SB Nation User Blog: el capitan hook

5 Clips Tickets vs Raptors!!

el capitan hook — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:10:09 -0000

Who wants 5 tickets for the clips vs raptors game? The seats are for BOX SEATS!!!!!

Section C-37 Row GA Seats 1-5

$500 for the whole lot, also including a parking pass!

Payment Method: Paypal

I will email you the tickets in an attachment, and I will email the parking pass in another email.

I want to get rid of this tickets because I will not be able to attend due to my son's piano recital, the $$$ could go a long way to helping my son get a nice present for recital.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, email me: road_runner080808@yahoo.com

Bucs Fantasy Team Name

el capitan hook — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:51:43 -0000

This is my 5th year playing fantasy football, which is by far the best fantasy sports, but in year's past my team name has had something to do with my fantasy team, but this year I would like it to be related to my good old tampa bay bucs....any ideas anyone?

I'm open to anything, clean, dirty, cheezy, serious, old bucs, modern bucs... I figured where better to get a great idea that some fellow buc fans. Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.

3 team trade....tyrus thomas, salt lake's newest resident?

el capitan hook — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:01:40 -0000

Check this out.....Utah Trade

lemme know what ya think, i actually like the deal because i love tyrus thomas and this would open us up to signing milsap long term, also with either korver or okur's contract coming off the books after this year we will be able to make a big splash in next year's free agency, but i also think we'd be competitive this year...just my 2 cents tho

Bucs inform Jeff Garcia no team wanted him

el capitan hook — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:01:11 -0000

Buccaneers Inform Jeff Garcia That No Team Ever Wanted Him

TAMPA BAY, FL—Shortly after ending a two-year relationship with Jeff Garcia, the Buccaneers front office notified its former quarterback that no NFL organization had in fact ever wanted or needed the 38-year-old. "It was hard to see that look on his face, but he needed to learn that no team—not even the Bears—could imagine a future with him," said owner Malcolm Glazer. "We were only stuck with Jeff for this long because nobody better was available." Glazer, who said the decision to make a clean break came after consideration of Garcia's arm strength, height, freckles, and male pattern baldness, admitted the Buccaneers only pursued the quarterback to see if it made other free agents interested in the team.

Naturally Garcia signed with the Raiders....officially ending his career.

For those of you who didn't get it, this was a little satire on my part. I don't know how else to spend this off season and make it go by faster.

Raheem, let Plax walk the plank....please : )

el capitan hook — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:02:34 -0000

Yahoo Sports yesterday, published a report that the Buccaneers were one of five teams to contact Plaxico Burress this week. The Yahoo report describes the phone call as exploratory and was mainly to “check on Burress’ well being.” The checking in on his well being part is quite laughable, but we’ll for this excercise take the phone call as a serious inquiry into signing Burress. This is according to Burress' agent Drew Rosenhaus. According Rosenhaus, via his Twitter account, Burress now has five NFL teams interested in him. And that list, according to Rosenhaus, could become even longer soon, Profootballtalk.com reported.

First and foremost, the legal issues that Plaxico faces from gun charges in NY are the most important factor in any team signing him, the Bucs or anyone else for that matter. I have read lately that his lawyers are trying to reach a plea deal with the district attorney’s office. Let us also assume for this that Plaxico ends up with a probation and community service type of plea bargain and serves no actual jail time. I mean he may be an idiot, but he didn't kill anybody (or animals).

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Regardless of his eventual deal with the state/district attorney’s office, Plax is almost certain to face some punishment from Commisioner Roger Goodell. Burress is most likely looking at somewhere in between 4 and 8 games. Let’s say he ends up with an 8 game suspension, stays on good behavior and gets his suspension cut to 6 games.

The availability of a player who had such an impact on a team winning the Super Bowl two years ago is something that every team would be looking at if Burress wasn’t such a head case. He is though, and that is something that every team, including the Bucs would need to take into consideration if they were to sign him. His production on the field though, can not be disputed. In 3 full seasons with the NY Giants, him and Eli Manning connected for 29 touchdowns. Everyone just assumed that Eli Manning had become a great quarterback during this time, but with Burress out last year, Manning looked average, and in my opinion, that’s is just what he is. Burress ability to stretch the defense vertically on go routes, run routes to perfection, catch just about anything thrown his way and mostly his ability to be a huge redzone target was key to the so called “progression” of young Elisha Nelson Manning.

If the Bucs plan were to let Luke McCown or Byron Leftwich captain the ship this year while rookie Josh Freeman learns the ropes, than signing Burress to me seems to be a no brainer. The tandem of Antonio Bryant and Burress coupled with the arm strength of both McCown and Leftwich would make our offense downright scary. Add in the deep running back corps, Kellen Winslow and our young impressive line, and the Bucs would have the chance to be a top tier offensive team. I think everyone is overexaggerating the loss of the older players on our defense, because if I remember correctly, most of the pundits felt this was our downfall defensively last season. We have old guys and we are too old, we get rid of them, and now most people think we have no defense. Our secondary is one of the young bright secondaries in the league. Barrett Ruud, Quincy Black/Angelo Crowell and Jermaine Phillips/Geno Hayes is a more than competent group of linebackers and if the defensive line can get some more pressure on the QB we have the chance to be as good as we have at any point during the last decade. People forget that until we lost to the Panthers in Week 14, the Bucs were the number 2 ranked defense in the league.

On the other hand, if the plan is for Freeman to play, I think this would be a terrible signing by us. I loved how Antonio Bryant behaved last year, but the combination of Bryant, Winslow and Burress is a frightening thought for me in regards to a rookie QB and his psyche. Three guys who demand the ball and aren’t afraid to act out when they don’t get their way isn’t really the way you want to “raise” a quarterback in this league.

It’s an interesting pickle for our team in all honesty, and one if it were to happen, will probably tell you the direction in which the front office and the new coaching staff feel this team is headed for the upcoming season. I, for one, hope we sign Plax. I'd have no problem seeing 17 setting of cannons. So please Raheem, let Plax walk the plank...

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Should the Bucs go after Plax?

Yes!!!!

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