Just to help whet Joe’s readers’ appetite for an avalanche of draft coverage just days away that will be unequaled locally, much of which will be coming from Joe’s good friend Justin Pawlowski of WDAE-AM 620, Joe decided to drop a draft post here.

There have been a lot of NFL folks who believe the Bucs will draft Iowa defensive end Adrian Clayborn. Count Pete Schrager of FoxSports.com among that group. He thinks it’s a slam dunk the Bucs use their 20th overall pick on Clayborn.

20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10-6), Adrian Clayborn, DE, Iowa: I’ve been accused of wearing pewter pajamas for all my pro-Buccaneers talk this year, and I can’t deny it — I loved what this team did in 2010. The Bucs struck gold all over the place in the 2010 draft and became the first team in NFL history to start 10 rookies and finish a season above .500. They were the league’s youngest team after Week 8 and fell just one game shy of making the playoffs. Gerald McCoy, Roy Miller and Brian Price are three young interior defensive linemen who should be longtime studs in Tampa, and the defensive backfield was solid from start to finish in 2010. But the Bucs’ leader in sacks last season (Stylez G. White) had only 4.5 on the year. Adrian Clayborn had a solid season, facing double teams on most passing downs, after an incredible junior year. He’s considered one of the top seniors in this draft. He’s a reliable prospect who’ll play right away. I’m already giddy about the Tampa D in 2010. Add Clayborn into the mix? The Baby Bucs defense could be one nasty squad.

Joe is good with this pick as Clayborn has extremely good, quick hands which is solid for a defensive end.

Joe is giddy about the prospects of the defense too. Brian Price coming back after an injury, GMC with a year under his belt, Cody Grimm with a year under his belt,and with some solid additions to the defensive end positio, the Bucs defense could very well be on the verge of something special.

Later in the same column Schrager believes the Bucs will draft wide receiver Titus Young from Boise State. Joe doesn’t see that happening. The Bucs seem set at wide receiver, though by all accounts Young is expected to be the next DeSean Jackson.

Every sane Bucs fan surely sees Warren Sapp as a surefire Hall of Fame inductee. The guy defined his position, was the dominant force on one of the best defenses in the history of the NFL, racked up the stats, and every year NFL teams look for “the next Warren Sapp” in the draft.

But the Tampa Bay area’s lone Hall of Fame voter, eye-RAH! Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune, says many of his fellow voters don’t like Sapp because he wasn’t kind to the media as a player and will let their disdain for him corrupt their votes.

Kaufman shared all this with “The Big Dog,” Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, last week during an interview on Radio Row in Dallas.

Kaufman was fired up and said he was saddened that other Hall of Fame panelists would bring their anger at Sapp into the mix, a practice that violates Hall of Fame induction voting rules.

Kaufman: People have absolutely a wrong misconception about No. 99. He was a great teammate. Sapp was a tremendous teammate. People want to lump him and Keyshawn Johnson together. That is crazy. Him and Keyshawn didn’t like each other, but don’t dare put those two guys [together].   Because Steve, if Keyshawn caught eight balls and the Bucs lost 21-17, Keyshawn was ok in that postgame locker room. If Sapp made 11 tackles and two sacks and the Bucs lost 21-17, you better not go near Sapp. They were totally different. I’ve got so much more respect for a Sapp.

Duemig: But the guys in that Hall of Fame room don’t like him do they?

Kaufman: You’re right and they’re waiting in weeds. They’re waiting in the weeds for him.

Duemig: You think they’ll take that out on him?

Kaufman: Some of them will, and shame on them. Shame on them. …Here’s my opening[presentation] line for 2013, if Sapp makes the final list, which I think he should: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, there’s nobody in this room from a personal standpoint that has more of a reason not to vote for Warren Sapp than the guy that’s standing right in front of you. He didn’t talk to me for three years because I didn’t put him on my All-Tribune team one year. I put Gary Walker from the Jaguars and I didn’t know he hated Gary Walker. And he didn’t talk to me for like three years.

After two years I go, ‘Sapp, what’s the statute of limitations?’ He goes, ‘Forever, Kaufman.’ 

How petty do you have to be [a Hall of Fame voter] to put out a personal vendetta and lay in the weeds? If you want to argue that Sapp wasn’t a Hall of Fame player, ok, let’s make that argument. But don’t say, ‘I’m not voting for him.’ …You hear those whispers.

Yes, Sapp often was an ass to the media. It’s no secret. Frankly, Joe thought it was quite funny.

Though back in 2002, Joe covered a Bucs game for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. And, specifically, Joe was asked to hit Sapp up with one detailed question and get an answer. Sapp gave Joe one of his “next question” responses, but Joe had no “next question.” So Joe kept asking Sapp.

Sapp stared down Joe and said, “You really need this quote, huh.” Joe said, “Yes.” Sapp laughed and then said, “Ok.” And Sapp proceeded to give Joe an answer that seemed completely bogus, essentially messing with Joe’s head. Of course, that response never made the newspaper. 

But all that kind of stuff should be meaningless to voters. Like Kaufman, Joe hopes the Hall of Fame panelists do the right thing and put Sapp on the first ballot.

If you’re drawing up sides for an all-time NFL team, not just a Hall of Fame, Sapp makes your front four. It’ll cheapen the entire process if he’s not a first-ballot inductee.

Joe has stated for weeks if not months that he has tried to keep an open mind about Barrett Ruud, through the wailing of those with loud forums.

After chatting with Pat Kirwan last week, Joe’s mind is no longer open when it comes to Ruud. The current make up of the Bucs means it is vital he returns.

But what options does Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik have when it comes to signing Ruud, or finding another safety middle linebacker?

In this TBO Bucs vlog, video star Anwar Richardson and Woody Cummings, both colleagues at the Tampa Tribune, explore what options Dominik has at his disposal when it comes to dealing with Ruud.

Monitor the video and let Joe know what you think of the duo’s thoughts.

There are very few NFL talking heads Joe respects more than Pat Kirwan. A former coach and personnel executive with the Jets and a scout with the Bucs, Kirwan works for a variety of outlets, including a weekly column on NFL.com, video breakdowns on CBSSports.com and an afternoon drivetime show he co-hosts with Tim Ryan, “Movin’ the Chains,” heard exclusively on Sirius NFL Radio, which in Joe’s ears is by far the best NFL broadcast in the free world.

Joe caught up with Kirwan on radio row last week at the Super Bowl Media Center in Dallas, and Joe asked Kirwan specifically why he believes that should the Bucs let free agent middle linebacker Barrett Ruud walk, it would be a grave mistake for the young Bucs defense.

JoeBucsFan: Joe tries to keep an open mind about Barrett Ruud. Joe hears his supporters;  hears his detractors. Joe heard you say, heard it live about two weeks ago, a Bucs fan called your show and said one of the first things the Bucs should do is get rid of him. You said you would grade [Ruud’s play] out to an A-minus. What is it that a lot of fans don’t see that he does so well?

Pat Kirwan: Well, first he lines up everyone up on the defense. There are a lot of guys who play well but can’t line up. So he is the quarterback of the defense. No. 2 he is terrific in his zone drops. He’s smart and he understands the defense. He’s never going to be flashy. I can look at that defense and find four or five guys who would collapse mentally if he is not out there with them. He’s the quarterback.

Joe: A lot of people say that calling defensive plays is interchangeable [the Bucs went from Hardy Nickerson to Jamie Duncan to Shelton Quarles calling defensive plays in a short span of seasons with no discernible dropoff], that they can coach others to call plays.

Kirwan: Well, they’ve never coached anybody. We had a guy in New York named Kyle Clifton back in the late 80s and early 90s. Not a flashy player but we were always trying to replace him. When we finally replaced him, we called him back and brought him back. We realized that there were players that were leaning on him in the huddle and when people changed formations and motioned people, it was Kyle. When I talk to Barrett and watch how Barrett plays — and I’ve talked to him about it many times — that is what he brings to the table that is never measured in tackles, sacks and interceptions.

Joe: Do you also think it’s a perception problem, that he is basically more of a safety than a middle linebacker? Everybody has a perception of a middle linebacker: Lambert, Ray Nitschke, Ray Lewis, guys like that?

Kirwan: Tampa Bay has had a great defense and they have never had a guy like that. They have always played with an undersized, smart guy. Monte Kiffin trained me in that defense.

Joe: What is your background with [Kiffin]?

Kirwan: We were together with the Jets. I was working with the linebackers and Monte trained me and I know exactly what the Mike has to do in that defense. [Ruud] doesn’t have to be Ray Nitschke. He has got to be a guy that can drop into deep coverage when you ask him to, he has to change the stunt up front. Let’s say we are going to ram the front. Then the tight end changes to the other side and now we have to change it to a spike. You better have a quarterback sense to make the play. It’s like audibles. And that is what [Ruud] is able to do.

Joe knows that Bucs fans in general bark at their bartender in frustration that the Bucs are never on national television.

Peter King suggests that may change quite quickly.

The veteran NFL scribe in his must-read Morning Morning Quarterback, offers up a list of three games King has “a hunch” will open the season on Thursday Night Football.

I think the best candidates to open the season on Sept. 8 (and I use that phrase advisedly, because I, like you, fear the season won’t start on time because of the labor saber-rattling) would be these: 1. New Orleans at Green Bay; 2. Tampa Bay at Green Bay; 3. Chicago at Green Bay. Just a hunch.

Well, this is more than a hunch coming from King. At worst, an educated hunch.

Aside from the Satanic Time-Warner, which denies innocent Americans the right to watch the NFL Network, who else employs King? NBC Universal.

Who broadcasts the opening game on Thursday night of each NFL season? NBC.

You don’t think King was having a cocktail this weekend by chance with NBC sports executive Dick Ebersol who maybe let it slip what game(s) he is lobbying NFL warden commissioner Roger Goodell to televise?

Do the math.

Nothing says ‘let’s get naked’ like a limousine and champagne on Valentine’s Day. You can roll the dice on other gifts, or you can knock it out of the park.

It’s up to you.

Joe’s good friends at Paradise Worldwide Transportation are waiting for your call, or you can schedule a chauffeur online. Go for it!

All kinds of panels of esteemed sportswriters vote for the major postseason NFL awards.

In the Tampa Bay area, eye-RAH! Kaufman is the main man. The veteran Tampa Tribune scribe is the local representative with a Hall of Fame vote, and he’s got a ballot for All-Pro, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year, etc.

Speaking Friday to Steve Duemig, the dean of local sports radio on WDAE-AM 620, Kaufman revealed that Donald Penn got his All-Pro vote. That means Kaufman voted Penn as the best left tackle in all of football. Miami’s Jake Long and Cleveland’s Joe Thomas won the two All-Pro honors awarded to tackles.

Kaufman also said runner-up for Rookie of the Year Mike Williams got his vote over eventual winner Sam Bradford.  (Hmm. Joe’s almost ready to forgive Kaufman for passing on Raheem Morris for Coach of the Year).

Kaufman seemed almost offended that voters could have chosen Bradford. But Joe’s more offended that LeGarrette Blount didn’t get one vote for Rookie of the Year.

It’s amazing to Joe how much of a passing league the NFL has become. A rookie like Blount gets 1,000 yards on more than five yards a carry — on a 10-6 team — and doesn’t get a sniff from the voters. Crazy. Don’t these guys realize the man can fly?

Last week Joe brought word of an interesting column typed by Nicholas Carlson of BusinessInsider.com who sat down with ESPN.com honcho Jon Kosner to discuss the future of delivering news to hungry sports fans on the Internet.

Carlson went so far as to suggest he only reads Bucs news if Joe has it on this here site, which humbles Joe to no end. Later in the article, Kosner, slipping out of his Soviet thought control practice that the Disney mouse outfit has perfected in hoodwinking so many unsuspecting innocents — that if something is not broadcast on BSPN that it is somehow inferior — Khrushchev Kosner actually admitted he’s “concerned” about guys in a “garage.”

Joe knows what he was referring to, a couple of guys starting a company in a garage, like Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak did when they developed Apple Computers. To be blunt, Joe started this site in a second bedroom turned office of his modest St. Petersburg condo amid photos of Rachel Watson, empty beer bottles and discarded pizza boxes.

Well, Joe’s going to go off on a tangent here, so buckle up.

If BSPN was even a hint of what it once was — a must-watch channel for all sports fans — where fans would be informed about the day’s events via games that matter along with honest analysis, not from teams that the Soviet Disney mice deemed important, and if that Stalinist outfit would cover the NFL like it was college football and focus on the true stars and teams that merit coverage, and not like BSPN covers baseball where only two teams matter, Joe — and all right-thinking sports fans — would appreciate, respect and look up to ESPN as a beacon of light.

But long ago when it comes to the NFL, NHL and MLB, BSPN threw standard, common journalistic practices of fair and equitable reporting out the window and instead tried to shove down people’s throats what they deemed important such as the Yankees, Red Sox, Patriots, Cowboys, Tony Romo, Tom Brady, MuchoStinko, Terrell Owens, Lakers, Celtics, Luh-BRON, Ko-BEE and the biggest slap in the face to sports fans, poker!

(After football season, Joe used to go to his watering hole and, for reasons unknown, poker was on TV. There, guys playing poker were shown stoically wearing sunglasses — indoors like (?) a bunch of dorks no less! — yawning, some leaning their faces on their shoulders as if they were in an 8 a.m. algebra class. If the participants in this, ahem, sport, can’t even show remote interest, why the hell should Joe watch such tripe?)

Why should anyone turn to BSPN for Bucs news when they have little to no news and the four-letter outfit sees fit to hire a blogger who not only doesn’t go to all games, he doesn’t even watch all Bucs games — a fact said blogger confessed locally on live radio. And this blogger stoops to such a level as to quote Doug Williams’ barber — if one can imagine such a thing — to post unflattering items about Bucs management, only to delete this content when Joe brought it to public light?

(Joe’s been biting his lip for a long time about the following, it’s time to get it out: Said blogger above Joe broke bread with a year ago, along with two other local scribes. Said blogger was nice enough to Joe in person, and confessed he never heard of Joe. Hey, Joe doesn’t have an ego. If Pete Prisco, Bob Papa, Pat Kirwan, among other national football scribes and media types know about if not read Joe, but that doesn’t mean a BSPN blogger should. Joe gets it. Said blogger even gave Joe his (alleged) personal e-mail address to correspond with, which Joe thought was a kind gesture. A couple of weeks later, Joe hears from more than one reliable source that said blogger is going around openly hoping Joe goes out of business. When Joe tried to e-mail said blogger to offer an olive branch to find out why said blogger was so filled with hate about Joe and what Joe could do to resolve any issues, all Joe heard back was crickets. Friends, that’s not a fraud, that’s a coward. Joe knows not everyone in the MSM likes him and Joe is not concerned with winning any popularity contests. But two local scribes in particular Joe knows that have no love in their hearts towards Joe have actually e-mailed Joe from time to time — confidentially, of course — and have been civil to Joe. Hey, at least they don’t hide and are willing to communicate with Joe, even to iron out any differences. Oh, if said blogger wants to e-mail Joe, the olive branch is at the ready.)

And Joe’s not even going to get into how a BSPN anchor hurled slurs at Raheem Morris this past season, only to offer some unbelievably weak excuse about the incident that a father wouldn’t believe coming from his 11-year old son.

What does all this rambling mean? Well, one of Kosner’s comments was that BSPN likely would not have a Tampa Bay Buccaneers television show.

In a matter of a few days, Joe will.

Until or unless that Bolshevik outfit in Bristol changes its ways, offers Bucs fans more responsible daily content from respectable scribes who actually can use a DVR to watch Bucs games and not use unnamed barbers as sources to post distasteful things about the Bucs and avoid anchors from shamefully ridiculing a Bucs head coach, and with the advent of JoeBucsFanTV, you damned right BSPN should be concerned about Joe.

Unlike BSPN, Joe has no agenda, with the exception of one day meeting the lovely Ms. Watson.

Now that Joe got this off his chest, he feels better.

All the latest Rays chatter is always on the wildly popular JoeRaysFan.com. And today is no exception. So get over to JoeRaysFan.com right now.

Joe’s fired up to hear the crack of big-league bats in a matter of days.  Oh, and don’t forget to get yourself ready for the No Excuses Tour to Tropicana Field.

It was late in the season. The Bucs needed to beat the lowly Lions at home to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Instead, the Bucs played down to the level of the Lions, which is just below street level. Playing-not-to-lose offense and an invisible defense late in the game allowed the toothless Lions to tie the game and win the game in overtime.

Because of that, the Packers are hungover from last night’s Super Bowl-winning celebration this morning.

The Packers eecked out a tiebreaker with the Bucs to make the playoffs as the NFC’s No. 6 seed.

And what does the Pack do? Run the table and put up 21 points off Steelers turnovers to bring the Vince Lombardi Trophy back to its roots in snowy, frigid Wisconsin.

The Packers should give each Bucs player a stipend from their Super Bowl winnings, or last least let the Bucs touch the Lombardi Trophy. For it was the Bucs not showing up on a cloudy, dreary Sunday in Tampa against a rotten ball club that allowed the Packers to get into the postseason, setting up their historic run.

Kudos cheeseheads.

Using Twitter like a madman during the Super Bowl, Gerald McCoy soaked in the Packers victory and Twittered a heartfelt message to Bucs fans.

McCoy apparently saw the glory of the win and was inspired moments after the game.

God willing, One day Bucs fans!! One day!! I promise to give all I have!!

Well, that got Joe all fired up for the 2011 season. It doesn’t take much.

In previous Tweets, McCoy revealed the his Super Bowl duty for the Ochocinco News Network was finished and he was at his condo in San Diego, where he is working with a renowned training guru.

Joe suspects McCoy won’t be calling anyone on his way to the gym tomorrow.

So Joe stuffed his face, drank Bass Ale and watched the Packers make big plays against the Steelers and take home another Lombardi Trophy on Sunday. Pretty good game.  

Then Joe had to listen the talking heads say over and over again that the Packers are the second youngest team in the NFL — a certain Tampa Bay club is the youngest — with a star quarterback and shot at a dynasty.

Joe does not think the Packers are a budding dynasty. Hell, if the Bucs beat the stinkin’ Lions at home in December, Green Bay never makes the playoffs. Yes, Joe still feels the pain.

But the Packers win should be a slap in the face to Mark Dominik to alert him and Team Glazer that the Bucs are right on the cusp of a Super Bowl run, if management is willing to do what it takes to push the team over the hump in the coming months.

Any excuse that Bucs are young or they’re still building the “lasting-contender” is bogus.  The Packers were young and ravaged by injuries, just like the Bucs. There’s not much that separates all these teams. The Bucs have the available money and should have the urgency to win now.

One of the main reasons why Team Glazer jettisoned Chucky with years left on his multimillion dollar salary was that Chucky could not develop or refused to develop a franchise quarterback.

Well, that may not have been Chucky’s fault, per Steve Wyche of NFL.com.

Per Wyche, the reason why Simms failed in Tampa Bay was not because he wasn’t tough enough or that that he didn’t have the physical skills to do so. Per Wyche, Simms is not and was not a leader of men, so he wrote in a recent chat on NFL.com.

Jason, Tampa
I noticed on NFL Network you said Chris Simms played well at times but he couldnt inspire the other guys in the huddle? What did you mean by this other than that he played well but lost so you didnt want to give him credit?

Steve Wyche, NFL.com
Jason, this is a fairly common element of some quarterbacks. They have skill to make the plays but they don’t have the ‘moxie’ to make everyone want to lay everything on the line for them. Joey Harrington is a prime example. He had all the skills and ability but teammates were never overly convinced that he was totally into it and could make all the plays. On the flip side, teammates would run through a wall for Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers.

This is an interesting comment. Notice how Bucs players openly revere current Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman. You can tell that not only do they respect Freeman, but it appears they will run through the proverbial wall for him.

Though Joe never heard anything negative about Simms from other players, Joe never got the impression that he was their undisputed leader either.

On a separate note, Wyche better be careful. Phil Simms might try to punch him.

Joe can remember it like it was yesterday.The Bucs forever shed the label of “Yucs.” The Bucs were Super Bowl champs.

If anyone wonders why all real men have the NFL Network and why Ed Sabol will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this summer, watch this episode of “America’s Game,” produced exclusively by NFL Films for the NFL Network. This video chronicles the Bucs Super Bowl season.

It is presented courtesy of the NFL through it’s video partners with Hulu.com. Enjoy!

The quote above comes from Super Bowl-winning coach Brian Billick.

Billick was not talking about himself. He was talking about former Bucs great linebacker and future Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks.

Brooks earlier this week stopped by the NFL Network set at radio row, which was just a few steps Sirius NFL Radio booth where Brooks was working this week, to talk about the Super Bowl. There, after being pestered by Jim Mora and Billick about coaching, Brooks, for the first time that Joe can remember, didn’t rule it out.

In this videov, Brooks explains in great detail how to stop Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers, the quarterbacks of the Steelers and Packers, respectively.

Brooks’ break down has both Mora and Billick swooning.

Many Bucs fans crumbled up an empty beer can in their fists, disgusted with the news that Bucs coach Raheem Morris finished second in the Coach of the Year honors to Patriots coach Bill Belicheat.

Many of these same Bucs fans are convinced Morris not getting the honor was some sort of bias or conspiracy led by a certain four-letter Stalinist outfit based in Connecticut.

But hold up, says good guy Stephen Holder of the St. Petersburg Times. He believes that Morris actually finishing second in the voting was indeed high praise of the Bucs coach.

That means the only guy who was even remotely close to Morris in the voting was the winner, Belichick — a guy who has won three Super Bowls and had the league’s best record despite having Larry, Curly and Moe as his primary skill-position players. Again, it’s hard to argue against Morris as the winner here, but both he and Belichick did wonderful jobs this season. And keep in mind, ballots were due just after the end of the regular season, so the Patriots’ playoff loss to the Jets was not taken into account. At the time the ballots were due, the Patriots looked like a favorite to win the Super Bowl.

Joe has heard some arguments pro-Belicheat and Joe doesn’t quite buy it, though Joe understands the reasoning behind such logic.

At any rate, any time someone in the MSM has a reference to The Three Stooges, Joe has to give the author mad props.

It’s so easy to recall the Race to 10, LeGarrette Blount’s punishing runs, Barrett Ruud’s embarrassing tackling, and Josh Freeman putting the Bucs on his back with 25 touchdowns and just six interceptions last season.

But it’s easy to forget that Freeman had a broken thumb in the preseason and was adversely affected by the injury during the regular season.

Yes, he is human.

Freeman, who recently turned 23, was asked to reflect on the thumb during an interview Friday with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620. Freeman explained that the busted thumb got in his head.

Steve Duemig: How much did that thumb stop your progression early in the season?

Josh Freeman: “More so than anything, it didn’t allow me to get into my comfort level until a few games in. …I’m telling you man, our preparation in the offseason, you gotta love it. I felt like I was ready to go, to take on the world. And then you have the thumb injury and then you start to kinda question, ‘Am I going to be back? Is this thing going to hold up? Is this all for nothing?’ …The training staff and the doctors did a good job not letting me get after it too quick. Because, you know, it’s like an addiction of mine. Not being able to throw the ball, having a cast on your thumb, you know you want to just go throw it. I wanted to throw left-handed after a little while.

Joe finds Freeman’s choice of the word “addiction” interesting. Clearly, Freeman is obsessed with football and greatness. That can only be good, unless he goes overboard.

Regardless, hearing of Freeman feeling vulnerable and uncomfortable at the start of the 2010 season gave Joe a new level of respect for the kid. The Bucs did start 2-0, and clearly he wasn’t 100 percent mentally.

No Bucs fan wants to think about a potential lockout of NFL players in March, but Josh Freeman says he’s ready right now for Day 1 of a lockout.

Speaking to the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio Friday, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, Freeman explained that he and his key teammates on offense will be unified and working if they are separated from the organization.

“I’ve got all the film I need for the offseason. I got the projector, the computers, all that stuff is all in place. We’ve had coaches say, ‘Hey, you can use our high school field.’ It’s just going to be getting everybody down there,” Freeman said.

“If guys aren’t getting paid, they’re not going to really have that much motivation to be in Tampa. …But our receiving corps [is ready]. I was hanging out with LeGarrette [Blount} at Gasparilla, and everybody’s ready.”

Joe will have more Saturday on Freeman and his obsession with practice and preparation.

While Joe’s rooting hard against any form of lockout, it sure would be fun to watch Freeman and his young guns on offense breaking their asses at a Tampa high school this spring without the supervision of team officials. Joe might even hire cheerleaders to encourage the young men.