SIMEON RICE HAS BEEN RELEASED!!!

[bradentonian]

If this is true, it makes me wonder if we just completed a trade that required us to free some cap room

[MarleyMon81]

he could've had a double digit sack season easily

If he's fully healthy.  If that shoulder injury isn't properly healed it could become a real problem like it was for him last year.  As PR has stated, Rice contemplated retirement a few off seasons ago.  Maybe this is mutual.  I'm just trying to figure out reasoning at this point.

[Ericsbucs371]

I don't want to see it but this might just happen. If so the bucs were waiting till they sign Gaines Adams, and now that deal is done. I'd rather keep him here for another year.

[BucJam07]

If this is true, it makes me wonder if we just completed a trade that required us to free some cap room

Whoa, good point man....Lance Briggs or Asante Samuels?

[bradentonian]

From PFT:

BUCS BOUNCE RICE

In a move that is not a shocker but is still nevertheless surprising, the Bucaneers have cut defensive end Simeon Rice, according to Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com.

Rice was due to earn a base salary of $7.25 million in 2007, the final year of his contract.  Per Glazer, the Bucs asked Rice to take a pay cut, and Rice refused.

Look for Rice to be courted by the Detroit Lions, who are coached by former Bucs defensive line coach Rod Marinelli.  Other possibilities (as we see it) are the Bears, Steelers, and Vikings.

[Simms2Clayton05]

Rice will not be released this is total crap.

[dpc1192]

I don't see us just releasing him....

We must've needed some cap room

[SnookAU]

Wonder why the Bucs needed to do this... Aren't they still under the cap?  I hope this isn't a move to fit in Plummer or Culpepper.

[bucs1]

That sucks , he came all the way to training camp for nothing:

[mtnman]

Talk about being in the re-build mold.

Didn't Allen say that there would be no cap related cuts ?

[SnookAU]

That sucks , he came all the way to training camp for nothing:

IS that Spires in front of him with the FSU shirt on?   Nice beard...

[BucJam07]

That sucks , he came all the way to training camp for nothing:

Who's the dude in the FSU shirt? Homeboy looks like Suge Knight the made famous by Tupac Shakur, Death Row Records owner and gangbanger.

[barberandbrooks]

That sucks , he came all the way to training camp for nothing:

he looks thin and in shape there

what a damn shame

[SnookAU]

I really hope this isn't true.  But it looks like it is...  This really sucks and there better be a good reason for it. 

[Ericsbucs371]

That sucks , he came all the way to training camp for nothing:

Who's the dude in the FSU shirt? Homeboy looks like Suge Knight the made famous by Tupac Shakur, Death Row Records owner and gangbanger.

I believe Suge Knight is a lot taller then Rice. and wider.