(USA Right now Sports Pictures) While we have been focusing on the odd quarterback state of affairs with the Jets, Terrelle Pryor beginning for the Raiders or no matter is going on with Tony Romo nowadays, a dysfunctional quarterback scenario has in some way slid below the radar.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are making it very clear to Josh Freeman that the relationship may get kind of messy this season.
Once a player is a captain, he generally stays a captain, until one thing unusual happens. That is very true at quarterback. No quarterback goes to be voted out as a captain, and certainly not for a receiver in his second 12 months with the crew. Besides in Tampa Bay.
Josh Freeman had been a captain with the Buccaneers for 3 years, but his teammates decided he wouldn’t be captain a fourth time, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
If you want to say NFL captaincy means nothing, that’s fine. But you’d be ignoring that getting the captain’s “C” taken away is extraordinarily uncommon, and also would ignore that it is yet another signal that the Buccaneers could be preparing to maneuver on.
The team has not been extremely supportive of Freeman, who is in a contract yr, this offseason. That culminated with the workforce selecting Mike Glennon from N.C. State within the third round, because the second quarterback off the board. Glennon got a ton of enjoying time this preseason, which wasn’t exactly refined.
So the Buccaneers have averted signing Freeman to an extended-time period contract, drafted his potential successor after which the workforce voted guard Davin Joseph and receiver Vincent Jackson as offensive captains as an alternative of Freeman again. Jackson is in simply his second Tampa Bay season. The Buccaneers’ next step is likely to be placing some “For Sale” signs on Freeman’s entrance yard.
Usually a staff has signed its quarterback long term or it’s clear that the connection will end as soon as it’s economically possible. For some time it seemed like Freeman was a kind of uncommon young quarterbacks whose future was legitimately unsure. Now it seems more like Freeman is likely to be enjoying out the string in Tampa.
Perhaps Freeman performs in addition to he did within the first half of final season, before he collapsed down the stretch and introduced some of this uncertainty upon himself. At that point the Buccaneers may feel good about signing him to a brand new deal. But in the meanwhile, it looks like Freeman has to easily get again in the circle of belief before he can take some steps in the direction of that.
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