Bucs Fans: Keyshawn Johnson Deactivated for the rest of the Season

[Cush]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1664796

In the latest shocking development from a championship team gone awry, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have deactivated former All-Pro wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson for the rest of the season, ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli reports.


According to Pasquarelli, Johnson has been told that he is excused from all team-related functions and that he will be inactive for the Buccaneers' six remaining games. Sources close to Johnson said they believe the move is a prelude to an eventual trade that would have to take place after the season. The NFL trading deadline for 2003 passed in October.


Buccaneers general manager Rich McKay has scheduled a news conference for 4 p.m. ET.

[Character Assassin]

1. It wasn't his mouth by any chance, was it?

Or perhaps his lack of control over it?

[lpbk2713]

2. This might be an attention-getter

for some of the other Bucs players that haven't been playing up to their potential lately. Gruden had to do something drastic to jump start the apathy that seems to have taken over his team.

[GainesT1958]

3. You know it's getting pretty bad...

When the guy who SHOULD be your QB's #1 receiving target (not to mention a multi-year Pro Bowl selection) is "de-activated" for the rest of the season. Wonder who's next in the Bucs' de-activation domino fall...Warren Sapp!? :wow:

Oh, well; at least that way we'd know Rich McKay was following Malcolm Glazer's and John Gruden's desire and getting rid of SOME of the team's biggest MOUTHS!:eyes:

I'd like to think that it was the second loss to the Panthers that did it; my wife, meanwhile, being a lifelong Packers fan, would say that Brett Favre did it. Either one works for me!

GO PANTHERS...NFC South Champs-to-be, 2003!!!:bounce:

B-)

[GregW]

4. It should be Sapp

That cheap-shot thug needs to finish his days in a McJob instead of being given the opportunity to maim other players.

[omshanti]

5. Who was that guy who was beating up on Peppers at the Panthers game?

It should be him.

[joeybee12]

6. Keshawn wants to play for Dallas and Parcells

Listeing to WFAN in NY--they say Keshawn has an "abnormal" relationship with Parcells--he doesn't play well for anyone else.

Anyway, glad he's going--the coach needs to be in charge of any team. That's the only way teams win games, not with over-paid prima donnas doing and saying what they feel like. I refer back to Game 7 of ACLS--Little should have pulled Pedro, regardless of what Pedro said--it's the coach's decision, and if Little had been a stronger coach, the 85-year-old curse would have been history.

[underpants]

8. Problem is Dallas doesn't need receivers

Okay Galloway pulled his hammy but still.

Of Course Parcells might want KJ something tells me that he and Glenn aren't the kinds that mesh too well.

[underpants]

7. Wow a classic Keyshawn quote here

"Honestly, I'm very disappointed because I really wanted to win another championship with this team," he said. "I was never Gruden's guy. He never liked me. I told him I'd rather retire than play for him in 2004. But I also told him I wouldn't be a distraction, I wouldn't go to the media with it and I didn't. I don't know why they released me. I was playing hard, I wasn't dogging it. Tell everyone I'm in New York looking for apartments."