Bucs release Freeman

[Landshark]

Rookie Mike Glennon will start Sunday

Edited to add: Freeman was released today after the team could find no takers for a trade.

[CF DolFan]

The Bucs have given up on Freeman and are willing to trade him.

I read this this morning "This league is about finding a franchise quarterback, and with Josh's roller-coaster career, we don't feel he's that guy," a team source said.

Personally I think Freeman is one of those guys who could destroy a lot of careers because he "almost" gets it over and over.

I don't know much about Glennon other than he is very tall and skinny.

[Dave Gray]

This is a case of a QB and a coach just not clicking and the coach not wanting to go down with the ship before his own guy has a shot.  I agree about Freeman.  I'm not sure why anyone would give any real trade value for Freeman.  Does anyone see real potential in this guy?

[Phishfan]

A friend of mine was very vocal this offseason about how much better Freeman was than Tannehill. Looking at this season so far, it is humorous how off his statements were.

[CF DolFan]

It has more to do than with the relationship of coach and QB.  I'd think even a pissed of QB could do better than this ... especially in a contract year. Freeman has imploded and has made himself pretty useless as far as this team. The Bucs can't really get any worse by changing QBs right now.

The winless Bucs have lost their first three games, two on field goals in the closing seconds. Freeman has completed just 45.7 percent of his passes for 571 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions.

Freeman's completion percentage and quarterback rating (59.3) are last in the league, and Tampa Bay has lost eight of its past nine games dating to last season.

The fifth-year pro, once touted by general manager Mark Dominik as a franchise quarterback, has thrown for four TDs vs. 12 interceptions in the last six games.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

I have never been impressed by Freeman so I am not surprised but this and I think he has very little value other than a backup going forward!!!!!

[Landshark]

BUMP

Freeman was released today. 

[Phishfan]

It was just a matter of time before this happened. They had no chance of trading him away.

[CF DolFan]

It took them long enough.  This has been a bad week for both he and the Bucs franchise. Hopefully they both can move on to something more positive. Well ... except against the Dolphins!!

[Dave Gray]

I've rarely seen something like this get so ugly, so quickly.  I am not on the pulse of the Bucs, but was this a long time coming?  It seems that he was kinda up-and-coming just a year or two ago.

[CF DolFan]

My understanding is it just became public. I mean I hear he has had an attitude for a while. Apparently he is late ... a lot. He even missed the team picture and wasn't voted captain. He says the vote was rigged but who knows. I can't imagine not answering calls and completely missing the team photo.

Like all stories it depends on who you want to believe but it seems to me it really started to get bad when the Bucs drafted a QB and wouldn't renew his contract. I think he started mentally checking out and becoming a pain in the arse to them rather than straighten up and lead by example.

[Brian Fein]

^^ This is what happens when you get a new coach and he wants his own players.  Things like this.  This is why I'm more cautious about "Fire everyone" than a lot of knee-jerk people.

[Dave Gray]

^ Something is fishy about him not being voted as a captain.  I'd be hard pressed to think that the coaches set that up.  It's just odd and he may have lost the locker room.

[Brian Fein]

that wasn't set up, the guy just isn't a leader.  And the teammates knew it.  If he can't be bothered to show up for the team photo, what does that tell you about your starting QB?

[EKnight]

While I agree Freeman was culpable in his own demise, the way the team is being run is a mess. The Bucs apparently through him under the bus badly with the whole drug testing thing, despite the fact that he reportedly passed 46 drug tests after he failed one for taking Ritalin instead of Adderall. Trading Aqib Talib and LeGarrette Blount to the Pats seems odd as well. I can't put my finger on what exactly bothers me about the way they seemed to discard them (Talib especially, as he's quite good), but something's fishy. -EK