Leftwich Hanging Around — For Now
February 27th, 2010
For weeks, various Bucs beat writers have claimed the Bucs likely would be parting ways with Byron Leftwich next week because he was due a $3.5 million roster bonus.
It turns out that was baloney.
Lefwich didn’t play enough games to hit the bonus, so Mark Dominik told the Tampa Tribune on Friday.
The Bucs have decided to keep quarterback Byron Leftwich, at least for now, and could carry as many as four quarterbacks into their offseason program. It was expected the Bucs would release Leftwich before a $3.5 million roster bonus was due, but the bonus did not kick in because he didn’t play in enough games, Dominik said.
So now Lefwich will have to make the Bucs roster in order to earn his $2 million 2010 salary. Or, of course, the Bucs could play wait-and-see and try to trade him for the pittance he might return.
Joe’s curious to see if Leftwich will try and force the Bucs hand by not showing up for voluntary offseason training activities.
February 27th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
They are hoping he will have some trade value….which he won’t.
February 27th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
My rotty pooped the back yard Ill trade that for Leftwich. Then Ill trade him to my neighbor he has cats.
February 27th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
jlynch1340, You’d be getting the shitty end of that deal!
February 27th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
DUMP him and get on with it!!! what did he do for us? Not much!! IMO why again is he here? oh yeah he is going to bring TOUGHNESS to the QB position, how again did he spend MOST of the season??
OH yeah!! IR great….
Wonder if McCown would have ended up on IR…. hmmmm no he has wheels!!!
February 28th, 2010 at 8:29 am
RustyRhino, You just reminded me of the “great QB battle” last pre-season.
The one where Sluggo got the 1st team O-line, while McCown got the walk-on 5th string line and was running for his life. And he still got more yardage and looked better than Sluggo. Yup, one of The Dream’s integrity moments.