Team Glazer Values Sacks: Simeon Rice Will Enter The Ring Of Honor
May 15th, 2025
Joe knew this news many months ago but didn’t get it with the ability to share, but Joe can get the word out today.
The next Buccaneers Ring of Honor member will be defensive end extraordinaire Simeon Rice, the Bucs have formally announced.
Rice is deserving. Just ask his ex-Bucs teammates and Jon Gruden. From 2001 through 2007, Rice was a terror on most days. In his first five Bucs seasons, he racked up 67 1/2 sacks in the regular season, and he was a monster in the postseason.
The Bucs defense was very special around him, but there’s no question Rice elevated those greats when he arrived as a free agent from the Cardinals.
Rice has been a Pro Football Hall of Fame semifinalist, but it hasn’t happened often.
If he can reach finalist status, then he gets into “the room” for presentation by Ira Kaufman. Maybe Rice’s Ring of Honor induction gets him back on that path.
Rice is a character, so Joe is expecting a unique speech on induction day.
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May 15th, 2025 at 12:01 pm
Well deserved and he should be in the HOF. Rice was feared long before he was a Buc. Great addition to the team that won us a Super Bowl.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:06 pm
LOVE THIS!!!
In honor of this announcement, I YouTubed a career highlight video of Rice. He was a forced fumble machine! McNabb must have PTSD about that man. Rice was a terror. Still not sure why he’s not HOF.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Simeon had 122 sacks in 12 years in the league. He deserves Canton. I said what I said.
That said… Charles Hayley went to FIVE Super Bowls and 100+ sacks, and it took him years and years after his career ended to get in.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:12 pm
His sacks in the SB were timely and stopped potential game changing drives.
Changed the momentum of that game on his own.
Ring of Honor is extremely well deserved.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:16 pm
Cmon Irv if Freeney and Strahan are HOF’ers then Simeon is his numbers are just as good with way less games then Freeney
May 15th, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Yes! “The Spaceman” EARNED IT!
Loved his nasty play on the field, he was a terror on it, he was a media darling off of it… and in the off-season he just WORKED!
Long overdue, he definitely needs to be in the HoF discussion as well!
May 15th, 2025 at 12:29 pm
Awesome!!!!
He always brought the HAMMER!!!
May 15th, 2025 at 12:32 pm
Very deserving. Always was interesting. Hopefully this helps him get into the HOF. Still want to see Wilder get in to Ring of Honor.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Farging awesome.
Now HOF.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:33 pm
That’s great, too bad we don’t have a DE/OLB that has half his talent. Kind of depressing watching this defense.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:36 pm
To enhance his chances, Simeon needs to circulate on the pregame shows. He was always entertaining, and some of those shows are so dry, he could easily show up 4 or 5 times on each and maybe might even get a job offer.
Sim, you go to self-promote, Brother!!!
May 15th, 2025 at 12:40 pm
FANTASTIC!
Great news, well deserved. Not only a great player but he is the walking definition of one cool cat. 🙂
Clear memories of reading Joel Buchsbaum’s draft guide and his profile as Rice was entering the league. Thinking Bucs need to draft this guy. Didn’t quite happen that way. But all’s well that ends well. Rock on.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Cool.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:57 pm
Outstanding and about time!
Congratulations 97.
May 15th, 2025 at 12:58 pm
Need to get James Wilder in the ROH, too. Can’t figure out why that has happened already. Maybe his play in the memory of Bucs fans has faded? I don’t know. Seems so odd to me.
May 15th, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Arguably the MVP of that Super Bowl.
And yes, get Wilder in already.
May 15th, 2025 at 1:19 pm
Have they announced the date for his induction yet?
May 15th, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Was that the team hotel before a home game? We used to do that to watch the players arrive. Sapp arrived and literally ran through the doors to the front desk to avoid fans. Rice was gregarious. Dancing and mingling a bit. Gruden also came to our our couch and chatted with us for a bit. Even keyshawn who was on his phone threw us a peace sign. Good times.
May 15th, 2025 at 1:30 pm
* was at the team hotel before a game…
May 15th, 2025 at 1:33 pm
JAMES freak’n WILDER !!!!!!!
May 15th, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Love the pic – a legit sack of Favre. Take that, Strahan.
May 15th, 2025 at 2:00 pm
I miss that defense
May 15th, 2025 at 2:22 pm
Jason Taylor – 199 games started – 536 solo tackles (2.69 per game) –
139.5 sacks (.701 sacks per game) – 6 seasons with 10+ sacks
Simeon Rice – 161 Games started – 403 solo tackles (2.503 per game) –
122 sacks (.757 sacks per game) – 8 seasons with 10+ sacks
Taylor was a FIRST BALLOT HOFer….
Rice can’t even get into the room to be considered for HOF….
Something is very wrong with this picture!
May 15th, 2025 at 3:21 pm
No Rice in 2002, no SB. He was the terror that drove excellence on that D.
May 15th, 2025 at 3:43 pm
Congrats Simeon as you certainly deserve it.
May 15th, 2025 at 4:04 pm
Rice’s spacey personality rubbed the sports writers the wrong way.
HOF is political as much as it is about production.
I loved the genius weirdness of Simeon Rice…
And I also agree with SB_LV: James Wilder, please. The thing is, he was not around for the Glazers, so there isn’t the same intensity over him.
May 15th, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Congrats to him! He’s a borderline HoFer, but this is a wonderful honor for him.
May 15th, 2025 at 4:28 pm
Justice
May 15th, 2025 at 4:29 pm
Overdue. Way overdue
May 15th, 2025 at 5:04 pm
Rice was either a cool cat or a space cadet depending on your perspective. I favor the former. And yes, some self advocacy is probably in order for him to get in the official hall of fame discussion.