Bucs add more quarterbacks for camp

I picked up a young man at a hotel and took him to One Buc Place. He said last year he was the third string QB for Jacksonville and he did not throw a pass all season. He should be a "camp body" this summer.

I looked it up and that would be Ricky Stanzi. He's a good looking kid in great shape. Why not give him a look see.

The Bucs must have been waiting for him because security had him on the guest list. I dropped him off and he went inside. Got to wish him all the luck in the world.

The image is One Buc Place in the side view mirror.

Bucs new logo

The new logo and colors of the Tampa Bay Bucs are in display on the side of Raymond James stadium. I like the dark motifs and think it is mire menacing. With Lovie Smith at the helm, the Bucs may be looking at many years of stability like in the Tony Dingy era.

Tony Dungy and a lost blog

I have had a popular blog Tampa Taxi Shots since 2005. That may be coming to an end.
I have thr service througj Typepad and keep billing me every month and I just can't afford it. Blogger is free and it is owned by Google. So why should I run up a $300 bill that I cannot pay.
I have been taking down many of the photos that I want. The photo of Tony Dungy taken at the university of Tampa during his last training camp as coach of the buccaneers means a lot to me. This was taken with film.

Morris Claiborne scored a 4 on the wonderlic test and may have a learning disability

LSU CB draft prospect scored the lowest ever for a high prospect. A former coach said the kid has a learning disorder that affects his reading ability.

Considering the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are considering taking him in the fifth pick, Should this be a problem. All the signs say no.

In the 3 day mini camp underway by the Bucs, they are using 37 year old Rondie Barber at safety, and rumors that Aquib Talib is being shopped. The Bucs are very thin in the Defense of backfield.

I say they draft Claiborne over lead pants Trent Richardson from Alabama.

Anything can happen on draft day but I hope the Bucs take this kid. Our defense has been tourched in recent years and it needs the upgrade badly.

Heavy Rain Before The Atlanta vs Tampa Bay Game

This road is under water. My fare was one block away. I cold not get them

This was bad. The rain came down in buckets two hours before the Atlanta game. This is the time when we count on to make money. I was getting calls but I could not get down many of the streets because the water was up in peoples yards. There was no way I was going to flood out my car. If you do, you just bought yourself a car as far as the taxi company is concerned.

The company uses Ford Crown Victoria's. They are a model that takes on water because the air intake is down low. I would not take the risk and went home.

I am still waiting for next Monday Night. We just may have a sell out so the game will be broadcast on local TV. That is the best time to drive a taxi.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers May Sell Out The Monday Night Colt Game

The best situation for a Tampa taxi driver is a sold out stadium. You simply get more action. More people go to the games and more people go to the sports bars to watch on television because the games are not blacked out. Cab drivers can make more money. That is what it is all about. 

I also believe the more any product is put in front of a possible customer base, the more tickets they will sell in the future. Success feeds on itself. The best thing about the Buccaneers going to London this season, is that game counts as a home game and it will be telecast. The things you have to do to avoid a blackout. 

Personally, I think the blackout rule is arcane and was invented in a time when most televisions were in black and white and people used rabbit ears to see only three channels. Today, with alternative media and internet, people can pick up streaming video of the blacked out game, and any other game they want to watch. There is just to much competition now for the NFL. They need to reconsider what they are doing and become more creative and developing fan bases.

 "Might the Tampa Bay community stain of blacked out Bucs games come to an end in 10 days when the Colts come here to face the Bucs on Monday Night Football?

Rick Stroud, of the St. Pete Times, apparently is hearing that good things are on the horizon, so he Twittered this morning.

@NFL Stroud - With a good week of ticket sales, Bucs Oct. 3 Monday Night Football game vs. the Colts will most likely be a sellout and televised locally

As Joe has written, there’s something dreadfully wrong if a “football town” with a good team can’t sell out a Monday Night Football game early in the NFL season. That might happen here, and Joe expects this will come down to 11th-hour sales. But Team Glazer really would be missing the boat if it didn’t do whatever needs to be done to make sure Monday Night Football is available for the many hundreds of thousands of locals who will sit home and watch it.

Joe’s desperately hoping it gets done by any means."

via www.joebucsfan.com

I was wondering how long this blackout would last. That would be nice on a national televised game, that we could sell out so the announcers will stop talking about how poor Tampa Bay sports fans are.

Is Gerald McCoy A Bust In Tampa Bay?

Gerald McCoy was the 3rd overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was projected to be a starter at defensive tackle from the fist game of the season. His performance has been less then what a top pick should produce.

That really is the problem. He has been OK. That is great for a walk on, unrestricted free agent or a 5th round pick. McCoy was one of the top picks and shows no real muscle in the middle. Season one was cut short by a bicep injury. He is healthy now and complaining about how hot it was by the third play of the Lions game last Sunday.

We have seen this before in Tampa with Eric Curry and Gains Adams. They were top picks with no upper body strength. Guys that cannot bench press can't move anyone out of the way. McCoy may just be too weak for this type of job.

I say, by the end of the year if he is not a dominating presence in the NFL, get rid of him. I know that sounds cruel. Life is cruel.

Tampa Bay Must Draft Ndamukong Suh

Ndamukong Suh was tested scientifically by ESPN in all the important measures of speed, power and agility. The most important measure was the impact he had on crash test dummies that had more impact than an automobile accident...more like a freight train. If the Buccaneers don't draft this kid in the third spot, it will spell the doom for Raheem Morris as the head coach here. He should just resign or be fired on draft night.

Google Searches And Josh Freeman

I have been getting some interesting Google searches...One was "Is Josh Johnson gay" I don't know if he is gay, but I do know that he has four starts and has lost all of them. He is trying but I believe his days as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer starting Quarterback are over. Josh Freeman will be the starter now for the next ten-twelve years. He came in late in the London game against the New England Patriots and I don't think he will be headed.

Another Google search was for the minimum age for a cab driver in Tampa. That would be 26 for insurance reasons. you also have to get a Hack permit that will cost you $100! I am not Joshing about that.

This is a photo I took of Josh Freeman at a gas station in Tampa a couple months ago. He seemed to be a nice guy not really full of hmself.

Josh Johnson Is Dynamic For The Buccaneers

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers almost set the NFL record for going without a first down in a football game. They were going nowhere against the New York Giants today in Raymond James Stadium, until Josh Johnson came in. In the the 4th quarter Ray Morris put in Josh Johnson from San Diego State to play quarterback, and it was clear that he added a dynamic that has been missing from the Tampa bay Bucs since Steve Young was here. I believe they should start him next week and forget about Josh Freeman until they really need to play him.