On every Buccaneer-related site I frequent, the general consensus among users is that Jeff Garcia already has the starting job locked up. They dissect Jon Gruden's words to try and get a hint at what he is thinking. One such example is when he was asked about the shotgun.

After allowing Nate Clements sign elsewhere this spring, the Bills felt a veteran void at cornerback heading towards training camp.  This prompted the addition of former Falcon Jason Webster last week. 

Terrence McGee is established at one starting spot.  But the loss of Clements left a hole on the other side.  The Bills drafted Ashton Youboty last spring with the idea of stepping in the starting lineup once Clements departed after the 2006 season.  But Youboty missed most of training camp last summer due to the passing of his mother and fell behind in learning the defense and how to play cornerback at the NFL level. 

A group of gentlemen who in the time it took you to read up to this point have earned more money than you will all year, are putting together a football league to compete with the NFL. Among the charter members of this upstart league are Bill Hambrecht (investment banker), Tim Armstrong (Google), and Mark Cuban (HDNet, Dallas Mavericks, the twitch in Donald Trump's left eye.) The league is to be called the United Football League, abbreviated of course to UFL. Looks a lot like UFC, doesn't it?

The CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (is there another kind of tiger I am unaware of?) are expected to sign Shaun King later today. His contract is expected to include a custom-fitted tuque, Rush's Moving Pictures CD, and all the maple syrup he can drink. I believe this fulfills my Canadian joke quota for this story.

New Cowboys coach Wade Phillips has returned former first-round pick Bobby Carpenter to inside linebacker, his position at Ohio State. There is no question that the rookie Carpenter struggled as an outside pass rusher last season.

It'll be a little quiet this week as the Bucs take a break from the offseason grind. They won't conduct any full-squad workouts until a week from today, June 5.

In the meantime, we'll still have a Bucs presence online and in the paper. In Wednesday's St. Petersburg Times, we'll update you on cornerback Alan Zemaitis, a fourth-round pick last year who most probably thought had fallen off the face of the Earth.

It is not beyond the realm of possibility that Michael Vick goes down hard for this dog-fighting scandal. If the Falcons are forced to be without Vick either because of a suspension or just because the team doesn't want to take the PR hit of having another animal abuser on their team (let's not forget Jonathan Babineaux has animal abuse charges pending), Arthur Blank may see no option to releasing or trading Vick and taking a monster cap hit in the process. Such a cap hit would surely cripple the Falcons for the next few years as they lose players they can't afford to keep to free agency and have no cap space to get decent replacements (remind you of anyone?) And who would be blamed for this cap mess? The Teflon GM himself, Rich McKay, who not only gave Vick the $130 million contract with the enormous cap implications but also engineered the Matt Schaub trade which leaves team with Joey Harrington in case times get tough. Both those moves by themselves didn't look so bad. Vick certainly brings people to the games and Schaub hasn't really proven anything in the league to this point. But in order for both those moves to work, Vick had to keep his nose clean. And McKay will have to explain to Blank why he didn't have the foresight to see that Michael Vick + a boatload of cash = Police investigations.

Ski does the follow-up I should have done and uncovers a writer that paid some attention to the open practice last week. As Ski says, Stephen Holder's first paragraph seems to hint that he keeps his eye on the Buccaneers blogosphere (I promise not to use that term again.)