Marvin Lewis: Buccaneers Set Bad Precedent Signing Dezmon Briscoe For As Much As They Did

Yeah but that wasn’t within the current “season” (more properly it should be “league year”. Them grabbing Ward and “forcing” us to “settle” for Benson was in the previous “league year”.

If you wanted the guy, then sign him to the 53. Don’t release him and expect him to clear waivers. Stupid move.

And, you know, Tampa hasn’t exactly had smooth sailing for it’s entire existence either. They had many years of sucking, followed by a couple of years of improvement capped by Chucky winning a Super Bowl with Dungy’s team, then several years of mediocrity alternated with suckiness. Last year the bottom fell out as they finally admitted they needed to completely rebuild and started the process. Now they are improving, but they still aren’t a very good team. Yet. They are (probably) headed in the right direction.

And how exactly is that situation that different from our own? We had some years where we were pretty good, even made it to two Super Bowls (but lost them). Then we sucked for quite awhile. We finally managed to rebuild, only to have the bottom fall back out again and have to rebuild on the fly again. And we did it. And while we still aren’t an elite team by any stretch of the imagination, we have been headed generally in the right direction at least some of the time. If Mike would get out of the way or stop being an idiot (not like either is likely to happen, mind you) it would help, of course. But even despite him Marvin has still managed to do a lot with very little.

Walker could still defend Marvin (when he deserves it, at least) while dissing Mike Brown (when he deserves it, which is almost always). And we’d love him for it. But he chooses not to. Because he’s a biased and annoying twerp.