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TRUEBLOOD SIGNS TENDER
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have another of their restricted free agents signed in time for the start of organized team activities with the signing of right tackle Jeremy Trueblood. The fifth-year veteran Trueblood was a restricted free agent that would have required compensation in the form of draft picks if he had signed with another team.
Trueblood, 27, has been Tampa Bay’s starter at right tackle since entering the lineup as a rookie. The 6-foot-8, 320-pound Trueblood replaced right tackle Kenyatta Walker after three games during his rookie 2006 season and has not missed a start since then. His streak of consecutive games started is at 63.
Trueblood was the 59th overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. The second-rounder out of Boston College was unable to hit unrestricted free agency because of the dissolution of the collective bargaining agreement. Trueblood had four years of experience, and players needed six years of experience in order to be unrestricted free agents. The Bucs tendered Trueblood at an original-draft position tender that would have caused another team to compensate Tampa Bay with a second-round pick if they signed Trueblood away. Trueblood will make $1.759 million in 2010.
Trueblood joins teammates Barrett Ruud, Clifton Smith, Elbert Mack, and Maurice Stovall as players that have signed their tender contracts. Left tackle Donald Penn and running back Cadillac Williams have yet to sign their tender offers.
Trueblood, 27, has been Tampa Bay’s starter at right tackle since entering the lineup as a rookie. The 6-foot-8, 320-pound Trueblood replaced right tackle Kenyatta Walker after three games during his rookie 2006 season and has not missed a start since then. His streak of consecutive games started is at 63.
Trueblood was the 59th overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft. The second-rounder out of Boston College was unable to hit unrestricted free agency because of the dissolution of the collective bargaining agreement. Trueblood had four years of experience, and players needed six years of experience in order to be unrestricted free agents. The Bucs tendered Trueblood at an original-draft position tender that would have caused another team to compensate Tampa Bay with a second-round pick if they signed Trueblood away. Trueblood will make $1.759 million in 2010.
Trueblood joins teammates Barrett Ruud, Clifton Smith, Elbert Mack, and Maurice Stovall as players that have signed their tender contracts. Left tackle Donald Penn and running back Cadillac Williams have yet to sign their tender offers.
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Doug Williams and Bucs Part Ways
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and director of pro personnel Doug Williams have mutually agreed that Williams will leave the team effective immediately. One revelation about this departure is the fact that Williams was not given a one-year contract extension as reported by some around the first of the year.
Williams’ contract with the team was up early in 2010. Williams, general manager Mark Dominik, and the Bucs ownership agreed that Williams would stay on through NFL free agency and the 2010 NFL Draft. They collectively agreed to re-visit Williams' future with the organization in May. This week both parties decided to go in a new direction.
"Mark and I have sat down and talked about my future," Williams said. "After a lot of thought, I felt that it was the right time for me to look at new options. I wish nothing but the best for the Buccaneers."
Williams, a former Bucs quarterback who led Tampa Bay to its NFC Central division title in 1979, had been with the team since joining Dominik and the pro personnel department in 2004 under previous general manager Bruce Allen. As the director of pro personnel Williams coordinated the scouting and recruiting of NFL players. The previous five seasons under Allen, Williams worked in the pro scouting department as a personnel executive. Williams played a big role in the scouting and signing of former Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Bryant. Dominik will begin the process of finding Williams replacement immediately, and no candidates have named at this time.
"I have tremendous respect for Doug's talents and am very appreciative of his many contributions to this franchise over the years," said Dominik. "At the end of last season, Doug and I began a conversation regarding his career. Doug concluded that now is the time for him to make the smoothest transition. Like Mike Alsott and Lee Roy Selmon, Doug will stay involved as a representative of the team in the community."
At the conclusion of the 2009 season, Williams had looked at other opportunities outside the Buccaneers organization. The University of South Florida had Williams as one of the candidates for their head coaching position. Williams was previously the head coach at his alma mater Grambling. During six seasons as a head coach Grambling won three straight conference titles in 2000-2002. Williams recorded a 52-18 overall record after following the legend Eddie Robinson, who was the head coach for 57 years and set a college record with 408 wins.
Williams was the Buccaneers first-round pick, 17th overall, in the 1978 NFL Draft. During his playing career Williams led Tampa Bay to three playoff appearances in 1979, 1981, and 1982. Williams is well represented in the Bucs’ record books. He is the second in touchdown passes (73), and third in passing yards (12,648). After Williams left the Buccaneers for the USFL, the team traded his rights to the Washington Redskins for a 1987 fifth-round pick. The selection was used on safety Tony Mayes, who never suited up in a Buccaneer uniform.
At the end of the 1987 season with the Redskins, Williams went on to lead them to a 42-10 victory in Super Bowl XXII over the Denver Broncos. Williams was the Super Bowl MVP when he threw for 340 yards and four touchdown passes.
The Bucs also have mutually parted ways with college area scout Frank Dorazio. Dorazio's contract was up at the conclusion of the draft, and the team and Dorazio decided to pursue other options. The Buccaneers replaced Dorazio with Justin Sheridan, who was a pro scout with Tampa Bay since 2006. Another previous move was the team losing college personnel assistant Richard Mann II to the Washington Redskins.
Williams’ contract with the team was up early in 2010. Williams, general manager Mark Dominik, and the Bucs ownership agreed that Williams would stay on through NFL free agency and the 2010 NFL Draft. They collectively agreed to re-visit Williams' future with the organization in May. This week both parties decided to go in a new direction.
"Mark and I have sat down and talked about my future," Williams said. "After a lot of thought, I felt that it was the right time for me to look at new options. I wish nothing but the best for the Buccaneers."
Williams, a former Bucs quarterback who led Tampa Bay to its NFC Central division title in 1979, had been with the team since joining Dominik and the pro personnel department in 2004 under previous general manager Bruce Allen. As the director of pro personnel Williams coordinated the scouting and recruiting of NFL players. The previous five seasons under Allen, Williams worked in the pro scouting department as a personnel executive. Williams played a big role in the scouting and signing of former Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Bryant. Dominik will begin the process of finding Williams replacement immediately, and no candidates have named at this time.
"I have tremendous respect for Doug's talents and am very appreciative of his many contributions to this franchise over the years," said Dominik. "At the end of last season, Doug and I began a conversation regarding his career. Doug concluded that now is the time for him to make the smoothest transition. Like Mike Alsott and Lee Roy Selmon, Doug will stay involved as a representative of the team in the community."
At the conclusion of the 2009 season, Williams had looked at other opportunities outside the Buccaneers organization. The University of South Florida had Williams as one of the candidates for their head coaching position. Williams was previously the head coach at his alma mater Grambling. During six seasons as a head coach Grambling won three straight conference titles in 2000-2002. Williams recorded a 52-18 overall record after following the legend Eddie Robinson, who was the head coach for 57 years and set a college record with 408 wins.
Williams was the Buccaneers first-round pick, 17th overall, in the 1978 NFL Draft. During his playing career Williams led Tampa Bay to three playoff appearances in 1979, 1981, and 1982. Williams is well represented in the Bucs’ record books. He is the second in touchdown passes (73), and third in passing yards (12,648). After Williams left the Buccaneers for the USFL, the team traded his rights to the Washington Redskins for a 1987 fifth-round pick. The selection was used on safety Tony Mayes, who never suited up in a Buccaneer uniform.
At the end of the 1987 season with the Redskins, Williams went on to lead them to a 42-10 victory in Super Bowl XXII over the Denver Broncos. Williams was the Super Bowl MVP when he threw for 340 yards and four touchdown passes.
The Bucs also have mutually parted ways with college area scout Frank Dorazio. Dorazio's contract was up at the conclusion of the draft, and the team and Dorazio decided to pursue other options. The Buccaneers replaced Dorazio with Justin Sheridan, who was a pro scout with Tampa Bay since 2006. Another previous move was the team losing college personnel assistant Richard Mann II to the Washington Redskins.
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ReplyDeletealso fuckin bucs are stupid we get rid of best quarterback in history of the franchise and i dont think he was doin so bad in the drafts hes a great director of pro personnel but i think the public eye got him more attention then raheem morris i mean i was able to get raheems autograph n talk to him but i couldnt talk to nfc championship quarterback doug williams are we upset hes wearing a redskins ring? i knoy my father is being from england then virginia and after losing the colts he became a bigger bucs fan thenhe already was and now the new washington team is takin our baller qb he was pissed, u know how many times i remember sundays my dad yelling at vinny testaverde? my god!
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