In the 42 years there have been Super Bowls, no single season passing yardage leading quarterback has ever won the Super Bowl. But also, there has never been a team which plays in the Super Bowl host city, ever play in the Big Game. Can the Bucs be the first?
With the release of Greg Spires and Kevin Carter yesterday, the Buccaneers are now over 40 million dollars under the salary cap, a team record heading into the free agency period. With all this "free" money, a brand new state of the art facility, natural grass surface in one of the league's nicest stadiums, you would image the Bucs are poised to make their biggest splash in free agency in team history.
General Manager Bruce Allen has done an admirable job over the past two years of frugally signing some veteran players during free agency and along the way, managing to sign a few players which created an impact which weren't high on anyones radar screen, see Greg White and Javon Haye this past season. Allen has also done a great job of recovering the Bucs from the failed polices of the previous GM, Rich McKay, who created a salary cap burden on the team which had the front office handcuffed in the pursuit of offseason aquisitions in past years.
This season, with 40 plus million in cap space, the Bucs should be players in the free agent market to address key positions and hopefully be able to go into this years draft with the ability to draft the best available players in positions which allows for future success of the club.
Now, lets see if the front office can put all the pieces together, and the Bucs can make history this year by getting the ultimate home field advantage.
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