Ex-Bucs Have Had About Enough

John Lynch is thinking seriously about retiring. You can tell because everyone is reporting that he was crying after the Vikings game.

Teammates began to wonder if this really was it for safety John Lynch when they saw him with tears coming down his face in the Broncos' locker room Sunday after the game against the Minnesota Vikings.

It's the same thing everyone thought about Brett Favre and Mike Alstott last year when they did their whole "this could be it" deal and took their victory lap only to come back in 2007. Lynch is pretty pragmatic about these things, though, and from the way he was talking in this interview last week, I get the feeling he'll play it smart.

"I was spooked earlier this year when I got another stinger and I felt it was the same stuff, I was feeling back in Tampa when I had to have neck surgery," Lynch said, referring to an operation following the 2003 season. "I kind of told myself, 'If this stuff ever starts happening again, I'm done.' So initially, I thought, 'This might be it.' "

Warren Sapp is also considering retiring. He made it sound definitive to his teammates, but let the sting of a $75,000 fine and three consecutive personal fouls dull for the next couple weeks and then let's see where his THC-riddled mind is. Sapp is scheduled to make $5,150,000 in 2008 and it's not like the Raiders have anyone better waiting for their chance behind him.

If he does go through with his retirement, please let him get some kind of broadcasting job. He'd never make it as a color commentator in a booth, but can you see him working the sidelines during Monday Night Football? Or maybe he could come back to Tampa and be the anti-Duemig. Hell and yes.