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Adrian Peterson is to the Minnesota Vikings as peanut butter is to jelly. Peterson is the heart and soul of the Minnesota offense; he's the reason the team had jumped back into playoff contention prior to Sunday’s game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Stop Peterson, and ...

After a long 13-month rehabilitation process, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers appear ready to take a test drive in their Cadillac. Carnell “Cadillac” Williams, the NFL's offensive rookie of the year in 2005, has been out since early in the 2007 season with a torn patellar tend ...

As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers enjoy their bye week, it's time to reflect on their first half of the season and see how the different aspects of the team have performed thus far. The Bucs are sitting at 6-3, trailing NFC South Division leader Carolina by only a half-game ...

This was one of those games that can sneak up and bite a good team. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers weren’t supposed to have any trouble against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. After all, the Chiefs have been one of the worst teams in the NFL this season and have struggled ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a good football team. You don’t get to be 5-3 and in the thick of the playoff hunt at the midway point of the season unless you're better than average. The problem with the Bucs, however, is that they are relying too much on their tough def ...

In the world of sports, it has always been said that an ugly win is better than a pretty loss. If that is indeed the case, then what is an ugly loss worth? It’s worth a lot of head scratching if you’re the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. How a team can lose a game like the Bucs ...

Although they didn’t plan it this way, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are in the right place at the right time. Last week, for instance, the Bucs were aided by the absence of Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck in a dominating win over the Seahawks. This week, Tampa Bay get ...

Sometimes on automobile mirrors there are stickers that read: “Warning. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” The Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed one of those explanation stickers after their 20-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night. The sticker s ...

Things are clicking in all phases of the game for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers right now, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. After a quarterback “situation” earlier in the season, it now appears as if the Bucs have settled on their man. Tampa Bay’s defense is als ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeff Garcia apparently doesn’t know how to count. How else do you explain his ridiculously unfounded complaining about his contract? He is scheduled to make $2 million in 2008, and he thinks he’s underpaid even though he is 38 and missed three games with injuries l ...