NFL  > Tampa Bay Buccaneers  > NO court in 09 for Plaxico, and No suspension!!!!!!
June 25, 2009, 01:53 PM
Burress Wants To Be A Buc
Posted by Mike Florio on June 17, 2009, 8:13 a.m. EDT
Now that it???s becoming increasingly clear that receiver Plaxico Burress won???t be standing trial on felony weapons charges until after the 2009 season has come and gone, the process of finding a new team for Burress has commenced in earnest.

According to Stephen Holder of the St. Petersburg Times, Burress has reached out to members of the Buccaneers to express an interest in joining the team. He reportedly has contacted running back Derrick Ward and receiver Antonio Bryant.

The development was acknowledged by first-year coach Raheem Morris on Tuesday.

???He???s a great player,??? Morris said. ???Any time you get a chance to add a great player to your team, you definitely have got to have some sort of interest. We don???t know what???s going on with his legal problems, we don???t know what???s going on with the suspensions in the league. Until we get all that stuff resolved, it???s not even worth talking about.???

As to the legal problems, the widespread consensus is that there will be no trial in 2009. If prosecutors were intent on rushing this case into the courtroom, they wouldn???t have agreed to a three-month continuance in March 2009, or to another three-month continuance more recently on Monday.

As to the possibility of a suspension, we recently explained that Commissioner Roger Goodell previously indicated that, because Burress is a first-time offender, no suspension will be imposed until his court case is resolved.

For those who still think that Goodell will smack Burress with a multi-game penalty once he signs with a new team, why would Goodell wait? It???s one thing for Goodell to defer a decision on the Mike Vick case until Vick is officially released from custody; it???s quite another for Goodell to withhold judgment simply because a player currently isn???t on an NFL roster.

Though we???re too lazy to do the research, we generally recall unsigned players being suspended. (Feel free to do the research for us, and to identify the names and circumstances in the comments.)

So we think that Burress essentially has a green light to play this year, and that unless potentially interested teams figure that out, someone like the Bucs might get him for peanuts.
June 25, 2009  02:56 PM ET

I hope the Buccaneers acquire his services it sounds like he wants to play there I hope he gets his wish and the Buccaneers land him.

June 25, 2009  06:26 PM ET
QUOTE(#1):

I hope the Buccaneers acquire his services it sounds like he wants to play there I hope he gets his wish and the Buccaneers land him.

If the Bucs do sign him, then beware of one rabid, hardheaded, one track minded, Plexiglass supporting Bears fan who will be out on all fours, and occasionally standing upright on two rears, claws extended, looking for the Bucs fans, and disagreeing Bears fans for taking "his guy" from "his team".

This fan shall remain nameless to protect the guilty.

*laffin*

June 25, 2009  08:30 PM ET

If we do happen to get the guy ill be glad, we need a player of his caliber in our wide out position and im willing to welcome the guy with open arms.

June 25, 2009  09:15 PM ET
QUOTE(#3):

If we do happen to get the guy ill be glad, we need a player of his caliber in our wide out position and im willing to welcome the guy with open arms.

I see you met the nameless fan..........again....................lol

June 25, 2009  09:25 PM ET
QUOTE(#3):

If we do happen to get the guy ill be glad, we need a player of his caliber in our wide out position and im willing to welcome the guy with open arms.

Cap, you're wasting your time with "The Nameless One." He can't even spell the word "sense" much less know how to use it.

I and a few others are letting him argue with himself for a few days and see who wins. He's already run off 2 or 3 other BEARS fans in one week, or thereabouts. If he had any brains, I believe the man would take them out and play with them.

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June 26, 2009  07:44 AM ET
QUOTE(#5):

Cap, you're wasting your time with "The Nameless One." He can't even spell the word "sense" much less know how to use it.I and a few others are letting him argue with himself for a few days and see who wins. He's already run off 2 or 3 other BEARS fans in one week, or thereabouts. If he had any brains, I believe the man would take them out and play with them.

I know, he's an AZZZZZZZ, just ruffling his feathers.

June 26, 2009  07:45 AM ET
QUOTE(#8):

When you can't defend your position you leave...

I really wish it was a face to face debate, dout you'd even talk.

June 26, 2009  09:09 AM ET

Hey, leave Duce alone, I, for one, see nothing wrong with giving a player who puts up 4 tds and 400 some yds in 2008, a ridiculous amount of money to play on the Bears becasue he "demands", (bullsh it), a double team.

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June 26, 2009  03:59 PM ET
QUOTE(#8):

When you can't defend your position you leave...

I really have no position to defend. I'm a Cowboys fan, remember? The operative word here is "FAN", not owner, or general manager, or anyone in the business of pro football.

And, I mentioned on the other blog that I was not going to continue this on their things. This is the last one.

June 27, 2009  10:50 AM ET
QUOTE(#12):

You would be like a Buc... and have no heart....

YOUR A JOKE

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June 27, 2009  07:44 PM ET

I got a joke.....I saw this woman awhile back who was soooooooooo skinny, that if she lost any more weight, she'd have to lose a bone.......................HAHAHAHAHA!!

good huh?

June 28, 2009  01:02 PM ET
QUOTE(#13):

I really have no position to defend. I'm a Cowboys fan, remember? The operative word here is "FAN", not owner, or general manager, or anyone in the business of pro football.And, I mentioned on the other blog that I was not going to continue this on their things. This is the last one.

I lied................:-)

 
June 29, 2009  06:38 AM ET
QUOTE(#7):

Some people are just not hypocrytes...

No., eu reivindico n??o ser uma hip??crita

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