he new football year is upon us and your faithful TALB has returned from my long sabbatical. What’s this? Keyshawn to Carolina? Vinatieri to Indy? The Notorious T.A.G. on the way out? But at least the NFL and its players were able to work out a labor agreement that will ensure that Sunday afternoons (and evenings, and Monday nights, and some Thursdays too) are filled with large men in plastic armor colliding upon the gridiron for enormous sums of money.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers started 2005 with hopes of reaching 8-8. Well, any football player will tell you that they are striving to reach the Big Game. But most of them must have thought, deep down, that getting to .500 would be an accomplishment and a nice step on the way back to greatness. At least given the lack of success over the previous two seasons. Then 11-6 happened. An NFC South divisional championship happened. And a young quarterback, left for (football) dead by many, TALB included, stepped up and made this his team.
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