Perhaps your definition of elite differs from what it really means. Again, I think he’s a good CB and I wish we kept him, but he is not even in the neighborhood of elite. Find me one person with football credentials that has ever said he’s elite. Go ahead, I’ll check back. I’ve got all day.

Two big IFS. If those ifs are met he is most definitely an elite back

You must also have trouble reading, because I said “complete season”. When you get hurt and only play 10 full games, that’s not a full season. You can play the “what if” game all you want, but it didn’t happen. What about his other 4 seasons, was he headed to the Pro Bowl in any of those? You go ahead and think he’s elite, while the rest of us with brains realize that you don’t get elite CB’s for a fourth round pick.

But how do you go from second place in voting for Coach of the Year one year, and the next year you are gone. After all we got for him in free agency was a PUNTER.

Give Morris some players like Carl Nicks, Vincent Jackson, and Eric Wright our record may be sitting a little higher.

Also @Hawaiian Buc Aqib has had a Pro Bowl worthy season, 2010 he would have been in line to make the pro bowl had he not suffered a season ending injury at the end of the year. Did everyone forget the game he had agaisnt Washington when he had 3 great picks. What about Arizona when he shut down Larry Fitzgerald and left the game with 2 ints.

Does everyone realize how much of a problem for other teams Roddy White is, but when he plays the Bucs he only records a catch when #31 is trying to cover him (which never works out well).

As a fan base I am very dissapointed with the Bucs, we jump ship on our guys way too quickly, and let opinions blind us from seeing the truth on the field.

A. Athletically-gifted but enigmatic player who you don’t know which version will show up on any given Sunday
B. Self-made player (a euphemism for a guy who isn’t as talented) who devotes his time to his craft and puts every ounce of effort giving his team all he has every Sunday

Aqib Talib was definitely a category A player. Guys like Leonard Johnson fall into category B. At the end of the day, a team will almost always be more successful long-term with the category B guys, who will give everything they have every time out, guys on whom teammates can put their trust.

I actually like Talib, and I’m not that crazy about this transaction. I think he’s the best corner we’ve got on the roster now, and I think he was due to come up with some big plays in the second half of the season. Even the Aderall doesn’t bother me as much as it does others, nor does the gun incident in Texas. All that being said, I completely understand why this happened. I also completely understand why so many fans wanted to see him gone. I’m pretty lenient with these kind of things, especially if I think he can help us win games (not saying that’s correct, just the way I feel). But with all of those incidents combined, it’s pretty hard to defend him anymore and I can see why the organization is sick of his shenanigans. If I were on the inside, I probably would be too.

He’s a talented player very similar to the way Dez Bryant is a talented player. Neither will probably ever tap into half of their talent, and most likely they both will go down as players that were more trouble then what they were worth. Sad, but true. Talib has been in the league for 5 seasons now, and hasn’t had one complete season Pro Bowl worthy. That is a fact. He’s not going to become Darrelle Revis. If he were, it would have happened already. No team is going to put their faith in him, ever. He’s too much of a risk, and before you know it, he will be just be past his prime and no one will want him.