Bucs Are Staging American Idol For Wide Receivers

Hey, the Bucs brought in some wide receivers to work out on Tuesday! Oh, thank God. Finally they can get some much needed depth at the position. I'll bet Peter Warrick was one of them.

That group included David Ball (New Hampshire), Cortez Hankton (Texas Souther), Julius McClellan (North Carolina Central) and Jerard Rabb (Boise State). Former Boise State QB Jared Zabransky threw to the group.

Who the fuck are these guys?!? I didn't even know New Hampshire had a football program. Fox could definitely turn this into a reality show where some unknown and under-talented schmuck wins a chance to be inactive for a real NFL game. If he's lucky, he'll be able to get on the field on punt coverage where he'll be blocked three feet into the dirt by an overachieving linebacker, and then never heard fro again.

Why oh why do Bruce Allen and Jon Gruden continue to try and mine the dregs of the undrafted free agent pool for some undiscovered gleam of talent when there are guys out there who at the very least have demonstrated some potential in the NFL? Some of them have been injured, sure. But so was Michael Clayton and they seem to want to stick with him. Doug Gabriel, Az-Zahir Hakim, Todd Pinkston, David Terrell, Jerome Pathon. They all have some flaw that has made them available this late in the season, but they all have made plays in an NFL game. Christ, Gabriel was catching touchdowns from Tom Brady last year. Doesn't that count for something? And you know none of them aren't going to cost anything. Most of them are willing to work for peanuts at this stage in their careers. And I mean actual peanuts. Like an elephant.

I'm sure there's some reason they don't want to bring some of them in, but you can't tell me they're all blacklisted. And if they are, I've got more! Antonio Bryant, Bethel Johnson, Corey Bradford, Rashaun Woods. I can't believe someone needs to try to convince Gruden to stop looking so hard at unproven rookies and give a veteran a second chance. That's like having to convince Michael Vick to stop all his humanitarian work and start beating the shit out of dogs.