12 teams make the NFL playoffs.  This is the list of the QB completion percentage for all 12 playoffs QB’s.

Drew Brees – 1st
Peyton Manning – 2nd
Brett Favre – 3rd
Kurt Warner – 6th
Tom Brady - 7th
Phillip Rivers – 8th
Aaron Rodgers - 9th
Tony Romo -11th
Joe Flacco – 11th
Carson Palmer – 17th
Donovan McNabb – 20th
Mark Sanchez – 29th
***These league rankings were edited on 2/9 because of errors in the first edition

Mark Sanchez, Joe Flacco and Carson Palmer had the 1st, 3rd and 6th ranked defensives from a points per game perspective.  Donovan McNabb was the only QB not in the top 10 in QB accuracy, whose team wasn’t a top 6 ranked defense who made the playoffs.

For all that information, the number one QB in the league for completion percentage just won the Super Bowl and not surprisingly had an 82.05% completion percentage in their W.

The stats (although our head coach says stats “are for losers”) speak for themselves.

“I’m just a journeyman according to some people; why should I have any hard feelings? I’m thankful to have this job. I might pay Bruce and Jon for bringing me out here”, Garcia said…What am I going to say? It’s the unfortunate part of the business,” Garcia said. “That’s what this sport is. It has two sides. Obviously, a game for all of those who play on the field and love to play the game, but there is a business side, too. Part of teams trying to reach that championship position is trying to strengthen their team. Whether they thought that was strengthening or not, as much as I believe that I can be a strong point for this team that is what they had to look into. So be it. It’s all said and done. We’re moving forward.”

“I always tell people you want to play three safeties at all times,” said Defensive Backs Coach Raheem Morris. “If you can do that and limit some of the reps off of Tanard Jackson and Jermaine Phillips then you get better reps off of those guys when they are out on the field. If that’s fifteen from each and you can give Sabby thirty then, well, you never know what you will get…“It’s not over yet,” said Morris of the fight for playing time. “They’re still battling it out and we keep it hot in our room. We keep the controversy going so you guys will be buzzing.”

“It was a matter of leg angle, which is no big deal,” Bryant said. “It’s just that the first time it happened, it happened in a game. That’s what makes it tough.”

“You never really know about a guy until the pads go on, so that was good to see,” Bucs defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin said. “Anytime you can get to the quarterback, we like that.”

“Yes, I’m concerned,” Gruden said. “If you’re the head coach and you’re (top) receiver hasn’t practiced yet, yes, you’re concerned. But we’re also looking at it optimistically because we proved the other night that we have some young guys who are capable of playing and we’re thrilled with that.”

Jeff Garcia was out on the field for a while, but didn’t participate in any of the team drills.

Ben Troupe and Sammy Davis also practiced on a limited basis.

Gruden must have busted some heads after the Dolphins game because this was a very physical practice. Gruden has been taking it easy on the guys so far this camp, but he may be thinking that he needs to ratchet it up a little.

During both sessions, music was playing over the loudspeakers while the players were stretching. Some of it was country music. I don’t know… do you think a lot of those guys listen to country music? Besides Chris Hovan, I mean.

It seemed like the offense was getting balls batted and intecepted and quarterbacks were getting sacked all day long. This was not a good day for the offense.Except one nice play where Luke McCown read a blitz and threw to Micheal Spurlock running a hot route who took it in for a touchdown.

Greg White spent more time in the backfield than the running backs did. This was a huge day for White.

Paris Warren somehow caught a ball with Ronde Barber draped all over him.

McCown started off good, but really started to decline as the morning wore on. Brian Griese started off kind of bad and didn’t get much better.

Jimmy Wilkerson actually intercepted a pass off a deflection. This guy is athletic.

Byron Storer absolutely leveled Dexter Jackson after he caught a punt. Jackson isn’t supposed to be tackled on drills like that, but he bounced right up and was fine.

Speaking of Jackson, his improvement since the rookie minicamp has been excellent. He runs lean routes and has much better hands than he showed in May.

There was a real fight when Ryan Nece blocked Brian Clark on his blindside and knocked him to the ground. They grabbed each other’s facemasks, but some other players came in and broke it up before it could get good.

The afternoon practice was mostly in the tent and not open to the media. The outside portion was pretty much warm-ups and the receivers looked a lot better than they did in the morning.

Kevin Carter was back in at tight end in the afternoon.

“We were receptive to hearing what they wanted to do,” Allen said of the Packers. “I’m not going to say I wasn’t interested in Brett Favre. Yes, I was interested … The big question, and I’m not going to play the hypothetical game myself, what if there wasn’t an AFC team that was available? Now what? That changes the dynamics. But I don’t want to start to get into it.”

Allen goes on to say that although they were involved in talks about Favre, the Packers never came clean on the exact compensation that they wanted in return for Favre, a tactic employed a lot by teams trading players.  It was left up to the Bucs to determine his value, and subsequently, the value being placed on Favre by the New York Jets.   Allen claimed to learn about the compensation given up by the Jets after it appeared on numerous media outlets. 

“We never got a specific answer what they wanted,” Allen said. “It appears they did what they wanted to do if they were going to have a divorce with Brett, that was to send him to an AFC team.”

Bruce Allen went on to say, and this was pretty much assumed from the start, that the Buccaneers would not be willing to give up the same kind of pacakge of picks that the Jets were willing to move.  

While the national media has been saying all week that the Bucs are now in a bad spot trying to repair the phsyche of QB Jeff Garcia, I think that is ludicrous.  This is an NFL team we are talking about. The job of General Managers is to put the best players on the field, and Jeff Garcia as well as every other player in the NFL knows this. 

 ”I don’t see this as a poor reflection on Jeff,” Allen said. “This is a very unique human being we were talking about.”

One final comment from Gruden on the whole situation.

“There’s not any air to clear,” Gruden said. “This is not going to become an Oprah Winfrey special. It’s an awkward thing. We’re talking about a guy who’s Brett Favre, one of the tremendous players of all-time.”