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Plummer, Bucs fighting over $7 million

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Jake Plummer finally will emerge from the Idaho mountains this week, but it won't be because he is suddenly eager to wait in line behind the other five Bucs quarterbacks. Instead, Plummer on Wednesday morning will sit at a conference table at NFL headquarters in New York flanked by attorneys trying to stave off the team's efforts to collect more than $7-million from a player who never donned a Tampa Bay uniform. Across the table will be general manager Bruce Allen and league attorneys, each convinced Plummer should pay up. An arbitrator will hear arguments and decide the outcome.

St. Petersburg Times

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June 8, 2008  09:13 AM ET

This man acts like he put up Marino numbers. Gonna lose some coin there Jakey.

June 8, 2008  09:16 AM ET

The dude QUIT.....
he should not be rewarded for doing so

June 8, 2008  09:23 AM ET

It is only a question how much he has to pay up, not if.

June 8, 2008  10:30 AM ET

The Bucs want Peter to pay Paul...I mean Plummer to pay Simms

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June 8, 2008  12:53 PM ET

He doesn't own them anything, he retired. As far as Cutler, all I hear is "potential" and other quasi-possie words that don't even fit the guy. The Broncos are dinosaurs with horse and wagons trying to lead them. Cutler is overrated and won't even be in the league in five years, unless he is a backup. Plummer retired and the Bucs acted like they had some sort of ownership beforehand. Both teams are worse off, not better off, without him.

June 8, 2008  12:53 PM ET

I mean he doesn't "owe" them anything - type - my bad.

June 8, 2008  01:22 PM ET

actually he does. If you get a signing bonus, it is spread out over your contract. If you retire early, they can ask for a pro-rated portion back. Ask Barry Sanders, Elvis Grbac, etc

June 8, 2008  02:06 PM ET

Jake should just step up and give the money back.....

June 8, 2008  02:11 PM ET

It's ridiculous to think the Bucs owe Jake anything -- I don't care if he retired -- HE NEVER PLAYED FOR THEM. Common sense says Plummer returns the money to the Bucs because the contract was never honored. Speaking of his career, he just never amounted to much ... lots of potential, but a perpetual underachiever.

June 8, 2008  02:47 PM ET

I remember this guy....

June 8, 2008  03:09 PM ET

"actually he does. If you get a signing bonus, it is spread out over your contract. If you retire early, they can ask for a pro-rated portion back. Ask Barry Sanders, Elvis Grbac, etc"

Except Denver trading him means THEY pay PLUMMER the entire amount of the rest of his signing bonus that was left.

Tampa Bay only has to pay him his base salary.

Since he retired, Tampa Bay never payed him anything, and he didn't cost them anything.

I really have no idea why they're so uptight over this.

June 8, 2008  03:16 PM ET

I just don't get it - what makes him think he deserves a dime from the Bucs? He virtually retired the moment he was traded, never played or practiced a snap. He's got a set of cast iron ones to be taking it this far. I think the man is just a little bitter that he lost his job in Denver, and that his desire to not be traded was not considered.

June 8, 2008  03:30 PM ET

Call me crazy but I can see the arbitrator ruling on Plummer's behalf. I don't think it would be right but I could see it.

June 8, 2008  03:41 PM ET

The Broncos are out of it because they traded his contract to TB. They relinquished rights and responsibilities as a signing party. Plummer will have to repay a pro rated portion of the signing bonus to TB because they are the team that assumed responsibility for the contract, and the player to the team that holds that contract.. Plummer is wasting money on an attorney, he should just settle..

June 8, 2008  03:57 PM ET

I don't remember hearing anything about Plummer actually filing his retirement papers. Did he?

June 8, 2008  04:49 PM ET

If Mike Vick didn't have to give back his signing bonus, do you think Jake will?

June 8, 2008  05:59 PM ET

Who retired ??? Case closed !!!

June 8, 2008  06:12 PM ET

You can retire voluntarily or be retired involuntarily. If you do not show up your team can report you as such to the league offices. It is their right. He is retired..

 
June 8, 2008  06:31 PM ET

actually he does. If you get a signing bonus, it is spread out over your contract. If you retire early, they can ask for a pro-rated portion back. Ask Barry Sanders, Elvis Grbac, etc

Crimson_kid | 06/08/08, 01:22 PM

I still haven't heard anything about him signing his retirement papers. As far as I'm concerned, the guy's an active player who no-showed for an entire season and has the temerity to say the club who owns his contract doesn't have a right to recoup his losses. I hope the Bucs take his $7M and cut him and his phony retirement loose.

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