Panthers-related: Rival Bucs sign the Fitz

[UpstatePanther]

http://m.buccaneers.com/news/article-smith/Buccaneers-Add-Ryan-Fitzpatrick/a5b3379c-1d8d-4b89-8d69-4a3aa2133e3f

[therealmjl]

Don't blame them. He's better than Jameis.

[electro's horse]

Panthers related: a team in the division signed a player they hope never plays. 

[therealmjl]

3 minutes ago, stbugs said:

I like the dig, but no, he's not even close. Fitz is good experience, i.e. he can give you that vet starter versus the crap that Oakland had to throw out there once Carr went down, but he sucked last year. He has the potential to play well enough, which is what you want from your backup.

It was sarcasm.

Jameis is mediocre though.

[UpstatePanther]

3 minutes ago, mjligon said:

It was sarcasm.

Jameis is mediocre though.

Yeah Jameis is a Cam wanna be. 

[therealmjl]

6 minutes ago, UpstatePanther said:

Yeah Jameis is a Cam wanna be. 

Jameis doesn't have the sauce to be Cam. 

[Nate Dogg]

 

 

[Wolfcop]

He is better at playing QB than Kapernick. Let that sink in.

[LinvilleGorge]

Good signing. Very solid veteran backup QB.

[LinvilleGorge]

Everyone needs to just quit with the Squidworth crap. NFL teams see him as a distraction and if you're seen as a distraction you better be a star caliber player, not a guy seen as a backup QB who will hopefully never see the field. The PC angle is garbage. If teams thought the guy could help them win games and this help protect GM and coaching jobs, he'd be on an NFL roster. Period.

[TheRed]

Washed up white QB's that never did anything to begin with continually getting opportunities? Yawn.

[UpstatePanther]

40 minutes ago, Nate Dogg said:

 

 

Oh I am. And I don't blame the NFL for approaching it that way.

17 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Everyone needs to just quit with the Squidworth crap. NFL teams see him as a distraction and if you're seen as a distraction you better be a star caliber player, not a guy seen as a backup QB who will hopefully never see the field. The PC angle is garbage. If teams thought the guy could help them win games and this help protect GM and coaching jobs, he'd be on an NFL roster. Period.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Personally, I despise Kaep's politics. But I'm sure there are plenty of NFL players whose politics would disgust me. The difference is that Kaep made a damn fool of himself and proceeded to do absolutely nothing to help the cause he stood, literally, for until he was called out by fugging Stephen A Smith for his inaction. He made his own self into a pariah and that's fine whatever. Mike Vick did too. But guess what... Mike Vick was valuable enough to earn a roster spot the very next season after he was released from prison because he was no longer a distraction. 

Give Kaep a season or two off, and if he keeps himself in football shape I bet he'll earn a roster spot in 2019 or 2020

[AggieLean]

*whistles* debating on if I should jump in this. Nah, not yet..

Anyways, solid pickup for Tampa

[electro's horse]

1 hour ago, Nate Dogg said:

 

 

avoids a situation where Kaep comes in and plays too well.