Bucs Sign Receiver

It's Paris Warren! Oh, come on. Don't you think I would have come up with a better headline for a bigger signing? Stop acting like it was such a teaser.

The Bucs need all the help at receiver that they can get, and Warren really had nowhere else to go, so this was bound to happen. Warren was looking pretty good in the 2007 preseason until he scored his last touchdown and foot was pointing the wrong direction. Then he stopped looking pretty good and started looking creepy and weird. It would be nice if he could come back and push the competition along in training camp because it sure looks like every receiver spot except for Joey Galloway's is up for grabs. Warren has completed his rehab so there shouldn't be any further problems from his injury.

In the same article, the Times also says that they don't expect Kalvin Pearson to return because the Buccaneers aren't offering him a long enough contract. Pearson is a good special teams guy and a solid safety backup, so I'm sorry to see him go. His agent Michael Hawthorne, makes nice with the Bucs, but doesn't sound optimistic about Pearson returning to the team for 2008.

"I think he will test the waters," Hawthorne said. "He wants to be a Buccaneer. He loves the organization. He just wants more years. ... He is getting up there in age and wants to be taken care of."

Holy shit, Kalvin Pearson is 29. I forgot his first year in the league was 2002. He really is good enough to start for some team, so I don't blame him for wanting to advance his career. This leaves the starters as Jermaine Phillips and Tanard Jackson with Will Allen and Sabby Piscitelli backing them up and Donte Nicholson as a fifth safety. When the Bucs cut to 53 in September last year, they had five safeties also, so expect the team to bring in one or two more even if they're just scrubs. Safeties are fun to bring into camp because they hit everything at about 1,000 miles per hour to try and impress the coaches when really all they want to see is solid tackling and good ball skills.