Chris Simms Was Just Rusty. Or Not.

Here's a great find from "Pirate" on a local message board. From Pewter Report last summer:

"I don't feel that badly, I feel, physically, like I can take a hit and run," [Chris] Simms said. "I guess you can just say I'm rusty. I just don't feel like I'm clicking on all cylinders."

And, again, from today:

Simms said he felt the Bucs mishandled his injury last training camp, insisting that he had passed all physicals and was completely healthy. In fact, they attributed his performance to 'rustiness.'

"The way they handled it was wrong," Simms said. "I don't know if they wanted to cut me and didn't want to liable or they were hoping somebody would trade for me, but for him to say I was completely healthy and passed all the physicals and that I just wasn't performing well, that was a low blow. It was."

So either he was underplaying his injury back then or he's overplaying it now.