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Clearly, it makes it easier once you know what the rules are. If it is an uncapped year, there is not as much danger as you would think for '07. It makes it important you know the rules once the league year starts, those are the rules you are playing with and it's fair for everybody. ... We are going down two paths right now, preparing for each.

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You get some successful teams that don't handle winning well. Somebody wants more credit. Jerry and Jimmy couldn't get along, and they were winning.

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You don't get relief until you turn in a contract, so we don't have relief. But we feel very good about several situations we're in right now. We feel good about where we're at.

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If Chris walked through that door right now, we'd sign him.

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There's never going to be a problem with having too many good players. Our goal isn't for Cadillac to have 'X' number of yards and Michael to have 'X' number of yards. Our goal is to win games.

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They are distractions, but they are distractions for those three individuals more than anyone else. You can see with grown men in our league, you have to overcome any type of distraction. The (New Orleans) Saints are the best example with what they overcame to win (at Carolina). I don't think it will have an effect on the team.

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Derrick's interested in getting another (Super Bowl) ring, so he allowed us to clear up room so that we can sign some of our own players back.

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We haven't made any cuts. We never intended to make any cuts until the final minutes. We were going to work right up until 959.

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The league moved the deadline back 72 hours so it allows teams and players more time to work with the last capped year calculations and that is what we have been doing (Thursday) and will continue to do this weekend.

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Our goal has been to make sure we could have a team we could build around, to be around these coaches and learn Day 1 from them. That's been the objective. And I think we have the same amount of second-year players on this team as we do first-year players. The process will continue and the nice part of it is there's still the core of those champions here that these young guys can play with.

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He's headed home. We don't get into the details. Obviously, it has to do with club discipline. ... It's a (one-game) deal. We're just going to fight through this game and see where it goes from there.

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He's been an outstanding performer and his next stop will be getting fitted for a (Hall of Fame) bust in Canton. I don't think there's any doubt that everybody's intention is for him to retire as a Buccaneer.

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It's never been our policy to discuss any type of team punishment. We've talked to Torrie and he knows exactly where he stands right now.

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We're happy I think it's a credit to those players who worked so hard, ... I discussed it before. They stayed here during the off-season when people were gone trying to improve themselves and in different ways, each of them showed up whether it was in training camp or the preseason games. And they've earned their right to be here right now.

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It was never our intention to make any cuts until the final moment. They had moved the deadline first to 10 p.m. (Thursday), so we were going to work right up to 959.

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The Brooks contract frees up the money we need to sign back some of our players and to go out and get some more.

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He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.

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It's important for this team and where we are at right now that we have that extra insurance policy.

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There is no reason for him to be out at that time.

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There are mistakes made with penalties, and those are very big plays sometimes. We just feel it gives the clubs another option, since we're spending tens of millions of dollars on replay already, to make sure we have the right call on the field.

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I met with Jay Gruden this morning and talked a lot about individual responsibility. We talked about being a part of a team, which he understood well. It's not the behavior you really expect in a coach, whether you're part time or full time. Unfortunately, as I said just a few days ago, I'm not going to discuss publicly what we'll do as a club as far as discipline.

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What we're planning is how to get the Buccaneers ready for the midnight Sunday night deadline so that we're ready to call free agents (on Monday).

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With the fan support that we have in this stadium, in this city and in this state, we are going to be the most attractive team for free agency whether we have a salary cap or no salary cap. We have the resources to compete either way. Just tell us what the rules are and we'll play by them.

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We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

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Improve two of those categories, and we'll be good. Improve in three, and we'll be pretty good. Improve in all four, and, we'll, who knows

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