You've probably been wondering where we've been around here. Well, when you cover the NFL 24/7, you have to take a break at those precious few times when things slow down. When you start sleeping with a BlackBerry under your pillow, you're really overdue for some time off.

But I digress. Let's talk football.

One of the things I have enjoyed about Tony Dungy this past year is how he takes any available opportunity to dig the Patriots about their whole signal-stealing scandal. Sometimes it's sarcastic, sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's funny, but it's always on the tip of tongue, ready to again poke at the Bill Belichick's scab like Bart Simpson ("Ow! Quit it.")

Roy Cummings of the Tampa Tribune says that Bucs fans that are hopeful that WR Chris Henry may be headed for Tampa Bay should not get their hopes up. Cummings said he spoke to the agent for Henry, who the problem-child WR formerly of the Bengals, and was released after his latest run-in with the law. The agent said that his client is getting interest from two teams, but that the Bucs are not one of them. The team did draft a WR in the second round, Dexter Jackson, and hopefully he can help out the WR spot in 2008. Henry is going to catch on somewhere, but in the end, he’s not worth the trouble that Jon Gruden and company would get with him on the roster this upcoming season.

Look, I'm not saying that the Buccaneers need Adam Archuleta on their team. I'm not even advocating keeping him around when the roster is cut to 53. The Bucs have enough safeties and they're all better than Archuleta. But his wife is August 2001 Playmate of the Month Jennifer Walcott.

Former Bucs running back Rabih Abdullah, 33, was arrested Wednesday night in New Tampa on an outstanding warrant of driving with a license that is revoked, suspended, or canceled.

Sorry for all the stories about former Bucs. The current ones aren't doing anything interesting, though. I promise my next irrelevant post will at least have some tits in it.

For the first time in a long time, John Lynch feels like he has something to prove. Mostly because some of his teammates think he should have retired this year and make way for some younger guys.

The Tribune did a brief interview with Shaun King and it's exactly as exciting as it sounds. King is currently doing color commentary for Arena League games and he's not bitter at all about the way his football career turned out.

I was contacted pretty promptly by the first place winner of the draft contest and he should have his prize by now. However, the second place winner is still MIA. So, "Justin", you have one week from right now to contact me with your street address so I can send you a $25 Bucgear.com gift card. After that, I'm moving to the next runner-up. It's kind of like when Miss America gets busted for posing in a skin rag and has to give up her crown to the next chick down the line. Except my contest was infinitely more meaningful than the Miss America pageant.

I remember when Rich McKay drafted Joe Hamilton out of Georgia Tech in the seventh round of the 2000 draft; I thought he would be the biggest steal of the year. I had followed him at Tech and saw him make plays that made everyone else look like they were running on ice. He didn't get much of a chance behind Brad Johnson, and when he was allocated to the Frankfurt Galaxy, he torn his ACL. I followed him to the Colts and through the AFL, and then heard just a couple days ago that Tech had re-hired him in their personnel department. Not what he wanted out of his career, but at least he was still in football and working for the school he loves.