Garcia To Bucs: WAAAAAHHHH

Jeff Garcia spouted off about his contract again at today's voluntary OTAs.

"This is a physical game and you want players to go out and give everything they have and lay their bodies on the line, lay their hearts on the line," Garcia said, in an apparent message to team management. "Well, we want you to lay something on the line."

They are, douche. Two million dollars in salary. That's the deal you signed up for. That's what you agreed to take for putting your body on the line in the game of football. Are you new here or something? I have never understood why players insist on stating the obvious point that football is a physical game. I'm pretty sure he knew it was a physical game before he signed his contract. The Buccaneers aren't any more violent than any other team in the league. I could understand if he was with the Raiders and wanted a special "In Case I'm Stabbed" stipend. Other than that, no.

"There might be a time when I have to stand up," he said. "I hate to do that to jeopardize my teammates because they're out here and I don't want to let them down in any sort of way. But I think at some point, you just want to see the respect (from) up top given."

What does that mean? You're going to hold out of mandatory OTAs and camp, or you're just not going to show up to the voluntary stuff? For someone who's supposed to be such a tough guy, you're kind of being a whiny little bitch about this whole thing. Say you're going to hold out if that's your intention.

As I've stated in previous entries, Jeff Garcia is all about the money. The Bucs knew it several years ago and it hasn't changed, so it should be no surprise to Jeff that the team is treating this like a total business transaction. And from a business standpoint, the fact is that Garcia will be 39 when the season starts and Bruce Allen is justifiably reluctant to give him any kind of extension this early in the offseason. Allen has until February 2009 to make it happen. Someone like Earnest Graham I would expect to get extended sooner rather than later because of his age and the fact that he's been unselfish in the past.

Allen said he was going to extend some of their current players. I'm sure he's terribly sorry that it's not happening according to Garcia's schedule or that he's not first in line. But he's got other shit on his plate as well. Business is business, right, Jeff? That's what you told him in 2004 when you went to Cleveland.