Josh Freeman either misspeaks ... or speaks the truth
The Buccaneers' first-round quarterback made a controversial comment in an NFL.com chat session on Saturday, indicating that he felt the team's signing of free agent quarterback Byron Leftwich was essentially a ploy to get other teams to think the Bucs weren't interested in drafting a quarterback.
"Even when they picked up Byron Leftwich. It was something they told me — they told me it was a smokescreen, everybody would think they didn't want a QB," Freeman wrote. "They said they were ready to trade up. I think it worked out great. I was sitting there with my family and enjoying it, and I got to go to the team that I wanted to go to."
Coach Raheem Morris indicated that Freeman misspoke.
"We talked about that (Sunday) morning," Morris said. "Sometimes quotes are taken out of context. The young man was asked the question and he kind of answered it the wrong way."
The reaction from Leftwich?
"Hey, Leftwich called him this morning and told him he's going to put him in a headlock when he gets down here and then after that he's going to put him under his wing and get him ready to go," Morris said. "So, they talked on the phone this morning and I think we're okay."
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Awesomeness!
Needless to say that pick of Josh Freeman (when they already had 3 veteran QB's under multi-year contracts and a young guy named Josh Johnson) didn't go over very well in Tampa.
The Bucs now have 5 quarterbacks on the roster. What are the Bucs trying to do, building a starting rotation by stock piling quarterbacks for the Tampa Bay Rays? That's insane.
The comment doesn't actually say anything about Leftwich's ability. Everyone knows the intent was tgo minimize the appearance of their need for a QB. It was also to get a starter to give Freeman time to develop, in my humble (but highly accurate) opinion.
If you want make more of it than that, you can. But you are wrong. Mispoke would be the operative term.
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