OLB 30 14 0.0 1 0 2 72.7
96 D. Kerry DT 27 11 1.0 2 0 0 81.6
39 T. Hopkins CB 26 4 0.0 0 3 0 78.9
26 V. Martin S 26 12 0.0 0 1 2 79.5
53 J. Marcheck ILB 24 6 0.0 0 1 2 73.9
95 A. Herndon OLB 24 8 1.0 0 0 2 78.9
45 G. Sanderson S 24 6 0.0 0 1 6 81.8
50 D. Weintraub ILB 18 4 0.0 0 0 0 66.6
35 R. Shapiro CB 16 2 0.0 0 1 1 80.5

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 07:46 AM

Season observations:

Six wins greatly exceeded my thinking, so that’s nice to see. Investing early in QB-WR-WR seems like a pretty good way to go for immediate returns, I’m thinking. It’s alarming to me that this team’s running game was this effective – better than league average in yards per carry. Our running backs are total stiffs, and the run blocking scores of our starting five linemen are, left to right: 8-20-34-24-48. This is not a team that fields a terribly imposing lineup in that regard. I’m sure the gameplan is making some difference, but that seems like a lot to be coming from one source.

I would like to see this LB corps start to come together – just adding even marginal talent there should make a big difference. I think we are really all set with respect to the defensive line already – the biggest question for us is probably whether Bo Bolsins ought to move back to play NT – but I think he is locked in as an outside rusher, even up at 319 pounds of whatever he is.

Eventually, we will need to decide what to make of guys like S Kaplan – I don’t see any way that a guy rated 12/18 or whatever, even if he is some sort of slight creeper, is a long-term investment for us. But as we look to patch up wide open roster slots, maybe we don’t need to feel pressure to hurry up with our strong safety right away, if we can re-sign this guy for a couple more years. Who knew?

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 12:27 PM

2024 Offseason

Okay, the biggest question is – will WR Jake Stuart retire? Of does he have a 14th season in him? Answer – B. He’s back.

Past that, not much to note. We have 14 guys signed, as NT Mitch Busby is the one guy whose contract expired last year. We are open to a new deal with Busby for next year – he was solid for us, I think, and ought to re-sign fairly affordably.

We head into free agency with a lot off holes to fill, obviously – I’m thinking that my top veteran needs are linebacker (maybe two of them) and perhaps at offensive guard. My thinking is that, as usual, we can pick up a passable RB in the draft, and perhaps a project QB as well. I think we do need some depth at DB, and I’m open to going either way there, veteran or a top draft pick. I like CB Kemnitzer a lot as a future #1 cover corner, but we need at least one more guy back there with some pure coverage skills, as I don’t think Jessie Blythe has much more in him than as a supporting player. We’ll see about other void positions like TE and FB… maybe a late round draft pick can get us over the hump there.

Here are my FA targets:

Reneg – CB Paul Woods, 4yrs $20m
1YR – RB Lincoln Palermo, $1.7m
2YR – DT Mitch Busby, $4m
3YR – RG Kenny Bell, $14.4m
4YR – SLB Christian Seals, $26m (10m bonus, even salary)
5YR –
6YR – CB Louie Sawyer, $34.5m (10.5 bonus, even salary)
7YR – TE J.C. Atwell, $106m (essentially 3yr, $6.7m)

RB Palermo is a 9th year guy with over 10,000 yards rushing under his belt already, but he’s a mentor and has pretty good skills for our system, so I think this makes sense, even if he slides 5 or more points in camp. I put in to re-sign DT Busby, but I don’t want to commit longer term there. G Kenny Bell is an 8th year guy, and should really shore up the right side of our line.

LB Seals looks perfect for the strong side, and as a 5th year guy I’m fine paying up for him. CB Sawyer is a coverage stud, and I hope he becomes a fixture for us, even though this is pretty big money. The deal with TE Atwell is basically to get three decent years from a productive veteran in his declining years.

I leave the 5-yr slot open… and may use it after the draft if we still have a gaping hole somewhere. But for now, I know all these are need areas, and will be glad to land a bunch of immediate contributors.

Alas – I miss on LB Seals, as he immediately re-signs with the Rams. My backup plan is another pretty good fit at LB in Mack Quinn, who takes our offer for $23m, but without much bonus. My plan will now be to slot Quinn inside where he is best suited, and maybe move Gilbert Wilkerson outside. Anyway, we land our six revised targets, and shore things up in several slots.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 12:27 PM

2024 draft

I again am tempted to pull a trade-down in round one and pick up some extra picks, just to accelerate the filling-in process. There’s a seeming cant-miss QB in this draft, but I don’t expect to see him at pick 1.6, so I’ll likely be looking at a deal-down once again.

Well, I’m shocked to see the top CB in this draft slide to my pick, and even though I have made a commitment of free agent dollars there, this guy is simply too good to let slip by. Billy Shea is a five-red prospect, and you don’t see that too often. Especially at a tough spot like CB, and sitting at pick number six. Wow. No dealing down for us, this guy is a stud.

We still have spots to fill, of course. I’d like to do another trade-down, but the value of an early 2nd round pick just isn’t all that much. So, instead, I bring aboard a pretty impressive-looking DT whom I think can become a serious starter for us as well. Yes, this isn’t the ideal short-term move as I have a veteran there already, but I think this is a solid long term add at yet another tough position, and that has real value.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post
1.06 CB Billy Shea 7.3 7.5 4.34 44 21 6.84 9-04 60 30% VO? 46/78
2.06 DT Amos Wilkerson 5.7 6.2 4.87 35 31 7.41 7-07 -- 23% UR 24/60
3.06 RG Maurice Donhoff 5.4 5.1 5.11 17 33 7.62 8-07 -- 14% NA 23/55
4.06 QB Bill Wilkins 4.9 5.6 4.80 41 13 7.56 8-04 54 17% NA 11/54
5.06 FS Morris Billodeaux 4.0 3.8 4.71 37 10 7.53 8-03 49 39% NA 18/57
6.06 WLB Heath Palm 3.9 3.7 4.60 29 14 7.58 9-02 16 47% NA 18/32
7.06 SLB Pete Reese 3.8 3.6 ---- 28 -- ---- ---- 36 56% VO

Our later picks cover need positions – we get a solid pass blocker to add to our left side line, and a (hopefully) playable backup QB. The last two picks give us a couple of guys to throw out there into the outside LB roles, but not likely long term starters.

Signing CB Sawyer and now drafting Shea gives us some extra depth at CB, and I think the fair thing to do is to move 201 lb corner Paul Woods over to play as a safety, where he will step in ahead of last year’s surprisingly nice young player, Terrance Kaplan.

So – I once again fill up to 46 players, re-signing only as many of last year’s after-camp signees as are needed to get us to a legal overall roster.

I take one last look for a free agent worth plunging in on a 5yr deal for, but come up mostly empty – I think perhaps I waited too long here. Instead, I just put out a 5yr offer to a decent but not exciting 3rd year outside linebacker Donovan Mathews, who can probably play the weak side for us for a few years – it’s a 5yr deal, but in practice will only work for three.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 12:31 PM

2024 Camp<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Richmond, Rich<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Stuart, Jake<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Brennan, Phil<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Donhoff, Maurice<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Grant, Tyrell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Thierry, Jack<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Bell, Kenny<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Pruett, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Cooper, Carlton<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Collier, Colin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Henson, Nolan<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Ingram, Arnold<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 68<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 70 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 70 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Busby, Mitch<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Bolsins, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Tovar, Frank<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Hubbard, Van<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Reese, Pete<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Wilkerson, Gilbert<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Marcheck, Jesse<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Quinn, Mack<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Weintraub, Daryl<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> MLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Herndon, Aaron<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Mathews, Donovan<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Palm, Heath<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Sawyer, Louie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Shea, Billy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Blythe, Jessie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Kemnitzer, Chuck<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 25.5pt;" width="34"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 16.5pt;" width="22"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (6)<o:p></o:p>
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Okay – the good news, we can pick it out. CB Shea holds even at 78 potential, which should make him a top tier cover man. We’ll take it. DT Wilkerson also only holds, and that is a little disappointing. Here’s the rookie report, easier to assess:<o:p></o:p>
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Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post<o:p></o:p>
1.06 CB Billy Shea 7.3 7.5 4.34 44 21 6.84 9-04 60 30% VO? 46/78 45/78<o:p></o:p>
2.06 DT Amos Wilkerson 5.7 6.2 4.87 35 31 7.41 7-07 -- 23% UR 24/60 28/60<o:p></o:p>
3.06 RG Maurice Donhoff 5.4 5.1 5.11 17 33 7.62 8-07 -- 14% NA 23/55 27/58<o:p></o:p>
4.06 QB Bill Wilkins 4.9 5.6 4.80 41 13 7.56 8-04 54 17% NA 11/54 16/52<o:p></o:p>
5.06 FS Morris Billodeaux 4.0 3.8 4.71 37 10 7.53 8-03 49 39% NA 18/57 21/48<o:p></o:p>
6.06 WLB Heath Palm 3.9 3.7 4.60 29 14 7.58 9-02 16 47% NA 18/32 21/32<o:p></o:p>
7.06 SLB Pete Reese 3.8 3.6 ---- 28 -- ---- ---- 36 56% VO 17/27 18/28<o:p></o:p>
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So, looks solid at guard where Donhoff is a boom, and we might actually have something in the combine skipper LB, too. Not too bad.<o:p></o:p>

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 12:32 PM

2024 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 7 (30th)
Cohesion – 52-54-50-53 (last in all)

My predictions:

Lincoln Palermo posts his first sub-1,000 yard season, but leads the team in rushing
Chester Caruso posts roughly 25 TD and 20 Int
Billy Shea posts at least 6 picks in his rookie season, making a rare CB case for DROY
We finish 5-11, slipping from last year’s record, but looking a bit better underneath

Season narrative:

Well, LB Gilbert Wilkerson gets hurt in preseason, and reinjured in our opener, and will miss most of the season. Ouch – on a thin team as is, we really can’t take that.

We do manage to win in week two, and then after two close losses, again in week five. A 2-3 start with only one blowout isn’t that bad.

At 3-7, we lose QB Caruso, and need to call on the rookie, which won’t end well, I’m sure. Wilkins manages 300 yards and a TD in his debut, but it’s on 20-of-44 passing, and boosted by one long breakaway catch, so he’s playing it pretty safe and we lose 17-10.

We coast into the offseason with only 3 total wins – a bit disappointing overall.

Front Office Football 2007
2024 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2024
Record 3-13
Winning Pct. .187
All-Time 121-183
Winning Pct. .398
Playoffs 0-2
Playoff Visits 2
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Matt Curtis
Record 9-23
Winning Pct. .281
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. Z. Huntley

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.3 23 (T)
Rushing Yards 102.6 21
Yards Per Carry 4.06 15
Pass Attempts 36.8 5
Completions 20.6 12
Completion Pct. 56.1 22
Passing Yards 264.7 4
Yards Per Attempt 7.20 10
Yards Per Catch 12.83 2
Total Yardage Gained 354.3 5
3rd Down Conversions 43.6 1 (T)
Points Per Game 18.0 26
Pass Rush Pct. 16.9 30
Pass Defense Pct. 33.9 32
Turnovers 40 31
Turnover Margin -21 32

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 32.1 31
Rushing Yards 134.1 29 (T)
Yards Per Carry 4.18 22
Pass Attempts 28.8 1
Completions 19.1 8
Completion Pct. 66.5 32
Passing Yards 232.4 23
Yards Per Attempt 8.08 32
Yards Per Catch 12.15 31
Total Yardage Gained 359.1 31
3rd Down Conversions 44.3 30 (T)
Points Per Game 27.8 32
Pass Rush Pct. 19.9 14
Pass Defense Pct. 66.3 27
Turnovers 19 31 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 18 at NOS 34
2 19 at KCY 17
3 22 at MIN 24
4 17 at WAS 21
5 31 DAL 17
6 14 at ATL 31
7 0 PHI 13
9 17 at NYK 31
10 37 NOS 31
11 15 CAR 34
12 10 SDO 17
13 10 SEA 37
14 7 at DEN 27
15 27 ATL 35
16 27 OAK 45
17 17 at CAR 31

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
14 C. Caruso QB 429 253 3294 7.68 22 19 81.8
3 B. Wilkins QB 156 76 938 6.01 5 5 65.0
**Team --- 588 330 4235 7.20 27 25 76.4
$$Opp --- 460 306 3719 8.08 29 10 103.1

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
21 L. Palermo RB 211 871 4.13 3 6
5 J. Hoffman RB 137 575 4.20 2 8
14 C. Caruso QB 33 141 4.27 0 3
**Team --- 404 1642 4.06 5 25
$$Opp --- 514 2146 4.18 22 23

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
81 M. Hevey WR 167 94 1572 16.72 9.41 6 7
88 J. Stuart WR 124 66 880 13.33 7.10 14 5
86 R. Richmond WR 95 54 702 13.00 7.39 7 6
18 W. Dickens WR 77 44 493 11.20 6.40 1 1
85 J. Atwell TE 47 23 269 11.70 5.72 2 3
21 L. Palermo RB 26 20 140 7.00 5.38 2 3

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
94 M. Quinn ILB 127 23 1.0 0 1 4 69.8
25 P. Woods S 108 41 0.0 1 1 4 76.0
91 M. Busby DT 52 13 3.0 2 0 0 82.1
48 B. Shea CB 49 11 0.0 0 0 10 73.7
53 J. Marcheck ILB 47 9 0.0 0 1 3 76.1
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 47 12 0.0 1 1 4 71.8
57 P. Reese OLB 46 21 1.0 2 1 3 75.3
99 B. Bolsins DE 45 13 2.5 10 0 0 82.2
98 A. Ingram DE 43 19 2.0 13 0 0 82.5
59 D. Mathews OLB 35 10 4.0 10 0 0 79.9
40 L. Sawyer CB 32 10 0.0 0 1 2 73.8
38 M. Billodeaux S 29 17 0.0 0 1 3 77.7
50 D. Weintraub ILB 28 13 0.0 0 0 1 73.8

So, a little disappointing in the W/L margin, but not a shocking season.

A –21 turnover margin is a mark of a very young team – tough to win many with a mark like that, I expect.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 12:32 PM

2024 Coda:

My late-season reneg is to add another year onto the deal for RT O’Neil – not terribly exciting, but I didn’t have a lot of options.

At season’s end, we are nearly shut out from league honors once again – but WR Melvin Hevey manages to pull down second team mention for his outstanding 1572-yard season. That’s all we get, and deserve.

I think the thing to do here is sit on the offense more, rein in the passes, and try to control the game better on offense that way. We’ll see what happens with personnel – we’ll surely lose WR Stuart, and I’m not sure if we really have three quality WRs for a downfield-first attack.

We’re on our way. Before long, we will start shedding all these hanger-on players, and will be fully under the rules that I really have in mind. Building is always interesting to me – what I hope is that this team is still interesting to play five more seasons down the road.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 05:35 PM

2025 offseason

Okay, two years deep, the team is starting to take shape. I think we are going to try to get more conservative on offense this season, and try to keep a little of the pressure off the defensive side of the ball. This is the last year of QB Chester Caruso’s current contract – and we probably have a reckoning coming up fairly soon with him. He’s a 9th year guy, so he probably has another few good ones in him – but would we prefer to go young there as this team is building, so we have “our guy” in place once we arrive? Or is Caruso our guy? Candidly, I don’t think he’s ideally suited to the short passing game, so I’m open to moving on at QB either this year or next.

Interestingly – we have no retirements. That means that WR jake Stuart is indeed back for a third year with us. He’s obviously going to drop off in ratings soon (in camp), and he was not very efficient last season – 880 yards, but on only 7.1 yards per target. I suspect he is on our “bubble” for this season, possibly depending on whether we bring aboard a new starter-ready player there.

I bring in a new coach (better in staving off injuries, a big deal for this thin a team) and a new scout (weakness is at OL, where we are pretty well off now) – and we are ready to get into the material evaluation of our situation. I want to take a few minutes and walk through things as they stand. I’ll use the scouting changes as free agency begins as a way to talk about each position group, and also to see how development is coming along with our younger players.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 05:36 PM

Tampa Bay Player Report (TB 2025a - TB 2025b)<o:p></o:p>

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Dickens, Warren<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 43 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Hevey, Melvin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 55 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Richmond, Rich<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 30 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Stuart, Jake<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 36 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Brennan, Phil<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Donhoff, Maurice<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 61 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Grant, Tyrell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 25 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Thierry, Jack<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 25 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Bell, Kenny<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 58 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Pruett, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 56 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Cooper, Carlton<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 31 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Collier, Colin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 49 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Henson, Nolan<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 13 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Ingram, Arnold<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 76 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Busby, Mitch<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Bolsins, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 57 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Tovar, Frank<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 20 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Hubbard, Van<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 16 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Reese, Pete<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 29 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Wilkerson, Gilbert<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Marcheck, Jesse<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 26 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Quinn, Mack<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 50 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Weintraub, Daryl<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> MLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 20 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Mathews, Donovan<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 32 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Palm, Heath<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 32 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Sawyer, Louie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 61.3pt;" width="82"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.5pt;" width="61"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 45.05pt;" width="60"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Shea, Billy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

02-29-2008, 05:36 PM

Quarterback – Caruso solid veteran, Wilkins standard slipping youngster. Need = HIGH
Running back – Palermo passable veteran unsigned, nothing special elsewhere. Need = HIGH
Fullback – Nobody on roster has any real future. Need = HIGH, but urgency low
Tight End – Atwell passable veteran but sliding. Need = HIGH, but urgency low
Wide Receiver – Hevey very good, two young supporting guys solid. Need = HIGH
Interior Linemen – Donhoff developing, Bell solid, C Brennan marginal. Need = LOW
Offensive Tackles – Pruett is okay, O’Neil not shown but solid. Depth a need. Need = MEDIUM
Defensive Line – Ingram and Bolsins look great, DT mix solid. Need = LOW
Inside Linebackers – Wilkerson and Quinn solid starters, Marcheck shaky depth. Need = LOW
Outside Linebackers – Mathews adequate starter, Palm and Reese low-end. Need = HIGH
Cornerback – Two good young starters, very good bench, position looks great. Need = NONE
Safety – Woods okay veteran, Kaplan growing but angry, Bilodeaux hurt. Need – MEDIUM

Overall – my top needs for good, young players would be at QB, WR, and OLB. We have several areas where upgrades would be very welcome, but we are sitting at #2 overall in this draft and I’m thinking this is our chance to land our QB of the future. If that fails, we may look to once again move down and pick up some extra picks so we can again inch a bit closer to having a truly legitimate roster.

Okay, I have a look around at the free agent market, and start making my plans. Since we are basically past the period of suffering from the effects of the initial player cuts to clear out the roster, affordability is really zero concern this year. If we wanted to, we could spend very liberally right away. I could see that making sense if there were an impact player at, say, WR or RB who could make a major difference for us.

The obvious move with our early season renegotiation would be to extend QB Caruso, whose deal ends after this season. But I am fixated on the combine-skipper monster QB in this draft, and I really think that the uber-RB might go at #1, meaning we can stay put at pick #2 and get the star QB we really need. So, I instead decide to try to work out a long term deal with out top young DE Arnold Ingram, to lock him up for a long term deal now, rather than waiting until his rookie contract ends.

Well, my top FA target becomes really easy to spot – 5th year WR Jeff Deberry is rated 62/62 by my scout, and has excellent skill in getting downfield – he looks like a perfect candidate to come aboard and starts for us at split end. This guy looks like a serious impact player, and a perfect fit for our offense. He is looking for a 4yr contract, so I’ll try to work with that timeframe too – that seems to be the best way to go after a guy we really really want.

Reneg – DE Arnold Ingram – 5yrs, $59m extension, now signed through 2029
1YR -
2YR –
3YR – DE Randal Franklin, $4.8m
4YR – WR Jeff Deberry, $40m (8m bonus, even salary)
5YR – LB Drew Leal, $35.5m (7.5m bonus, dummy year at end)
6YR – SS Roy Fritz, $64m (12m bonus, one dummy year at end)
7YR – RB Rico Everett, $66.3m (basically three cheap years)

My thinking here is to leave the 1 and 2 year free agent contracts unused in these early stages, and try to pick up a 2nd or 3rd year player with them after the draft – where I will have a guy I can re-sign as a RFA for at least one extra year. Always shooting the angles, I am. My fallback position would be to re-sign RB Palermo, even though I think that our new pursuit Everett is a better fit for us, and is definitely younger.

We have to up our bonus amount to get WR Deberry, but he finally agrees, as does everyone else pretty much without incident or much competition. S Roy Fritz looks to be a pretty serious impact player for us, too. LB Leal projects as our SLB starter, and also becomes a pretty solid chemistry anchor for us too (I seemingly just can’t help myself).

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 05:41 PM

2025 draft

Sitting at pick 2, I am drooling over the top QB here. Archie Downs from LSU has near-topped ratings in most everything, and my scout said that was conservative (UR). He tested 47, but skipped the combine. He is #1 on the “big board” behind a monster RB, whom I obviously hope goes #1. There are two standout receivers in this draft, but if the QB goes at #1, my guess is we can trade down a few slots and still nab one of them to bring along.

1. Baltimore - Downs, Archie, QB, Louisiana State

Well okay then, that ends that. Should have seen it coming, actually. We trade down from 2 to 5, and pick up Pittsburgh’s next three picks in the swap – so we will again have a chance to really fill in some gaps in the roster here. Turns out both WRs are still available when we select – but I’m limited to my one trade, and I already made it. So we grab our guy.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post
1.05 WR Bryant Czyz 6.3 6.6 4.44 38 19 6.74 9-01 70 22% AS 42/75
2.01 SLB Devin Winfield (SILB) 5.5 5.3 4.70 33 21 7.07 8-11 30 35% VU 22/62
2.05 DE Edwin Blackburn 5.4 5.9 4.79 23 29 7.32 9-03 -- 54% VU 28/33
3.02 RG Shannon Madison 5.4 5.1 5.14 30 27 7.78 8-01 -- 38% NA 29/58
3.05 WR Kendrick Lindsay 4.8 5.0 4.42 24 13 6.96 9-00 57 28% VU 20/28
4.01 FB Kent Raven 5.1 4.1 4.77 20 23 7.20 9-04 33 25% NA 27/53
4.05 TE Chester Kanell 5.0 4.4 4.80 39 25 7.63 9-00 38 22% NA 23/58
5.02 RB Albert Newton 4.7 5.0 4.73 27 16 7.22 9-05 15 41% NA 31/47
6.01 FB Pat Copeland (TE) 4.4 3.6 4.79 25 25 7.51 8-10 29 21% NA 15/47
7.02 DT Walter Upshaw 4.0 4.3 4.94 25 35 8.41 8-04 -- 38% NA 29/36

My thinking at LB here is that Winfield looks like a solid run-stopper, so he will go inside, and we will probably move our veteran Gilbert Wilkerson to the weak-side pass rusher slot, where he could be a serious impact player. DE Blackburn just seemed like too much value to pass up, at a tough position to fill.

G Madison and WR Lindsay both look like they have starter potential, though I don’t know where WR Lindsay is going to get playing time – he figures as maybe our #5 or #6 guy for this year.

After that, a parade of semi-skill position players, as we fill up the FB and TE contingent pretty quickly here. RB Albert Newton looks like a standard utility-back for a short-passing offense, as he can pick up blitzes, make something happen on a short pass, and maybe carry the ball a bit. DT Walter Upshaw just seemed like gold at the end of the draft, with good combine scores saying he may have a real future as a pass rusher.

Including all our rookies, we are at 42 players – so fulfilling my pledge, I’m only re-signing RFAs to get us up to 46. That means a fair number of guys will be gone. Plus, we still have two of our contracts that may be signed, so I’m getting closer and closer to playing fully within my intended rules now. I do decide it’s time to let go of WR Jake Stuart – he was likely just to impede the playing time of one of our younger players anyhow in the #2 SE role, and he’s just not a great fit for the short-passing offense we plan to rig up this year.

My two-year FA contract goes to speed-back Todd reed, a surprising castoff who looks to have some skills, but did admittedly only post about 2.4 yards per carry in limited duty last season. C Jamie Downs gives us a pretty usable interior lineman (possibly a starter for us) and an affinity, and he gets our one year offer. Our RFA re-signings are QB Glenn Jacobs, SS Terrance Kaplan, and our incumbent punter and kicker.

With that, we are to 47 players (with S Billodeaux heading to injured reserve) and I pretty much feel like we have our roster pretty adequately covered. We really did fill in just about everywhere this year, and I don’t think we have a single slot where we don’t have installed a decent veteran or a rookie about whom I’m hopeful.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 05:44 PM

2025 training camp

I’m just going to post the highlight segment, for simplicity’s sake:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Wilkerson, Gilbert Tampa WLB -12
Downs, Jamie Tampa C -9
Quinn, Mack Tampa WILB -9
Atwell, J.C. Tampa TE -7
Winfield, Devin Tampa SILB -7
Pruett, Junior Tampa LT -6
Kanell, Chester Tampa TE -5
Copeland, Pat Tampa TE -4
Madison, Shannon Tampa RG -3
Raven, Kent Tampa FB -1

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Dickens, Warren Tampa FL 9
Lindsay, Kendrick Tampa SE 7
Blackburn, Edwin Tampa RDE 5
Richmond, Rich Tampa SE 4
Caruso, Chester Tampa QB 2
Billodeaux, Morris Tampa FS 2
Upshaw, Walter Tampa NT 1
Busby, Mitch Tampa NT 1
Cooper, Carlton Tampa K 1
Bolsins, Bo Tampa RDE 0

So, we get a big jump out of our 3rd round WR Lindsay, and also from Dickens and Richmond, making our WR position a complete embarrassment of riches. WR Czyz was a –1 in camp, biot great, but he still looks like a major star in the making to me. DE Blackburn jumped up, as I expected.

The big drop from LB Wilkerson is troubling, but he’s basically here for two more seasons and that’s it anyhow. Seeing the rookie Winfield drop 7 points is very disappointing – I thought I was landing a future 100-tackle guy there, but I guess not. G Madison was a guy I expected to bump, too, but he disappointed too.

Well – we will certainly have a lot around QB Caruso to make this passing attack work this year. We even have a whole new cadre of backfield mates for him, with more skill than we’ve ever had there before.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 05:48 PM

2025 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 72 (11th) <-- wow
Cohesion – 62-65-61-61 (bottom quartile in all, but not dead last in anything)

My predictions:

Chester Caruso posts roughly 25 TD and 15 Int
Our pass rush elevates to being above league average, maybe a PR% of 22
We post 7 wins and actually look like a pretty competitive team

Season narrative:

We start off with two close games, a 1-1 split, but with Caruso posting 5 TDs to zero picks. We get to 3-2, but lose WR Czyz to a knee injury – just for a few weeks, fortunately. At the halfway point, we are a solid 4-4, and our controlled passing gameplan is working really just the way we wanted it to – not prolific yardage, but we’re moving the chains pretty well.

When we get to 7-5, it is time to start thinking about the playoffs. And at 9-5, it’s time to start thinking about playoff seeding. We have a 2-game lead in our weak division, but almost no shot at a bye week. Regardless, the managed-pass offense is treating us very well in terms of keeping games in check, not so much for generating big stats (WR Hevey’s on target to land under 1,00 yards, after approaching 1,600 last season).

We slip up and lose our last two games – that drops us to 9-7 on the season, but that’s still good enough to crown ourselves division champs. Here’s the regular season summary:

Front Office Football 2007
2025 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2025
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 130-190
Winning Pct. .406
Playoffs 0-2
Playoff Visits 3
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. Z. Huntley

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 29.3 8
Rushing Yards 125.3 7
Yards Per Carry 4.28 7
Pass Attempts 32.6 21
Completions 23.3 4
Completion Pct. 71.6 1
Passing Yards 219.7 22
Yards Per Attempt 6.75 20 (T)
Yards Per Catch 9.42 31
Total Yardage Gained 333.6 12
3rd Down Conversions 47.6 1 (T)
Points Per Game 19.6 23
Pass Rush Pct. 19.3 22 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 38.6 28
Turnovers 17 3
Turnover Margin +11 4

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.9 21
Rushing Yards 103.1 8
Yards Per Carry 3.69 3
Pass Attempts 29.4 1 (T)
Completions 19.8 9
Completion Pct. 67.3 30
Passing Yards 223.6 14 (T)
Yards Per Attempt 7.60 30
Yards Per Catch 11.29 19
Total Yardage Gained 310.8 10
3rd Down Conversions 41.8 23
Points Per Game 20.7 12 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 15.1 1
Pass Defense Pct. 27.1 1
Turnovers 28 16 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 24 at ATL 27
2 23 MIA 20
3 7 GBY 37
4 20 ARI 0
5 24 SFO 10
6 23 at STL 31
8 17 at SEA 7
9 14 at NOS 28
10 27 ATL 21
11 24 at CAR 35
12 24 at NYJ 20
13 23 at DAL 10
14 16 BUF 10
15 16 CAR 13
16 3 at NED 31
17 29 NOS 31
$$WC SEA

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
14 C. Caruso QB 499 363 3373 6.76 19 7 97.7
**Team --- 521 373 3515 6.75 21 8 96.9
$$Opp --- 471 317 3578 7.60 26 16 94.1

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
39 R. Everett RB 211 970 4.60 7 5
35 A. Newton RB 112 461 4.12 2 3
24 T. Reed RB 82 321 3.91 0 3
14 C. Caruso QB 53 222 4.19 1 6
**Team --- 469 2005 4.28 10 29
$$Opp --- 447 1650 3.69 12 25

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 98 71 718 10.11 7.33 2 6
81 M. Hevey WR 90 63 719 11.41 7.99 2 0
18 W. Dickens WR 72 48 591 12.31 8.21 5 1
89 K. Lindsay WR 67 46 459 9.98 6.85 5 6
43 K. Raven FB 38 29 144 4.97 3.79 3 2
39 R. Everett RB 25 22 113 5.14 4.52 1 1
24 T. Reed RB 19 18 142 7.89 7.47 0 2
37 P. Copeland TE 21 18 123 6.83 5.86 0 1
83 J. Deberry WR 32 17 261 15.35 8.16 1 2
82 C. Kanell TE 26 17 95 5.59 3.65 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
34 R. Fritz S 80 29 1.0 0 1 5 75.7
51 D. Leal OLB 79 29 3.0 1 1 3 72.5
95 D. Winfield ILB 77 34 2.0 1 1 1 77.1
25 P. Woods S 71 32 0.0 0 1 2 75.9
48 B. Shea CB 60 10 0.0 0 8 8 80.4
98 A. Ingram DE 53 18 8.5 9 0 0 82.0
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 51 6 0.0 1 2 7 72.4
91 M. Busby DT 42 17 5.5 7 0 1 82.8
99 B. Bolsins DE 42 16 5.5 8 0 0 81.9
93 G. Wilkerson OLB 38 20 9.0 23 0 0 79.1
40 L. Sawyer CB 31 14 0.0 0 0 0 71.0
94 M. Quinn ILB 28 11 0.0 2 2 2 84.3
59 D. Mathews ILB 28 11 0.0 0 0 0 74.2
90 A. Wilkerson DT 19 17 2.5 1 0 0 81.8
36 T. Kaplan S 17 9 0.0 0 0 1 74.2

Well, we fell short of my two stat predictions – we were a bit less effective with the passing game that I had hoped, especially in the late season (when Deberry got hurt). We’ll take a 98 passer rating overall, but I think we should be looking for bigger numbers in the pass attack all things considered – 3600 yards isn’t very eye-opening.

The defense was okay, but giving up 7.6 yards per pass attempt means we really have work to do. The pass rush just isn’t there yet, despite some pretty solid talent at the DE slots. We’re not generating a lot of hurries to go with a fair number of sacks. Wilkerson was good at the rushbacker slot, but overall we fell short of my hopes there. CB Shea has juicy red bars, but might not have the killer instinct – two pretty pedestrian seasons from him.

Postseason Narrative:

In the postseason, we manage to crush our opening opponents 27-6 to advance to the divisional round, but we then have a flu outbreak and have about 15 players questionable. WE play a tough game at the Giants, but lose when our late possession gets us into territory to set up a late FG to take the lead, but instead our WR fumbles, they take over, and they make the late drive for the go-ahead FG instead to win 20-17. Alas.

The Giants go on to win the championship with pretty easy wins in their final two games. We gave them their toughest matchup of the playoffs.

We are left out of the season awards again this year.

With our late season renegotiation, I decide that it makes the most sense to offer a new deal to CB Kemnitzer. Yes, this leaves us potentially without QB Caruso next year, but Kemnitzer was going to be without a contract, too, and he looks to me like the real thing. I like not feeling like I have any worry at CB, and Shea and Kemnitzer give me that feeling. Hopefully they will begin earning their fat paychecks before too long as well.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:09 PM

2026 offseason

Okay, I feel like this team is finally pretty much “together.” Our QB is out of contract, but overall, we have credible players at every position, and have elevated our overall roster rating from the near-zero range up to the upper half of the league. But for our dreadful cohesion, we might actually be a threat in this league, I think.

What I’m hoping now, or maybe next season, is that the more challenging aspects of this whole concept come together. Thus far, nearly all the players I have signed to longer term deals are still with us, or will be as long as I want them. In the next couple of seasons, that will cease to be true – we’ll see my initial URFAs fade off after this year unless I desire to give them real contracts (unlikely) and my ability to fill the roster through easy means will be pretty substantially limited. That’s what I’m looking for – I want pressure to make every draft pick count, every contract decision matter, and for every renegotiation opportunity to be precious.

We mostly avoid the retirement axe again this year – TE Atwell is gone, but he was a short-timer for us anyhow, and after drafting two TEs last season, he was a potential cut anyway. So, we have 37 players signed to start things off for this year – add in 7 draft picks and a smattering of new FA faces, and we ought to have our first season with the luxury of holding players inactive. We are on our way toward actually carrying a full, legitimate roster.

An interesting twist awaits us now…. QB Chester Caruso has developed a case of arthritis, and shows up as “doubtful” in the injury report as a free agent. So, I was on the fence about re-signing him as it is, but now the plot has thickened – he might be even be available if we wanted him, but it’s possible that the injury drives hid price down, too.

Reneg – DE Bo Bolsins, 4yr $23.6m
1YR -
2YR -
3YR – QB O.J. Turnbull, $4.1m
4YR – WR Warren Dickens, $15m
5YR –
6YR – RT Kevin Coleman, $121.5m (3m bonus, essentially 3yrs $10.5m)
7YR –

I see QB Turnbull as a cheap minsal guy we could use in a pinch in a short-passing offense, and it is nice to have a cheap option at QB. He wasn’t going past three years, but in a very weak QB crop this year (Caruso is the top rated guy available) I think Turnbull is a decent option even with his very uneven skills.

I use one of my free-signing slots to work out a new longer deal with WR Dickens, and use a long term slot on a veteran tackle who will be a solid #3 OT and affinity leader for us. I think there is a salary crunch coming before too long, and I don’t want to get caught unloading valuable players, so I’m not making a huge splash here in free agency.

I’ll again leave a few slots open for possible pickups after the restricted FAs get cut loose.

I wrap up free agency with 46 players signed to contracts. If we sign seven rookies, we will have to make cuts to do any more FA signings. I can live with that.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:09 PM

2026 draft

With a team that really no longer has any **huge** gaping holes, I’m a bit more at liberty to be looking for impact players wherever I can find them. I guess our LB corps is an obvious area of need overall, as we have a number of older players in starting roles there, and you one key youngster might not be as good as we had hoped. The OL situation is more stable for the immediate future, but a solid LT would be a good addition for us as I don’t know I want to commit long term to Junior Pruett there. I also would like very much to land a promising young QB for this team to add some stability there.

We don’t have the top-ten pick this go-round, so probably no easy way to manufacture extra picks –not that I want them anyway any longer. We pick at 1.22, and inch upward each round afterward… so all middle picks, basically. We’ll see what falls to us.

I interviewed maybe 20 QBs for this draft – and not one remains at pick 22 who looks worth a damn. Oh well. At pick 22, I’m mostly looking at a few linebackers as what would be my top choices, and I’m less than inspired, to be honest. I explore a trade-down, but there’s no value in that, obviously. So, I’m back to LB, and torn between a six-blue combine guy who probably develops into a solid all-around type, and a two-red guy who looks like he can play the run and rush the passer, but with little peripheral skill. Both seem like defensible picks here, I’d actually like to work out a deal-down and take them both, but I decide to go for the across-the-board fella.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post
1.22 SLB Kelley Chancey (WILB) 6.0 5.8 4.59 33 21 7.17 9-11 37 48% HTR 29/51
2.21 C Bart Rodgers (RG) 6.0 5.2 5.12 39 34 7.69 8-10 -- 13% VU 27/58
3.20 SLB Darnell Abercrombie 4.4 4.3 5.00 36 20 7.66 9-01 34 27% VU 16/55
4.19 RT Brendan Raber 4.7 5.2 5.15 29 24 7.70 7-08 -- 38% OR 17/39
5.18 CB Zack Wilkerson (FS) 4.3 4.4 4.44 27 9 7.04 8-11 46 20% NA 13/45
6.17 QB Tito Daylo 4.3 4.9 4.77 32 12 8.22 8-04 87 13% VO 9/45
7.16 WLB Darrell Caldwell 4.1 3.9 4.63 27 10 7.40 8-05 28 44% NA 16/38

So, I decided to move the standout center to RG, where he lost a bit of his ratings, but still looks pretty solid to me. Centers are pretty easy to come by, so drafting a guy with the requisite heft to move to G usually makes a good investment. I’m also hopeful that we might have a future starter for our Sam backer slot in Abercrombie. RT Raber had a good enough combine to get me to look past the bas scout assessment. Rest are basically flyers.

Since I didn’t make any draft trades, I can accept an AI-offered trade if I like – and we have one in hand. It’s only a 6th round pick for QB Bill Wilkins, and I don’t know that’s worth much. I expect to decline this one, I think Wilkins stands a very good chance of being our #2 QB this season, assuming we don’t buckle under and re-sign the injured Caruso from the FA pile (he’s asking for big bucks, incidentally, which along with the injury and his age generally makes him pretty unattractive to me and most teams, it seems).

I think I see the answer for us at QB, at least short term. Kendell Beason is an 11th year QB, rated 48/48 overall, and coming off an injury-shortened season. But he seems to have great short passing skills, very well suited for the system I’m planning to run this season. Plus, he’s a mentor and knows 18 formations – all a good fit. We have cap space, so I want to try to work out a five year deal with him if I can (we’ve used the sweet spots of 3 and 4 years). If not, I’ll settle for two pretty good years and deal with it later.

Turns out five years is a non-starter for him, so we put in 2yrs, $10m and will bump if needed to land him. I expect him to start for us, and hopefully fit in well right away.

We still have a few of our FA slots remaining, so I look to make some moves there. The obvious thing to do with a 1 year deal is go after younger players, so I will be looking there primarily for both the 1-year and the 5-year slot if I can fit anyone into the latter.

Given that I am moving on a QB in free agency, and would be carrying five guys there anyhow, I decide to accept the 6th rounder for Bill Wilkins after all. We are deep enough that if we were in a spot to be playing him, the season would likely be a loss anyway, so I’ll take what I can get.

I end up making a silly offer to a decent veteran strong safety Rico Booker – most of his 5yr deal will be in base salary (around $5m a year) so he’s basically a luxury as long as we can afford him, and mostly wipes off our books once we cannot. He’s a standard four-bar guy, but they are the right bars for work at SS, so he may prove valuable, and can at least play special teams if needed.

For my 1-yr deal, I find an intriguing offensive tackle Julio Cronk, a guy who can slide over to play LT I think, and who might be in the mix for a longer deal if he makes that move fairly well.

Of course, I land all three of our late FA targets – no matter how many rules I put into place, I am constantly frustrated at the absolute ease of beating the AI at this stuff. I see QB Beason as a great gamble, and while two other teams made offers, it was child’s play to just ratchet up my bonus to make sure that mine would be the best among them. For a guy like Cronk, he just flies under the radar completely – just like most of the players that I choose. Just once, I’d like to see a bona fide bidding war for a free agent – where I put in my offer and then one of the AI teams making its offers actually responds by bidding higher. There’s just so much more that could be done in this FA system – as I’ve said before, It **could** be one of the best things in the single-player game, but it falls far short of that potential.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:09 PM

2026 Training Camp

To get down to 53 players for camp (house rule I’m adopting as of right now) I release LB Donovan Mathews and, alas, SS Terrance Kaplan. We are into camp within $3m of the salary cap – so money issues are likely to be real going forward. I do have some soft salaries on the team that can be vacated by cuts (which is really as it should be) and starting next season, I expect that will be a realistic consideration.

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Downs, Jamie Tampa C -7
Reed, Todd Tampa RB -7
Everett, Rico Tampa RB -7
Woods, Paul Tampa SS -6
Wilkerson, Gilbert Tampa WLB -6
Abercrombie, Darnell Tampa SLB -5
Daylo, Tito Tampa QB -5
Caldwell, Darrell Tampa WLB -4
Bell, Kenny Tampa RG -4
Coleman, Kevin Tampa RT -4

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Shea, Billy Tampa LCB 6
Rodgers, Bart Tampa RG 6
Billodeaux, Morris Tampa FS 1
Beason, Kendall Tampa QB 1
Lindsay, Kendrick Tampa SE 1
Raber, Brenden Tampa RT 1
Brennan, Phil Tampa C 1
Palm, Heath Tampa WLB 1
Franklin, Randal Tampa LDE 1
Wilkerson, Zack Tampa FS 1

So, I was right about G Rodgers – his boom makes him a future starter for us, which is what we were looking for. CB Shea’s boom is nice, adding a little more value to a prime asset – a guy who we’d like to see deliver some star-caliber stats now, please.

Seeing our top rookie LB off this list is disappointing – until I realize that he belongs on the list after all. Bug, I guess. But he is a +6 in camp, and looks like a solid all-around guy in training. So, two big hits in the rookie class.

Here’s the more detailed revised rookie report:

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post
1.22 SLB Kelley Chancey (WILB) 6.0 5.8 4.59 33 21 7.17 9-11 37 48% HTR 29/51 35/57 +6
2.21 C Bart Rodgers (RG) 6.0 5.2 5.12 39 34 7.69 8-10 -- 13% VU 27/58 31/64 +6
3.20 SLB Darnell Abercrombie 4.4 4.3 5.00 36 20 7.66 9-01 34 27% VU 16/55 21/50 -5
4.19 RT Brendan Raber 4.7 5.2 5.15 29 24 7.70 7-08 -- 38% OR 17/39 21/40 +1
5.18 CB Zack Wilkerson (FS) 4.3 4.4 4.44 27 9 7.04 8-11 46 20% NA 13/45 18/46 +1
6.17 QB Tito Daylo 4.3 4.9 4.77 32 12 8.22 8-04 87 13% VO 9/45 12/40 -5
7.16 WLB Darrell Caldwell 4.1 3.9 4.63 27 10 7.40 8-05 28 44% NA 16/38 18/34 -4

In other news, RB Rico Everett isn’t listed on the bust list above, but he seems to have lost a step or two. RB Todd Reed (42/42) is pretty clearly to me our best RB option, but the scout like youngster Albert Newton (39/44). Newton is Mr. Inside, Reed Mr. Outside, but I suspect we’ll end up seeing both a lot this year and Everett in a “supporting role.”

So, as we enter a new phase with this team (defined by the QB at least) here is our new signal caller. Yes, he’s an 11th year veteran so this isn’t the future – but he looks like the present.

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/QuikSand/qb_beason.jpg

With him, we sill use a fair number of short passes, I think I will ramp up the use of screens a bit, and also try to redirect the running game a little toward the right side. Not much else in terms of changes – we’ll head into our next season.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:09 PM

2025 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 82 (5th)
Cohesion – 64-67-75-57 (bottom handful on offense, second quartile on defense)

My predictions:

We probably end up with two QBs playing games, and see 20 TD and 15 Ints
I’ll pick a new big numbers guy on defense – Arnold Ingram breaks through with 12 sacks
We struggle to equal last year’s 9 wins, but look better on D at least

Season narrative:

Well, we open with the sort of win that I’m really hoping for – a 16-10 final, we hang three second half FGs to take it, and control the ball with 74% passing and get a lot of QB pressure. Beason has 4 picks in week two, as we lose a close one – this might be a problem that undermines our controlled pass attack, if we’re getting picked too much.

Through four games, we are 1-3, with a PF/PA differential of 57/64… we are playing close games and losing. Beason has a ratio of 4/9, and we are –8 in turnovers. This is trouble.

Then – we get our act together. Three good wins, and Beason’s ratio is suddenly up to 12/9, and we are above .500 again. We lose two games in a row later on, and slip to 6-5 – our division is a total toss up at this point, we’re in a 3-way tie for the lead with NO just a game behind. We split two games, but so does everyone else in the division.

A late season loss to New Orleans hurts a lot, and put them into the division driver’s seat. We win to get back to 8-7, and the good news is that 9-7 is surely worth a wild card if we can beat 8-7 Atlanta in our last game. We’re back to the week one strategy – and pick up a 17-10 win to secure another postseason berth. Pretty much the season I expected.

Front Office Football 2007
2026 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2026
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 139-197
Winning Pct. .413
Playoffs 1-3
Playoff Visits 4
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 19-15
Winning Pct. .558
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. Z. Huntley

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.5 15 (T)
Rushing Yards 122.1 10
Yards Per Carry 4.44 9
Pass Attempts 34.8 16
Completions 24.2 1
Completion Pct. 69.6 1
Passing Yards 252.4 8
Yards Per Attempt 7.26 9
Yards Per Catch 10.44 27
Total Yardage Gained 368.6 3
3rd Down Conversions 52.5 1
Points Per Game 24.5 8
Pass Rush Pct. 21.7 13
Pass Defense Pct. 44.3 28
Turnovers 33 27
Turnover Margin -16 30

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.9 21
Rushing Yards 102.6 10
Yards Per Carry 3.81 6
Pass Attempts 30.2 2
Completions 19.1 4
Completion Pct. 63.1 27 (T)
Passing Yards 211.6 7
Yards Per Attempt 7.01 22
Yards Per Catch 11.10 12
Total Yardage Gained 297.0 4
3rd Down Conversions 43.4 25
Points Per Game 22.6 22
Pass Rush Pct. 15.1 1
Pass Defense Pct. 37.2 5
Turnovers 17 32

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 16 CAR 10
2 17 at BAL 22
3 14 NYK 16
4 10 ATL 16
5 41 at MIN 14
6 31 at NOS 22
7 24 at DET 13
9 35 GBY 31
10 13 CHI 28
11 14 at CAR 25
12 19 at CIN 10
13 21 at STL 41
14 41 PIT 28
15 34 NOS 38
16 45 CLE 38
17 17 at ATL 10
$$WC at NOS

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
6 K. Beason QB 556 387 4039 7.26 37 21 96.8
**Team --- 556 387 4039 7.26 37 21 96.8
$$Opp --- 483 305 3385 7.01 24 7 94.4

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
24 T. Reed RB 288 1376 4.78 5 7
35 A. Newton RB 123 475 3.86 3 6
**Team --- 440 1953 4.44 9 23
$$Opp --- 431 1642 3.81 17 22

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 126 85 946 11.13 7.51 3 11
24 T. Reed RB 83 64 429 6.70 5.17 4 5
83 J. Deberry WR 90 62 890 14.35 9.89 4 3
81 M. Hevey WR 77 49 595 12.14 7.73 2 5
43 K. Raven FB 48 38 283 7.45 5.90 3 3
89 K. Lindsay WR 49 31 413 13.32 8.43 1 4
82 C. Kanell TE 42 30 267 8.90 6.36 1 5

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
32 R. Booker S 96 30 0.0 1 0 7 73.4
51 D. Leal OLB 74 21 3.0 3 1 3 73.9
34 R. Fritz S 72 25 3.0 1 1 5 76.2
95 D. Winfield ILB 64 23 0.5 1 0 1 72.8
48 B. Shea CB 50 17 0.0 0 4 16 84.3
98 A. Ingram DE 42 14 9.0 13 0 0 81.9
99 B. Bolsins DE 41 15 8.0 17 0 0 81.3
90 A. Wilkerson DT 41 15 5.0 5 0 0 81.2
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 39 10 0.0 0 0 14 79.9
93 G. Wilkerson OLB 38 16 9.0 6 0 1 79.9
94 M. Quinn ILB 31 10 0.5 0 0 0 74.7
50 K. Chancey ILB 29 14 0.0 0 0 1 77.6
58 H. Palm OLB 25 8 3.5 3 0 0 78.1
40 L. Sawyer CB 21 9 0.0 0 0 3 78.0
45 D. Abercrombie ILB 16 4 0.0 1 0 1 74.1

So, by total yardage – we’re #3 on offense and #4 on defense. Not bad. We are a real problem in the turnover department, though – we don’t cause enough, and we commit too many. That largely explains why we are a mediocre team with some base stats that suggest better than that.

Really good season for RB Reed – I was afraid he’d be splitting time, but the staff got this one right, it seems. He’s a RFA after this year, so we get one more easy season – after that it’s time to think about a long term deal, perhaps. He may be worth it, and his mixed ratings might keep him affordable – but I’ll take 4.79 yards a carry and 1,800 yards from scrimmage.

It looked like DE Ingram was going to have that huge season I predicted, but he cooled off and suffered some injuries in the second half. We end up with three guys with 8-9 sacks, and the hurries are coming, but next year we need to fill that WLB slot, as Wilkerson is gone baby gone with an exploding contract.

Looks like we did okay with S Booker, who I had in mind for a reserve role, but who came in and played pretty well. Not a coverage star, but he can help with the run – he ought to be getting after the ball a bit better, though. Lb injuries mucked up our defensive front all year, and a really serious keg injury to rookie Chancey has his future in real doubt.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:10 PM

Postseason narrative

We put together a great game in our opener, and thrash our division champion Saints to advance, 35-9. Beason is brilliant, and our defense played lights out. We then get the 11-4-1 Bears, and we pound them pretty well, too, 27-13, fueled in part by a big error-free day from Beason again – 319 and 3/0.

We head to the NFC title game, played at 15-2 Dallas, favored by 7. They manage to force the bad side of Beason – as he inverts his ratio this game, and has 3 picks to zero TDs. We lose here, 28-19, and the Cowboys go on to the big game – only to get pasted there by Miami.

My late-season renegotiation is to extend C Phil Brennan. Not that exciting, but he’s been solid and I’m looking to start building some continuity with my younger players along the OL as we start to phase out the original group of veterans.

QuikSand

02-29-2008, 06:10 PM

New rule additions

Since I see myself taking advantage already of weaknesses in my original rules, I’m patching on two more rules.

-there can be only one offer made to any target free agent player

Explanation: I don’t like that I can outmaneuver the AI teams so easily – so here, I’ll play with the no-change rule. if I put in a weak offer and get outbid, I should lose, rather than react and win. Presumably, this will squeeze me a bit more as I will go after my target players with either more money, more bonus, or both.

-there can be only one free agent signed during the late FA period

Explanation: I already see myself strategically setting aside FA slots to take advantage of the after-draft cap casualties and unsigned RFAs who become available. Picking are too easy then. I’ll limit myself to one signee during that phase per season.

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:47 PM

2027 offseason

Okay, this season we are turning the corner. We now are dealing with a full roster, we’re close to the salary cap, and we are at least close to feeling the practical effects of the system of rules that I have in place. The only lingering issue is that I still have a handful of extra draft picks from recent years, resulting from a few trade-down deals. But that will fade, as I don’t expect to see many more such deals opening up for us. We are basically on our way into the “maintenance” part of the challenge, which is always the hard part to keep interesting (for me, at least… if you’re actually reading this then I haven’t a clue what keeps you interested in this sort of dreck).

RG Kenny Bell retired, which is fine – he was out of contract and we have already loaded up the OG slot for his departure. So, no harm done.

The next thing we simply must do is release LB Gilbert Wilkerson. I think of him as my “first” player here, as he was the first guy we inked to a long term deal. But it was a deal with a poison pill at the end, and it came due this year. Cutting him gets us about $30m under the $194m cap, which ought to be enough to sign free agents as we need to.

Here is the math, as I see it, for our number of players:

39 players currently signed to contracts
7 potential FA signees
5 restricted free agents who could be signed for 1yr
7 potential draft picks
--
58 players

Put as simply as possible, that means we have just a little bit of room to move here. And the “challenge” part of the deal kicks in as I realize that we don’t have either a punter or kicker signed to a contract, so most likely that forces our hand with two of our draft picks (or free agent signings, I guess). Oh – we already have one player out for the whole season (LB Kelley Chancey) so the real target would be 54 players.

(I think a couple seasons down the road, this margin will tighten more and more… I have a handful of extra draft picks buoying this tally this year)

At the start of free agency, we get a trade offer for QB OJ Turnbull, my backup. Right now, I don’t have a crunch for signed players, but later on I might. So, this year I can turn down getting a 4th round pick and a backup-quality C for him. At some point, two bodies for one might be an offer I simply can’t refuse.

Okay – planning our roster moves also requires looking at positions. Here’s what I really need to do this offseason:

MUST SIGN – P, K, LB
SHOULD SIGN – RB, CB, TE

Anyway – here is our slate of free agents for this year:

Front Office Football 2007
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Unrestricted FAs # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Pruett, Junior 64 LT 5 49 49 ---
Collier, Colin 16 P 5 46 46 ---
Blythe, Jessie 46 RCB 5 34 34 ---
Downs, Jamie 52 C 5 33 33 ---
Cooper, Carlton 17 K 5 32 32 ---
Richmond, Rich 86 SE 5 29 29 ---
Jacobs, Glenn 9 QB 5 26 26 ---

Restricted FAs # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Cronk, Julio 75 LT 4 56 56 ---
Reed, Todd 24 RB 4 43 43 ---
Reese, Pete 57 SLB 4 31 31 ---
Billodeaux, Morris 38 FS 4 30 30 ---
Palm, Heath 58 WLB 4 27 27 ---

So, we’ll sign up all the RFAs for their final season, and we have seven URFAs to decide on. I don’t really think any of these are special players – I like CB Blythe as a pretty good fit for a backup CB, but his skills are pretty replaceable. Same with WR Richmond.

LT Pruett is probably the toughest case – he’s a very solid pass blocker, and for the LT slot, that has a good deal of value. Also, RFA Julio Cronk is looking for more than $9m per year in his new deal, which I don’t see happening – so Pruett could very easily become our starting LT again after this season. I guess I’ll work out a one year deal with Cronk, but if he thinks he is a top-tier caliber player, then he isn’t going to be getting that kind of coin from us.

Wow… speaking of Cronk, since he now thinks he walks on water, even just the 1yr offer to him will cost us more than $13 million. Holy cow. That’s making LT a bit of a crisis position – I thought I had this all worked out with the two guys (hoping to re-up with Pruett cheaply after Cronk gave us two cheap seasons). Now, I wonder if we might not have to just go fishing for a rookie there.

The other RFAs, mercifuly, are easy signings.

Okay, here’s my contract plan, once I have had a chance to weight my options:

Reneg – NT Amos Wilkerson, 4yrs $13.8m
1YR -
2YR – LB Dixon Daniels ($18m, $12B flat salary)
3YR – LT Junior Pruett ($11.4m, $2.4B flat salary)
4YR – WR/KR Clyde Craig ($25.1m, essentially 3yrs $3.3m)
5YR – CB Jesse Blythe ($46m, essentially 3yrs $3.7m)
6YR – TE Mitch Farias ($79m, essentially 3yrs $4.3m)
7YR – ILB Jesse Dirnbauer (108m, essentially 7yrs $24m)

LB Dirnbauer is a solid 5th year MLB who looks like a good fit for us – not a huge run stopper, though he did post around 15% of the tackles in Arizona the last two years. I’m hoping that our fat money short term signing LB Dixon will slot in as an impact player at the WLB slot, and really put our worries about the LB position to rest for the next couple seasons.

I also decide to knuckle under and try to re-up with LT Junior Pruett. Not a run blocker (and admittedly, with him on the bench, we did have a breakthrough season rushing the ball) but he’s a solid, familiar, affinity left tackle who looks to be pretty affordable. I think I have to take advantage of that – I looked at a high quality free agent, but couldn’t make that work for less than $10m a year.

I’m loading up with low-salary long term deals here, mostly trying to improve some ancillary positions on the team. WR Craig is a decent return man, who takes a three year minsal deal with one phony season at the end. I decide to extend CB Blythe for three real years, after which I’ll have no choice but to let him walk – I tried to get him down to only one phony year (and then I’d try to get it to auto-void) but couldn’t get the 5yr offer to work that way.

I’m leaving the 1yr offer out there for an after-draft fill-in. If it’s to a 2nd or 3rd year player, that buys us an extra year as an extendable RFA.

Under my new rules – I just sit back and watch these offers until they resolve, so there’s a real chance I’ll have to go dig back in, but I put in strong offers to the good players here, and I figure to land everyone I want. As the stages go by, I see LB Dixon Daniels getting offered 5yrs $70m from the Colts – but I still think my shorter bonus-laden offer will win out, and it does. In week six, WR Craig signs, and we have all six target players in hand.

(Aside: I’m not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but it took me more than an hour of real time trying to work out how to target players here for all these deals… maybe that gets simpler with time…but it was fairly rewarding to sort of chart out my needs crossed with the available players)

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:56 PM

Late Free Agency

So, I get set to sign everyone, when I get an interesting note:

From: Kendall Beason

I have decided to hold out until I receive a new contract.

As your starting quarterback last season, I believe I had a breakout season. I believe I'm very seriously underpaid, and will not report to camp without a new contract.

Fascinating. I hadn’t though about what to do here under my rules, but here I am. Well – he’s actually asking for a massive contract worth more than $19m a year (making $5 as it stands) so I don’t even see how we’d afford it anyway. I think I’m painted into a corner here – we’ll hope Beason comes to camp under this deal, but I don’t think we have any way to re-up with him here.

3rd year DE Ernest Mills, pure pass rusher, is my target for a 1yr contract offer. He gives us some depth there cheap, which helps a great deal, as a tough position to fill.

jbvxz <- that is commentary from my assistant GM, who seems to think we need more badasses

I make a couple of veteran cuts before training camp to get down to 53 players – S Paul Woods and LB Mack Quinn. Neither was an easy cut.

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:56 PM

2027 training camp

After trying to cut corners, I’ll post the whole deal this time:

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:57 PM

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Swartz, Jose<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Turnbull, O.J.<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Montero, Sedrick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Newton, Albert<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Reed, Todd<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Raven, Kent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Farias, Mitch<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Kanell, Chester<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Czyz, Bryant<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Dickens, Warren<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Rodgers, Andre<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Craig, Clyde<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Deberry, Jeff<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Hevey, Melvin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Lindsay, Kendrick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Brennan, Phil<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Donhoff, Maurice<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Madison, Shannon<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Rodgers, Bart<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 72 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Pruett, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Coleman, Kevin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Raber, Brenden<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Stone, Kyle<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 70<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (-10)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -10<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Arnold, Neal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Franklin, Randal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (-11)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -11<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Ingram, Arnold<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Hernandez, Leo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Upshaw, Walter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Blackburn, Edwin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Bolsins, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:57 PM

And, the first bit of big news is right here:

From: Kendall Beason

I have decided that loyalty is more important than money. I will report to active duty immediately.

So, that had the potential to really hurt us for this year, but instead we dodge the bullet.

Anyway – here’s the updated rookie watch:

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj Dash ST BP Agil Bjump PS Dev O/U Pre Post
1.23 CB Ben Terry (SS) 5.9 6.1 4.32 30 14 6.78 10-03 44 13% UR 20/74 28/79 +5
2.22 NT Leo Hernandez 5.2 5.6 4.95 34 27 7.62 9-01 -- 22% NA 23/57 26/54 -3
3.21 K Kyle Stone 6.7 4.0 5.02 44 10 7.55 9-05 -- 47% NA 36/70 35/60 -10
4.23 FS Rusty Woodson 5.0 4.7 4.54 34 20 7.25 8-04 50 29% UR 19/41 23/45 +4
5.22 WR Andre Rogers 4.3 4.5 4.64 13 15 7.09 10-04 51 43% VU 25/35 27/35 --
6.13 QB Jose Swartz 4.7 5.4 4.48 19 12 7.30 8-03 82 31% NA 17/50 21/49 -1
6.21 P Neal Arnold 5.0 2.7 4.87 28 5 7.48 9-10 -- 33% NA 41/62 42/58 -4
7.23 RB Sedrick Montero 4.6 4.9 4.56 25 10 7.25 10-01 12 52% AS 23/26 24/26 --

Okay, Ben Terry looks like a beast in waiting, while S Rusty Woodson might one day start alongside him. QB Swartz is intriguing enough to keep around, too. No major shocks here.

A big breakout for RG Bart Rodgers makes us very comfy starting him this year.

We’re ready.

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:58 PM

2027 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 100/81
Cohesion – 68-86-72-55

My predictions:

Bryant Czyz tops 1,000 for his first time, with around 100 catches on the year
DEs Ingram and Bolsins and LB Daniels all get double digit sacks for us
We post improved number everywhere, and manage about 11 wins to take the division

Season narrative:

We suffer two blowouts in out first four games, and while 2-2 isn’t awful, it doesn’t look good on the stat sheet. Halfway through, at 5-3, we still don’t look very strong – we are upside down in passing yards per attempt, giving up more than we get.

We get down toward the end of the season, and we are 9-5 – but in a three-way tie for the division lead. Our last game is against Carolina, and we are tied at 10-5 for the division lead – they get the win and take the division, we expect to hit the road again as a wild card team – but are disappointed when we realize that we grabbed the dreaded 7-seed with the loss, and lose out to Atlanta for the final wild card. We’re done.

Front Office Football 2007
2027 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2027
Record 10-6
Winning Pct. .625
All-Time 149-203
Winning Pct. .423
Playoffs 3-4
Playoff Visits 4
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 31-22
Winning Pct. .584
Off. Coord. C. Spencer
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 26.6 18
Rushing Yards 114.8 14
Yards Per Carry 4.31 11
Pass Attempts 35.1 11
Completions 24.6 1 (T)
Completion Pct. 70.1 2
Passing Yards 258.6 7
Yards Per Attempt 7.36 10
Yards Per Catch 10.50 28
Total Yardage Gained 362.3 5
3rd Down Conversions 49.8 1 (T)
Points Per Game 27.6 3
Pass Rush Pct. 21.3 6 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 48.8 20
Turnovers 27 19 (T)
Turnover Margin +2 15

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.2 8 (T)
Rushing Yards 91.0 3
Yards Per Carry 3.61 1
Pass Attempts 32.2 9
Completions 20.7 18
Completion Pct. 64.3 29
Passing Yards 235.4 13
Yards Per Attempt 7.31 21
Yards Per Catch 11.38 16
Total Yardage Gained 309.6 6
3rd Down Conversions 44.6 26
Points Per Game 24.4 26
Pass Rush Pct. 15.7 3
Pass Defense Pct. 35.1 4
Turnovers 29 10 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 21 at NOS 38
2 21 JAX 17
3 34 at SFO 10
4 20 at WAS 45
5 45 DAL 28
6 28 ATL 31
7 35 PHI 28
9 17 at NYK 16
10 24 NOS 31
11 22 at CAR 10
12 37 at LRK 17
13 19 GBY 13
14 17 IND 34
15 30 at ATL 27
16 51 at TEN 20
17 20 CAR 25

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
6 K. Beason QB 547 385 4075 7.45 30 15 98.6
**Team --- 562 394 4137 7.36 31 15 98.5
$$Opp --- 515 331 3767 7.31 32 15 94.7

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
24 T. Reed RB 304 1347 4.43 12 4
35 A. Newton RB 87 402 4.62 4 2
**Team --- 426 1836 4.31 16 25
$$Opp --- 403 1456 3.61 11 26

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
18 W. Dickens WR 104 68 688 10.12 6.62 5 6
24 T. Reed RB 79 62 356 5.74 4.51 2 5
84 M. Farias TE 64 53 531 10.02 8.30 1 6
81 M. Hevey WR 78 52 733 14.10 9.40 3 3
8 B. Czyz WR 82 49 641 13.08 7.82 3 5
83 J. Deberry WR 45 29 344 11.86 7.64 3 3
82 C. Kanell TE 34 27 257 9.52 7.56 1 2
43 K. Raven FB 31 25 231 9.24 7.45 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
93 D. Daniels OLB 81 26 10.0 11 0 3 77.7
95 D. Winfield ILB 80 36 0.5 0 3 2 75.5
34 R. Fritz S 75 23 0.0 0 2 8 80.3
32 R. Booker S 72 24 0.0 0 2 8 80.8
48 B. Shea CB 70 12 0.5 2 3 13 75.5
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 54 9 0.0 0 2 15 78.5
98 A. Ingram DE 48 20 8.0 15 0 1 81.7
90 A. Wilkerson DT 40 26 9.0 9 0 0 81.9
99 B. Bolsins DE 32 15 4.5 12 0 0 81.4
56 J. Dirnbauer ILB 31 6 2.0 0 0 2 73.7
58 H. Palm OLB 28 13 5.0 6 0 0 77.2
51 D. Leal OLB 27 11 1.0 2 0 4 78.8

Well, our offense is clicking pretty well – we are not explosive, but we are pretty consistent. This year Beason improved slightly everywhere (except TD passes), and made fewer mistakes. WR Czyz was never on pace for a huge year, and injuries hobbled him late in the season. And we got another excellent season from RB Todd Reed, who seems to fit us like a glove.

I though our pass rush would be vastly improved – Daniels was pretty good, and Ingram was his usual solid self, but the teamwide 21.3 was a shade lower than I had hoped. We managed to get back to basically even in turnovers, but didn’t really get much better – I fear that below the surface, we are not a better team than we were last year.

- - -

Season Coda

I’m admittedly disappointed in the season, I really believed that with the weapons we had in place, our offense would be better. If we retain QB Beason for next season, I think it might be back to our more traditional offensive style, and throwing the ball downfield more. As much as I say I can live with the stats generated from the short-passing, control-the-game style… I guess it’s just in my blood to grip it and rip it. This 11 yards per completion stuff doesn’t do it for me.

Speaking of Beason – we have on late-season reneg we can do. He is asking for $17m per year, after playing the last two seasons for $5m each. My thinking here is that we can let him walk, he will ask for a ton of money, and maybe we can work out a long term deal with two or three affordable seasons to get him to return. He’s obviously good enough to run our offense, and it’s not like I have another really good option sitting around – no offense to OJ Turnbull.

I instead lock up G Maurice Donhoff for three more seasons, getting a solid interior starter on the payroll and hopefully continuing to build OL continuity.

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 03:59 PM

...this is getting boring, just as I'm getting close to finding out if the challenge actually holds up. *sigh*

st.cronin

03-01-2008, 04:07 PM

Please keep this up, this is very interesting.

Barkeep49

03-01-2008, 04:37 PM

I almost always enjoy your dynasties because you are such a great player and give more insight into your thought processes (or at least do so more clearly) than most dynasties.

Barkeep49

03-01-2008, 04:40 PM

...this is getting boring, just as I'm getting close to finding out if the challenge actually holds up. *sigh*
Gah. How discouraging after reading all that came before it.

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 05:51 PM

Well, the thing that will keep me at it is my continued desire for a truly *long term* challenge -- one that I could play for 30 seasons, and go through a team that cycles over and over. Basically, playing solo FOF I really only enjoy the "building" aspect... once I have pretty good players everywhere, i tend to lose interest, in part because it's not really fun having a team that goes 12-4 every season and the only differenced is whether you win it all of get nipped in the playoffs.

I'm a little disappointed that I have so quickly turned most of my long term contracts into bullshit (3 or 4 year deals with a clear walk-away point). Hard to do anything else in this game, though... it's just the nature of the beast.

I'll keep on for a couple more seasons, though, at least -- I would like to find out if the challenge of just having enough bodies around is sufficient to keep this engaging. If not, maybe I wipe out the rule that allows me to re-sign my own RFAs (or maybe to only re-sign one RFA in any given year).

QuikSand

03-01-2008, 07:08 PM

Another Rule

Okay, thinking on it some more, I think I want to add one more rule. Right now, my rule governing restricted free agents is as follows:

-there can be only one year on any new offer made to a restricted free agent

The result here has been that when playing all out under these rules, I basically get to keep every draft pick for four years, period. I also have found myself trying to target decent-looking 2nd and 3rd year players, knowing that Ii can squeeze that 4th year out of them with a RFA extension.

So, instead, I think I want to make the rule as follows:

-there can be only one new contract with a restricted free agent outside the general limits

Basically, I get to sign one of my RFAs, to a multi-year deal if I like, in any season. Anything past that has to count against my rule of seven contract offerings.

Mathematically, I don’t think it’s a huge change – in a given season, instead of re-signing four to six guys to one year deals, I will be re-signing one guy to a three year deal, in most cases.

What I do like is that it makes some added pressure on me to try to get the longer-length rookie contract, which might actually make rookie signings a shade more interesting. if I end up in a bit of a numbers game just to maintain a full roster, then getting those 2nd and 3rd round guys to take a 4 year deal rather than a 3 year deal actually means something – maybe enough to be willing to suffer a holdout, which would be brand new to me.

So – that will be my new rule going forward. I get to pick one RFA for a new deal, however long I can negotiate, but that’s it each season… unless I want to occupy one of my wide-open slots for another RFA (which seems plausible that it could happen).

QuikSand

03-02-2008, 04:20 PM

2028 offseason

I am remiss for overlooking the season awards last year… our free agent signee LB Dixon Daniels was honored as a first team OLB. Solid season for him, benefiting from the WLB stats that inure in a 3-4 defensive front.

We suffer no retirements. We also have no players who are in obvious cut years in long contracts – we will cross that bridge next season, though. So – here’s my roster math as the offseason kicks off:

37 player currently signed
7 free agent signings
1 restricted FA signing
7 draft picks
--
52 players

So, unless I make a move via trade, we will have a less than full roster this season. The difference between 53 and 52 is probably trivial… but what this basically means is that I’m going to need to get as much out of each and every draft pick that I can, going forward. For example – this habit I have of whiffing with a late round pick on a longshot QB… that is a costly practice under these rules, where a 4th or a 5th QB is basically a dead spot on the roster when he doesn’t have a future playing QB.

Incidentally, I have not created a rule against using the franchise tag… purposefully. I thought it would be reasonable to allow myself the use of the tag. Since I can do so little with renegotiations, it seems to be of limited use – but maybe not. This year, maybe I can make the case to tag QB Beason. A one year deal with him for something like $19 million won’t be that easy to swallow, but it’s not awful. He’s a 13th year guy, after all, so he doesn’t have all that many more years left in him. Worth considering – maybe after I have a look over what might be out there in free agency worth spending fat money on. We have $47m in cap space (about 23%) so we have the ability to splash around a bit here.

RT Pat O’Neill would be a candidate for thee tag as well, but the OT salary is itself over $17 million – so if I were going to use it, I’d just go ahead and use it on Beason. Re-signing O’Neil, an option I will consider, can’t be anywhere near as pricey.

Hmmm… speaking of the QB situation and the “whiffed” picks there, let’s have a quick look at young Jose Swartz, shall we?

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/QuikSand/qb_swartz_year_two.jpg

I know he slipped a point in his first camp, but this doesn’t look like a lost cause to me. He’s got a lot going for him in the intangible stuff like accuracy, timing, sense rush, and two-minute offense. This guy could be good enough to play, or at least be a backup. His very limited formations could prove a hurdle, but a surmountable one I think. If we get trade offers for OJ Turnbull again, we will be jumping on them – we have a backup in place right here, as far as I’m concerned.

Right now, we are short of a legal roster at the following positions: RB, RB/FB, TE, OL, DL

So, we have a little work to do just to get the team ready to play, much less play at its best.

Here is our own list of free agents:

Unrestricted FAs # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Beason, Kendall 6 QB 13 53 53 ---
Hevey, Melvin 81 SE 10 53 53 ---
O'Neill, Pat 73 RT 10 52 52 ---
Franklin, Randal 72 LDE 8 29 38 ---
Reed, Todd 24 RB 5 43 43 ---
Reese, Pete 57 SLB 5 31 31 ---
Billodeaux, Morris 38 FS 5 31 31 ---
Palm, Heath 58 WLB 5 27 27 ---

Restricted FAs # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Winfield, Devin 95 SILB 4 52 52 ---
Madison, Shannon 63 RG 4 42 50 ---
Lindsay, Kendrick 89 SE 4 49 49 ---
Kanell, Chester 82 TE 4 43 46 ---
Raven, Kent 43 FB 4 45 45 ---
Blackburn, Edwin 97 RDE 4 43 43 ---
Newton, Albert 35 RB 4 41 41 ---
Mills, Ernest 75 RDE 4 39 39 ---
Upshaw, Walter 74 NT 4 36 38 ---

My thinking is basically that we are deep enough at WR to let Hevey go (though he does seem to be very productive) and that there’s nobody we really, really must re-sign. If Todd Reed is affordable, it’s tough to deny how productive he has been for us, and I’d like to lock him up for a while. DE Randal Franklin is a cheap and decent affinity DE, but I have no idea what his contract demands might look like now.

RG Madison is a guy I’d prefer to keep, but he’s going to be a backup G, and candidly – that’s not a spot worth paying a fortune for. Basically the same goes for TE and FB – pretty easy to find replacement-level guys there too, either in the draft, or on cheap FA contracts. I guess among the RFAs, my leaning right now will be to re-sign Ernest Mills, if he’s cheap – he is a superb pass rusher, and locking him for three years would be nice.

So, no totally clear plan here – but if we re-sign DE Mills, we will at least consider new deals with WR Hevey, RT O’Neill, and DE Franklin as attractive targets for our open FA offers. Other RFAs of ours are also potential targets – we could end up with less turnover than expected, if we turn our contract offers largely internally.

QuikSand

03-02-2008, 04:20 PM

2028 offseason

I am remiss for overlooking the season awards last year… our free agent signee LB Dixon Daniels was honored as a first team OLB. Solid season for him, benefiting from the WLB stats that inure in a 3-4 defensive front.

We suffer no retirements. We also have no players who are in obvious cut years in long contracts – we will cross that bridge next season, though. So – here’s my roster math as the offseason kicks off:

37 player currently signed
7 free agent signings
1 restricted FA signing
7 draft picks
--
52 players

So, unless I make a move via trade, we will have a less than full roster this season. The difference between 53 and 52 is probably trivial… but what this basically means is that I’m going to need to get as much out of each and every draft pick that I can, going forward. For example – this habit I have of whiffing with a late round pick on a longshot QB… that is a costly practice under these rules, where a 4th or a 5th QB is basically a dead spot on the roster when he doesn’t have a future playing QB.

Incidentally, I have not created a rule against using the franchise tag… purposefully. I thought it would be reasonable to allow myself the use of the tag. Since I can do so little with renegotiations, it seems to be of limited use – but maybe not. This year, maybe I can make the case to tag QB Beason. A one year deal with him for something like $19 million won’t be that easy to swallow, but it’s not awful. He’s a 13th year guy, after all, so he doesn’t have all that many more years left in him. Worth considering – maybe after I have a look over what might be out there in free agency worth spending fat money on. We have $47m in cap space (about 23%) so we have the ability to splash around a bit here.

RT Pat O’Neill would be a candidate for thee tag as well, but the OT salary is itself over $17 million – so if I were going to use it, I’d just go ahead and use it on Beason. Re-signing O’Neil, an option I will consider, can’t be anywhere near as pricey.

Hmmm… speaking of the QB situation and the “whiffed” picks there, let’s have a quick look at young Jose Swartz, shall we?

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/QuikSand/qb_swartz_year_two.jpg

I know he slipped a point in his first camp, but this doesn’t look like a lost cause to me. He’s got a lot going for him in the intangible stuff like accuracy, timing, sense rush, and two-minute offense. This guy could be good enough to play, or at least be a backup. His very limited formations could prove a hurdle, but a surmountable one I think. If we get trade offers for OJ Turnbull again, we will be jumping on them – we have a backup in place right here, as far as I’m concerned.

Right now, we are short of a legal roster at the following positions: RB, RB/FB, TE, OL, DL

So, we have a little work to do just to get the team ready to play, much less play at its best.

Here is our own list of free agents:

Unrestricted FAs # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Beason, Kendall 6 QB 13 53 53 ---
Hevey, Melvin 81 SE 10 53 53 ---
O'Neill, Pat 73 RT 10 52 52 ---
Franklin, Randal 72 LDE 8 29 38 ---
Reed, Todd 24 RB 5 43 43 ---
Reese, Pete 57 SLB 5 31 31 ---
Billodeaux, Morris 38 FS 5 31 31 ---
Palm, Heath 58 WLB 5 27 27 ---

Restricted FAs # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Winfield, Devin 95 SILB 4 52 52 ---
Madison, Shannon 63 RG 4 42 50 ---
Lindsay, Kendrick 89 SE 4 49 49 ---
Kanell, Chester 82 TE 4 43 46 ---
Raven, Kent 43 FB 4 45 45 ---
Blackburn, Edwin 97 RDE 4 43 43 ---
Newton, Albert 35 RB 4 41 41 ---
Mills, Ernest 75 RDE 4 39 39 ---
Upshaw, Walter 74 NT 4 36 38 ---

My thinking is basically that we are deep enough at WR to let Hevey go (though he does seem to be very productive) and that there’s nobody we really, really must re-sign. If Todd Reed is affordable, it’s tough to deny how productive he has been for us, and I’d like to lock him up for a while. DE Randal Franklin is a cheap and decent affinity DE, but I have no idea what his contract demands might look like now.

RG Madison is a guy I’d prefer to keep, but he’s going to be a backup G, and candidly – that’s not a spot worth paying a fortune for. Basically the same goes for TE and FB – pretty easy to find replacement-level guys there too, either in the draft, or on cheap FA contracts. I guess among the RFAs, my leaning right now will be to re-sign Ernest Mills, if he’s cheap – he is a superb pass rusher, and locking him for three years would be nice.

So, no totally clear plan here – but if we re-sign DE Mills, we will at least consider new deals with WR Hevey, RT O’Neill, and DE Franklin as attractive targets for our open FA offers. Other RFAs of ours are also potential targets – we could end up with less turnover than expected, if we turn our contract offers largely internally.

QuikSand

03-02-2008, 04:21 PM

2028 Late Free Agency, Roster Finalization

So, we have a twist once again:

From: Dixon Daniels

I have decided to hold out until I receive a new contract.

I believe I made a huge difference rushing the passer last season. I believe I'm very seriously underpaid, and will not report to camp without a new contract.

It’s true that he had a big season last year. It’s also true that he is getting paid a pretty solid sum this year - $3m base and $6m of last year’s signing bonus. Reacting to the obvious year two of a just-signed contract seems rough… but I’d rather have it too tough than too easy.

Interestingly enough, I just drafted a rookie who I think ought to be great at the WLB role (for which Daniels is ideally suited) so he doesn’t have us completely headlocked. He’s thinking about $12m a year with a new $14m bonus… and I’m thinking we’ll wait him out and get by with our younger player.

I get my three rookies from rounds 2-4 all signed to the longer 4yr contracts – under my rules, I think this is a pretty meaningful goal to do. The last three take three year deals, and in theory I will have a free shot to re-up with one of them while he’s still a RFA.

An interesting twist for us this year is LB Kelley Chancey, who has missed a year and a half to a seriously broken leg. He looks okay, and candidly, we will be thin at LB if he doesn’t pan out and Daniels continues his holdout. The up-and-down Darnell Abercrombie would likely get pushed into a starting role, for which I don’t really think he is well suited. This is largely because I have let LB Devin Winfield walk to free agency – he wants to get paid pretty handsomely, and I don’t like the coverage void in his skill set, so I think that is still the way to go. However, he sits out there in free agency, and a one year deal would surely help us patch things over at the LB position for this year. Hmmm.

I hem and haw, and ultimately decide to re-sign Winfield for a one year, $6m deal.

QuikSand

03-02-2008, 04:21 PM

2028 Training Camp<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Rodgers, Bart<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Pruett, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Coleman, Kevin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Raber, Brenden<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Stone, Kyle<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Arnold, Neal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Franklin, Randal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Ingram, Arnold<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Hernandez, Leo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Marceau, Herb<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Bolsins, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Stone, Marco<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Abercrombie, Darnell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Leal, Drew<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Winfield, Devin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Chancey, Kelly<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Dirnbauer, Jesse<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> MLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Caldwell, Darrell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Daniels, Dixon<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Gerald, Ellis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Quill, Ernie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Sawyer, Louie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Shea, Billy<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 85<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 85<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 86 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 86 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Blythe, Jessie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Kemnitzer, Chuck<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-02-2008, 08:09 PM

2018 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 100/96
Cohesion – 71-90-86-66

My predictions:

QB Beason adjusts fine to a more aggressive passing offense, and posts 4,500 yards
SS Ben Terry shows us what he is all about, with 80 tackles, 6 picks, and an 80+ PD%
We are again in the mix for a playoff spot, and 10 wins gets us in this time

Season narrative:

SS Rico Booker gets hurt badly in preseason, so the job is clearly wide open for our young star, Ben Terry. He was going to get the starts anyhow, but now he will probably get maximum playing time as well. On opening day, he posts 6 tackles, 8 assists, half a sack and an interception to earn POG honors. Solid – he is going to be a star.

Dixon Daniels has also returned to the fold, no shock there, and he is helping lead our pass rush once again. In the early going, at 3-1, our offense looks excellent, but the defense is very strong, holding teams way down in yards per rush and pass.

At 6-2 halfway through, we are up in the points column by 244-175, and are the highest scoring team in the league. Todd Reed will miss a few games, and we will see what our backup RBs can do in this offense. Reed himself is having a tough year so far.

We get to 10-2 on the year, with WR Bryant Czyz putting together a career season, finally liberated from the horrors of the dink-and-dunk crap we have been playing. 86 targets, 61 catches (a far higher percent complete than in the short passing attack, even) and an off-the-charts 13.7 yards per target. You read that right – 13.7 yards per target. Nice to see him paying off, finally, as we more properly are using our team’s weaponry.

We cruise into the end of the season with a 13-3 record, and the top seed in the NFC. The switch on offense certainly seems to have made a big difference for us, as we have become easily the most fearsome unit in football this season.

Front Office Football 2007
2028 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2028
Record 13-3
Winning Pct. .812
All-Time 162-206
Winning Pct. .440
Playoffs 3-4
Playoff Visits 5
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 44-25
Winning Pct. .637
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 31.8 3
Rushing Yards 108.8 19
Yards Per Carry 3.42 32
Pass Attempts 27.9 31
Completions 17.9 29
Completion Pct. 64.1 4
Passing Yards 275.9 3
Yards Per Attempt 9.90 1
Yards Per Catch 15.44 1
Total Yardage Gained 376.3 2
3rd Down Conversions 47.6 2
Points Per Game 29.8 1
Pass Rush Pct. 23.8 5
Pass Defense Pct. 64.6 5
Turnovers 36 28
Turnover Margin -6 26

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.4 12
Rushing Yards 94.8 4
Yards Per Carry 3.73 5
Pass Attempts 37.8 29
Completions 20.8 22
Completion Pct. 55.1 5
Passing Yards 220.9 8
Yards Per Attempt 5.85 1
Yards Per Catch 10.61 2
Total Yardage Gained 298.3 3
3rd Down Conversions 33.6 4
Points Per Game 17.2 2
Pass Rush Pct. 19.3 10
Pass Defense Pct. 53.2 19
Turnovers 30 9 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 29 ATL 18
2 27 at KCY 30
3 31 WAS 7
4 40 ARI 34
5 24 SFO 34
6 28 at STL 18
8 44 at SEA 21
9 21 NOS 13
10 31 at ATL 6
11 31 CAR 0
12 38 SDO 13
13 34 at GBY 30
14 17 at DEN 23
15 21 at CAR 17
16 27 OAK 2
17 34 at NOS 9
$$CS SEA

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
6 K. Beason QB 432 276 4299 9.95 38 22 104.9
**Team --- 446 286 4415 9.90 39 25 102.5
$$Opp --- 604 333 3534 5.85 17 17 70.0

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
21 S. Montero RB 236 790 3.35 7 8
24 T. Reed RB 158 613 3.88 4 2
5 P. Lanza RB 80 272 3.40 2 1
**Team --- 509 1741 3.42 16 22
$$Opp --- 406 1516 3.73 9 22

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 125 83 1560 18.80 12.48 4 10
83 J. Deberry WR 103 52 1087 20.90 10.55 6 9
84 M. Farias TE 44 36 460 12.78 10.45 1 3
18 W. Dickens WR 50 34 388 11.41 7.76 0 6
89 K. Lindsay WR 39 22 365 16.59 9.36 1 5

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
95 D. Winfield ILB 90 29 2.0 3 3 5 78.4
49 B. Terry S 81 29 0.5 2 3 12 81.0
48 B. Shea CB 66 18 1.0 0 7 13 83.0
34 R. Fritz S 53 14 1.0 1 0 15 82.7
93 D. Daniels OLB 52 20 7.0 16 0 5 79.4
50 K. Chancey ILB 48 13 0.0 1 0 2 71.8
98 A. Ingram DE 46 21 6.0 20 0 0 81.4
51 D. Leal OLB 45 17 2.0 1 0 2 74.6
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 44 12 2.0 1 1 13 79.7
90 A. Wilkerson DT 43 14 4.5 15 0 1 81.5
99 B. Bolsins DE 39 16 8.5 23 0 0 81.1
59 E. Gerald OLB 25 8 2.5 7 0 1 79.6
30 R. Woodson S 22 7 0.0 0 1 3 80.6
56 J. Dirnbauer ILB 20 4 0.0 0 0 1 73.2
40 L. Sawyer CB 18 10 0.0 0 0 2 78.2

So, the passing game is king. This just in. Pitching it downfield for 15 yard strikes is the way to win in FOF, still is, always was. Even though a fair number of my players were picked up for their skills-match to the short pass, this approach still is clearly better. Our running game suffered, oddly, but that might be due to personnel in part. We will get Todd Reed back for the playoffs, though.

So, once again – we aren’t seeing any one player really put together big pass rushing stats – 7 or 8 sacks, maybe 20 hurries, but nobody with 15/40. Teamwide, we are solid – 5th in overall PR% -- but I wonder if we aren’t wasting resources there.

SS Ben Terry had basically the season I had hoped for, as our secondary is now playing at a really high level – all four of our starters post double digit PDs and solid PR% ratings.

So… overall, our defense got a ton better, statistically. Mostly the same players. Completely the same system. What gives? I have a theory. Lacking any sort of meaningful understanding of how defense works in this game (…and really, how could you? it’s brutally hard to test, and the developer has decided that we just don’t need to know how things work) I have concocted a theory on how to make your defense work a lot better. It goes like this:

Get ahead by three touchdowns.

Yup. Pass the ball like crazy, tear the other guys a new arse, and pull out to a 21-0 lead. Suddenly, you get to drop everyone back in coverage all day, your QB rushers get to pin their ears back and let it roll, and the other team has little choice but to play right into your hands, doing pretty much what you expect and increasing the chance of becoming too familiar to function. If they decide to get sneaky, cross you up, and decide to rush the ball for 5 yards a carry… who the shit cares, you’re ahead by three touchdowns anyway.

There it is, my little secret of a dominating defense. Play better offense.

QuikSand

03-02-2008, 08:09 PM

Postseason Narrative:

Divisional Playoff: Seattle (11-6) at Tampa Bay (13-3)

We are favored here by only 2 points, not sure what’s up with that. They have Bill Wilkins (former Bucc, guy we dumped for a 6th rounder a couple seasons back) in to start as their #1 QB is out. I don’t see this as a strong matchup at all. They are actually a pretty comparable team to us in talent, but with a backup QB there I have to think this is ours to lose.

We have a wacky start to the game – fumbling the opening kickoff and recovering it, and then going for a 4th down on our second possession to set up a TD for the lead. We pull out to a 14-0 lead by the end of the first quarter, and are looking very solid thus far. We lead 21-7 and block a FG attempt at the end of the first half to keep it that way.

In a sloppy effort, our lead drains to 21-17, even though we are not playing badly other than penalties and turnovers. We kick a late 4Q FG to make it 24-17, and force a 4th-and-12, but they convert it and stay alive with 2 minutes left. Finally the turnover plague hits them, and we snag a fumble at midfield. Three unimaginative run plays and we punt, they take over at their 20 with a minute and no time outs. They go into “bombs away” mode and it’s over. Closer game than I expected, but we move on.

Conference Championship: Minnesota (11-5-1) at Tampa Bay (14-3)

The Vikes are a serious team, but we are still favored here by 4 points, fairly solid. Their QB Kenneth James looks like a future superstar, a 2nd year guy already a major passing threat after they picked him at 1(2) last season. Pretty solid team, and behind James they might be a factor for a while.

The opening drives are frustrating – they move the ball but miss a long FG, we move the ball but then suffer a terrible drive-killing penalty. Defense and offensive miscues keep things scoreless until they break off a short pass for a home run and take a 2nd quarter lead. We are getting “familiar” messages already, before halftime, which doesn’t sound good to me. However, we overcome that and score a tying TD, and then recover a fumble and convert that for another, and we lead 14-10 at the half, after a late Viking drive.

In the third quarter, things are all defense, until the Vikes pounce on a fumbled punt deep in our territory, and a one play drive gives them the 17-14 edge. After another punt pins us deep, the Vikes get an offside call resulting in a safety – bad to worse. We get a stop, and get the ball back with under three minutes, trailing by five. A long pass to Dickens puts us quickly into position at their 25. The next completion is to one of our off-the-street tight ends, down to the 9 yard line with 2:05 on the clock. Aafter a MIN offsides, we get Czyz into the end zone to take the lead, with the two-point conversion it’s now 22-19.

A short pass is incomplete, a bomb is defensed, and another short pass is blocked at the line – and it’s 4th and 10 for the Vikes. Their young QB inadvisably tucks it under but comes up short, and we take over. We get a first down on three running plays, and that punches our ticket for the big game.

Superbowl: Baltimore (14-5) vs. Tampa Bay (15-3)

The Ravens also look like a team who will be tough for a while, with QB Archie Downs (remember him?) now a fully developed 4th year pro and owner of a very solid 89/54 ratio in his career so far. They also have a tremendous 3rd year RB in Donovan Paddock, and that tandem seems to fuel them. They seem solid up front, but I reckon we can get the ball downfield on them. I expect we will score a bit, we’ll try to keep them in check.

Things open up in a bad way – we allow Beason to get sacked on his first dropback, but then on his next he completes for a 16 yard first down strike to Dickens. We still punt, and give Baltimore the chance to get the early edge. They move to our side of the field, but come up short on a long FG attempt, and we’re still even.

Our next possession starts out with all Todd Reed, and he delivers a couple of first downs. Then Czyz breaks free on a 26 yard catch for the game’s first score. Baltimore takes the cue, and they let their RB Paddock carry the load on their responding TD drive. We go three and out, and then Baltimore is driving again, but they fumble it away in our territory, and we dodge the bullet. But we give it right back with an interception, and the Ravens quickly put it in for a 14-7 edge. This does not have a good feeling about it right now.

After a trade of short possessions, we get good field position and are set up for a FG by a nice run from Todd reed, and pull within 4 points. We get the ball back late in the quarter, a catch from Czyz gets us into scoring position again, and we hit another kick to make it a one point margin at the half, though we have been outgained by 90 yards already, and we have no answer at all for paddock who had over 120 combined yards.

Early in the 3rd, Baltimore opts to go for it on 4th and 2 from their own 43 – they connect, but have to punt soon after anyhow, so no major momentum swing there. Two catches from Deberry set us up for another kick, and we take the lead 16-14. At our 37, we recover a fumble, and have a chance to really take command of the game – but cannot make progress, and instead settle for a field position gain after a punt. But the Ravens respond with a full-field drive, and they put it in the endzone again to retake the lead, 21-16 with about nine minutes left. We are going to look at this three FGs and see missed opportunities, I fear.

Beason gets sacked again (he’s been swamped all day) and fumbes the ball away – we are in deep trouble now. They get a quick toss to the TE that turns into a 36 yard TD and a big lead. We have under six minutes to make up 12 points.

Things get started with two completions to Czyz and Dickens, and we are in position to score quickly – just what we needed. Deberry is in the end zone, and we are back to a 5 point edge. Our defense responds to the call, makes the stop on three and out, and we get the ball back at our 23, with three minutes left. First play is a strike to some guy playing TE, and the Ravens tack on an unnecessary roughness penalty to add 15 more – they appear to be coming unglued. Czyz for 14, and we are to their 35 yard line, almost too quickly. A sack and a long incomplete pass force us into 3rd down and 16, though – a tough spot. Another bomb, great. So, 4th and 16 from their 41 – this is probably the game…

Another bomb, another incomplete pass, and we hand the ball back over.

We make the stop as Baltimore is in the don’t-even-try offense, and we get the ball at our 20, no time outs left, and 1:23 on the clock. It could be worse.

But the first play is a pick, and it just got worse. That’s all she wrote – Baltimore 28, Tampa Bay 23.

QuikSand

03-02-2008, 08:15 PM

2028 Season Coda

Can’t be upset about a conference championship.

The team exceeded expectations, and has now pretty clearly arrived as a major title contender. We are going to have some attrition from veteran players in the next couple of seasons, but I don’t see why we wouldn’t just try to retain the status quo, more or less, and keep on doing what we’re doing.

Our late-season renegotiation was with standout CB Billy Shea. Even if he hasn’t had that monster season, that’s a lot of big red bars to put out on the field. He will earn $13.5 each of the next three seasons. This is the sort of thing that will be making things tougher down the road for us.

In the season awards, Bryant Czyz gets a first team honor, and CB Billy Shea second team. Those are basically our two cornerstone players. QB Kendall Beason led the league in TDs and passer rating – I really expected he might make the honors list too, but he must have just missed out.

QuikSand

03-04-2008, 03:49 PM

Seems like the text of my 2028 draft, and analysis of same, went missing -- I know I wrote it up, but it isn't here, nor in the source document I type stuff into. Sorry about that. One more offseason coming soon.

QuikSand

03-06-2008, 05:02 PM

2029 offseason

Well, I guess after a bye week and conference championship, the team is officially in “maintain” mode, rather than “build” mode.

The retirement list for this year includes…wait for it… QB Kendall Beason. Didn’t see that coming, and it places quite a hitch in our “stay on top” plan. We also lose SS Rico Booker, who had basically phased out anyhow. In addition, we have a contract blowup from RT Kevin Coleman, so he has to be released to free up $37m under this year’s cap. LB Drew Leal is also in a year intended to be a throwaway, but at $13.5m, we can at least wait and see whether it’s absolutely necessary to cut him.

We maintain our front office staff, and decide to put the franchise tag on LB Dixon Daniels, a 9th year guy who has been very good as our weak-size rusher. That’s a $10.6m ticket, so he too might get walking papers if we can’t work things out under the cap. We sit at around $30 in usable space, but we don’t have a serious QB signed, either, so I’m not sure what sort of room we will really have.

Okay – roster math time:

40 players currently signed
1 restricted free agent signing
7 unrestricted free agent signings
7 draft picks
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55 players

This isn’t a terrible spot to be in – we could conceivably even be forced to cut someone like LB Leal, and still be okay at 53. We clearly have some deadweight that could go, too, if it came to that. No need to panic to get bodies, at least not this year.

Okay, on to the roster planning…

QuikSand

03-06-2008, 05:02 PM

2029 Free Agency

We have a few ways to go with our one reneg here – one obvious place is to extend with our DE Arnold Ingram, rated 79/79 by our scout. But, to be honest, what are we getting for all those big red bars? A career PR% of 5.1, and 6-9 sacks a year, not that inspiring. He’s seeking about $21m a year, so a deal with him really ties up resources for us. I think we ride out this season, and then look into a tag or walk situation for next year.

WR Bryant Czyz is the guy who makes the most sense, then. He delivered on his massive talent last year, and even though we are deep at WR, he is a special talent. 4 years, $82million and a $24m bonus later – he is locked up. Wow. Just like that, we’re down to $17m in cap space for this year. Drew Leal is getting worried.

We also have to get to a legal roster, and that means adding: QB, QB, C, G, and LB

So, that guides some of my decision-making. I suspect we might be looking internally for a number of our contracts once again. I decide to go after LB Darnell Abercrombie as our RFA extension, as he is ready to step in and play at SLB if/when we release LB Leal. RG Bart Rodgers is the RFA we really need to keep, but he’s open to a fat long term deal and I instead slot him in ad our 5yr contract, and he will make $10m a year going forward.

My quest for a QB starts here, and I am immediately disappointed by the free agent group. I see 8th year Ryan Williams, a guy with a career passer rating of about 80 and who seems to be pick-prone… and he’s about as appetizing as it gets. There’s a 7th year guy with decent bars but almost no playing experience – he will be a guy I might look at, too. Nobody bowls me over. It would be pretty risky to sit back and wait for the post-draft late free agency to see what we could come up with, but right now that is my leaning. 3rd year man Jose Swartz, rated 33/42 by our scouts and due for another drop in camp, is sitting as our only signed QB and the effective incumbent for the starting job. On a team with this much overall talent, that is really worrisome.

Pushed at the position, I decide the safe thing to do is re-sign our own RFA QB Tito Daylo, who takes a four year deal. He’s not great, but is not bad, and can probably handle a short-passing offense okay. I suspect we may be heading that way anyhow.

Indeed, LB Leal has to get his papers so we can get our FA offers out there. With that cleared up, LB is a need area, but we manage to address most of my main concerns with some limited FA dabbling.

Reneg – WR Bryant Czyz, 4y $82m
RFA – SLB Darnell Abercrombie, 3y $4.2m
1YR – SS Clyde Sporer, $2.2m
2YR – C Phil Brennan, $11m ($5m bonus)
3YR -
4YR – QB Tito Daylo, essentially 3y minsal w/ team option to reneg
5YR – RG Bart Rodgers, $50m (RFA)
6YR – RG Heath Jarvis, $71m (essentially 3y $3.3m)
7YR – RB Edward Swift, $91m (essentially 3y $5.6m)

RB Edward Swift is pretty much a clone of our current RB Todd Reed, a guy with decent speed and some receiving skills. I don’t know which one would start, but this insures us from having one injury send us to RB oblivion like we experienced last year.

S Sporer is just a veteran fill-in at a position where we can use some patch-over help, a decent coverage safety. The one year deal is fine, he’s unlikely to be a guy we’d want for too long anyhow.

I’m leaving the 3 year slot open for whomever might pop up after the draft.

So – everyone signs quickly, and we are up to 46 players on contract as we head into the draft. This is apparently going to work out rather neatly.

QuikSand

03-06-2008, 05:03 PM

2029 Rookie Draft

I am really, really hoping that one of the QBs I like slips to the end of the first round – but that hope fades quickly as four of the first five picks are QB. SO, that wipes out my real hope there – there was one uber-monster QB who went 1.1 (remember this name -- 1. Tennessee - Marsh, Ellis, QB, Nebraska) but my hopes were pinned to the third guy, who went with pick 1.3 (3. Oakland - Moore, Marcus, QB, New Mexico).

Well, I would like to take a DE here, in anticipation of letting Arnold Ingram walk after next season, but nothing appetizing appears here. Now I’m getting itchy for another QB, but I feel he’s likely to last another round, maybe two – so who should we take with our 1st this year? Stud fullback? Hate spending an early pick there. Best DE available? I’m uninspired. I decide to play it safe, basically, and just take the QB that my scout tagged as VU, and be done with it.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.31 QB Timothy Murphy 5.0 5.7 -++ 22% VU 13/53 35/14 core gives hope, scout pick
2.31 TE Renaldo Crockett 5.3 4.6 +!!! 39% AS 15/31 giant combine, couldn’t resist
3.31 SLB Donnie Hastings (SILB)5.0 4.8 -+++- 63% VU 29/50 Run stopper bar, scout likes him
4.31 WR Jimmy Moore 4.2 4.4 + ++- 24% NA 15/25 Good combine, look for creeping
5.31 CB Frank Gale 4.4 4.5 + +--+ 40% NA 12/27 Good combine, look for creeping
6.31 C Matthew Montemayor 4.9 4.2 +-++ 20% NA 18/49 Hope he holds some of his bars
7.31 MLB Teddy O’Donnell (SLB) 4.0 3.9 -+ + 43% NA 16/34 Potential for coverage skills

I am quickly convinced that my QB would have lasted to round 2, probably round 3. So it goes. I smell a bust there anyhow.

I don’t trust my scout that this combine stud TE isn’t going to break out like crazy, and spend our second rounder on him on spec. We mostly just fill in roster gaps from there on out, nobody I’m too enchanted with, we will hope for some creeping potential.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 07:46 AM

By the way, it seems that in 2028 I changed to using my one-letter combine abbreviations and explained the change, but that writeup completely disappeared. Anyway -- the 4TBAJP you see above is just a simple reflection of the six combines, reading left to right, in the draft summary screen. For each letter, I used a simple code showing the color:

! = red (outstanding)
+ = blue (good)
- = green (poor)

...and I leave blank the many "average" results that are in black test in-game.

So, with my TE from this draft, Crockett was attractive to me because he had three ! ratings, and one +... that's a classic workout warrior, and I was willing to overlook the tepid interview results. I am pretty certain he will creep to being a very solid player.

Hope that's a useful explanation, and makes the presentation more useful than just listing the raw data and leaving it to you to figure out what's good. For players with exceptional combines, I plan to note the specific value in my "comments."

Ben E Lou

03-07-2008, 08:36 AM

Well, I guess after a bye week and conference championship, the team is officially in “maintain” mode, rather than “build” mode.

Hope you'll be able to stick with it. Good read so far.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 03:39 PM

2029 Late Free Agency

I get a trade offer for DR Arnold Ingram, and since I think he might be a short-timer, I am intrigued. But it’s only a 4th round pick and a stiff RB, which makes no sense at all. Pass.

Well, I guess I’m glad I drafted at QB – there’s nobody very interesting in the after-draft free agent pool after all, so we aren’t going to have anyone ride in to the rescue for our offense. There is one peculiar guy with a very high rating in short passing and a few support ratings, but no other passes rated above a near-void – that would be interesting, but not worth tossing aside my two young guys, I don’t think. So, we will head in likely using 3rd year man Jose Swartz as our starter, and with rookie Timothy Murphy as (hopefully) the guy who is growing into the job. We’ll see.

I do have that one last contract slot to fill – so we put out a three year offer to DE Ernest Mills, a pass-rushing specialist who spent a little time with us a few seasons ago. If we end up losing DE Ingram, he’s a guy who could see real playing time for us at DE, despite having basically zero run-stopping skills.

I release WR Clyde Craig to get down to 53 players for camp – he’s a return man only, and we have a few options there now, and he was going to get cut after this year anyhow. NO alarm bells going off there.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 03:40 PM

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[FONT=&quot]Tampa Bay Player Report (TB 2029c - TB 2029d)<o:p></o:p>[/FONT]

<table style="width: 582.6pt;" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="777"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Name<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Pos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Team<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TB 2029c Current<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TB 2029c Future<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TB 2029d Current<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TB 2029d Future<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Overall Current Change<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Overall Future Change<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Daylo, Tito<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Murphy, Timothy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Swartz, Jose<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Lanza, Paul<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Montero, Sedrick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Reed, Todd<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Swift, Edward<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Raven, Kent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Crockett, Renaldo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Farias, Mitch<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Randle, Bryce<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Czyz, Bryant<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Dickens, Warren<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Rodgers, Andre<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Deberry, Jeff<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Lindsay, Kendrick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Moore, Jimmy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Brennan, Phil<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Montemayor, Matthew<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Donhoff, Maurice<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Jarvis, Heath<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Rodgers, Bart<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Canney, Irving<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Gordon, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Pruett, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Stone, Kyle<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (-32)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (-32)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -32<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Arnold, Neal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Franklin, Randal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (-13)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -13<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Ingram, Arnold<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Hernandez, Leo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Marceau, Herb<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 126.75pt;" width="169"> Mills, Ernest<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 83 (1)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-07-2008, 03:40 PM

2029 Camp Observations

Not a lot of booming going on – our first-round reach at QB gave us a mighty +1, suggesting that he is not much more than a stopgap for us there. His future rating might get to 60, I guess, but I doubt that will make him the staff-selected starter over Swartz, so his potential for growth might be limited – no playing time, no mentor.

Overall, I’m not sure we got a single long-term prospect in this draft. TE Crockett didn’t even jump… I guess my scout was right after all. Ugh.

A random (?) bust for K Kyle Stone gives us a little heartburn. Under these rules, I have no option but to play him this year, and likely replace him next – that sucks. He looks awful now.

We are offered a 2nd round pick for LB Ellis Gerald, but I’ll pass – I plan to start him at SLB this season, but longer term I think he will be very solid in the WLB role.

This could be the first “fall apart” season we have had thus far. The signs are all there, I fear.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 03:40 PM

2029 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 94 (t2nd)
Cohesion – 71-89-91-73

My predictions:

QB Jose Swartz, running our “control passing” offense, posts 20 TD and 20 Int
Our offense drops from the elite, and becomes pretty average
On defense, again no major sack threats, but the DBs still play well
We end up 8-8, and miss the postseason

Season narrative:

Well, after an opening day shutout win, we follow up with three losses to slide to 1-3 on the year – about the sort of shakiness I had feared. Jose Swartz has been shaky at QB and is now hurt, so Tito Daylo is taking over for his chance.

We peel of three wins to reach 4-4 at the halfway point. We are rushing for under 4 yards a try, and passing for only 6.5 – those are not winning numbers. Our defense is playing pretty well, but we are not controlling games like we would prefer to.

We win three more close games, and suddenly are at 7-4 on the year. I don’t think we are really that good, but Swartz has his ratio all the way up to 15/4 on the season, which is getting much more like what we want from a controlled passing style.

Three more wins, and we are at 10-4 on the year, winners of nine straight games. We still trail 11-3 Atlanta for the division, but we are in a spot for a playoff berth after all. Swartz has been human lately, but he still has a 92 passer rating on the year. RB Edward Swift has over 1,000 yards, though he’s still under 4 yards a carry on the year.

We win one more, and close with Atlanta at home – winner gets a by week, loser takes a wild card. We get the 24-17 win, and manage somehow to reclaim this season from the 1-4 start and finish as the hottest team in football with 11 straight wins. Wow.

Front Office Football 2007
2029 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2029
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 174-210
Winning Pct. .453
Playoffs 5-5
Playoff Visits 6
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 58-30
Winning Pct. .659
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 31.9 6
Rushing Yards 133.1 4
Yards Per Carry 4.17 11
Pass Attempts 32.1 22
Completions 21.9 8
Completion Pct. 68.2 1
Passing Yards 220.4 19
Yards Per Attempt 6.88 15
Yards Per Catch 10.08 29
Total Yardage Gained 345.3 15
3rd Down Conversions 42.5 9
Points Per Game 23.9 9
Pass Rush Pct. 27.5 2
Pass Defense Pct. 61.7 5
Turnovers 25 12 (T)
Turnover Margin +6 7 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 24.8 8
Rushing Yards 97.0 5
Yards Per Carry 3.92 11
Pass Attempts 33.8 17
Completions 18.5 3
Completion Pct. 54.8 3
Passing Yards 205.3 5
Yards Per Attempt 6.08 4
Yards Per Catch 11.09 13
Total Yardage Gained 284.8 1
3rd Down Conversions 37.6 15 (T)
Points Per Game 17.7 4
Pass Rush Pct. 13.9 1
Pass Defense Pct. 37.5 4
Turnovers 31 6 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 21 CAR 0
2 21 MIA 28
3 14 at DAL 28
4 13 at ATL 24
5 14 at MIN 22
6 23 NOS 6
7 42 at DET 16
9 23 GBY 20
10 31 CHI 28
11 16 at CAR 14
12 27 at NYJ 23
13 27 ARI 9
14 15 BUF 0
15 34 at NOS 17
16 37 at NED 31
17 24 ATL 17
$$WC MIN

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 450 308 3135 6.97 21 11 93.5
19 T. Daylo QB 63 42 392 6.22 2 3 74.3
**Team --- 513 350 3527 6.88 23 14 91.2
$$Opp --- 540 296 3284 6.08 19 17 71.7

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
35 E. Swift RB 306 1215 3.97 10 5
24 T. Reed RB 126 582 4.62 6 3
4 J. Swartz QB 72 321 4.46 4 6
**Team --- 511 2129 4.17 20 24
$$Opp --- 396 1552 3.92 12 28

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
35 E. Swift RB 81 63 381 6.05 4.70 5 4
8 B. Czyz WR 101 59 849 14.39 8.41 3 8
84 M. Farias TE 78 56 454 8.11 5.82 6 3
18 W. Dickens WR 58 37 384 10.38 6.62 3 1
83 J. Deberry WR 59 36 497 13.81 8.42 1 2
89 K. Lindsay WR 48 29 468 16.14 9.75 2 3
43 K. Raven FB 33 28 238 8.50 7.21 0 0
24 T. Reed RB 34 27 181 6.70 5.32 0 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 83 27 1.0 0 2 12 83.9
93 D. Daniels OLB 58 21 12.0 27 0 0 78.9
50 K. Chancey ILB 51 25 1.0 4 0 4 79.1
48 B. Shea CB 50 13 0.0 2 3 13 80.5
34 R. Fritz S 48 22 0.5 0 3 10 84.3
98 A. Ingram DE 48 23 7.0 12 0 0 80.8
59 E. Gerald OLB 48 19 1.0 6 0 6 76.3
90 A. Wilkerson DT 44 12 5.5 12 0 0 81.6
51 D. Hastings ILB 43 15 1.0 1 1 0 71.9
56 J. Dirnbauer ILB 42 15 1.0 3 2 4 81.1
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 40 14 1.0 0 3 6 78.9
99 B. Bolsins DE 29 23 11.5 16 0 0 82.0
45 D. Abercrombie OLB 24 5 1.5 2 1 1 76.7
40 L. Sawyer CB 21 10 1.0 0 1 2 79.5

So, the control passing attack once again proves it’s a solid way to rack up wins, if not stats. Swartz was good enough to run the show, and we put enough around him that we came together for an alarmingly good season after all. Bryant Czyz is probably fuming at his laughably weak stat line for this season, but we basically circled the wagons and focused on team this year – sorry, pal.

The defense pulled together and put up some nice numbers – two guys with double digit sacks, that breaks our trend. LB Daniels was very effective coming from the blitzbacker slot all season, and LB Ellis Gerald had a fine year from the strong side as well.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 03:41 PM

Postseason Narrative

Not as much detail this year as last…

Wild Card Round: Minnesota (10-6) at Tampa Bay (12-4)

Ouch, thought we had the bye week wrapped up, instead we have to win here and then hit the road even if we win. Ouch – that’s a big drop from #2 to #3.

In a total shootout, QB Jose Swartz drives us 82 yards for a tying TD with under two minutes left, but we leave enough time on the clock to let them score, and they take the 38-31 win. CB Chuck Kemnitzer had two picks, taking one 59 yards for a score, and helped keep us in it, but we made too many mistakes and gave it up at the end.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 03:41 PM

Season Coda

As I work through looking for a late-season renegotiation, I have a distinct feeling that this team is about to come apart. I have four high quality defensive players out of contract after this year – DE Ingram, DE Bolsins, LB Daniels, and CB Kemnitzer. Extending any of them will cost a fortune, but I don’t see that we have much choice, really. I decide it’s CB Kemnitzer that I really need to keep, and lock him up for three extra years at $14m per – but we are going to be scrambling to keep together some semblance of a pass rush for next season, I fear.

In the season awards, our center Phil Brennan gets a first team mention, as does LB Dixon Daniels.

Not quite sure what our salary pressures are going to be like for next year, but I think this is going to be our first season (ahead) where we really struggle just to field a full roster. We have quite a lot of guys who are either on expiring contracts or ones that demand a void move right away. I think the numbers game is finally going to catch up to us.

st.cronin

03-07-2008, 03:51 PM

QS, if you get a chance, could you update the house rules in the first post? Although I'm actually not sure that you haven't already.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 09:37 PM

The updated “Highlander Rules”

In any given season:

-there can be only one free agent signed to a one-year contract
-there can be only one free agent signed to a two-year contract
-there can be only one free agent signed to a three-year contract
-there can be only one free agent signed to a four-year contract
-there can be only one free agent signed to a five-year contract
-there can be only one free agent signed to a six-year contract
-there can be only one free agent signed to a seven-year contract
-there can be only one offer made to any target free agent player
-there can be only one free agent from the above signed during the late FA period
-there can be only one restricted free agent signed without counting above
-there can be only one renegotiation during FA stage 1
-there can be only one renegotiation toward the end of the season
-there can be only one trade, either within the current draft or AI-initiated

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 10:01 PM

2030 Initial Offseason

Okay, we start off with a check of the retirement list: T Irving Canney, a fairly young starter for us, left last season with repetitive concussion syndrome, and he has left the game. Tough loss.

On top of that, we will have to release a few players whose contracts basically explode this season. TE Mitch Farias and CB Jessie Blythe, your service has been appreciated. S Roy Fritz, we will sit down and see if we can work out an extension, but the $24 million salary cap number just doesn’t work for us this year. We’ll talk with you later.

So, I do my quick roster math once again – I think it’s dicier than ever this season:

36 players signed
1 franchise tag
1 restricted free agents
7 open free agent signings
7 draft picks
--
52 players

So, we ought to be okay after all. If we can manage to extend with S Fritz rather than cut him, we could come in right at 53 players. We ought to be okay.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 10:02 PM

2030 Free Agency

Once we clear out the three exploding salaries, we will have around $65m of the $220m cap to work with.

Here’s the list of our own free agents:

Front Office Football 2007
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Ingram, Arnold 98 LDE 8 76 76 ---
Bolsins, Bo 99 RDE 8 60 60 ---
Chancey, Kelly 50 WILB 5 55 55 ---
Daniels, Dixon 93 WLB 10 54 54 ---
Dickens, Warren 18 FL 8 49 49 ---
Lindsay, Kendrick 89 SE 6 49 49 ---
Arnold, Neal 14 P 4 49 49 ---
Sporer, Clyde 39 SS 9 47 47 ---
Sawyer, Louie 40 LCB 11 45 45 ---
Swartz, Jose 4 QB 4 39 39 ---
Rodgers, Andre 28 FL 4 34 34 ---
Montero, Sedrick 21 RB 4 29 29 ---
Pruett, Junior 64 LT 8 21 21 ---

So, my thinking is basically this:

-We will need to tag one of the DEs, likely Ingram, and see if a long term deal is even thinkable.

-We should try to sign one of the defenders, probably DE Bolsins, as a free agent, maybe with some exploding later seasons.

-I want to try to get new deals with WRs Dickens and Lindsey, but getting them both re-signed might be a stretch.

-I don’t see how we can do anything but re-up with Jose Swartz using our RFA slot. I don’t have any faith in Timothy Murphy, and candidly none of the other RFAs are guys we really want to re-sign anyhow.

We tag DE Ingram, wince as we see his $18m deal, and move ahead.

A new deal with S Roy Fritz is out of the question, so we will be going with the patiently waiting young Rusty Woodson as our starter. At the other safety slot, I decide to lock down a real star player in Ben Terry with our renegotiation, and we pony up $24m for him to stay for six years – he will slot in at $11m per year for some time.

So, DE Bolsins wants about $11 million a year. That’s not totally absurd, and I would really like to keep him around. LB Daniels is also thinking the same neighborhood, and I don’t see that happening – instead, I see us sliding LB Ellis Gerald back over to play at the weak side, and we’ll patch over the SLB slot with whomever fits best.

I try to patch together an offer for LB Daniels, and I find that he won’t even listen to our offer, since he is so upset about being tagged last year – so that’s a lost cause, it seems.

I can’t find a better fit at LB than Kelly Chancey, and he is looking for a long term deal, so this isn’t that tortured to make it into six years. if he can stay healthy, he will land a lot of work for us in the middle.

I got to worn on a deal to DE Bolsins, and I think 4 years is the sweet spot where I can get three affordables and then one reneg or release option. It takes $20 million up front, but we get it done and on the table to him.

I have my one and five year slots to fill. We don’t really have anyone on the team to play LT this year, so that’s probably our top priority, assuming these offers made so far connect. We also could use a veteran who would take over our group affinity leadership and repair the mess we have as that has changed hands. I decide to go with a one year deal to LG Walt Holt, who we will move to LT presumably, and expect to hold down the first for one year.

Finally, we work out some cheap terms with versatile LB Hardy Augustine, who can play inside or out, probably as our #5 or #6 on and off.

Reneg – SS Ben Terry – 6yrs, $66m, $24m bonus
RFA – QB Jose Swartz, 3yr, $12m
1YR – G Walt Holt, $8.0m
2YR -
3YR – WR Kendrick Lindsay, $6.6m
4YR – DE Brett Bolsins, $81m ($20m bonus, essentially 3y, $35m)
5YR – LB Hardy Augustine, $52m ($2m bonus, essentially 3y, $8m)
6YR – LB Kelly Chancey, $80m ($12m bonus, essentially 5y, $36m)
7YR – WR Warren Dickens, essentially 3y, $11m

Well, DE Bo Bolsins signs – but with Philadelphia, and not us. So, that frees up the 4yr contract slot, and shorts us one impact player I had been counting on. So, I decide to pursue Terrance Harden instead – he’s an 8th year DE with a 90 rating in pass rush technique and precious little else to bring to the table. But he takes a 4yr contract with the first three years at $3m each. I have no idea how much time he will get, but we are going to have a roster hole there anyway, he seems as good a patch as I can locate here.

G Walt Holt holds out a long time, but in week 10,m he finally turns down a multi-year offer and takes my bonus-heavy one year deal.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 10:02 PM

2030 Draft

With this year’s fill-in LT signed for just one year, that’s an obvious place to look for a top draft pick. I am also unhappy at TE after last year’s rookie disappointed us, and I think we need to add at least one safety in this draft or with the after-draft pick. We also need a punter, and our current kicker is a total disgrace. Plenty of slots that could be filled.

We are at pick 29, so we will most take what’s left, and hope to see a solid tackle fall to us. Regrettably, the top guy I was hoping to see slip landed right at pick #28, and we just missed. I don’t like any OT for this pick, so I’m looking elsewhere immediately.

I decide to pull the level in my one trade for this year, and I deal down into round two, and pick up Detroit’s third round pick. I think an extra body will actually help us a good deal here. I am not surprised when the next 2nd round pick comes up, most of my “top guys” are still there, so I don’t feel we lost a lot with the trade-down. Wish I’d have grabbed an extra 6th or 7th rounder, though, in the swap.

I have three NTs on the team now, but all three have expiring contracts, so DT Alonzo Fernyhough isn’t a silly pick, even though I think he projects solely as an inside run-stopper.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
2.18 DT Alonzo Fernyhough 5.8 6.3 + !+ 30% UR 22/46 Run stopper potential, 7.28 agil
2.30 LT Bo Horton 5.1 5.6 !++- 45% HTR 23/64 Okay combine, questionable pick
3.17 FB Jeff Devine 6.0 4.9 +++++ 47% NA 32/46 Good skills fit, need position
3.29 CB George Pujols 4.5 4.6 + -- 37% UR 21/46 Develop into nickelback, I hope
4.30 FS Bob Watkins 4.6 4.3 ++-+-+ 45% UR 14/27 Should develop coverage skill
5.29 LT Riddick Hover 4.4 4.8 +!-+- 16% UR 9/37 Long term prospect, good combine
6.30 K Randy Banks 5.8 3.4 +++!+ 41% NA 31/43 Need position, best guy there
7.29 P Randal O’Hara 4.3 2.3 - +- 39% NA 20/69 Big blue bars FTW

For our two year deal, I ink RB Trent Sullivan – a utility RB with great return skills. Hopefully just as a backup plan, but I like his mix of skills however we might use him.

That gets us to training camp – I’m hopeful that we will avoid last year’s big whiff, and come away with a few future starters here. I’m looking at rounds 3-4-5 and thinking I got some good targets there.

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 10:02 PM

2030 Training Camp<o:p></o:p>
Tampa Bay Player Report (TB 2030c - TB 2030d)<o:p></o:p>

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Gordon, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Holt, Walt<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Horton, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Hover, Riddick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Banks, Randy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Franklin, Randal<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (-6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (-6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -6<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Ingram, Arnold<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Mills, Ernest<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Fernyhough, Alonzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Hernandez, Leo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Marceau, Herb<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Harden, Terrance<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Stone, Marco<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Abercrombie, Darnell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Gerald, Ellis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Hastings, Donnie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Chancey, Kelly<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Augustine, Hardy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> MLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Dirnbauer, Jesse<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> MLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Pujols, George<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Quill, Ernie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Shea, Billy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Gale, Frank<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Kemnitzer, Chuck<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Terry, Ben<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Watkins, Bob<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Woodson, Rusty<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  <o:p></o:p>

QuikSand

03-07-2008, 10:02 PM

Well, here’s the highlight reel from training camp:

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Swartz, Jose Tampa QB 6
Fernyhough, Alonzo Tampa NT 6
Devine, Jeff Tampa FB 4
Hover, Riddick Tampa LT 4

Great gains from our top rookie DT, our fullback target, and from “the other tackle” we drafted. And our starting QB gave us a seeming random boom – that’s very nice too.

A big drop from WR Jeff Deberry is something I really should have seen coming, but basically didn’t. Anyhow – we did re-sign Kendrick Lindsay, and I guess he probably slips into the starting role there for us now. Also, a major drop from our top rookie LT Horton – I’m not shocked, but a little disappointed there. I really don’t know what to do at that position now – is the +4 from T Hover good enough for us to “clear the way” for him and get better players off the roster so the staff will get Hover in to start? I don’t know, really – maybe we’ll deal with that next season.

I forgot to move LB Ellis Gerald to the weak side before camp, but it’s a seamless move for him. I expect him to step right into the shoes of the departed Daniels and deliver solid, if not all-star, pass rush numbers for us right away.

We do some more shifting a bit among the LBs, moving veteran free agent signee Hardy Augustine into the mix at SLB, and we are ready for the season.

QuikSand

03-09-2008, 04:00 AM

2029 season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 80 (3rd)
Cohesion – 80-98-87-87

My predictions:

QB Jose Swartz, running our “control passing” offense, posts 24 TD and 16 Int
Defense drops its overall pressure, but DE Ingram has career year with 14 sacks
S Rusty Woodson emerges as a very solid starter at FS, with a strong season
We are again a playoff factor, go 10-6 and get a wild card

Season narrative:

Wow, we get a decent opening day win 17-14, but we get butchered at… offensive tackle. LT Holt, my one-year stopgap, is out for ten weeks. And RT O’Neil is done for the season. Suddenly, we have real work to do there. I decide to move rookie Hover to play RT, where he will presumably have to start for most of the year. I will let Bo Horton start at LT, until Hunter Gordon gets healthy in four weeks, then I’ll let the staff make the call there. Ouch.

We lose our next game at Baltimore, but the Ravens are a very serious team (100 roster rating), and by all accounts the line held up okay. We limp to a 2-3 start, but the teams who have beaten us are all pretty good – I’m not panicking quite yet, though I’m not happy.

We beat Atlanta to pull even with them at 3-3 for the division lead. RB Edward Swift is really red hot, with 4.6 yards per carry and 44 catches (on 49 targets) for 257 yards.

Two losses, and we limp to our midway point at only 3-5. I don’t have a lot of options – we are really suffering injuries this season, and I feel like our depth is being tested and found wanting. With C Brennan and RG Rodgers also out with injuries, the O-Line is basically a group of backups trying to hold down the fort.

We limp along to 6-7 on the year, and are only a game back of Atlanta. We defend our home turf against them and pull even, but we have the head to head tiebreaker now. We follow up with a gutty 6-3 win at home over the Browns, and we have a shot to get this thing back on track, perhaps.

However, in our last game, we slip up and lose at Carolina. That drops us to only 8-8 on the year, but Atlanta’s loss means it really doesn’t matter – we have the edge for the division crown, and get the #4 seed ahead of a far more deserving team from Washington who sits at 12-4 and has to come visit us in the opener.

Front Office Football 2007
2030 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2030
Record 8-8
Winning Pct. .500
All-Time 182-218
Winning Pct. .455
Playoffs 5-6
Playoff Visits 7
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 66-39
Winning Pct. .628
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 29.4 10
Rushing Yards 123.5 9
Yards Per Carry 4.20 11
Pass Attempts 32.1 22
Completions 23.2 3
Completion Pct. 72.3 1
Passing Yards 213.9 22
Yards Per Attempt 6.67 18
Yards Per Catch 9.22 32
Total Yardage Gained 330.3 12
3rd Down Conversions 49.3 2
Points Per Game 20.9 18
Pass Rush Pct. 26.1 1
Pass Defense Pct. 48.0 25
Turnovers 27 20 (T)
Turnover Margin -5 24 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 28.8 18 (T)
Rushing Yards 119.8 23
Yards Per Carry 4.16 20
Pass Attempts 28.9 1
Completions 16.9 1
Completion Pct. 58.4 13
Passing Yards 183.8 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.36 8
Yards Per Catch 10.89 9
Total Yardage Gained 292.3 3
3rd Down Conversions 41.2 24
Points Per Game 18.3 3
Pass Rush Pct. 13.0 1
Pass Defense Pct. 28.2 1 (T)
Turnovers 22 27

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 17 at NOS 14
2 13 at BAL 23
3 13 at CHI 31
4 34 at WAS 17
5 22 DAL 38
6 20 at ATL 10
7 21 PHI 26
9 20 at NYK 23
10 34 NOS 21
11 30 CAR 6
12 7 at CIN 17
13 23 SFO 28
14 27 PIT 0
15 34 ATL 20
16 6 CLE 3
17 13 at CAR 16
$$WC WAS

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 508 366 3366 6.63 25 13 95.5
**Team --- 513 371 3422 6.67 25 13 95.8
$$Opp --- 462 270 2940 6.36 16 13 77.1

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
35 E. Swift RB 267 1148 4.30 6 11
32 T. Sullivan RB 94 333 3.54 0 4
4 J. Swartz QB 65 350 5.38 2 4
24 T. Reed RB 45 145 3.22 3 1
**Team --- 471 1976 4.20 11 23
$$Opp --- 461 1917 4.16 13 18

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
35 E. Swift RB 92 82 485 5.91 5.27 1 2
8 B. Czyz WR 98 58 707 12.19 7.21 4 5
89 K. Lindsay WR 84 56 665 11.88 7.92 5 4
18 W. Dickens WR 66 42 567 13.50 8.59 5 4
41 J. Devine FB 47 40 260 6.50 5.53 1 3
86 B. Randle TE 34 26 186 7.15 5.47 2 1
83 J. Deberry WR 28 22 221 10.05 7.89 2 4

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 98 35 0.0 0 3 8 81.3
50 K. Chancey ILB 85 22 0.0 2 0 0 70.7
51 D. Hastings ILB 58 12 1.0 1 0 0 68.1
45 D. Abercrombie OLB 50 12 0.0 1 2 1 77.5
98 A. Ingram DE 48 18 5.5 18 0 0 81.8
59 E. Gerald OLB 48 21 5.0 25 0 2 82.1
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 44 11 0.0 0 0 9 78.0
30 R. Woodson S 43 15 0.0 0 2 3 79.2
48 B. Shea CB 42 13 0.5 1 6 7 82.8
90 A. Wilkerson DT 38 19 6.5 5 0 0 81.1
26 E. Quill CB 37 7 0.0 1 0 2 71.6
76 M. Stone DE 26 5 2.0 11 0 0 81.5
56 J. Dirnbauer ILB 24 12 0.0 2 0 0 74.7
94 H. Augustine OLB 24 5 0.0 1 0 1 72.9

Well, Swartz is coming along fine – he certainly seems to be “good enough.” Next season, I think we can contemplate opening things back up and trying to get the ball downfield some more. Edwards Swift has become our all-around back, totally replacing Todd Reed (I thought the two would wind up splitting time more, but I turn the depth chart over to my staff here). Czyz is just a role player in this silly offense, and it’s criminal to be paying a guy so much money to do so little with the ball – this dink and dunk stuff drives me batty.

The pass rush, with a major drop in talent, dropped off quite a lot, though we still rated as the top pass rushing unit overall. LB Gerald was fine, but DE Ingram just isn’t enough to do it alone, and the supporting cast was okay, but nothing special – 3rdd year man Marco Stone saw the most playing time, but posted only a 5.4 PR%. Nobody on the team posts even 10 PDs, and our PD% took a huge drop this year.

I’m seeing cracks in the foundation – but we are still standing and still a better than average team, I think.

QuikSand

03-09-2008, 04:01 AM

Postseason Narrative

We open at home, still in injury-driven disarray, but ready to face the Redskins.

Wild Card Round: Washington (12-4) at Tampa Bay (8-8)

We have a shot, home field will help, but we need the offense to click and keep the ball in our hands.

We get the sort of game we want – we inch out to a 16-0 lead through three quarters. But the Skins come back with two 4Q touchdowns to get it close – then we put it away with a score of our own, followed by a clinching interception return by Ben Terry. Swartz is solid in the air on 25/36, and runs 11 times for 40 yards.

Divisional Playoff: Tampa Bay (9-8) at Dallas (14-2)

Well, we are ten point dogs here, and look totally outmanned. It turns out to be a very evenly matched game, though – we are back and forth with both teams moving the ball well through the air, but once again we give up back to back 4Q touchdowns, and this time that puts Dallas ahead by 9. We score with 1:40 left, but can’t get the onside kick, and the Cowboys put in an extra TD to salt it away, 35-26.

I make a pass at extending the contract of DE Arnold Ingram, but it’s basically no use. He will walk after this year, unless we can finesse something in open free agency. Instead, we settle for a new deal with G Maurice Donhoff, whose ratings are slipping a bit, but who at least can manage to play the whole season for us.

QuikSand

03-10-2008, 08:43 AM

2031 Initial Offseason

No retirements, that’s a nice bit of news. We do have two exploding contracts, and expect to be forced to cut FB Kent Raven and DE Randal Franklin.

Roster math again:

40 players signed, after those 2 cuts
1 franchise tag
1 RFA extension
7 free agent signings
7 draft picks
--
56 potential players

We’re in better shape than usual here, and will have the liberty of throwing away a couple guys at the end of the line, or even making a trade-up in the draft if need be.

Here is our slate of free agents:

Front Office Football 2007
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Ingram, Arnold 98 LDE 9 76 76 ---
Wilkerson, Amos 90 NT 8 57 57 ---
Brennan, Phil 54 C 9 56 56 ---
Woodson, Rusty 30 FS 5 49 49 ---
Holt, Walt 71 LT 11 47 47 ---
Hernandez, Leo 78 LDE 5 25 44 ---
Reed, Todd 24 RB 8 41 41 ---
Gordon, Hunter 60 LT 4 37 37 ---
Marceau, Herb 96 NT 4 25 36 ---
Lanza, Paul 5 FL 4 3 12 ---

So, another twist – I basically don’t have any RFAs I really would like to keep. I don’t have the luxury of passing there, so we’ll re-up with LT Hunter Gordon, mostly due to all the tumult we had at the position there last year.

And on top of that, we don’t have a perfect candidate for the franchise tag, either. DE Arnold Bryant is the guy, of course, but with a loyalty rating of only 4, there’s a very real fear that he would hold out and not even re-sign. But I look at the other options, and see nobody who makes much sense – so I tag Ingram, and hope for the best. That player “cushion” isn’t looking quite as great as I had thought – nor is our cap space, after eating $22.4m for Ingram. And his loyalty does bottom out at zero, which may be a bad sign.

I decide that for our renegotiation, we will try to keep an anchor player aboard, and we re-sign CB Billy Shea for four more years. He, too, is a pricey proposition – he will cost us $19.5m per season through the deal (more this year with overlapping bonuses).

QuikSand

03-10-2008, 08:43 AM

2031 Free Agency

So, we are underway, a new contract to CB Shea, and an unhappy tagged DE. Let’s see where we go from here.

We need to make a decision about long time starting center Phil Brennan – he’s been a solid run blocker for us, and would add cohesion, but he broke down for more than half of last season, and in his 9th year he’s past his peak. He is looking for $8m per season, and there are always solid centers available in free agency – I just don’t think he’s the best use of our money.

Also, LT Walt Holt – our one-year solution last year, is open to a longer term deal at LT. He, too, missed most of last season with an injury, but he’s pretty cheap – and he’d solidify our OL leadership for a while, which has its advantages. I decide he makes sense, and would give us three usable LTs – so we put in a long term deal for him to keep him around a while.

S Rusty Woodson wants a four year deal, and we want to lock him up (despite a disappointing debut as a starter last year) – and a $21m offer ought to do the trick.

At DT, I think we need to make a change – another longtime starter for us, Alos Wilkerson, is only asking for $5m per year, but I think youngster Alonzo Fernyhough needs playing time, and will turn into a quality starter for us there. Need to get the most our of our younger guys, so we let Wilkerson move on.

Is RB Todd Reed worth re-signing? Doubtful. He gave us a couple of good seasons, but he’s up into his 8th season, and he’s likely to take a hit in camp – he’s no better than a #2 for us now, and the arrow is turned the wrong way, I fear. With Swift and Sullivan in place this year we are okay, but next year they are both out of contract (Swift will get cut, Sullivan will be a RFA). So, RB is a position worth keeping in mind, at least.

So, I decide to keep Ingram, but to hedge my bet a little by pursuing DT John Thorp. He’s a pass rusher who could move outside, and who listens to a decent 3yr offer with three tail-end years.

TE Cornell Clayton is our major “serious” contract here – he’s a standout player, and our offer is pretty real, we only include one phony year allowing for a renegotiation at that point. He’s scouted at 72/72, and would become a serious target for us if we land him.

S Nolan Pass is a routine veteran, good enough to play and even start, but affordable enough to keep on as a backup for a few years (and a good backstop in case our offer to Woodson fails).

And my one year deal is an insurance policy at WR, signing 11th year man Bryan Talley, who could play for us at SE and has the right mix of skills for the more downfield-oriented offense I plan to install this season.

Reneg – CB Billy Shea, 4yr $78m
RFA – LT Hunter Gordon, 3yr $11.1m
1YR – WR Bryan Talley, $2.7m
2YR -
3YR – SS Nolan Pass, $6.9m
4YR – FS Rusty Woodson, $21m
5YR – TE Cornell Clayton, $43m (essentially 4y, $21m with option)
6YR – DT John Thorp, $106m (essentially 3y, $7.5m)
7YR – LT Walt Holt, $155m (essentially 4y, $20m)

So, right out of the box, TE Cornell Clayton signs with the 49ers. That stinks. So, I knuckle under and put in an offer to our own DT Amos Wilkerson. I just don’t see another great option out there for us, and he would keep some continuity along the DL, even if I manually push him down to the backup slot at some point.

So, we have 48 players signed as we head to the draft. Still some flexibility, but I think we have some fairly straightforward team needs.

QuikSand

03-10-2008, 08:49 AM

2031 Rookie Draft

Well, the draft seems very deep at WR, and at pick #21 we have a shot to get a long term asset there, so that’s certainly a possibility. I also would love to land an impact DE – have a guy in mind, but I reckon we’d likely have to trade up a bit to get him, as he’s #3 on the big board (at DT). We have options for right now, but there are a few holes on this roster that could use some attention. This draft does seem like it has about five or six superior combine types… if one of them slips at any position, we could make a move to go up and reach to land a major stud.

The WR crop looks like it’s sliding hard, but then receivers got at picks 15, 18, 19, and 20 – and at 21 we are suddenly left pretty bare. However, I think I got my wish – the undersized DT my scout liked managed to slip this far, and I think he can become a solid addition in the LDE slot soon to be vacated by Arnold Ingram. I think we got our man here.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.21 DT Ronald Harmon (LDE) 6.2 6.7 + !++ 46% VU 37/53 4.97 40 for a DT is solid, creeep!
2.20 TE Travis Buffington 5.2 4.5 + -!++ 47% VO 38/61 combine = doubt the scout again
3.19 ILB Kris Devine 5.0 4.9 ++++ 31% NA 14/32 combine solid across, good fit?
4.18 WR Frank Doyle 4.6 4.8 ++++- 17% NA 12/27 4.41 40 and other combines worthy
5.17 QB D.J. Sutton 4.7 5.4 + 18% VU 11/51 Scout pick, solid bars, worth stab
6.21 CB Xavier Andrews (SS) 4.1 4.2 . ...! 43% HTR 17/35 Skipper, but intriguing 54 drill
7.20 RB Rondell Fisher 3.9 4.1 !-- 51% NA 30/43 Red flag, but kid can run (4.46)

So, I won’t detail the whole list – but overall I’m pretty positive about this group. I took TE Buffington in round two mostly because the guys I really wanted looked like they were going to last until later rounds – I had my eyes on WR Doyle, QB Sutton, and CB Andrews for a long time before pulling the trigger. RB Fisher is intriguing – he might be a blur.

On to the late free agency…

QuikSand

03-10-2008, 08:49 AM

2031 Late Free Agency

In perhaps the least surprising announcement possible…

From: Arnold Ingram

I have decided to hold out until I receive a new contract.

Being the team's franchise player unfairly limits my income, and I will not report to camp until I have a multi-year deal.

Yeah, yeah. I guess I knew this was coming, and I should have just cut him, and used the cap space to sign someone. Well, at least we have a promising youngster slotted at LDE who will bee taking the reins, we hope. But dammit, I can’t believe I painted us right into this obvious a corner. Ugh. He clearly won’t sign, this is a lost cause. $22m for nothing.

So, we move on. In late free agency, I regret leaving my 2yr contract open and not my 1yr, as young CB Omar Carlisle looks like a really serious long term asset. He’s a 3rd year guy, so a 2yr deal will put him right up and into unrestricted free agency, but he looks like a serious addition – as in a potential starter. We offer him 2yrs, $4m and he takes it. Great add. At least a couple other teams made offers. (I hate watching this stuff closely in single player, it’s so annoying to see high quality players like that even getting cut, much less mostly ignored in the FA process – if this guy had been in late FA in a solid MP league, he would have gotten a 1yr $20m contract in a heartbeat)

I cut a couple of last-year reserves, including CB Ernie Quill (who just never panned out to be the nickelback I had hoped for) to get down to 53 for camp, and we head in. I don’t know what to expect this year. Still stinging from my total mismanagement of the situation with DE Ingram, who has been released and now sits unpursued in the FA pool, presumably to accept a one year minsal offer from whatever team gets the chance to “load up” right after training camp. Ugh.

QuikSand

03-10-2008, 08:59 AM

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Lindsay, Kendrick<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Moore, Jimmy<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (3)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Jarvis, Heath<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Gordon, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Thorp, John<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Abercrombie, Darnell<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Augustine, Hardy<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Devine, Kris<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-10-2008, 08:59 AM

Here’s the highlight reel version:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Holt, Walt Tampa LT -12
Hastings, Donnie Tampa SILB -8
Montemayor, Matthew Tampa C -5
Devine, Jeff Tampa FB -5
Dirnbauer, Jesse Tampa MLB -5
Mills, Ernest Tampa LDE -5
Sutton, D.J. Tampa QB -4
Buffington, Travis Tampa TE -4
Fisher, Rondell Tampa RB -3
Harden, Terrance Tampa RDE -3

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Swartz, Jose Tampa QB 11
Harmon, Ronald Tampa LDE 8
Carlisle, Omar Tampa LCB 8
Devine, Kris Tampa SILB 3
Doyle, Frank Tampa SE 2
Moore, Jimmy Tampa SE 2
Augustine, Hardy Tampa SLB 2

Wow, another big jump from QB Swartz, he’s looking like the real thing now. Good thing, as my stab-in-the-draft QB flubbed, as I should have expected. LT Walt Holt looks like he’s in take-the-money-and-crumble mode.

Big jump from DE Harmon cements my impression that he is, indeed, going to be the real thing – which takes some of the edge off the Ingram situation (he has signed super-cheap with the Raiders, lovely). CB Omar Carlisle is another major jumper, and that one feels wrong… I might need a rule against going in and poaching a player of that quality from the post-draft FA market. We’ll suffer through our shame, somehow.

It also seems I whiffed again at TE, where this Buffington guy was indeed less than advertised. Maybe I will trust mt scout eventually here – that’s twice I have wasted early picks at a dumb position like this, flouting my scout’s advice and being wrong both times. At least Buffington has enough there to make him playable, unlike my last TE target who needed to creep a lot and did not.

We will apparently need creeper LB Kris Devine, as our shaky starter at the SILB slot Donnie Hastings took a plunge in this camp. Good timing, I guess.

Mixed bag, overall.

QuikSand

03-10-2008, 09:01 AM

2031 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 84 (3rd)
Cohesion – 85-94-60-80

My predictions:

QB Jose Swartz, opening up the offense a bit, throws for 4,000 yards and 30 TD, 18 Int
Our pass rush falters, but remains above average, led by LB Gerald
Our secondary gets better with CB Carlisle and S Rusty Woodson both adding value
We go 10-6 and are back in as division champions

Season narrative:

Opening day is in Atlanta, and we whup them pretty good to set the tone. But after four games, we are in a three-way tie in the division with them and Carolina at 3-1, so this might not be that easy after all.

Halfway through, we are 5-3, looking okay but not dominant. Swartz is hitting for a solid 7.8 yards per attempt, but we are running a lot to set up the downfield passing, and despite my OL woes, it seems to be working. LB Gerald has 11 sacks in 8 games and may be on his way to more than just being a team leader.

Atlanta beats us at our place, earning the season split and a game advantage. The following week we beat Carolina to pull even with them at 6-4, but a game behind the Falcons. Another split, and we are 7-5, a game behind both division rivals, and in some trouble.

We split another pair, but the loss to Carolina puts the division out of reach for us. We likely need to win the last two to get in as a wild card now. Instead, we split yet again, and finish at 9-7 – good enough to pick around #20 in the draft, but not good enough to make the playoffs. Fabulous.

Front Office Football 2007
2031 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2031
Record 9-7
Winning Pct. .562
All-Time 191-225
Winning Pct. .459
Playoffs 6-7
Playoff Visits 7
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 76-47
Winning Pct. .617
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 32.1 4
Rushing Yards 141.0 3
Yards Per Carry 4.39 10
Pass Attempts 28.9 29
Completions 17.2 30
Completion Pct. 59.4 20
Passing Yards 226.9 17
Yards Per Attempt 7.84 6
Yards Per Catch 13.20 3
Total Yardage Gained 362.1 6
3rd Down Conversions 43.5 7
Points Per Game 24.9 7
Pass Rush Pct. 23.0 7
Pass Defense Pct. 54.8 15
Turnovers 32 27 (T)
Turnover Margin -7 27 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 30.2 28 (T)
Rushing Yards 125.0 24
Yards Per Carry 4.14 12
Pass Attempts 32.7 9
Completions 19.8 11 (T)
Completion Pct. 60.4 21
Passing Yards 218.6 9
Yards Per Attempt 6.69 17
Yards Per Catch 11.07 10
Total Yardage Gained 326.8 16
3rd Down Conversions 44.8 31
Points Per Game 21.3 16 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 18.6 5
Pass Defense Pct. 61.4 27
Turnovers 25 15 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 31 at ATL 15
2 20 at JAX 26
3 27 at DAL 14
4 23 ARI 21
5 24 SFO 31
6 22 at STL 9
8 24 at SEA 22
9 14 at NOS 22
10 21 ATL 31
11 31 CAR 19
12 35 LRK 18
13 21 MIN 27
14 24 at IND 21
15 21 at CAR 26
16 17 TEN 21
17 44 NOS 17

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 463 275 3630 7.84 28 18 88.2
**Team --- 463 275 3630 7.84 28 18 88.2
$$Opp --- 523 316 3498 6.69 24 11 86.8

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
35 E. Swift RB 283 1205 4.26 7 6
32 T. Sullivan RB 149 665 4.46 8 7
4 J. Swartz QB 82 386 4.71 4 5
**Team --- 514 2256 4.39 19 24
$$Opp --- 483 2000 4.14 13 28

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
89 K. Lindsay WR 114 68 1187 17.46 10.41 2 9
18 W. Dickens WR 114 60 801 13.35 7.03 3 5
35 E. Swift RB 45 36 299 8.31 6.64 0 3
81 B. Talley WR 41 24 365 15.21 8.90 2 5
41 J. Devine FB 31 24 163 6.79 5.26 0 1
8 B. Czyz WR 48 21 332 15.81 6.92 3 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 K. Chancey ILB 91 32 2.5 2 2 7 77.3
49 B. Terry S 86 31 0.0 0 0 5 76.4
48 B. Shea CB 62 18 0.0 1 1 14 77.2
30 R. Woodson S 59 22 1.0 1 1 16 81.8
59 E. Gerald OLB 56 21 16.5 22 0 0 81.0
45 D. Abercrombie OLB 50 14 1.5 1 1 4 77.1
90 A. Wilkerson DT 47 16 5.5 16 0 0 81.6
97 R. Harmon DE 41 20 6.5 15 0 0 81.8
51 D. Hastings ILB 39 8 0.0 0 0 1 72.5
94 H. Augustine OLB 37 13 0.0 0 1 2 79.3
93 J. Thorp DE 34 19 6.0 13 0 1 82.2
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 31 9 0.0 1 2 5 76.9
56 J. Dirnbauer ILB 30 9 0.0 0 0 0 69.6
39 O. Carlisle CB 30 8 0.0 0 0 6 79.1
42 G. Pujols CB 24 7 1.0 0 1 4 79.9
23 N. Paas S 18 7 0.0 0 1 1 82.1
79 A. Fernyhough DT 17 13 1.5 2 0 0 82.5
47 X. Andrews S 17 12 0.0 0 1 4 82.5

With WR Czyz on the sidelines for a lot of the year, we still managed a pretty solid offensive season. We dropped about 10% completions in order to gain about 1 full yard in yds/target. Don’t know if that means more wins, really. Kendrick Lindsay had a career year in the revamped offense, clearly.

LB Gerald made the most out of the WLB slot, and posted big sack numbers. Sammy Woodson posted a very solid coverage season, with a team-high 16 PDs. our pass rush overall did slip, but remained upper tier at least.

We have to be disappointed about missing the playoffs, but I think we will have some cap flexibility to try to prevent that from happening again.

Our late-season renegotiation is with LB Ellis Gerald, who will no doubt be seeing some postseason honors for his excellent year.

Indeed, LB Ellis Gerald is named not only first team LB, but Defensive Player of the Year. Our RG Bart Rodgers gets a first team mention as well, nice for him as an anchor-type player too.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 08:46 AM

Some observations…

I think I’m deep enough in with these rules to start having a fair “feel” for the game. Some thoughts on where this is relative to the FOF holy grail of the three areas I care about for a long term set of rules:

Challenging – I want to be faced with difficulties in reaching success

I’m disappointed here so far. I’m still able to draft far better than other teams, and have plenty of depth at most every position, and I’m keeping nearly all my star-caliber players. Maybe it’s getting lucky at QB that had helped, but I have to think that without Swartz developing like this, I’d just be playing some cheap free agent with similar results.

Interesting – I want to feel like my time is well spent with the stuff I do in game

Mixed results here. The slotting of FA contracts is a novel way to limit the number of things I can do in any year, but it does tend toward the silly when I am routinely making all manner of 6 and 7 year offers that are really nothing more than 3 year deals with absurd tail ends. Yes, that does require that I cut a fair number of players rather than hold on to everyone, but I pretty quickly have worked it out to only sign those deals with players whose departure will not really hurt us. So, there is a tedium factor at work there, though not huge. The theoretical “challenge” of crafting clever long term deals with my top players hasn’t really materialized – for guys I really really want to keep, I’m just extending them and never letting them see free agency at all.

Rewarding – I want to feel like my decisions really cause the team’s success or lack thereof

Pretty good results here – I do feel that if I were not doing this well in drafting that I’d have a pretty shaky team. And I do feel like my good decisions with gameplanning and so forth are indeed helping my team do well, overall. This is connected to “challenging” but different – the real worry here is that some rule sets restrain my decisions so much that I feel like it’s just the luck of the draw whether I get an opportunity to get a star QB, for example – here, I’m pretty wide open in drafting, and have a wide range of options in what to do each season, which is good for this element.

Overall… I’m interested enough to keep playing, but I’m thinking about adding in a new rule or two to try to tighten things up and add to the difficulty level. I hate seeing my team with one of the top roster ratings every season, even if I do think it’s a function of me making generally wise choices. I **like** playing a team that has real deficiencies on its starting roster.

I’m thinking about this new rule:

-There can be only one renegotiation that varies from the requested amount and duration

I think I’m getting away with a bit too much, and avoiding escalating contracts by working my renegotiations down to the inch – maybe requiring that one of my two annual renegs be on the player’s terms will add a little more hesitation to my thinking here.

I think I have just talked myself into this rule

Consider it done – it’s a new rule, effective in 2032.

JAG

03-11-2008, 09:06 AM

Challenging – I want to be faced with difficulties in reaching success

I’m disappointed here so far. I’m still able to draft far better than other teams, and have plenty of depth at most every position, and I’m keeping nearly all my star-caliber players. Maybe it’s getting lucky at QB that had helped, but I have to think that without Swartz developing like this, I’d just be playing some cheap free agent with similar results.

This sounds like the crux of your problem. You're Bill Polian in a league of Mike Lynn's. Even if you continue to change rules regarding contract parameters, the dropoff of your roster isn't going to be too bad because you'll be able to find a lot of cheap depth because of your superior drafting.

As I see it, that's the problem to address. I don't have the solution unfortunately.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 05:45 PM

Well, that's the reason it's a bit of a holy grail. A lot of us have been searching for a long time for ways to make the game challenging long term without emasculating too much of what we like about the game. This is just one more attempt to try to find that perfect sweet spot in that regard.

I'm having more success than many of my previous attempts, but you're right -- as long as I am able to do every thing in the game basically better than the opposition AI can, it's a tough charge to keep things even. Limiting the breadth of things that I can do is basically my approach here -- and it's admittedly imperfect.

The perfect result would be, for me, a set of rules where I could really and truly play "all out" within those rules, and have fun long term.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 05:45 PM

2032 Initial Offseason

First check is the retirement list, where we have lost RT Pat O’Neill – a guy who was going to get cut anyhow, so no harm done there. I have young Riddick Hover slotted there, and barring a big move he will be our starter at RT for a while.

We have a few exploded contracts requiring releases – LB Jesse Dirnbauer, RB Edward Swift, and G Heath Jarvis are all goners. QB Tito Daylo is sitting on $21m this year – we’ll see if he might conceivably reneg that away, but the likeliest scenario with him is that he too gets cut. Assuming so, here is our roster math for this year:

38 players signed
1 franchise tag
1 restricted FA signee
7 free agent signees
7 draft picks
--
54 potential players

Again, this is getting pretty routine. I’m not certain that having this calculation come to only ~50 players in some years would be good for the challenge aspect of things – maybe it would just be tedious to feel like I need to do some silly trade-down to pick up extra 6th or 7th round picks just to have enough bodies on the team. I’m not sure.

Anyway – no crisis with the body count here.

Here is our list of walk-year guys and free agents:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Swartz, Jose 4 QB 6 53 53 1 yr.
Murphy, Timothy 15 QB 4 33 54 1 yr.
Daylo, Tito 19 QB 7 29 29 1 yr.
Devine, Jeff 41 FB 3 47 47 1 yr.
Czyz, Bryant 8 FL 8 76 76 1 yr.
Lindsay, Kendrick 89 SE 8 51 51 1 yr.
Moore, Jimmy 85 SE 4 33 33 1 yr.
Donhoff, Maurice 69 LG 9 54 54 1 yr.
Hover, Riddick 63 RT 3 33 44 1 yr.
O'Hara, Randal 7 P 3 22 33 1 yr.
Banks, Randy 9 K 3 43 43 1 yr.
Fernyhough, Alonzo 79 NT 3 44 55 1 yr.
Hastings, Donnie 51 SILB 4 35 35 1 yr.
Carlisle, Omar 39 LCB 4 64 72 1 yr.
Kemnitzer, Chuck 33 RCB 10 63 63 1 yr.

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Sullivan, Trent 32 RB 4 45 49 ---
Randle, Bryce 86 TE 5 36 36 ---
Crockett, Renaldo 82 TE 4 31 31 ---
Deberry, Jeff 83 SE 12 40 40 ---
Talley, Bryan 81 SE 12 33 33 ---
Montemayor, Matthew 57 C 4 40 40 ---
Mills, Ernest 77 LDE 8 34 34 ---
Stone, Marco 76 RDE 5 41 41 ---
Abercrombie, Darnell 45 SLB 7 40 40 ---
Gale, Frank 38 RCB 4 26 31 ---

So, I’m thinking that we have a plan at CB. This is the last year that Kemnitzer will be signed to his fat deal, and I think we re-up with Omar Carlisle instead of him for next season, and plan to slot Carlisle as the starter opposite Billy Shea. Even if Carlisle wants something like 6-8m per year, it will be a huge savings compared to the $14m we are paying Kemnitzer now for solid, but not exceptional, numbers (career PD% of 77.4). Indeed, extending Carlisle now, while he’s coming off a year as our 3rd option, maybe even be the smart play.

The other possible target for an extension would be QB Jose Swartz, currently playing for $4m a year, but who has had two straight camp booms to become a decent upper-tier starter. He will probably want something like $10-13m a year in open free agency – he might be a guy for us to give in to at the end of the season. My guess is we will go after both him and Carlisle, in some order, with new contracts to keep them from hitting the market.

Among the restricted free agents, we want to re-sign RB Trent Sullivan, as I like having a super-versatile guys in the backfield like him. Plus, we are super-thin at RB right now, with last year’s 7th rounder Rondell Fisher our only RB under contract. We have to sign someone, and I hope that Sullivan is cheap enough to sign as a #2, and then we can go out and ink a deal with one of the usual decent-enough-to-start veteran RBs who wander about aimlessly in FOF free agency.

I don’t have anyone on this list of unrestricted free agents who is a top priority to re-sign. If WR Deberry is cheap, we will consider him for continuity, but he’s past his best days. LB Abercrombie maybe just because we are super-thin at LB, but he is not anything special. DEs Stone and Mills are pass-rush only guys, and neither is really anything that exciting either – if they are cheap, we’ll look, but I won’t overpay for either guy. The defensive front likely gets a heavy focus this offseason, whether old or young, we need capable bodies.

That means, basically, that we have nobody who is truly worthy of the franchise tag. I could pay a guy like DE Marco Stone a full $16m to play with us for another year, but I don’t see much point in that. So – there goes our extra body for this year, we will forego the tag and drop our projected final roster to 53 players.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 05:46 PM

2032 Free Agency

Good news up front, RB Sullivan is playing ball and accepts my modest three year RFA deal. That gives me a lot more comfort at the RB position – if we sign a veteran or draft a rookie we will be three-deep, but at worst we have one versatile guy who can tote the rock for us this season in Sullivan. Nice.

CB Omar Carlisle indeed accepts a three-year cheap extension. My suspicion is that he will be an effective starter for us, and will be a pricey guy after that three years is done – but there was no way to get him to go longer than three, so we take it cheap and will deal with it when it comes due again. He’s really the first late-FA signee that felt like a heist, and then he boomed in camp the next year, even. Whoa.

QB Tito Daylo is not talking sense with a renegotiation, incidentally, so any thougths about keeping him quickly evaporated.

It looks like QB Swartz is thinking about something like $12m a year after this year – so we will assess that at year’s end, and if he comes off a big and healthy season for us, we probably do it. Our backup plan is to extend WR Bryant Czyz, but my guess is he will be cheaper in the open market as he is getting up in years.

C Pat Brierton fills a serious roster need for us, is an affinity with our OL leader, and is looking for a pretty affordable contract. I like having a run-blocker up the gut, and he looks like he ought to be fine for us – a three year deal leaves us the opportunity to make this a long term deal with this 5th year guy.

LB Darnell Abercrombie is nothing that special, but we make him an offer of 7 years, basically a three year deal. He’s a cheap affinity guy who can start for us at a thin position – money well spent, I think.

WR Orlando Seebaldt is a decent-enough guy to help fill in yet another thing position, and has some kick return skills. He’d be fine if we had to use him as a #4 receiver, though he might have some butterfinger issues. He can return kicks also. Affordable three year deal with tail end – he’s younger, cheaper, and likely more useful than Jeff Deberry.

I look around at RB – there is the usual assortment of decent backs out there, with many different mixes of skills. I’m thinking a short term deal, at least in practice, makes the most sense here – and I decide to use up some of our anticipated cap space, and work out a four year offer to 9th year RB Bennie Thornton, who has been alarmingly productive the last few seasons. He will make $22m in each of the first two seasons, but we can waffle next season if he takes a massive ratings hit or doesn’t earn the big bucks we have in mind. Last year Thornton posted 1,991 yards on 5.4 yards per carry for our division rival Carolina – so this guy has stats to back up the money he is seeking.

TE Dustin Edwards is actually looking for a 5yr deal, and we give him a solid offer – he will make $5m a season for the first four years, and I expect him to make a pretty formidable combo along with young Travis Buffington. Should make TE a position of strength for us, which will be a real change.

DE Lawrence Hanrahan is a short-term help at DE, where I’d expect him to start for this year. One year deal for $9 million, and we will contemplate a tag if he gives us a good year. Another slot in the starting roster where we really need one more guy.

That will leave the 2yr deal as the one we hold open for after the draft.

Reneg – CB Omar Carlisle, 3y $6m
RFA – RB Trent Sullivan, 3y $5.7m
1YR – DE Lawrence Hanrahan, $9m
2YR -
3YR – C Par Brierton, $8.1m
4YR – RB Bennie Thornton, $148m (essentially 2y $48m)
5YR – TE Duston Edwards, $55m (essentially 4y $25m)
6YR – WR Orlando Seebaldt, $102m (essentially 3y $6.6m)
7YR – LB Darnell Abercrombie, $134m (essentially 3y $6.7m)

I immediately lose out on WR Orlando Seebaldt, who takes a one year deal instead of our big backloaded one. So, we have a 6yr deal to hand out to someone – WR Jeff Deberry looks like a guy we could still use, and I have the luxury of waiting him out a bit, as nobody is offering his asking price. he eventually takes an offer for about $3m per season for three years, which will surely wipe out his remaining useful career. Fine by me.

We are at 45 players signed now, with every position covered for having a legal roster.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 05:46 PM

2032 Rookie Draft

We have no slots we need to fill to become legal for this year, but we have plenty of slots on this team where we need to add useful players for the next few years. WR is probably out top need, and I’m worried about OL, DL, and LB as well.

With our top pick, there’s a super-bars left tackle who is way under-developed – he might turn out to be pretty solid, and we can afford to bring him along, I think. I have a few sleeper picks at WR and think that is the likely target for round two.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.19 LT Matthew Collier 5.8 6.4 + !!+ 8% VO 28/81 We’ll bring him along, huge bars
2.21 WR Timothy Montgomery 4.7 4.9 + ! + 12% HTR 29/55 Another to bring along, 4.41 dash
3.20 WR Morris Barevics 4.7 4.9 +!++-+ 12% VU 11/23 No bars, but combines strong
4.19 FS Lorenzo Thornton(SLB) 4.5 4.2 +--+ 40% NA 17/58 Switch to SLB for coverage skills
5.21 FB Lawrence Murray 4.6 3.7 + + + 15% AS 25/65 Solid bars, another project guy
6.20 WR Brent Iadevaia 4.1 4.3 + --+ 16% NA 20/52 Solid bars, 4.45 dash, project
7.19 RG Chester Takahashi 4.1 3.9 +! +- 17% NA 4/21 Another project at need position

Two receivers from my “sleeper” list land on our roster – so we might have made ground there. Barevics is the type of guy, though, who tends to die on the vine as I let my staff do the depth charting – we’ll see how that works out.

S Lorenzo Thornton is a solid coverage guy, but at 230 lbs I’m thinking he might be an intriguing pick to move to play at the strong-side LB slot, where we could use a better starter. I haven’t been making many novelty draft picks in this career, but this counts as one, I suspect. His blue bars look great after the move, but I fear what we might see after training camp. Risky.

Wow, I had been watching a QB for a long time, and finally decided to go after him in round six – only to see him grabbed in the pick right ahead of ours. So it goes, I guess.

A draft chock full of low-development guys – not sure that’s the ideal strategy for this style of play, but we loved too many of these guys at the combine to pass them up for more developed players. We’ll see how that works.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 06:47 PM

2032 Late Free Agency

I guess this wasn’t such a longshot to see coming:

From: Jose Swartz

I have decided to hold out until I receive a new contract.

As your starting quarterback last season, I believe I had a solid season. I believe I'm very seriously underpaid, and will not report to camp without a new contract.

It looks to me like we need to make our decision right now whether he is the guy for us for the near term, and I don’t see how we can really turn him down. I will likely extend him after training camp, after giving him one chance to come in voluntarily – but as it stands, we only have three QBs on the total roster, so denying him a reneg here would basically cut off our FA signing options too. We will work things out with Swartz, plain and simple.

Anyway – we have a two year contract to offer, and I’m looking for a solid addition here. Our old WLB Dixon Daniels is out there, but we will go younger here – and select OT Leland Lester. He’s a 3rd year player rated 36/56 by my scout, who looks like a pretty balanced OL. Looks like he is really best suited to play RT, but that’s okay – we just drafted a guy we hope will be our LT of the future. Lester can fit in along with young Riddick Hover on the right side of our line for now – we’ll see if he’s a long term investment for us after his couple of seasons aboard.

Of course, no other team sees any point in making any offers to a 36/56 young O-tackle. Of course not. Why would anyone want a guy like this? Much better – no joke here – to put in a 3 year, $12 million deal to a 6th year guy rated 40/40. I mean – what’s better, 36 or 40? I think we can all agree on that. Same with the other 6th year guy rated 39/39 who got a fatter deal than what I offered the younger guy with more potential.

Fucking game…

**shakes it off**

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 06:47 PM

2032 Training Camp<o:p></o:p>
Tampa Bay Player Report (TB 2032c - TB 2032d)<o:p></o:p>

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Overall Future Change<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> QB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44 (0)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (0)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -13<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Holt, Walt<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Horton, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Hover, Riddick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Lester, Leland<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Banks, Randy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Harmon, Ronald<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66 (10)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 72 (7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 7<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Fernyhough, Alonzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Hanrahan, Lawrence<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Harden, Terrance<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Thorp, John<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Abercrombie, Darnell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-14)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-14)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -14<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Augustine, Hardy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Thornton, Lorenzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (-6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -6<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Devine, Kris<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Hastings, Donnie<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Chancey, Kelly<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Gerald, Ellis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Pujols, George<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Shea, Billy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 84 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 84 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Carlisle, Omar<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 72<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Kemnitzer, Chuck<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Paas, Nolan<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Terry, Ben<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Andrews, Xavier<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Watkins, Bob<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.8pt;" width="181"> Woodson, Rusty<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  <o:p></o:p>
 <o:p></o:p>

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 06:48 PM

And the highlight reel version:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Abercrombie, Darnell Tampa SLB -14
Donhoff, Maurice Tampa LG -13
Harden, Terrance Tampa RDE -9
Holt, Walt Tampa LT -8
Thornton, Lorenzo Tampa SLB -6
Augustine, Hardy Tampa SLB -5
Kemnitzer, Chuck Tampa RCB -5
Collier, Matthew Tampa LT -5
Hanrahan, Lawrence Tampa RDE -5
Deberry, Jeff Tampa SE -5

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Harmon, Ronald Tampa LDE 7
Shea, Billy Tampa LCB 5
Takahashi, Chester Tampa LG 3
Barevics, Morris Tampa FL 3
Brierton, Pat Tampa C 1
Banks, Randy Tampa K 1
Murphy, Timothy Tampa QB 1
Czyz, Bryant Tampa FL 1
Gordon, Hunter Tampa LT 1
Chancey, Kelly Tampa WILB 1

So, young DE Harmon is just going to be a beast. G Takahashi gave us an unexpected jump, and my low-bars WR gave us one we did expect. NO shocks from the rookie class.

RB Bennie Thornton, a 9th year RB, did not have a cataclysmic falloff like I had halfway feared – indeed he held ground at a solid 62/62 and will be easily the most talented and proven back we have ever featured with this team, so that ought to be interesting. Taking him away from division rival Carolina is a real plus too, I think.

We did get clobbered at the strong-side linebacker slot, though. Ouch. Hardy Augustine is the most playable guy there, but that isn’t saying a lot. LB is a serious need, and we really should have gone after a veteran signee there, all things considered.

Jose Swartz gets his requested $49m extension for four years, and that’s a no brainer. He will be an expensive player going forward, but we basically left ourselves no choice there.

We get a 6th round pick offered up for FB Jeff Devine, and I take it – I like our rookie there, and Devine was leaving after this year anyhow. We’ll take the body, thanks.

That gets us set up for the season ahead. I haven’t played this perfectly, I don’t think, but I suspect we will be a winning team again, and we haven’t suffered terribly for our moves.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 06:48 PM

2033 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 100 (2nd best is 89)
Cohesion – 85-76-64-88

My predictions:

QB Jose Swartz, flush with cash and comfy, posts about 3,800 and 30/15
DE Ronald Harmon arrives at stardom with 50 tackles and 12 sacks
CB Omar Carlisle steps into a starting job with a PR% over 80
We get a few breaks and put together an 11-win season to claim a bye week

Season narrative:

We beat Carolina in the opener 20-17, but no thanks to RB Bennie Thornton, who posts a measly 15 carries for 17 yards against his old team. Through the first half we play pretty well on defense, okay on offense, and manage to get out to a 6-2 record and the division lead. QB Timothy Murphy (forer first round pick) actually has played really well in relief for us, and will likely get another start or two while Swartz heals up from an ankle injury.

We sit at 7-2 when we are struck with injuries at CB, including “severe anxiety” from Omar Carlisle – ugh. We also have lost DE Ronald Harmon to a massive knee injury that might be career-threatening. And We have lose our best inside LB Kelley Chancey for the year as well. Suddenly, we are in really deep trouble on defense.

We get to 11-3, and have a game on the whole conference now. Our defense, in tatters, still is playing very well together. And Jose Swartz and company on offense have gotten their groove back, and are hitting on all cylinders of late. Bennie Thornton is not the 5+ ypc guy we thought we were getting, but we are running with the lead and getting it done okay.

We finish with two wins, and secure the top seed and possibly a perch for a major playoff run.

Front Office Football 2007
2032 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2032
Record 13-3
Winning Pct. .812
All-Time 204-228
Winning Pct. .472
Playoffs 6-7
Playoff Visits 8
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Carlos Browning
Record 89-50
Winning Pct. .640
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 34.6 1
Rushing Yards 139.9 2
Yards Per Carry 4.05 18
Pass Attempts 27.8 30
Completions 17.6 29
Completion Pct. 63.1 6
Passing Yards 250.8 10
Yards Per Attempt 9.02 1
Yards Per Catch 14.28 1
Total Yardage Gained 385.1 3
3rd Down Conversions 47.3 3
Points Per Game 27.9 6
Pass Rush Pct. 22.5 8
Pass Defense Pct. 61.8 7
Turnovers 20 3
Turnover Margin +9 5

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 27.3 17
Rushing Yards 105.3 9 (T)
Yards Per Carry 3.86 7
Pass Attempts 30.9 5
Completions 18.2 2
Completion Pct. 58.9 12
Passing Yards 186.1 2
Yards Per Attempt 6.03 5
Yards Per Catch 10.23 1
Total Yardage Gained 277.4 1
3rd Down Conversions 36.5 9
Points Per Game 17.8 2
Pass Rush Pct. 18.5 8
Pass Defense Pct. 46.0 7
Turnovers 29 8 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 20 CAR 17
2 35 KCY 21
3 34 PHI 29
4 24 ATL 0
5 13 at MIN 31
6 17 at NOS 24
7 38 at DET 12
9 34 GBY 10
10 31 CHI 3
11 19 at CAR 7
12 34 at SDO 21
13 24 at ARI 17
14 21 DEN 24
15 31 NOS 17
16 45 at OAK 28
17 26 at ATL 23

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 406 255 3639 8.96 26 9 103.9
15 T. Murphy QB 39 26 373 9.56 3 0 123.1
**Team --- 445 281 4012 9.02 29 9 105.5
$$Opp --- 494 291 2977 6.03 23 21 74.0

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
24 B. Thornton RB 367 1452 3.96 13 10
32 T. Sullivan RB 123 508 4.13 6 8
4 J. Swartz QB 58 263 4.53 1 6
**Team --- 553 2239 4.05 20 25
$$Opp --- 436 1685 3.86 7 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
89 K. Lindsay WR 113 68 1265 18.60 11.19 6 9
8 B. Czyz WR 120 65 1058 16.28 8.82 1 8
18 W. Dickens WR 64 44 651 14.80 10.17 1 4
84 D. Edwards TE 44 31 362 11.68 8.23 3 2
24 B. Thornton RB 32 24 223 9.29 6.97 1 2

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 106 31 1.0 0 2 12 80.8
48 B. Shea CB 68 18 0.0 0 6 15 82.6
54 K. Devine ILB 58 17 1.0 0 1 1 77.8
59 E. Gerald OLB 57 19 8.0 24 1 2 79.6
79 A. Fernyhough DT 50 21 4.5 5 0 0 81.9
94 H. Augustine OLB 49 16 2.5 1 1 2 74.7
30 R. Woodson S 47 12 0.0 0 5 3 83.4
92 L. Hanrahan DE 34 9 2.5 10 0 1 82.5
33 C. Kemnitzer CB 30 5 0.0 0 0 6 75.6
93 J. Thorp DE 28 6 4.5 19 0 0 80.0
51 D. Hastings ILB 28 22 0.0 1 0 1 76.0
39 O. Carlisle CB 27 4 0.0 0 3 8 84.9
50 K. Chancey ILB 23 10 0.0 1 0 1 73.5
42 G. Pujols CB 22 7 1.0 0 0 1 76.0
97 R. Harmon DE 20 8 4.0 3 0 0 80.7
90 A. Wilkerson DT 18 4 1.0 0 0 0 82.5
26 L. Thornton OLB 16 6 0.5 0 0 1 74.9

So, welcome to the upside-down world, where so many of our top defenders are gone completely with massive injuries, and we post probably our best-ever defensive season. Go figure. Maybe the transition at NT to Fernyhough made a difference there? I’m at a loss. Maybe just good luck.

On offense, Swartz really had his best year, posting a really solid 9 yards per attempt, which means the offense was just really humming along. Despite the pretty shabby rushing average, we were effective moving the ball on the ground overall. That no doubt sets up the downfield passing game for Swartz.

We’re in position to make a run – let’s see if this thing works.

QuikSand

03-11-2008, 06:48 PM

Postseason Narrative

Divisional Playoff: New Orleans (11-6) at Tampa Bay (13-3)

We look like the favorite, but I worry they will run on us more than I’d like.

My fears are unfounded – we kept their running game in check pretty well, but their QB got us more than his fair share – 23 of 31 for 295 and 3 TDs. And eh set up the game-winning FG to steal this one from us, 24-21. So, we’re the #1 seed who goes one-and-out.

We wrap the season with DE Harmon looking like he will miss next year (and maybe never make it back) and LB Chancey also a long term question mark.

We have three first team honorees – G Bart Rodgers, LB Ellis Gerald, and CB Billy Shea.

Disappointing postseason, and I have to be worried about the longer term if we really have lost one of our best emerging players.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:41 PM

2033 Initial Offseason

Okay, coming off a surprisingly good regular season, then a disappointing postseason, and a very scary injury situation – this is starting to “feel” a little more engaging to me. Seriously, if we lose DE Harmon for good, that’s a massive setback – it’s rather hard to land a top-tier DE drafting at pick #20 or so every year (or #30 this year).

So, we start off the new season, and the retirement list is the first check – we’re clear.

In an annual tradition for this team under these rules, the “exploding contract” check is next – WR Warren Dickens, DE Terrance Harden, and LB Hardy Augustine are all released to get our cap into shape for this year. That gets us to this point with the roster math:

37 players signed
1 franchise tag
1 RFA re-signee
7 free agent signees
8 draft picks
--
54 potential players

Pretty much the same as usual.

Here’s our list of walk-year guys and free agents:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Sutton, D.J. 12 QB 3 18 44 1 yr.
Fisher, Rondell 37 RB 3 35 39 1 yr.
Buffington, Travis 88 TE 3 53 53 1 yr.
Doyle, Frank 87 SE 3 20 30 1 yr.
Rodgers, Bart 55 RG 8 76 76 1 yr.
Gordon, Hunter 60 LT 6 38 38 1 yr.
Horton, Bo 75 LT 4 33 33 1 yr.
Lester, Leland 67 RT 4 45 56 1 yr.
Pujols, George 42 LCB 4 48 48 1 yr.
Paas, Nolan 23 SS 10 42 42 1 yr.
Andrews, Xavier 47 FS 3 31 37 1 yr.
Watkins, Bob 36 FS 4 24 29 1 yr.

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Murphy, Timothy 15 QB 5 38 54 ---
Czyz, Bryant 8 FL 9 73 73 ---
Lindsay, Kendrick 89 SE 9 52 52 ---
Moore, Jimmy 85 SE 5 33 33 ---
Donhoff, Maurice 69 LG 10 42 42 ---
Hover, Riddick 63 RT 4 40 40 ---
O'Hara, Randal 7 P 4 21 21 ---
Banks, Randy 9 K 4 44 44 ---
Hanrahan, Lawrence 92 RDE 12 57 57 ---
Fernyhough, Alonzo 79 NT 4 56 56 ---
Hastings, Donnie 51 SILB 5 32 32 ---
Kemnitzer, Chuck 33 RCB 11 58 58 ---

So, among the walk-year guys we’d like to extend, I think the most pressing are RG Rodgers (who’s become a star caliber performer) and probably RT Leland Lester, who played well enough last year at RT to earn my confidence for the long haul.

Among our free agents, we will make a serious effort to work out a deal with WR Bryant Czyz and keep him around, and the same goes for WR Kendrick Lindsay (though a bit less pressing there). LG Maurice Donhoff took a massive ratings hit last season and is now on my bubble, but he’s still okay and a long-time starter for cohesion purposes. NT Fernyhough started last year and put us into a bit of a jam – now NT Amos Wilkerson is demanding a trade due to playing time, so we have to get something worked out at that position. Re-signing Fernyhough makes the most sense, if he’s reasonable. We could end up with basically all our substantive contracts this year going to returning players.

I don’t even mention Kemnitzer, because I have a long term plan there at CB (Carlisle, who hopefully is no longer suffering from anxiety attacks) and he will want a fortune.

Given our dire DE situation, I am tempted to use the franchise tag on DE Hanrahan – he’s not all that special, but he’s a veteran guy who, barring a monstrous collapse in ratings (possible) should be a decent starter for another year. We have the cap space, and I decide it makes sense to lock up a body at DE. We are perilously thin there, and this ought to relieve the pressure to draft a DE in round one no matter what (even though I’d still prefer to do so).

Anyway – I hire a new head coach to take the reins this year, a 57 year old guy with EX-VG-VG-VG-VG and hopefully he will help stave off injuries like we saw last season. We send LT Matthew Collier to Europe, hoping to see him develop into more of his fading-fast huge green bars.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:41 PM

2033 Free Agency

Okay I use the tag on DE Hanrahan – it’s not the most inspiring use of $20 million in cap space, but he should be useful, and he gives us right now **three** signed defensive linemen total. We have work to do there, regardless.

We extend G Rodgers on our terms, and will leave the “what he wants” reneg for the late-season slot.

A more abbreviated roundup of the offseason moves, this time:

Reneg – RG Bart Rodgers, 4y $56m
RFA – NT Alonzo Fernyhough, 4yr $25m
1YR – DE Terrance Harden, $4m
2YR –
3YR – QB Timothy Murphy, $6.6m
4YR – WR Kendrick Lindsay, $48m ($12m bonus, flat salary)
5YR – WR Bryant Czyz, $105m ($40m bonus, flat salary)
6YR – LB Hunter Harlow, $106m (essentially 3y $9m)
7YR – LG Maurice Donhoff, $172m (essentially 4y $23m)

Most of the deals here are easy to see coming. I do decide that I’m not going to get a better backup QB option than Murphy, who also is cheap and has team cohesion, so I re-up with him. Not the best long term use of a first round pick, but we’ll live with it from here, I guess.

LB Hunter Harlow is a 7th year guy who looks like he can step right in to start for us at one of our ILB slots, or perhaps even at the strong-side. I’m thinking the better move will be to slide Krid Devine to the strong side, and play Harlow at the string inside slot where his run-stopping skills will be a better fit. We really need a guy at LB, and Harlow is as good ad fit as we’re likely to find. Three year deal with a tail end works for us fine.

After all our offers but the 1 and 2 year slots get in, it turns out we are over the cap. I need to release DE Hanrahan after all, and that makes our DL position far worse. I end up re-signing DE Terrance Harden on a one year deal – he resumes his role as our D7 leader gaining multiple affinities, and he might be back into the starting lineup for us as basically a one-trick pony pass rusher.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:41 PM

2033 Rookie Draft

We have to add at least one DL to get to a legal roster, and we’d be better off adding at least two, I’m sure. SLB is another target slot. Past that, we have some flexibility – but I will note my interest in several RBs I expect to last until round two at least.

We have little choice with our top pick – there’s a good combine DE there, albeit one my scout thought was overrated, and I think we have to take him. Lock it up.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.30 RDE Darren Newman 5.6 6.2 !+++ 11% OR 24/73 Best left at desperate need pos
2.30 SLB Gabe Samuels 5.5 5.3 ! ++ 41% VU 26/36 Should develop into solid starter
3.30 RDE Junior Thomason 4.7 5.2 +! + 34% UR 18/38 Take chance on underrated DE
4.30 P Skip Watson 6.9 3.7 ++++! 46% NA 64/80 Need punter, beat the rush, stud
5.30 LDE Myron Doss (NT) 4.6 5.1 ++ +- 33% VU 14/46 Possible run stopper at NT
6.19 RDT Dusty Douglas (RDE) 3.8 4.1 !+-- 33% VU 10/39 4.94 dash – serious PR skills?
6.30 FS Blaine Jarvis (RCB) 3.8 3.6 + - 28% NA 14/65 Huge coverage bars, shot in dark
7.30 K Kent Dennnis 5.5 3.3 !+ ! 51% NA 18/45 Forced hand at the position, BKA

Well, I decide to throw a lot of spaghetti against the DL wall, with hopes that some of it sticks there. Three later-round picks on guys who seemed to be worth it, and now we will have bodies along the DL if absolutely nothing else.

I don’t often go for big-bars guys without the supporting combines, but DB Jarvis seems interesting – kick return skills, big coverage bars, maybe he will be okay as a #4 CB, a team need for the short term.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:41 PM

2033 Late Free Agency

With my last FA contract, I again target a right tackle, 4th year Larry Stephens. We are going to suffer a thinning at OT after this season, and he’s a startable affinity guy for us, makes sense to have a usable player like that around, I think.

Of course, we’re safe in offering yet another promising young player a pitiful 2yr deal, as no other team wants him at all. Dumb.

We are filled up to 53 players, and are ready for the training camp, hoping to see good news and nobody falling way off a cliff.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:42 PM

2033 Training Camp<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Brierton, Pat<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Donhoff, Maurice<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Takahashi, Chester<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Rodgers, Bart<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Collier, Matthew<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Gordon, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Holt, Walt<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Horton, Bo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (-10)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (-10)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -10<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -10<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Lester, Leland<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Stephens, Larry<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Dennis, Kent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12 (-6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (-16)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -16<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Watson, Skip<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 66 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Harmon, Ronald<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Doss, Myron<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Fernyhough, Alonzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Wilkerson, Amos<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Douglas, Dusty<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 12 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Harden, Terrance<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Newman, Darren<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 70 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Thomason, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Thorp, John<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Abercrombie, Darnell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Samuels, Gabe<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 9<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Thornton, Lorenzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Devine, Kris<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Harlow, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Chancey, Kelly<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Gerald, Ellis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Pujols, George<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 84<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 84<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 80 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 135.75pt;" width="181"> Carlisle, Omar<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:42 PM

Training Camp, the abbreviated version:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Dennis, Kent Tampa K -16
Horton, Bo Tampa LT -10
Murphy, Timothy Tampa QB -10
Jarvis, Blaine Tampa RCB -9
Donhoff, Maurice Tampa LG -8
Watkins, Bob Tampa FS -7
Paas, Nolan Tampa SS -6
Thornton, Bennie Tampa RB -5
Douglas, Dusty Tampa RDE -5
Harden, Terrance Tampa RDE -5

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Samuels, Gabe Tampa SLB 9
Montgomery, Timothy Tampa FL 4

A bit disappointing to see several big ratings drops – worst is probably QB Murphy, but we did just re-up with G Maurice Donhoff, who is withering rapidly as well. RB Thornton dropped by 5, could have been worse.

DE Dusty Douglas was a guy I thought would creep – alas, no dice there, a –5 in camp. DE Darren newman’s –3 camp is basically a break even – could have been plenty worse.

LB Gabe Samuels, though – real deal. He will start right away at the strong side, and I love what I think we have in him. A +9 camp is huge. WR Montgomery will also play a key role as our #3 WR this year, slotted as the backup flanker behind big money man Czyz.

Not much else to do here other than get rolling. I’ll hold off on the late-season renegotiation until season’s end, but we are ready to go. Hope we get enough out of the DL to keep us in the mix this year – at least I feel good about the LB corps this season.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:42 PM

2033 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 96 (2nd)
Cohesion – 91-81-70-100

My predictions:

We are again solid passing downfield, I’ll guess 3,600 and 36/16
Maybe THIS is the big breakout year for CB Carlisle?
We can actually have a LB lead the team in tackles – Chancey with about 85
We stay solid, but don’t get the bye week – 10-6 and a #3 seed

Season narrative:

An 0-2 start is jarring for a team that went 13-3 last year, but we need to shake it off and get back on track. 0-3 is even worse. 0-4 is a nightmare taking its shape right before us.

It looks like Bryant Czyz is the only guy on the offense playing hard – I don’t know what to make of things here. We have registered 1 sack in 4 games, and QB Swartz is upside down in his ratio. We can’t run, we can’t stop the run, this is really bad suddenly.

Okay – two wins and things are looking incrementally better. 2-4 ain’t great, but it beats 0-6. At 3-5 halfway through, we are basically out of the division race already, and our only postseason hope is to make a late run and maybe get to 9 or 10 wins to eke in as a wild card. Wow, didn’t see the bottom falling out this season.

We get to week 13, our record is 5-6, and this is the “moment of truth” for DE Ronald Harmon, who has been upgraded to probable. he was rated 75/75 before the injury was fully revealed… and now he is… 44/44. A massive hit. He will still be a decent player, but not the defensive anchor we previously had. That really sucks.

We scrape our way to 8-7 with one game left, and in-game it says we are ranked 2nd among the **five** 8-7 teams in a multi-way tie for the two wild cards. So, we have a shot – our playoffs basically start right here, at home, against 12-3 Carolina. We lose the game at home 24-21, and our season is over at an up-and-down 8-8. Tough.

Front Office Football 2007
2033 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2033
Record 8-8
Winning Pct. .500
All-Time 212-236
Winning Pct. .473
Playoffs 6-8
Playoff Visits 8
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Shaun Grier
Record 8-8
Winning Pct. .500
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 28.5 13
Rushing Yards 122.8 9
Yards Per Carry 4.31 12
Pass Attempts 28.7 30
Completions 18.1 27
Completion Pct. 63.2 10
Passing Yards 253.3 12
Yards Per Attempt 8.83 1
Yards Per Catch 13.98 1
Total Yardage Gained 369.0 6
3rd Down Conversions 49.5 2
Points Per Game 22.8 17
Pass Rush Pct. 19.5 18 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 53.5 18 (T)
Turnovers 33 29
Turnover Margin -11 30 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 30.4 30
Rushing Yards 121.5 25
Yards Per Carry 4.00 7
Pass Attempts 32.9 7 (T)
Completions 19.9 10
Completion Pct. 60.6 19
Passing Yards 225.2 8
Yards Per Attempt 6.85 12 (T)
Yards Per Catch 11.29 12 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 336.4 14
3rd Down Conversions 49.3 32
Points Per Game 22.4 16
Pass Rush Pct. 19.0 11
Pass Defense Pct. 51.9 17
Turnovers 22 22 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 14 NOS 24
2 7 at MIA 28
3 19 DET 23
4 19 WAS 20
5 34 at DAL 31
6 31 ATL 7
7 20 PHI 25
9 34 at NYK 20
10 34 at NOS 21
11 7 at CAR 31
12 14 NYJ 3
13 38 at SFO 35
14 24 at BUF 31
15 24 at ATL 21
16 24 NED 14
17 21 CAR 24

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 437 283 3945 9.03 25 18 95.6
**Team --- 459 290 4053 8.83 25 19 92.4
$$Opp --- 526 319 3603 6.85 20 14 82.7

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
24 B. Thornton RB 278 1285 4.62 14 13
32 T. Sullivan RB 116 436 3.76 1 4
4 J. Swartz QB 59 228 3.86 2 8
**Team --- 456 1964 4.31 17 29
$$Opp --- 486 1944 4.00 19 19

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 125 80 1399 17.49 11.19 1 9
89 K. Lindsay WR 95 48 914 19.04 9.62 5 5
80 T. Montgomery WR 58 38 523 13.76 9.02 4 3
24 B. Thornton RB 35 27 195 7.22 5.57 1 0
84 D. Edwards TE 36 25 321 12.84 8.92 1 5
11 B. Iadevaia WR 37 19 202 10.63 5.46 2 1
44 L. Murray FB 20 18 176 9.78 8.80 1 2
88 T. Buffington TE 23 17 226 13.29 9.83 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 97 33 0.0 1 3 10 80.5
96 H. Harlow ILB 91 40 1.0 0 0 3 76.1
39 O. Carlisle CB 72 15 0.0 0 2 13 74.8
50 K. Chancey ILB 63 15 0.0 1 1 4 75.5
48 B. Shea CB 55 10 0.5 1 5 17 84.9
59 E. Gerald OLB 51 14 3.0 8 0 4 79.5
79 A. Fernyhough DT 41 27 5.5 10 0 0 81.9
91 G. Samuels OLB 39 17 5.0 6 0 3 78.7
93 J. Thorp DE 37 13 6.0 17 0 1 82.2
30 R. Woodson S 36 16 0.0 0 1 3 78.7
72 D. Newman DE 29 13 4.0 12 0 0 81.3
54 K. Devine ILB 28 8 1.0 0 0 0 70.2
42 G. Pujols CB 25 15 0.0 0 0 4 78.0
47 X. Andrews S 24 6 0.0 0 2 2 81.5
23 N. Paas S 21 8 0.5 0 0 0 71.8
26 L. Thornton OLB 21 5 1.0 1 0 0 69.1
90 A. Wilkerson DT 16 8 0.0 0 0 0 80.0
45 D. Abercrombie OLB 16 4 0.0 2 0 0 77.2

Really, all told, this wasn’t a terrible season by the numbers. About what I expected on offense, but I guess a late run made up for some early lapses. Thornton was solid enough in what will be his last year with us, though 13 fumbles does seem a bit excessive to me. Bryant Czyz remains the real deal, and even with all that cash weighing him down, he’s still getting it done for us. Good years from our top three wideouts, really.

So, we do have a pretty good tackle total from a linebacker (Harlow with 91) but it’s still not enough to overtake the tackling machine that is S Ben Terry. The pass rush was adequate, but we were used to being well above average, and now are basically a median-level team. Same with secondary stats in coverage – basically average. For our talent level, we really should expect more than that. CB Shea might have had another all-pro year, and maybe Terry too, but overall I’d like to see this defense play like it’s good enough to win games for us. Not the case here.

QuikSand

03-12-2008, 02:42 PM

2033 Season Coda

Disappointing. Not sure if this, the occasional 8-8 season despite having a 2nd-best overall roster rating, is what I count as “challenge” but it’s one fashion of it.

RT Leland Lester’s contract demands have gone up, but I meet them anyhow – I have no other real play here. He will make 6-8m per year for the next four seasons with us, under the new deal. We’re locked in, now.

Carolina goes to the title game, but loses there to Jacksonville.

RG Bart Rodgers – third straight first team season, awesome. WR Bryant Czyz is a second team all pro, only his second time getting honored. All those years dicking around with the “control” offense killed his HOF credentials. 900 yards a season ain’t getting it done, son.

QuikSand

03-14-2008, 03:38 PM

Well... I'm halfway through the offseason to come, and I have to confess. I think I'm just out of interest in this. Yes, it's challenging enough, I suppose -- my team isn't a bye team every year. But it's just turning into a boring little "churn." I'm *always* able to find the players that I need to patch over - the AI teams simply don't make reasonable pursuits on quality complementary players. I'm coming into every season with 20-30% of my cap unused, and I'm really not even filling it up most years unless I put in a silly deal here or there. It's disappointing.

ANyway -- not certain that I'm setting this aside, but right now when I'm finding myself with an hour or two of fairly free time, I don't have any enthusiasm to fire this up. That's usually the prelude to the career just withering away and ending for me.

I just like building more than maintaining, might just not be any way around that.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:16 AM

2034 Initial Offseason

Okay, on to a new season. We will be without WR Jeff Deberry – veteran guy who had lost most of his attractiveness anyhow. Retires with 6,600 career receiving yards, and one thousand-yards season (with us). Solid player.

After we purge our exploded contracts (RB Bennie Thornton, DT Amos Wilkerson, and DE John Thorp) we have 38 guys signed, and $45m (about 18%) to spend under the cap. That projects (assuming we avail ourselves of the 16 possible signees) to 54 players – once again, we are basically right on target there.

I put in a new stadium plan (one of those things I keep forgetting in single player – like sending a guy to Europe) and keep our staff intact, including our head coach after an initial disappointing year.

Here is our list of walkyear guys and free agents:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Sullivan, Trent 32 RB 6 46 46 1 yr.
Murray, Lawrence 44 FB 3 48 63 1 yr.
Iadevaia, Brent 11 SE 3 37 45 1 yr.
Brierton, Pat 52 C 7 52 52 1 yr.
Takahashi, Chester 66 LG 3 19 26 1 yr.
Stephens, Larry 78 RT 5 41 53 1 yr.
Harmon, Ronald 97 LDE 4 44 44 1 yr.
Devine, Kris 54 SILB 4 43 43 1 yr.
Shea, Billy 48 LCB 11 80 80 1 yr.
Carlisle, Omar 39 RCB 6 70 70 1 yr.
Woodson, Rusty 30 FS 8 53 53 1 yr.

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Sutton, D.J. 12 QB 4 22 42 ---
Fisher, Rondell 37 RB 4 35 35 ---
Buffington, Travis 88 TE 4 51 51 ---
Doyle, Frank 87 SE 4 24 32 ---
Gordon, Hunter 60 LT 7 38 38 ---
Horton, Bo 75 LT 5 23 23 ---
Harden, Terrance 95 RDE 12 21 21 ---
Pujols, George 42 LCB 5 49 49 ---
Paas, Nolan 23 SS 11 36 36 ---
Andrews, Xavier 47 FS 4 41 41 ---
Watkins, Bob 36 FS 5 23 23 ---

For the franchise tag, I guess we’d want to hold onto an older player – but I just don’t see a good candidate here. CB Pujols? A nickelback? Doesn’t make much sense to me. I guess we just drop our target to 53 players and make do here.

2034 Free Agency

As we sit in the first stage of free agency, we are short on our roster at QB, RB, TE, and DB. Practically speaking, we need to add at least one usable CB in this offseason just to play as our #3, and we’d be better off adding two. At least one safety would make sense, too. RB Trent Sullivan has been our #2 back for a while – not sure if he is up to carrying the main load, so that might be a priority too. We can live with our current gang at DE, but that’s a spot I’ll watch for an impact addition as well.

CB Omar Carlisle gave up 59 passes last year (!) but I still reward him with a new five year contract. He signs for under $10m a year, and that’s a bargain, if he ever starts playing like his big red bars says he is capable. We will have some work to do next year in free agency, but locking up this young guy makes a ton of sense, and I will likely target S Rusty Woodson later this season.

I decide that CB is a tough position to fill, and that George Pujols is a pretty decent guy to keep around, so our offer is a real one to keep him here for four more seasons, likely as our top reserve DB and nickelback. CB Harvey Madison is an improvement as an affinity leader, and gives us one more usable body at CB for a few years, too. Signing these two basically takes the pressure off at the CB position for us. If we draft someone, fine, but no hurry.

DE Terrance Harden is a solid position leader, and a guy who could rush the passer if we had to send him in. He’s fairly cheap for a long term deal, which practically speaking just makes him a two or three year signee, I’ll guess.

I’m uninspired by the crop of RBs, so we sign balanced-ratings RB Chester Kelly who is decent enough to play, but we will look for someone either in or after the draft, for certain. WR Orlando Seebaldt is a decent receiver, and a good return man, and a guy I missed out on a couple seasons back – we’ll make another attempt to bring him aboard.

LG Leon Garvin is a solid veteran guard, a guy we hope might stop the bleeding we are seeing from our long-term signee there, Maurice Donhoff. Nothing too special, thus the one-year stopgap offer.

Reneg – CB Omar Carlisle, 5y $46.5m
RFA – TE Travis Buffington, 3y $6m
1YR – LG Leon Garvin, $6m
2YR -
3YR – WR Orlando Seebaldt, $7.5m
4YR – CB George Pujols, $26m
5YR – RB Chester Kelly, $51m (3y, $7.5m)
6YR – CB Harvey Madison, $$135m (3y, $9m)
7YR – DE Terrance Harden, $163m (3y, $13m)

I again miss out on WR Seebaldt (odd) but go after a pretty decent reserve-caliber WR in his place, picking up 7th year wideout Kevin Warren who is also a good return man and special teamer. Same terms, actually.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:17 AM

2034 Rookie Draft

After hitting most of our immediate need areas in free agency, we have liberty to dabble wherever we need to in the draft, I think. A playable RB would be nice, but I’m not wowed by anyone I see in this draft ahead of time. Perhaps an addition to the OL? Take a stab at a QB? Well, we have to land at least one QB just to get the roster legal, so that will come at some point, we know.

We are on the clock, with one combine-skipping CB my scout liked, and one mixed-bag WR appearing like the best overall players in the draft for us.

I’m really surprised when an OT, a guy who I was even tossing around as a possibility in rouund one, is still there a few picks before us in round two – so I make a modest trade to deal up a few slots to secure him in round two. I give up my 4th, but pick up their 6th and 7th rounders in the deal, and lock up a pretty solid-looking affinity lineman.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.17 CB Courtney Booker 5.9 6.1 –skip- 53% VU 44/64 Best guy available, scout pick
2.16 LT Raymond Money 5.6 6.2 ! -++ 31% VU 31/68 Aff, good base skills, to LG?
3.15 FS Spencer Upshaw 5.0 4.7 ! +-+ 28% UR 18/47 Value pick need pos, 4.43 dash
5.13 SLB Antoine O’Neal 5.0 4.8 !- ++ 60% HTR 12/21 Slot unclear, but potential there
6.17 QB Jake Caballero 4.5 5.1 !+ + 28% NA 11/38 4.44 dash, decent arm, worth risk
6.20 DE Tracy Henry 3.5 3.8 +--+ 43% VU 13/40 Scout loves him, affinity, sure
7.16 RB Kenneth Daughtry 4.2 4.4 + - -+ 43% UR 16/26 Scout/aff pick, maybe dumb move
7.19 RB Geoff Curson 4.3 4.6 + ! 34% VO 23/39 Best dash and agil, 4.51 and 6.98

Nothing shocking down the line – I defer to my scout for several picks later in the draft, and fall once again for my usual swoon over a super-fast QB. We’ll see if anyone is worth much from those later picks.

I’m very optimistic about the top two picks, though.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:17 AM

2034 Late Free Agency

I usually target a promising young player here, but I’m a bit disappointed with the available lot. I have a 2yr deal to spend, and on our roster safety is really our thinnest position – so I end up offering a new deal to Xavier Andrews, our own 4th year out-of-contract reserve. He’s good enough to play if need be, and takes the pressure off our 3rd round draft pick.

I decide to keep LT Raymond Money at LT for now – but I’m still open to the idea of shifting him to (hopefully) become our long-term solution at LG.

Anyway – that’s our only move here, as we are ready to see the camp results and get it together for another season.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:18 AM

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Daughtry, Kenneth<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Kelly, Chester<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Sullivan, Trent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Murray, Lawrence<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Buffington, Travis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Edwards, Dustin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Barevics, Morris<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Czyz, Bryant<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Montgomery, Timothy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Iadevaia, Brent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Lindsay, Kendrick<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Warren, Kevin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Brierton, Pat<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Donhoff, Maurice<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Garvin, Leon<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-11)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (-11)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -11<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Takahashi, Chester<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Rodgers, Bart<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Collier, Matthew<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 68<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Holt, Walt<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Money, Raymond<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 68<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Lester, Leland<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Stephens, Larry<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Dennis, Kent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Watson, Skip<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Harmon, Ronald<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Henry, Tracy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Fernyhough, Alonzo<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 59 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Harden, Terrance<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Newman, Darren<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Thomason, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Abercrombie, Darnell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10 (-14)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 10 (-14)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -14<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Samuels, Gabe<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Thornton, Lorenzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Devine, Kris<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Harlow, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (-8)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -8<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Chancey, Kelly<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Gerald, Ellis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-10)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (-10)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -10<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -10<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Madison, Harvey<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 42<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Pujols, George<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Shea, Billy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 79<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Booker, Courtney<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Carlisle, Omar<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Jarvis, Blaine<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Terry, Ben<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 82<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Andrews, Xavier<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 171.8pt;" width="229"> Upshaw, Spencer<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 24 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 55 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>  <o:p></o:p>

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:18 AM

Here are the big movers:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Abercrombie, Darnell Tampa SLB -14
Garvin, Leon Tampa LG -11
Gerald, Ellis Tampa WLB -10
Henry, Tracy Tampa LDE -9
Terry, Ben Tampa SS -9
Harlow, Hunter Tampa SILB -8
Madison, Harvey Tampa LCB -5
Shea, Billy Tampa LCB -5
Sullivan, Trent Tampa RB -4
Holt, Walt Tampa LT -4

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Pujols, George Tampa LCB 2
Fernyhough, Alonzo Tampa NT 2
Montgomery, Timothy Tampa FL 1
Doss, Myron Tampa NT 1
Murphy, Timothy Tampa QB 1
Lester, Leland Tampa RT 1
Woodson, Rusty Tampa FS 1
Daughtry, Kenneth Tampa RB 1
Collier, Matthew Tampa LT 1

Well, no big movers among our rookies – that’s disappointing. We’re seeing a lot of veteran sliding, no surprise, and the reserves don’t look to be stepping into the roles we need them to fill. RB Daughtry gives us a pretty useless +1, he won’t ever develop into anything, I don’t think. This is a pretty bad camp.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:18 AM

2034 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 75 (3rd)
Cohesion – 100-73-75-93

My predictions:

The passing game is fine, we get Swartz with about 3,500 and 26/16
Running game suffers, Chester Kelley is under 4 ypc for around 900 yds
Defense improves, and DE Ronald Harmon actually posts 8 sacks
We rebound slightly, and get a wild card at 10-6

Season narrative:

We open with a big win over Atlanta, with our defense taking charge to get it 17-6. We continue with the smothering defense early on, as we get out to a 3-0 start with only 23 total points allowed. We slip up eventually, but this start gives us a lot of hope.

At the halfway point, we are 7-1, and I judged RB Kelly a little harshly – he has indeed become our #1 back, not just a time-splitter, and despite only about 3.7 yards per carry, he’s well ahead of a 1,000 yard pace. Can’t complain with the 3-gema lead in the division at this point.

And down the stretch we go, just managing every single game and securing the win, mostly pretty easily. I didn’t see this coming at all, but at 15-1, this ends up our best regular season thus far.

Front Office Football 2007
2034 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2034
Record 15-1
Winning Pct. .937
All-Time 227-237
Winning Pct. .489
Playoffs 6-8
Playoff Visits 9
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Shaun Grier
Record 23-9
Winning Pct. .718
Off. Coord. A. Stewart
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 37.4 1
Rushing Yards 144.9 1
Yards Per Carry 3.87 28
Pass Attempts 27.9 31
Completions 17.1 31
Completion Pct. 61.2 14
Passing Yards 236.7 16
Yards Per Attempt 8.49 1
Yards Per Catch 13.87 1
Total Yardage Gained 374.5 6
3rd Down Conversions 43.1 8
Points Per Game 25.1 7
Pass Rush Pct. 26.2 1
Pass Defense Pct. 78.7 2
Turnovers 23 10
Turnover Margin +10 6

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 21.6 1
Rushing Yards 91.1 1
Yards Per Carry 4.21 16
Pass Attempts 33.4 18
Completions 16.6 1
Completion Pct. 49.8 1
Passing Yards 177.0 1
Yards Per Attempt 5.30 1
Yards Per Catch 10.65 3
Total Yardage Gained 249.3 1
3rd Down Conversions 29.8 1
Points Per Game 12.1 1
Pass Rush Pct. 20.3 16 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 48.8 10
Turnovers 33 6 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 17 at ATL 6
2 43 BAL 10
3 26 NYK 7
4 30 ARI 7
5 17 SFO 23
6 27 at STL 21
8 31 at SEA 16
9 20 NOS 13
10 20 ATL 13
11 34 at CAR 10
12 16 CIN 6
13 13 at CHI 9
14 34 at PIT 7
15 13 CAR 10
16 27 at CLE 21
17 34 at NOS 14

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 440 267 3734 8.49 28 17 93.1
**Team --- 446 273 3787 8.49 28 17 93.5
$$Opp --- 534 266 2832 5.30 10 18 57.9

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
38 C. Kelly RB 323 1173 3.63 4 8
32 T. Sullivan RB 175 726 4.15 5 5
4 J. Swartz QB 83 359 4.33 3 1
**Team --- 599 2318 3.87 12 20
$$Opp --- 346 1458 4.21 5 34

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 135 84 1358 16.17 10.06 6 10
89 K. Lindsay WR 79 48 752 15.67 9.52 3 4
84 D. Edwards TE 60 37 536 14.49 8.93 5 5
80 T. Montgomery WR 55 30 403 13.43 7.33 8 3
44 L. Murray FB 24 20 148 7.40 6.17 0 0

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
50 K. Chancey ILB 80 30 2.0 3 1 8 77.3
49 B. Terry S 65 23 1.0 0 1 11 84.0
30 R. Woodson S 61 13 0.0 1 6 16 86.6
91 G. Samuels OLB 57 15 5.0 0 0 2 72.4
96 H. Harlow ILB 38 19 0.5 1 0 3 78.1
48 B. Shea CB 37 9 0.0 0 5 12 84.8
39 O. Carlisle CB 36 6 0.0 0 1 13 82.2
59 E. Gerald OLB 31 22 10.0 32 0 1 82.9
79 A. Fernyhough DT 31 10 3.5 9 0 0 82.5
97 R. Harmon DE 31 8 7.0 15 0 0 82.3
72 D. Newman DE 31 15 8.0 10 0 0 81.7
42 G. Pujols CB 29 6 0.0 1 2 8 81.3
54 K. Devine ILB 21 6 0.0 0 0 1 77.7
20 C. Booker CB 16 6 0.0 0 0 4 81.0

Well, Swartz was very solid once again – more picks than I’d like, but he is what he is. Kelly was not all that efficient, but it’s tough to complain too much for a guy we picked up on a bargain contract. Bryant Czyz is still reliable as a superstar caliber player, and was really the focal point of the offense. G Bart Rodgers had another all-pro worthy season up front, and the line played well overall, yielding a miniscule 18 sacks all season, tied for the league low.

We rotated a lot of injured defenders this year, but got a good season anyway. LB Gerald posted the big pass rush numbers, but Harmon and Newman were both pretty solid as our DE starters. No complaints there, either. A teamwide PR% of 78+ is really good, as well. This team played very good defense, and that was the big difference between last season and this.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:18 AM

2034 postseason narrative

Okay, we are in decent health – TE is the only position where we are really clipped, with a guy off the street stepping in to play for us a bit. The week off helped, though, in many slots to get guys up from Q to P.

Divisional Playoff: Waashington (10-7) at Tampa Bay (15-1)

Not the game we had in mind… early fireworks set the stage, and the game was dominated by big plays. We get a big lead and withstand a late rush to hold on, 41-31. DR Darren Newman posts game MVP numbers with 2.5 sacks and 3 hurries. He’s becoming a real force for us.

Conference Title Game: San Francisco (9-9) at Tampa Bay (16-1)

Some kind of joke, right? We are 12 point favorites, and need to show it. It’s a sluggish start, but we get a 10-0 lead, and then strangle them from there. A 30-7 win, completely dominating, sends us on to our second championship game berth.

Championship Game: Tennessee (15-3) vs. Tampa Bay (17-1)

We are favored here, but it looks pretty even to me, really. RB Bennie Thornton is the workhorse back for the Titans, and is still getting it done. First play from scrimmage he rips off a 29 yard carry to set the tone early. They drive for an opening TD, and pick us off on our opening possession, to get ahead by 10-0 at the end of the first quarter.

We connect on one of two FG tries in the second quarter, an Tennessee kicks one of their own just before the half to lead 13-3. Not a dramatic difference in yardage, but we need to get some points on the board if we want to get this one back in reach, obviously.

The third quarter is more give and take, but we fumble a punt and give the Titans a great chance to stretch things out. A one play, 9-yard drive makes it 20-3, and we are close to panic mode now. We respond with our first TD drive of the game – 10 points is a lot better than 17, but time is now starting to loom as the 3rd quarter ends.

We come close to stopping them a couple times, but they convert the big third downs and get into position to kick a FG, to make the score 23-10. We need our offense to click once again to have any hope – but instead we go three and out, and then let the Titans roll right into scoring position again. Their possession eats a ton of clock, and we are dying on defense now. They finish with a 56 yard FG, which is good, but the clock is all the way down to 2 minutes and we trail by 16.

So, what would be nice? How about a kickoff return TD? Done. Two pointer? Done. Game on? Maybe.

We try an onside kick, but Tennessee gets it. And we lack the timeouts to do much – so, all that phony late excitement was really for naught. It’s a 26-18 final, but wasn’t really that close.

RB Bennie Thornton watches their 4/4 kicker get the game MVP award (getting lots of credit for that late 56-yarder that really made no difference, I guess), but he himself posted 134 yards rushing, 29 more receiving, and was clearly the most outstanding player in the game. So it goes – we couldn’t keep him, so we’re glad he could do well elsewhere, I guess, just wish it hadn’t come against us.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:18 AM

2034 Season Coda

G Bart Rodgers and LB Ellis Gerald again make the all-pro lists. NO surprise there, both have been solid performers for us for years now. We also get 2nd team honors for our kicker Kent Dennis, who seemingly had a ton of long FGs this year – 14/24 from 40+ yards. Go figure, he’s rated 17/17 overall.

Anyway – so, we put together really our best season thus far, basically springing out of nowhere. We had a lower roster rating than usual, and had out usual spate of injuries, but we played like world beaters most of the year. I don’t have any explanation for it, really.

My best guess is that despite my rules that seem to require some “churn” of players, I still am much better off than the dimwitted AI teams in terms of cohesion, just by having kept around a few key players a long time (2 WR and our CB/S especially).

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:33 PM

2035 Initial Offseason

After a very successful season, we have a few shaky things cooking, and this offseason might prove to be pretty interesting, I think.

We have two retirements – LT Walt Holt and LB Darnell Abercrombie. Both have been fading rapidly anyhow, so there’s little loss of real capital there regardless.

We re-hire our scout, bring aboard a new offensive development coordinator, and are ready to start looking at the player market.

Here’s our list of walkyear players and free agents:

Front Office Football 2007
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Swartz, Jose 4 QB 9 51 51 1 yr.
Murphy, Timothy 15 QB 7 44 44 1 yr.
Montgomery, Timothy 80 FL 4 61 61 1 yr.
Barevics, Morris 17 FL 4 30 30 1 yr.
Collier, Matthew 73 LT 4 74 74 1 yr.
Watson, Skip 1 P 3 81 81 1 yr.
Dennis, Kent 13 K 3 17 17 1 yr.
Thomason, Junior 92 RDE 3 31 40 1 yr.
Douglas, Dusty 74 RDE 3 14 30 1 yr.
Doss, Myron 76 NT 3 20 46 1 yr.
Chancey, Kelly 50 WILB 10 60 60 1 yr.
Thornton, Lorenzo 26 SLB 4 30 42 1 yr.
Gerald, Ellis 59 WLB 8 43 43 1 yr.
Jarvis, Blaine 43 RCB 3 18 50 1 yr.
Terry, Ben 49 SS 9 73 73 1 yr.
Andrews, Xavier 47 FS 5 41 41 1 yr.

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Sullivan, Trent 32 RB 7 40 40 ---
Murray, Lawrence 44 FB 4 62 62 ---
Iadevaia, Brent 11 SE 4 38 41 ---
Brierton, Pat 52 C 8 50 50 ---
Garvin, Leon 64 LG 13 45 45 ---
Stephens, Larry 78 RT 6 46 46 ---
Harmon, Ronald 97 LDE 5 45 45 ---
Devine, Kris 54 SILB 5 43 43 ---
Shea, Billy 48 LCB 12 74 74 ---

So, for the franchise tag, the question is whether we want to re-sign CB Billy Shea to another multi year deal. If so, then we don’t tag him and instead just put in our offer as a FA. If we do that, which I think I prefer, then I guess we look at LG Garvin as a possible tag recipient? RT Stephens? (He’s so mad he won’t stay any other way) No great options, really.

I decide to tag Larry Stephens, he’s a solid player, a strong affinity with our new OL leader Garvin (who may be back) and we may have the cap room to eat his $21m contract if he sticks for this year.

We do have one exploded contract – starting LB Kelly Chancey, who has been a very solid starter for us for some time. His deal sits at $44m this year, but it’s the only one blowup deal, so we will at least try to extend it away. He wants nearly $20m a year, which is pricey, but we have been leaving cap space unused the last few years, anyhow. I start out thinking this is just too much to spend on him – and we have a fairly young ILB in Kris Devine who is still improving, and he’s ready for the job, I think. But I also note that LB Hunter Harlow is going to be gone after this year, so I’m kind of stuck. I also note that we have quite a few solid players on last-year deals, and I’d prefer to keep a guy like S Ben Terry from hitting free agency. And how about QB Jose Swartz? LB Ellis Gerald? LT Matthew Collier? We are about to hit a wall with good players on contract.

Okay, we have to cut Chancey, and re-up with someone else. I decide that our contract renegotiation here will be with Ben Terry – we work it out for four seasons, and get him locked up by four more years.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:33 PM

2035 Free Agency

We have $21m in cap space, and another $21m tied up for the moment in RT Larry Stephens.

Reneg – SS Ben Terry, 4y $52m
RFA – FB Lawrance Murray, 3y $8.7m
1YR – RB Trent Sullivan, $2.4m
2YR -
3YR – LB Kris Devine, 7.8m
4YR – DE Ronald Harmon, $24m
5YR – LB Ralph Ramaswami, $80m (3y $10m)
6YR – C Pat Brierton, $166m (3y $16m)
7YR – CB Billy Shea, $238m (4y $78m)

CB Billy Shea is a standard candidate for a long term deal with a few real years. So, $28m up front, a $10m base salary for four years, and then a blowup – he’ll listen. If someone moves in and overpays him to get him away from us, we’ll live. Basically the same deal with C Pat Brierton, our starting C who’s an 8th year player.

LB Devine is pretty important to re-sign for us, since we are rapidly on our way to an empty roster at ILB. He’s still creeping, so we really think he makes a ton of sense to lock up and get into our lineup.

DE Ronald Harmon is an interesting case. Bound for superstardom, he suffered a massive injury, and fell to a shell of his former self. I am now re-signing him largely because he is fairly affordable, and still decent. Not a star, but good enough to start at DE and do so only $6m a year.

RT Larry Stephens is clearly occupying too much cap space, so our franchisee simply has to go.

I go after LB Ralph Ramaswamy, who is a solid-enough LB (an all pro just two seasons ago) who can move to the inside, and ought to give us two or three solid years. I think this is still a target position for the draft, but it’s worthwhile having a guy in store just in case.

Okay… so one twist that I certainly realized was possible was that CB Billy Shea would get signed away. I offered him a $35m signing bonus and four years at $11m each – but he instead accepted a deal for $36m over two years from Pittsburgh. It happens. Not often enough, really, but it happens. With the loss of Shea and ILB Chancey, we are going to see a serious talent and cohesion drop on our defense this year.

I put in a 7yr offer on DT Donnell Stuart, a solid run stopper who ought to be good enough to start if needed. That settles a modest roster need for us for a few years – he’ll be cheap for three, and ten potentially affordable for a fourth year.

That brings us to 48 players signed in advance of the draft – so we still have some slots to throw away if need be.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:33 PM

2035 Rookie Draft

Picking at 31, we will see most of the top shelf talent taken ahead of us, but we have team needs in the next couple years at (more or less in order of urgency) at: ILB, QB, G, RB, OLB, DE, and CB. We will likely be picking BPA from among the need positions the first couple rounds, unless someone sweeps me off my feet.

I had my eye on two guards I hoped might slip to the end of round one – but no dice, they go at picks 11 and 13, so I was **way** off there. But when we are up, not a single WR has yet been taken – and there’s a workout warrior sitting there who just has to be a ton better than his modest bars. Consider me swept, I had no clue this guy would fall to us.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.31 WR Bryan Clawson 5.6 5.8 ! +!+- 52% VU 28/36 4.36 dash, 6.81 agil, high hopes
2.31 ILB Cedric Peters 4.8 4.7 + -+++ 42% HTR 14/29 Solid combine, develop all around
3.31 TE Morris Warfield 5.0 4.4 +!++ 25% VU 17/39 Hoping for all around star here
4.31 OLB Paul Ward 4.9 4.7 !! -- 53% VU 26/40 Future starting blitzbacker?
5.31 LT Clarence Shroeder 4.7 5.2 + + - 30% HTR 17/25 Standard creeper, run blocker, aff
6.31 OLB Mel Goodwin 4.2 4.0 !!+ - 31% VU 13/29 Another pass rusher prospect
7.31 LG Travis Carter 3.8 3.6 ++- 10% NA 7/42 Best run blocker left, affinity

Once we got past the workout warrior QB, things fell into place okay – I had targeted the next three picks from out outset, and was glad to see LB Ward fall that far, he looks like a great fit for our willie slot. I’m pleased with the “fits” we got here, we’ll see if anyone holds up in training camp.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:33 PM

2035 Late Free Agency

We have an unexpected holdout, and that mucks up my late-season renegotiation planning.

From: Darren Newman

I have decided to hold out until I receive a new contract.

I believe I made a huge difference rushing the passer last season. I believe I'm very seriously underpaid, and will not report to camp without a new contract.

We can’t go into the season without him, but we have a flood of key players in walk years – so I will try to hold out and get him to knuckle under.

Last season in late free agency, we didn’t see much to like, and ended up just re-signing one of our own decent players. No such worries here. There are a load of quality guys out there, and my choice is whether to take a chance on an older DL who could be a major difference-maker, or just to go after a young player who could help us at a slot like ILB or OG.

I decide to make a serious play for DT Jake Rolfe, an 8th year guy who is rated 83/83 overall, and has been a four-time all pro already. He’s a monster, but missed half last season with a bad injury – he looks okay now, but might be dicey. We are trying to get into the mix without compromising our ability to sign our rookies under the cap – so there is no guarantee that our 2yr $44m deal will prevail, despite a $20m bonus. If it falls through with Rolfe, we will have options elsewhere, but I am hoping to bring him aboard and to lock him up as a starting DE for us. If Rolfe can come back and play all year, he will be an impact player wherever he lands.

Right away, Jacksonville had the lead for Rolfe with a 4yr, $73m offer – but mine is better per year overall. I just hope that my thin first year salary doesn’t kill me.

Week three is decision time, and he signs with… us! w00t!

I am a bit disappointed to see that he won’t easily move to the DE slot – it’s an 84% transition for him. So, I guess we will play him at DT – he has posted a PR% of 7 or better there, and as many as 15 sacks, so it’s not like he can’t be an impact player at DE for us.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:34 PM

2035 Training Camp Results<o:p></o:p>
Tampa Bay Player Report (TB 2035c - TB 2035d)<o:p></o:p>

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Collier, Matthew<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 75 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Money, Raymond<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43 (6)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 6<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Schroeder, Clarence<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Lester, Leland<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Dennis, Kent<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> K<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Watson, Skip<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 77<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76 (-1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Harmon, Ronald<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Henry, Tracy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 27 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Stuart, Donnell<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Doss, Myron<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Fernyhough, Alonzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Rolfe, Jake<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 83<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 83<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Harden, Terrance<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 16 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Newman, Darren<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 67<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 67 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Thomason, Junior<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Samuels, Gabe<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 57<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Thornton, Lorenzo<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Harlow, Hunter<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Peters, Cedric<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 19 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 34 (5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Ramaswami, Ralph<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 53<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44 (-9)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -9<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Devine, Kris<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WILB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Gerald, Ellis<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 43<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Goodwin, Mel<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 29<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (11)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 11<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Ward, Paul<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> WLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Booker, Courtney<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65 (13)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65 (7)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 13<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 7<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Madison, Harvey<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 37<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32 (-5)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -5<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Pujols, George<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 52<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Carlisle, Omar<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 70 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 70 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Jarvis, Blaine<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RCB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 44<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 45 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Terry, Ben<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (-4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -4<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Andrews, Xavier<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FS<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:34 PM

Here’s the summary of the big movers:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Ramaswami, Ralph Tampa SILB -9
Gerald, Ellis Tampa WLB -7
Edwards, Dustin Tampa TE -6
Woodson, Rusty Tampa FS -6
Czyz, Bryant Tampa FL -6
Madison, Harvey Tampa LCB -5
Rodgers, Bart Tampa RG -5
Rolfe, Jake Tampa NT -5
Terry, Ben Tampa SS -4
Pujols, George Tampa LCB -4

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Goodwin, Mel Tampa WLB 11
Booker, Courtney Tampa LCB 7
Schroeder, Clarence Tampa LT 5
Peters, Cedric Tampa SILB 5
Carter, Travis Tampa LG 5
Samuels, Gabe Tampa SLB 3
Murray, Lawrence Tampa FB 2
Collier, Matthew Tampa LT 2

Hey, that’s a much better-looking list of pluses than we have seen in a while, eh? LB Mel Goodwin gives us a +11? Been a long time since I saw a move that big. And CB Booker’s big move is right on time, now that he is suddenly our starting LCB. Rookie LB Peters gives us justification for the early pick with a +5 of his own, too, that’s solid.

I confess, I am stunned by WR Clawson’s failure to break out here, though. I though he was a +5 for sure, hopefully better. This looks like it’s going to turn out to be a solid draft anyhow, but I did want more from him, I confess.

On the bad side, DE Darren Newman is still holding out, and he’s asking for a monster contract, over $27m a year. I don’t see how I can pay that much for him, so I guess our only choice here is to wait him out. If he doesn’t come back, I think my backup play is to shift DT Rolfe over to play in his DE slot – not what I had in mind when I signed him, but likely our best short term option to cover for the holdout.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:34 PM

2035 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 88 (3rd)
Cohesion – 100-99-67-90

My predictions:

Another solid year from Swartz – maybe tops the 30 TD mark for first time?
RB Chester Kelly up to 4 yards per carry, but just barely, for 1,000 yards
Jake Rolfe leads team in sacks and hurries, wherever he plays
Defense slips from elite level, but is still above average against run and pass
We are not a #1 seed, but we do win 11 games and the division

Season narrative:

We open the season with DE Newman still holding out. I am using DT Rolfe in his starting DE slot, and he delivers in the opening game with 4 tackles and a sack. We get off to a decent start at 3-2, but we simply do not have the luster from last season. Then Newman decides to come back, and we can put together the defensive front the way I had it in mind.

We reel of three straight wins, two of them behind QB Murphy, to get to 6-2 at the midpoint. Two more wins, and we seem to have started to cruise – a 30-6 win over Carolina gives us a four game lead in the division already, and we are already plotting our playoff seeding and pathway.

With two games left in the season, we are 12-2, but have lost WR Bryant Czyz to an injury for the year. We are tripped up in our finale with a few nicked-up starters resting, but still finish with a solid 13-3 record, another #1 seed, and a statistically superb season once again.

Front Office Football 2007
2035 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2035
Record 13-3
Winning Pct. .812
All-Time 240-240
Winning Pct. .500
Playoffs 8-9
Playoff Visits 10
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Shaun Grier
Record 38-13
Winning Pct. .745
Off. Coord. J. Helmuth
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 35.4 1
Rushing Yards 134.4 4
Yards Per Carry 3.79 31
Pass Attempts 28.4 31
Completions 17.8 29 (T)
Completion Pct. 62.6 7
Passing Yards 266.5 4
Yards Per Attempt 9.39 1
Yards Per Catch 15.01 1
Total Yardage Gained 392.7 1
3rd Down Conversions 50.2 1
Points Per Game 27.6 2
Pass Rush Pct. 25.6 2
Pass Defense Pct. 54.9 16
Turnovers 23 11 (T)
Turnover Margin +8 4 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 22.8 3
Rushing Yards 96.9 2
Yards Per Carry 4.25 14
Pass Attempts 36.7 27
Completions 20.6 22 (T)
Completion Pct. 56.0 7 (T)
Passing Yards 214.1 7
Yards Per Attempt 5.84 2
Yards Per Catch 10.41 1
Total Yardage Gained 297.9 1
3rd Down Conversions 34.4 4
Points Per Game 15.9 1
Pass Rush Pct. 18.2 5
Pass Defense Pct. 53.6 18
Turnovers 31 3 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 23 CAR 7
2 24 JAX 13
3 17 at PHI 34
4 17 at ATL 0
5 35 at MIN 38
6 21 NOS 6
7 34 at DET 21
9 44 GBY 6
10 37 CHI 21
11 30 at CAR 6
12 17 at LRK 3
13 20 SFO 16
14 37 IND 14
15 27 at NOS 24
16 31 at TEN 16
17 27 ATL 30

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 364 230 3517 9.66 33 13 110.3
15 T. Murphy QB 75 47 643 8.57 5 1 106.7
**Team --- 454 284 4264 9.39 38 15 107.5
$$Opp --- 587 329 3426 5.84 17 17 70.7

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
38 C. Kelly RB 314 1163 3.70 7 6
32 T. Sullivan RB 191 742 3.88 6 4
4 J. Swartz QB 56 243 4.34 0 2
**Team --- 567 2151 3.79 13 18
$$Opp --- 365 1550 4.25 7 29

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
8 B. Czyz WR 96 58 1019 17.57 10.61 2 9
89 K. Lindsay WR 87 52 848 16.31 9.75 5 11
80 T. Montgomery WR 84 44 769 17.48 9.15 3 9
84 D. Edwards TE 56 40 507 12.68 9.05 2 5
81 K. Warren WR 45 28 523 18.68 11.62 4 1
44 L. Murray FB 31 28 209 7.46 6.74 1 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 82 39 2.0 1 2 8 80.6
91 G. Samuels OLB 60 20 1.0 4 1 8 77.9
39 O. Carlisle CB 51 14 0.0 0 7 7 81.5
93 R. Ramaswami ILB 47 27 1.5 1 1 2 77.8
30 R. Woodson S 46 10 0.0 1 2 7 80.4
20 C. Booker CB 46 12 1.0 0 1 15 80.4
75 J. Rolfe DT 45 12 3.0 13 0 0 81.9
59 E. Gerald OLB 40 20 10.5 20 0 2 80.2
54 K. Devine ILB 38 18 2.0 1 0 1 74.3
42 G. Pujols CB 37 6 0.0 0 1 5 77.2
96 H. Harlow ILB 31 10 0.0 1 0 0 71.5
97 R. Harmon DE 31 15 5.0 15 0 0 81.0
72 D. Newman DE 21 6 5.5 24 0 0 80.8
50 C. Peters ILB 18 2 0.0 0 0 0 59.1
79 A. Fernyhough DT 17 4 1.0 4 0 0 82.1
92 J. Thomason DE 16 3 1.0 5 0 0 81.7

Well, we didn’t get our running backs up to 4 yards a carry this year, but we did get our QB up to 30 TD passes, and that’s only playing 14 games. I have no idea why the passing game picked it up a bit this year, but that seems to be what happened, in any case. Bryant Czyz had another solid season, but a serious injury hurts us for these playoffs and maybe beyond, if it had lasting effects.

The defense was solid – our pass rush was still pretty elite overall – but not ferocious like last season. CB Booker had a very solid first full season as a starter, and he is going to be really good for us. DE Newman came back and played well, and the front seven were solid. But our teamwide pass defense numbers were way down – with shaky numbers from guys like LB Devine and Harlow, suggesting we were a little bit soft in shallow coverage. Some work to be done there, but it wasn’t bad.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:34 PM

2035 Postseason Narrative:

We have one major injury on top of Czyz – safety Rusty Woodson will be playing hurt, but in the lineup. Past that we are in good shape.

Divisional Playoff: Washington (11-6) at Tampa Bay (13-3)

I have no idea what happened here, but it’s a field position battle early, and the Skins et a FG, and then a TD to lead by 10 at the half. We just cannot get anything going, and this team who posted 27.6 points per game on the regular season ends up with a total whiff when it counts, and cannot even muster a single point. Skins 17, Bucs 0, goodbye.

Wow.

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 07:35 PM

2035 Season Coda

We close the season with a new contract for QB Jose Swartz, keeping the continuity there, and locking him up for around $14m a season, which is under-market for a top tier starter, which he is by the numbers if not the red bars.

Next year is going to be a big one – we have a load of good players whose contracts are ending, and if we lose one or two quality guys from this team without replacing them, we could slide back substantially in terms of overall talent. And I’m seeing some gigantic contract demands coming from guys like LT Matthew Collier, DE Darren Newman, and WR Timothy Montgomery – so perhaps we will see a cap crunch in the mix as well. And the potential to lose WR Czyz would be a major transition for us as well.

MIJB#19

03-16-2008, 08:52 PM

What happened to Bryan Clawson? I don't see him in the top (4 wide) receivers list. Even with his current overall grade of 'bars', I think you could have justified making him the #3 behind Czyz and Montgomery receiver based on his 1st round status. Or does he really look so horrid,being too ugly to believe in the beauty hidden inside the beast?

QuikSand

03-16-2008, 09:03 PM

Yeah, Clawson had a net zero in training camp... and as a guy with pretty modest ratings to start out with, that made him a real afterthought for us. When Czyz got hurt late in the season, he moved into the rotation, but he simply isn't a guy who gets much action on this roster... I let the staff do the depth charting, and a 28/36 guy just isn't going to get much playing time unless other players get out of the way.

Maybe he will get more action in his sophomore season...

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 08:55 AM

Have been pretty busy this week - though I might have some time Wed to do something with this, but did not. Don't know where this lies... my next substantial pocket of free time may turn out to be tonight, and I have no idea if this is on my list of things to get into. *shurg*

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:07 PM

2036 Initial Offseason

Well, this is our first season with a fairly lengthy list of retirements:

DE Terrance Harden – affinity lyncphin and occasional reserve pass rusher
LG Maurice Donhoff – former standout guard, had slipped but started last year
WR Kendrick Lindsay – starting split end, had been steady but not outstanding
WR Kevin Warren – veteran signing had been solid #4 receiver for a couple years

So, nothing earth-shaking, but it does leave us very thing at WR all of a sudden, and with a first round pick there from last year draft who looks like he might have just been a whiff.

We also have a couple of contracts that necessitate releases:

ILB Hunter Harlow – decent tackler and run stopper, shaky coverage skills
TE Dustin Edwards – solid veteran starter, but replaceable as he declines

And with that, we are about $49m below the cap – about 17%. We have 35 players signed, and since our rules basically authorize up to 16 additions, we are a bit shy of the anticipated 53 player target. So, we may have some work to do, one way or another – not that playing through this season with only 51 players would be a major hardship.

I bring about a more well-rounded scout – scratching an itch that has been at me a while. Here is his assessment of our walk year and free agent players:

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Caballero, Jake 18 QB 3 17 35 1 yr.
Curson, Geoff 28 RB 3 25 33 1 yr.
Daughtry, Kenneth 41 RB 3 21 27 1 yr.
Buffington, Travis 88 TE 6 49 49 1 yr.
Rodgers, Bart 55 RG 11 71 71 1 yr.
Henry, Tracy 99 LDE 3 16 28 1 yr.
Newman, Darren 72 RDE 4 66 66 1 yr.
Rolfe, Jake 75 NT 9 78 78 1 yr.
Fernyhough, Alonzo 79 NT 7 60 60 1 yr.
Samuels, Gabe 91 SLB 4 59 59 1 yr.

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Murphy, Timothy 15 QB 8 45 45 ---
Sullivan, Trent 32 RB 8 40 40 ---
Montgomery, Timothy 80 FL 5 61 61 ---
Barevics, Morris 17 FL 5 31 31 ---
Collier, Matthew 73 LT 5 76 76 ---
Watson, Skip 1 P 4 73 73 ---
Dennis, Kent 13 K 4 15 15 ---
Thomason, Junior 92 RDE 4 38 41 ---
Doss, Myron 76 NT 4 24 46 ---
Thornton, Lorenzo 26 SLB 5 33 42 ---
Gerald, Ellis 59 WLB 9 36 36 ---
Jarvis, Blaine 43 RCB 4 20 44 ---
Andrews, Xavier 47 FS 6 41 41 ---

Okay, first the franchise tag. I know what LT Collier was looking for in his contract last year – he might be a guy we simply cannot afford going forward. WR Montgomery is a guy I want to sign long term, intending to start him at SE this year. So, we really don’t have anyone who fits this slot perfectly well, assuming we think we can ink LT Collier in open free agency. I decide to take my chances – it’s one more open roster spot this year, but I think we will be okay there. No tag.

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:07 PM

2036 Free Agency

A bunch of key decisions here. I think the first move we will undertake is an extension with DE Darren Newman. He missed a few games last year, and his contract demands have come down somewhat – he will still be expensive, but it’s not totally out of reach. Plus, I can live with his long term deal as he offers it, giving me more flexibility for my one later-season reneg. Done – six year deal, lock him up.

DT Jake Rolfe is a guy I think we will let expire, and then perhaps tag for a season or two as long as he remains productive and healthy. Solid player for sure, I’m just working the angles with the contracts. We can afford his $30m hit this year, and we’ll work on next year next year.

With that, we are looking at our free agents. I really want to bring back WR Montgomery, and since we only have two WRs signed to any contract, it’s pretty urgent that we do so. He is looking for a 5yr deal, which is very good news – that can be a real 5yr offer this time, rather than a 3yr offer with a time bomb imbedded. I load the deal with bonus money, and try to get him fairly cheap and roll the dice on a future injury.

We really have two choices with our one RFA re-signing – backup DE Junior Thomason, or our stud punter Skip Watson. I’m not wild about investing capital into a punter, but extending this guy keeps us from having to use a draft pick on another guy, while we might be okay at DL as it stands. I work out a new deal with Watson, who is, after all, a very highly rated player.

That gets us to about $33m left to spend under this year’s cap. And LT Matthew Collier is the defining player for us. Either we sign him, and work on an economy budget for the rest of the team – or we let him walk, and look for places to spread our cap space around. He is a very solid looking player – and while I have a couple solid LT prospects behind him, none project to look like him at any point, period. We have been trying to do better on the ground game – tough to see a better player to keep us on that track than Collier. I decide to put in a huge offer to him, and try to lock him up for 4 years. Our offer eats up $20m under this year’s salary cap.

Reneg – DE Darren Newman, 6y $104m
RFA – P Skip Watson, 3y $7m
1YR -
2YR – RB Jack Wright, $5m
3YR – DE Junior Thomason, $5.4m (minsal)
4YR – LT Matthew Collier, $105m ($40m bonus)
5YR – WR Timothy Montgomery, $65m ($25m bonus)
6YR – QB Timothy Murphy, $115m (3yr minsal)
7YR – WR Vernon Berry, $198m (3y $14m)

I was surprised to see QB Timothy Murphy at some point slip upward from “angry” to “unhappy” and therefore open to accepting a contract offer from us. I offer him three years at minsal, with three more at the end to slot it into the 6yr offer slot. That relieves me of searching through the dregs and the rookie class for a backup this season.

RB Jack Wright is a pretty good 5th year guy who has been productive for Baltimore in limited duty, and I’m intrigued enough to offer him two years. He has enough endurance to carry our main load – we’ll see how well he does as a #1 back instead of a backup.

By the way, I’m basically convinced that LB Ellis Gerald is out of gas, so I’m not offering him a new contract. Have two sophomores who look ready to step into the WLB role, and we will give them their shot, and let Gerald walk.

With these signees, we are up to 42 players, and have our roster nearly legal – we are only short a kicker. We have holes to fill, to be sure, but we got most of our crisis spots addressed via free agency.

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:07 PM

2036 Rookie Draft

Once again, we are picking late, and will settle for what we see. I figure our short term needs are more or less at: WR, G, DE, OLB, TE, S, CB, ILB. Again, I expect the top picks to go to BPA among those positions – though I think we do need to land at least one playable WR in this draft.

With our top pick, we have a quandary – WR has been depleted, and the guy I liked as a 2nd rounder or so is now listed 3rd among the WRs on the big board. Meanwhile, a LG my scout likes is sitting there, and looks like a perfect need fit. I think that’s the safe pick here.

When my target WR is still there a few picks ahead of us, I pull the trigger, trade away our 3rd rounder, and pick up a couple extra late rounders, which we can use this year.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.30 LG Mickey Colombo 5.7 5.4 –skip- 18% VU 30/76 28 sol test, scout pushed the pick
2.25 WR Raymond Shipp 4.8 5.0 +! -+ 19% VU 17/36 another project guy get a chance
4.23 TE Allen Chiaverini 4.7 4.1 -+-++ 23% VO 21/58 yes, ignoring my scout again at TE
4.30 K Cris Joseph 6.1 3.6 +++!+ 40% NA 39/60 have to take one, why not the best
5.30 WR J.T. Witt 4.4 4.6 + - + 26% HTR 17/50 return specialist, some combines
6.27 SS Craig Ventura 3.9 3.7 + + -+ 9% VU 10/28 no bars, no dev, but love combines
6.30 SLB Everett Alexander 4.0 3.8 --- 65% NA 15/46 well dev, good coverage, sp tmr
7.26 QB Sammie Dixon 3.6 4.1 - !-! 16% UR 5/22 7.24 agil, 91 pos drill… odd mix
7.30 RB Stanley Cooper 4.3 4.6 - ++ 36% HTR 21/31 10-05 jump, good pos drill, stab

The one guy I was watching a long time was S Ventura, exactly the sort who creeps, but still never contributes for a team like this. So, to offset, I fiddled with a few oddball filler picks here -– LB Alexander was basically a most-developed-guy at the position, and RB Cooper is basically a curiosity pick due to his two good ratings at odd spots like the broad jump and position drill. QB Dixon is also a guy I interviewed for his great agility drill, and my scout liked him, so worth a late round flier. Hell, my best drafted QB came from round six…why not one more?

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:08 PM

2036 Late Free Agency

Incidentally, QB Sammie Dixon turns down the cheap contract offer, as did kicker Cris Dixon. Last year the only guy who did that was my LB Goodwin, and he had a monster training camp. Maybe there’s a connection. A breakout camp from Dixon would not shock me. I’ll take note.

With our last FA contract, I shore up the secondary a bit with CB Jamie Palmer, an affinity guy who can play a bit for us in nickel and dime coverages if need be. Nothing too special, but we are right up against the camp and I lack the space to afford more glamorous players.

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:08 PM

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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 23<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 25 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 28 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 56 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 63 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Chiaverini, Alvin<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 58<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 26 (5)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> TE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 18<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49 (0)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 31<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 35 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 64<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61 (-3)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Montgomery, Timothy<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 62 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> FL<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 17<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 36<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 40 (4)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 4<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> C<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 51 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 20<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LG<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 30<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 76<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 7<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 71<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 71<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 69 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -2<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Collier, Matthew<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 74 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Schroeder, Clarence<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 21<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 32<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 33 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Lester, Leland<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> RT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 49<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 50 (1)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Money, Raymond<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 39<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 60<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 8<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 144.75pt;" width="193"> Watson, Skip<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> P<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 73<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 71 (-2)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 48 (0)<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 0<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> LDE<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 14<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 22 (0)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 47<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -3<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 61<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 54 (-7)<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> -7<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> NT<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 78<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 1<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 65<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 38<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 41<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 5<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 15<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> 46<o:p></o:p>
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</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> SLB<o:p></o:p>
</td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Tampa<o:p></o:p>
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QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:08 PM

The condensed version:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Ramaswami, Ralph Tampa SILB -33
Alexander, Everett Tampa SLB -10
Devine, Kris Tampa WILB -10
Witt, J.T. Tampa FL -7
Fernyhough, Alonzo Tampa NT -7
Madison, Harvey Tampa LCB -5
Pujols, George Tampa LCB -5
Chiaverini, Alvin Tampa TE -4
Stuart, Donnell Tampa LDT -3
Woodson, Rusty Tampa FS -3

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Swartz, Jose Tampa QB 13
Ventura, Craig Tampa FS 7
Peters, Cedric Tampa SILB 4
Shipp, Raymond Tampa SE 4
Cooper, Stanley Tampa RB 3
Thomason, Junior Tampa RDE 2
Dixon, Sammie Tampa QB 2

Woo boy, trouble at LB. This pushes still-creeping Cedric Peters right into a must-start position, and the unexpected hit to WILB Devine stings a bit, as he will be right in there alongside young Peters.

The big plus news here is a veteran breakout from QB Swartz, which is obviously nice – he’s now looking like a pretty serious starter, after all my initial reservations. He will get help from young WR Raymond Shipp who looks to develop into a quality starter for us. And a +3 from RB Cooper… hey, that might work, too.

So rookie safety Craig Ventura jumps from 10/28 to 14/35 – well, that’s nice – but will he get enough development to become useful? Tough to say.

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:08 PM

2036 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 100 (85 is next)
Cohesion – 100/98-100/98-78-84

My predictions:

Swartz with his ratings boom posts 4,000yds, 33 TD and only 15 Int
Running game a bit better behind Jack Wright, he posts maybe 4.4 ypc
Defense slips a bit, pass rush down, but still average
That’s good enough for 12 wins and another bye week

Season narrative:

We barrel off to two strong wins to open up, and then fall flat in a 34-9 loss at Detroit. Swartz is still playing well, though we are suffering a bit from interceptions… even when we get to 4-1, he is actually upside down at 7/8 on the year in his ratio.

Halfway home, we are on track with my prediction, sitting at 6-2. Timothy Montgomery, starting at the split end position, is on track for a big season with 627 yards. Jack Wright is giving us our usual result of late – he’s up to 600+ yards, but is under 4 ypc. I will try to get rookie Stanley Cooper in the mix a bit.

We wrap things up right on target, with the 12-4 record I expected, and parsed out perfectly into four 3-1 season segments. Not a bad season, overall. However, we have to play in the wild card round, as two NFC teams posted 13-3 records.

Front Office Football 2007
2036 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2036
Record 12-4
Winning Pct. .750
All-Time 252-244
Winning Pct. .508
Playoffs 8-10
Playoff Visits 11
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Shaun Grier
Record 50-18
Winning Pct. .735
Off. Coord. J. Helmuth
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 32.8 3 (T)
Rushing Yards 132.3 6
Yards Per Carry 4.04 21
Pass Attempts 27.9 29
Completions 16.4 29 (T)
Completion Pct. 59.0 20
Passing Yards 239.9 14
Yards Per Attempt 8.61 1
Yards Per Catch 14.60 1
Total Yardage Gained 365.5 7
3rd Down Conversions 48.1 2
Points Per Game 25.4 7 (T)
Pass Rush Pct. 22.9 6
Pass Defense Pct. 54.8 17 (T)
Turnovers 31 22 (T)
Turnover Margin -14 28

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 25.8 11 (T)
Rushing Yards 102.4 9
Yards Per Carry 3.97 10
Pass Attempts 33.1 9 (T)
Completions 20.0 15 (T)
Completion Pct. 60.4 21
Passing Yards 207.3 1
Yards Per Attempt 6.26 6
Yards Per Catch 10.37 1
Total Yardage Gained 293.8 4
3rd Down Conversions 35.6 7
Points Per Game 16.4 1
Pass Rush Pct. 16.2 1
Pass Defense Pct. 69.9 29
Turnovers 17 29 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 33 at NOS 10
2 24 at KCY 13
3 9 at DET 34
4 20 at WAS 16
5 41 DAL 10
6 17 at ATL 20
7 30 PHI 10
9 41 at NYK 10
10 38 NOS 13
11 7 CAR 26
12 23 SDO 18
13 41 ARI 15
14 24 at DEN 10
15 19 ATL 13
16 16 OAK 24
17 23 at CAR 20
$$WC DAL

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 442 261 3819 8.64 28 21 88.6
**Team --- 446 263 3839 8.61 28 21 88.4
$$Opp --- 530 320 3317 6.26 17 8 82.8

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
35 J. Wright RB 346 1302 3.76 12 6
4 J. Swartz QB 68 358 5.26 2 3
38 C. Kelly RB 55 283 5.15 3 2
27 S. Cooper RB 49 161 3.29 0 0
**Team --- 524 2116 4.04 17 18
$$Opp --- 413 1639 3.97 7 20

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
80 T. Montgomery WR 126 66 1168 17.70 9.27 11 11
8 B. Czyz WR 94 47 944 20.09 10.04 8 7
82 V. Berry WR 66 45 604 13.42 9.15 3 2
88 T. Buffington TE 42 24 297 12.38 7.07 4 3
35 J. Wright RB 25 21 213 10.14 8.52 0 0
83 R. Shipp WR 28 16 233 14.56 8.32 2 1

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
91 G. Samuels OLB 105 28 8.0 7 2 9 74.9
49 B. Terry S 102 43 1.0 0 0 11 78.3
50 C. Peters ILB 70 26 0.0 1 1 7 79.6
23 S. Upshaw S 52 14 0.0 0 0 3 72.6
75 J. Rolfe DT 50 21 3.5 10 0 0 80.9
39 O. Carlisle CB 50 9 0.0 1 2 14 79.4
58 P. Ward OLB 44 17 8.5 11 0 1 78.9
42 G. Pujols CB 39 12 2.0 0 0 2 73.9
20 C. Booker CB 36 17 1.0 2 1 20 86.5
72 D. Newman DE 35 12 7.5 19 0 2 82.6
54 K. Devine ILB 34 14 0.0 0 0 0 72.3
97 R. Harmon DE 27 10 8.0 13 0 0 81.9
56 M. Goodwin OLB 27 13 1.0 1 0 1 76.6
46 C. Ventura S 17 6 0.0 0 1 6 84.2

I was looking for a bit more from the passing game, but tough to argue with 8.7 ypa there, even if the TD/Int ratio was a bit uninspiring. We know that’s basically what Swartz is capable of. Pretty good seasons from Montgomery and Czyz, while the supporting cast was fine as well.

Our running game, as usual, is inflated a shade by Swartz’s running totals. We are not running the ball very well overall, though. With the sort of investment in the OL we are making, that is discouraging.

Our pass rush was still among the league’s best, good to see. DT Rolfe is playing very well at the NT slot for us, and we are getting solid numbers all around. DE Newman is probably the best of the lot, but everyone seems to have gotten his share.

Pass defense overall is only average, which I would have liked to see better. Safety was a trouble slot – Rusty Woodson was out most of the year, so we had Upshaw and rookie Ventura playing most of the year, which contributed to the problem no doubt.

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:09 PM

2036 Postseason Narrative:

Wild Card Round: Dallas (10-6) at Tampa Bay (12-4)

The kind of game we really prefer here – we get up 10-0 and sort of bear down from there. Never really run away with it, but we play tough defense, and don’t turn the ball over, and smother them over time, 22-10.

Divisional Round: Tampa Bay (13-4) at Washington (13-3)

Washington led by solid QB/RB tandem, like many teams. We get a couple of first half TDs from Timothy Montgomery to get ahead 21-7, and while it’s more wide open, the game plays out the same way as the last one – we are basically in charge the whole time, and wear them down. It’s 41-21 at the end, but our defense really set us up for some easy points.

Conference Championship: Tampa Bay (14-4) at Detroit (14-3)

The Lions shellacked us in the regular season, and get another shot here. A solid veteran QB, and a good young RB – sounds familiar. They are the defending champs, so we are the underdogs here for sure. We strike first, but cannot really keep control, and they chip away… 7-3, then 10-7, then 17-7. We get back into it with a long TD pass with about 6 minutes left, but that’s the last highlight in the reel, as we fall 17-14.

QuikSand

03-21-2008, 10:09 PM

2036 Season Coda

Detroit defends their title easily over Buffalo.

We see LB Gabe Samuels and G Bart Rodgers earn all-pro honors, first and second team respectively.

Well, we basically know who we are. We seem to be good enough to hang double digit wins, and be “in the hunt.” A few weaknesses here and there, but overall this is just a good, solid team.

I blow it with one thing – I don’t have the cap space to offer LB Gabe Samuels the 5yr extension he seeks, and that’s just bad planning on my part. The only deal I can work out is with TE Travis Buffington – not a key player like Samuels, but he’s extending cheaply enough.

The team, overall, seems to be in a pretty good place – we have needs, but we are now cohesion aces to go with our generally strong roster. **sigh** Not too interesting, I fear.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 03:50 PM

2037 Initial Offseason

For some reason, I hit “end season” and continue on with this…

No retirements, but we have one veteran to release: CB Harvey Madison. We could actually make a run at re-signing him later, as he is a strong affinity anchor for our secondary – but for now, he has to go.

RB Chester Kelly is on a deal intended to be a “pivot” year – about $12 million. I suspect we will prefer to cut him, as we aren’t that bad off in terms of roster spots, but we don’t need to do so right away, at least.

RT Leland Lester is another interesting case – he’s slated to make about $10 million this year, he has lost his starting RT job to younger Raymond Money, and he is a strong conflict with our position leader. Another good candidate for a cut.

NT Jake Rolfe gets the tag and a $16m contract – not as bad as I had guessed, really.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 03:50 PM

2037 Free Agency

Well, here is our list of players in their walk year, and out of contract:

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Wright, Jack 35 RB 6 57 57 1 yr.
Murray, Lawrence 44 FB 6 63 63 1 yr.
Czyz, Bryant 8 FL 13 61 61 1 yr.
Carter, Travis 62 LG 3 33 47 1 yr.
Schroeder, Clarence 71 LT 3 26 35 1 yr.
Money, Raymond 77 RT 4 52 60 1 yr.
Lester, Leland 67 RT 8 49 49 1 yr.
Rolfe, Jake 75 NT 10 79 79 1 yr.
Devine, Kris 54 WILB 7 36 36 1 yr.
Goodwin, Mel 56 WLB 3 37 47 1 yr.
Booker, Courtney 20 LCB 4 66 66 1 yr.
Pujols, George 42 LCB 8 43 43 1 yr.
Upshaw, Spencer 23 FS 4 52 52 1 yr.
Woodson, Rusty 30 FS 11 46 46 1 yr.

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Caballero, Jake 18 QB 4 22 33 ---
Curson, Geoff 28 RB 4 25 31 ---
Daughtry, Kenneth 41 RB 4 25 28 ---
Rodgers, Bart 55 RG 12 69 69 ---
Henry, Tracy 99 LDE 4 15 21 ---
Fernyhough, Alonzo 79 NT 8 54 54 ---
Samuels, Gabe 91 SLB 5 64 64 ---
Palmer, Jamie 21 RCB 5 31 31 ---

I guess the logical thing to do with an extension here is to work out a new deal with CB Booker, a guy we clearly want to try to keep around. We offer him the deal he is seeking, and get him locked up for three more seasons, each fairly pricey.

So, our main focus among our own players will be to return RG Bart Rodgers and LB Gabe Samuels. Past that, I’m fine with role players anywhere, and perhaps a short term deal with a pricey player somewhere (like DE?).

Reneg –
RFA – QB Jake Caballero, 3y minsal
1YR – RT Buddy Vasquez, $2.8m
2YR -
3YR – DE Donny Burne, $10.8m
4YR – DT Lester Horst, $31m (3y $8.7m)
5YR – SLB Gabe Samuels, 120m (4y $65m)
6YR – LB Michael Wilkerson, 132m (3y $30m)
7YR – RG Bart Rodgers, 195m (4y $54m)

It doesn’t take me long to discard RT Lester and RB Kelly to clear out cap space. That brings our target roster down to 56 players (assuming we use all our contract slots, etc), so we are still doing fine.

MLB Michael Wilkerson looks like a perfect addition for us to the inside LB corps, where we have young guys who won’t ever be as good as he already is. Solid add, I think.

Things are going fine, until week seven – when LB Gabe Samuels surprises me and out of the blue accepts a new offer from Minnesota. That was unexpected, and there’s nobody out there who can fill that “stud LB” slot for him. Tough loss. I’m thinking the right play here is to slide young Mel Goodwin to that role, but we will wait until after the draft to decide – OLB may also be a rookie target for us now.

Then, my fears are doubled – as G Bart Rodgers suddenly turns our offer down, and he too goes to Minnesota. Wow. I did not see that coming at all, I confess, I just saw our offer leading the whole way.

(Realistically, the loss of these two guys was largely my own fault – I tried to keep very close to their demands, and didn’t “overpay” either guy with my offer. I think it’s largely for the best, as we would have been committing quite a lot after these two easy-to-fill positions had they both accepted my offers)

So, we have our 5 and 7 year contract slots to use now, and not much out there to use them on. OG Roy Maticic is a run-blocker only, but is by far the best interior lineman out there, and he’s cool with a 5y deal. I think he will be solid, though not the same as plugging back in the same guy who has been with us for years and years.

LB Doug Farrington is a playable LB who ought to be okay in coverage – just one more guys we can use in a SLB rotation, perhaps. Not great, but cheap. We leave the 2yr slot open for a potential big money guy – as I now have the cap space for one.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 03:50 PM

2037 Rookie Draft

Well, we pick late in round one again, so we will again wait to see what is left over for us. I’m thinking our target slots for this draft are perhaps at LB,CB,DE,RB,QB and OL… rapidly approaching “everywhere.”

We are on the clock, and I have nobody really in mind here. I have a VU-rated WR who ran a 4.37 dash – is that the best place to go here – he might even slide to our round two pick. I explore trading down, but end up just taking the weird-bars CB who stands out to me – best deal we could work was to get a 3rd rounder for moving down 25 spots – too risky.

My target WR is there about six picks before we are up, and I decide to pounce rather than regret missing out on him. We get the Dallas 6th and 7th, but give up our 3rd to deal up.

Pick Pos Name Grd Adj 4TBAJP Dev O/U Scout Comments
1.29 CB Skip Nakamura 5.9 5.9 + + + 60% HTR 25/39 Need to see a creep, good ints bar
2.22 WR Patrick Phillips 5.2 5.4 !+ + + 17% VU 21/44 Big BPR guy with 4.37 dash, creep!
4.28 DT Charles Collier (RDE) 4.6 5.0 ++-+ 39% NA 21/40 PR guy, has to move outside period
5.29 SLB Jeffrey Morrison 4.6 4.6 + ++- 38% NA 23/39 Red flag kept him lingering long
6.24 FS Oliver Winslett (SS) 4.1 3.8 -+ 21% NA 15/37 Solid pos drill (48) flatters him
6.28 C Mack Manahan 4.7 4.0 ++ +- 16% NA 13/57 Not much to like here, take stab
7.23 ILB Charles Sanford 4.0 3.9 +- - 40% NA 11/48 Depth at need position, 33 PSpec
7.29 RB Joseph Davidson 3.8 4.0 -+- + 46% NA 18/38 Return skills seem worthwhile

Not much enthusiasm for the bottom of this draft, really, just filling in. If our top two picks work out, we’ll be okay overall.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 03:51 PM

2037 Late Free Agency

We get a holdout from young LB Paul Ward – perfect timing, as we are so thin at LB as is. My guess is that we will go with Mel Goodwin at the weak side slot, and maybe veteran signee Doug Farrington as the strong side starter. This is not ideal, but I think it’s our best use. We will likely keep rookie Jeffrey Morrison in the fold as our weak side backup.

I’m comfy enough with the LB situation that I feel I can go elsewhere for our last FA signee – and we pick up 4th year WR Rex Franklin on a short term deal. He comes off two straight 1,000 yard plus seasons, and comes to us for a fairly expensive offer of $7m per year for two seasons. A well rounded receiver, he ought to fit right in with our group, and potentially could become part of our longer term plans.

That pushes us all the way to 57 players, so we have some space to clear out.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 03:54 PM

The biggest camp movers:

Top Ten Most Likely Busts:

Name Team Pos Change
Farrington, Doug Tampa SLB -14
Berry, Vernon Tampa FL -14
Woodson, Rusty Tampa FS -8
Terry, Ben Tampa SS -8
Sanford, Charles Tampa WILB -8
Rolfe, Jake Tampa NT -7
Czyz, Bryant Tampa FL -4
Manahan, Mack Tampa C -3
Davidson, Joseph Tampa RB -2
Morrison, Jeffrey Tampa WLB -2

Top Ten Most Likely Breakouts:

Name Team Pos Change
Nakamura, Skip Tampa LCB 6
Phillips, Patrick Tampa SE 5
Franklin, Rex Tampa FL 5
Vasquez, Buddy Tampa RT 4
Booker, Courtney Tampa LCB 3
Peters, Cedric Tampa SILB 2

So, young WR Rex Fanklin not only looks good, he joins just as our backup flanker falls over the cliff, and he gives us a +5 in camp himself. Wow, great timing, welcome to the fold. The defensive deterioration is rapid and pronounced at this point, that’s cause for concern – we are falling apart on that side of the ball.

CB Nakamura will develop into a major asset, it seems, and CB Booker made a nice (random) jump as well. We are going to need help fro a lot of guys soon, so we’ll take all we can get.

With this last drop in current skills, S Rusty Woodson has fallen out of our plans, and onto the FA pile. We expect to see both Spencer Upshaw and Craig Ventura getting playing time in the battle for the safety positions. It looks like longtime star Ben Terry is not far behind him in his decline.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 03:54 PM

2037 Season

Benchmarks:

Roster Rating – 100 (93 is next)
Cohesion – 95-85-71-100

My predictions:

More of the same with passing game – 3,500 and 28/14
RB Jack Wright posts 1,400 yards rushing on 4.1 ypc
WR Rex Franklin turns out to be our best WR with 1,200 yards
DE Darren Newman leads team with 12 sacks
We slip a bit, but still make the playoffs at 10-6

Season narrative:

We get off to an impressive 2-0 start, with a few surprises – like LB Mel Goodwin off to a great start with 3.5 sacks in just two games from the weak side. At 4-0, we look like a completely dominant team. Through 6 games, we remain prefect and our points ratio is 231-108.

We make it all the way to 10-0, and are still putting together monster numbers – Swartz is at a 125 passer rating with a 27/5 ratio, and our teamwide yards/target is over 10. We finally lose one at home to Carolina, but it’s still a magical season we put together all told, as we waltz right into the #1 seed and look easily the best we ever have.

Front Office Football 2007
2037 Summary for Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Year 2037
Record 15-1
Winning Pct. .937
All-Time 267-245
Winning Pct. .521
Playoffs 10-11
Playoff Visits 12
Bowl Wins 0
Head Coach Shaun Grier
Record 67-20
Winning Pct. .770
Off. Coord. J. Helmuth
Def. Coord. B. McKenzie

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Rank
Rushes per Game 34.9 2
Rushing Yards 132.4 6
Yards Per Carry 3.79 27
Pass Attempts 26.9 31
Completions 16.9 29
Completion Pct. 63.0 8
Passing Yards 265.8 4
Yards Per Attempt 9.89 1
Yards Per Catch 15.69 1
Total Yardage Gained 391.3 2
3rd Down Conversions 47.5 3
Points Per Game 37.4 1
Pass Rush Pct. 27.8 1
Pass Defense Pct. 75.7 1
Turnovers 22 6 (T)
Turnover Margin +15 2 (T)

Opponents Team Rank
Rushes per Game 23.9 5
Rushing Yards 103.6 7
Yards Per Carry 4.33 24
Pass Attempts 35.3 26
Completions 18.3 2
Completion Pct. 51.7 1
Passing Yards 194.3 1
Yards Per Attempt 5.50 1
Yards Per Catch 10.65 3 (T)
Total Yardage Gained 278.8 1
3rd Down Conversions 28.6 1
Points Per Game 15.1 2
Pass Rush Pct. 16.7 5 (T)
Pass Defense Pct. 48.4 11
Turnovers 37 2 (T)

Week Team Versus Oppnt
1 48 at ATL 15
2 26 MIA 17
3 45 at WAS 28
4 31 ARI 3
5 38 SFO 17
6 43 at STL 28
8 39 at SEA 6
9 35 at NOS 13
10 34 ATL 10
11 40 at CAR 25
12 45 at NYJ 25
13 45 DET 0
14 37 BUF 7
15 21 CAR 27
16 30 at NED 13
17 41 NOS 7

Passing Pos Att Comp Yards Y/Att TD Int Rate
4 J. Swartz QB 422 265 4122 9.77 45 12 118.8
**Team --- 430 271 4253 9.89 46 12 119.8
$$Opp --- 565 292 3109 5.50 16 23 60.5

Rushing Pos Att Yards Y/Att TD Fum
35 J. Wright RB 392 1497 3.82 15 9
27 S. Cooper RB 110 418 3.80 1 4
4 J. Swartz QB 56 205 3.66 2 1
**Team --- 559 2119 3.79 18 24
$$Opp --- 383 1657 4.33 11 26

Receiving Pos Targ Catch Yards Y/Ctc Y/Tar Drop TD
80 T. Montgomery WR 103 76 1269 16.70 12.32 6 13
81 R. Franklin WR 92 53 1050 19.81 11.41 6 10
8 B. Czyz WR 82 47 815 17.34 9.94 5 9
83 R. Shipp WR 35 21 390 18.57 11.14 3 1
88 T. Buffington TE 38 20 258 12.90 6.79 2 3

Defense Pos Tack Asst Sack Hurr Ints Defn PDPct
49 B. Terry S 92 23 1.0 0 3 12 82.6
51 M. Wilkerson ILB 76 21 4.0 7 4 2 76.8
23 S. Upshaw S 55 31 0.0 0 0 17 83.0
72 D. Newman DE 50 14 11.0 31 0 0 81.8
20 C. Booker CB 44 11 3.0 0 4 15 84.5
54 K. Devine ILB 43 11 1.5 0 0 2 73.2
57 D. Farrington OLB 42 19 2.5 3 0 5 78.0
42 G. Pujols CB 40 13 0.0 0 0 3 75.4
78 D. Burns DE 39 14 7.5 18 0 0 82.0
75 J. Rolfe DT 37 18 6.0 18 0 0 81.5
56 M. Goodwin OLB 36 9 9.5 23 1 1 82.1
39 O. Carlisle CB 26 8 0.0 0 5 14 90.4
50 C. Peters OLB 22 10 0.0 2 1 1 80.0
32 S. Nakamura CB 18 2 0.0 0 3 3 84.0

Wow – Jose Swartz had a big big year for us – up to now, he was basically mister steady, good for 25-30 TDs a year (only one season over 30) and suddenly he posts 45 this season, with the same game plan. It just all came together, it seems. WR rex Franklin surely helps – he and Montgomery posted big seasons, and Czyz was still solid, playing mostly in the slot.

The running game was nothing special, but Wright did post big numbers, mostly due to us having a lot of big leads. Both our guards had outstanding seasons.

On defense, our pass rush was again among the league’s best - #1 with that PR% over 27. Newman did indeed lead the team, but we were good as a unit there, with Goodwin likely earning the weak side job for good now. Safety Spencer Upshaw was shockingly good, and made a case for a new contract with a great 17 passes defensed. DE Donny Burns may have been a meaningful upgrdae for us at DE over Ronald Harmon, moving quietly into that starting role and giving us a solid season.

And as usual – the key ingredient in putting together a great defense is arranging to get ahead by three touchdowns. Sure thing.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 04:08 PM

2037 Postseason Narrative

Divisional Playoff: Philadelphia (12-5) at Tampa Bay (15-1)

Everything completely falls apart here for us, as we fall behind 24-7 at the half, and then another TD on the first third quarter possession. But we rally hard, get back into position to get into the game, and after Swartz leaves the game with an aggravated injury, we come back under Timothy Murphy to push the game into overtime, and secure the eventual 34-31 win. Hand Murphy the Frank Reich award for that one.

Conference Championship: Dallas (13-4) at Tampa Bay (16-1)

Okay, Swartz is again listed as Q with a knee, he is slotted as our starter, but who knows? Swartz plays, but we are not effective on offense, and fail to get thing going at all – we fall behind, and this time our rally comes up short, as we fall 17-14.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 04:08 PM

2037 Season Coda

Well, great regular season, disappointing postseason – we’ve heard this one before.

Dallas wins it all easily over Buffalo (heh).

Jose Swartz gets his first all-pro honors, named second team QB behind Dallas’s wily veteran Frank Altenberger. K Cris Joseph and OLB Mel Goodwin are named first teamers.

I decide that S Spencer Upshaw deserves a new deal after this excellent season, and we lock him up for three more years. Not the guy I had in mind at the start of the season, but he really seems to have earned it, in my view.

QuikSand

03-26-2008, 04:14 PM

For what it's worth, I am toying with the idea of continuing this career under some version of the rules that I have tossed out in this thread (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=64440). I'm pretty much bored with these rules -- though they have done a pretty reasonable job of keeping me challenged, I'm getting a little tired of doing all the same little things year in and year out.

Just FYI... I might relaunch this career in a new thread, with a new set of rules.

QuikSand

04-23-2011, 02:00 PM

Placeholder thought here. Looking back at these rules, trying to decide if there's enough here to reboot with.

Contemplating tying in an old rule I used a few times long, long ago -- limiting my FA activity to no more than one outstanding FA offer at any time. Could fit with this theme, possibly even simpler to manage.

For now, just a thought...

britrock88

04-24-2011, 03:15 AM

I just spent the last few hours reading this straight through, and I think your constraints were interesting to see you work with, even if they weren't that interesting for you to wiggle inside. That said, I've never played FOF, though I have enough Madden experience / NFL knowledge to stand in for FOF know-how.

Without constraints like these, how challenging is single-player mode?

QuikSand

04-25-2011, 12:05 PM

I think for a brand new player, FOF single player is likely to be pretty challenging. There are a lot of things that simply require some brute force and experience to get familiar enough with to really "beat" the game.

For veteran players who have mastered the wide open game, I think the game still plays really well with some constraints. At that point, it's just a matter of how tough to you want to make the constraints, and/or what sort of decisions do you like to be making? For me, it's basically a holy grail sort of thing... the process of developing a great set of house rules is a decade-long challenge for me, and it's become sort of a meta game unto itself.

I am fiddling a bit now on using this "one" concept, built around one-FA-offer-outstanding as the centerpiece, as a good and easy-to-follow rule. So far, fairly promising returns, but I don't know that I am pushing it as far as I ought to.

QuikSand

05-15-2023, 02:01 PM

The Highlander Challenge

It’s been a while since I played a public, documented, solo FOF career. I thought I would give it a shot once again. I will again make a try to come up with a set of rules that make the game a long-term challenge for me – what I want is for the game to be interesting to play, challenging to win, but allow me to play “all out” within the rules that I have adopted up front. You may have heard me refer to this as a holy grail… it’s tougher than it seems.

So, my current thinking is that I’ll try a set of rules where I am allowed to do lots of different things – but none of them more than once per season. Thus, the play-on-words title of the challenge, which I hope won’t be lost on quite everyone.

So, here are the limitations for the career. In any given season:

-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a one-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a two-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a three-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a four-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a five-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a six-year contract
-there can be only one unrestricted free agent signed to a seven-year contract
-there can be only one year on any new offer made to a restricted free agent
-there can be only one renegotiation before the season starts
-there can be only one renegotiation toward the end of the season
-there can be only one trade, either within the current draft or AI-initiated

Yes, I include my own out-of-contract players among the limits for FA signees. I am also aware that the ability to sign contracts for longer than three years generally means committing either huge money or else stuffing huge backends to the deals forcing a release some way through – so in essence, it will be very difficult for me to keep players around in this career, I expect. That is absolutely by design – the worry I’m targeting here is that I generally find it far too easy to just re-sign lots and lots of decent role players for minsal or a bit more year after year – and all of my solo teams turn into cohesion monsters as a result.

So, basically – my rookie draftees are mine through their rookie contract and for whatever I can sign them to as restricted free agents – meaning that I can get an easy four years out of most of them who turn out to be worth keeping. Past that, I will have a pretty limited ability to keep players around.

I’m also limiting my ability to sign undrafted rookies here. I’ll have to bend these rules as I initially build a team (empty cupboard will demand it) and fill in with one year rookies, but my intention is to have these limits apply to those players too.

This proved to be among the better (or at least most memorable) sets of House Rules I developed and used in FOF over the years.

I like that it introduced something that is missing in FOF compared to the real world NFL... routine bad contracts requiring dead money tails. It is just too easy to avoid that, for the most part, even in cutthroat MP leagues. In the NFL even good teams end up with them on the regular.