Comments on: Brett Favre’s Mouth Kept Him From Tampa Bay

By: oar

oar — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:18:02 +0000

BigMac, Great link thanks. Wow, he even talks about how it was great to be able to play and learn from Hardy. Imagine that, veterans teaching on the team.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:25:08 +0000

Alright BigMac. If all the negative things we heard about Brooks release are true, then I admit that was pathetic. You don’t do that to him.

I have a problem with him finding out the same way we did. But I am not going to totally discount the fact that he is a proud man as well, and might not have wanted to take a lesser role which was proven by the fact that he kept looking for a job elsewhere.

I am not naive or have my eyes closed. All I’m saying is that there are 2 sides to the story. All we know is one side, and however trustworthy Brooks is, there is something else going on JUST LIKE MANY OTHER POSTERS HAVE COMMENTED ON ALREADY! So stop calling me out like I am the only one who shares this opinion.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:57:16 +0000

Brooks is garbage

By: BigMacAttack

BigMacAttack — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:50:55 +0000

Here is an awesome Brooks link if any of you guys haven’t seen it…including Joe. Brooks is the man!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/137384/in-their-own-words-derrick-brooks

By: eric

eric — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:55:03 +0000

The insulting thing about it is that a Hall of Fame player was sacked by a first year head coach who had no credentials and was the quality control intern during the Super Bowl year.

It would have been different if a legit coach had told him his time was up. But Raheem Morris telling D. Brooks that? Sorry, that dog wont hunt in bucsland. Who the hell was he to tell Brooks he was done?

Rah was the errand boy for the Glazer boys to trim their payroll. A real man would have refused to do it.

By: oar

oar — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:30:13 +0000

Being a player/coach and just being a coach/mentor are too different things. They could have had the same leadership/coaching from him while he was playing. Afterall, isn’t that what he had done for us these past several years?
Heaven forbid a player that wants to keep on playing.

By: McBuc

McBuc — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:26:10 +0000

I would love to see Brooks come back in a coaching role. Whenever a high profile populer player is released everyone is upset. Think back to Lynch. You see it all over the league. It would have been nice if they gave him the option to restructure his contract like they did for Allstot, but who knows…maybe they did. I agree his time was up, but I also agree that he would have helped the team.

By: JimBuc

JimBuc — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:15:22 +0000

Leningan, you are one of the few that actually account for Brooks’ desire to play. Everyone quickly assuems that the team is to blame for everything. Has Brooks filed his retirement papers with the league?

By: leningan

leningan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:42:59 +0000

I thought I remembered listening to Derrick on Sirius talking about how the Bucs offered him a personell role to mentor/lead/coach/etc. but he turned it down because he wanted to play, and figured someone would pick him up. This was when New orleans was in the mix and Derrick was still pretty confident he would land a job. I think that would have been the only reasonable alternative; i.e. staying on as a non-playing (barring a slew of injuries) mentor to the young bucs (pun intended).
Derrick, understandably, turned that down and we (having no other viable options) released him to pursue other employment. I love brooks as much as any Bucs fan, but i see no problem with either parties’ stance/decision.

By: BigMacAttack

BigMacAttack — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:33:59 +0000

Gary, you wonder why I called you out the other day.

“, if there was a nice way to release him I’m sure they would have done that because they aren’t complete morons”

Derrick has told the story a couple of times about how he found out, about how things were going right along until the infamous day, and then BAM, he was blindsided! Derrick Brooks gave everything to the Bucs, and $hit all over him that day. There were options, there could have been discussions. They never asked him any of it. I know you’re a positive guy and when you say things like we don’t know who’s fault it was, that is just plain naive. All anyone needed to do to understand the occurrence was to open up their ears and listen to what Brooks said. His integrity is the highest and trust in his word wholly. So, wake up man.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:59:27 +0000

JImbuc,

I take it you have no source.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:46:44 +0000

Seriously, I don’t know how it could’ve been any worse having Brooks here. Would it have REALLY hurt this team if he had been around for another year??!!

@JimBuc

You cannot rebuild and see what your young guys have unless Brooks is gone or playing a back up role. Ever think he would not accept that?

As Eric mentioned above, Duemig said that Brooks wanted to train Geno to be his replacement. So YES, he would’ve accepted a lesser role. Let Brooks return, compete, and mentor the the other guys. Let Black and Geno Hayes earn their jobs, not have them given to them by Raheem!!! Seriously, the two of them really didn’t do anything last year that impressed me. They don’t have to be “thrown into the fire” from day 1 for us to see what they have. Let play until they PROVE they can start!! Until then, they could’ve rotated with Derrick and learned under him. I mean they really didn’t even earn their jobs last year. Did you see them competing with anyone??

Personally, I think it’s a little insulting to let him go and then you go 3-13 the next year. This is the FACE OF THE FRANCHISE FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE, and the face of the great Buc defense! I don’t care what anyone says. The great Raheem and St. Dominick could’ve FOUND a way to let Brooks finish out the 1 year he had left here and leave in a much better way. It would not have hurt Raheem’s precious work of art he’s put together here in Tampa.