The Pewter Plank » Roddy White http://thepewterplank.com A Tampa Bay Buccaneers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 02:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Snubbed? http://thepewterplank.com/2008/12/18/snubbed/ http://thepewterplank.com/2008/12/18/snubbed/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:30:39 +0000 Dustin Staggers http://thepewterplank.com/?p=692 After looking at the NFC Pro Bowl Roster yesterday evening I was happy to see a couple Bucs on the roster.  Derrick Brooks made his 12th consecutive Pro Bowl (after being inserted as an alternate last year) and undrafted rookie return man Clifton Smith was selected to his first Pro Bowl.  I was hoping that [...]

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]]> After looking at the NFC Pro Bowl Roster yesterday evening I was happy to see a couple Bucs on the roster.  Derrick Brooks made his 12th consecutive Pro Bowl (after being inserted as an alternate last year) and undrafted rookie return man Clifton Smith was selected to his first Pro Bowl. 

I was hoping that the league would take notice of Smith’s numbers and not select Devin Hester solely because of the name, and it appears the fans and the players and coaches took notice. 

The one player I’m dissapointed to not see on the roster is Mike Linebacker Barrett Ruud.  He is 4th in the league in tackles with 117 and has contributed 3 sacks, 2 INT’s and 8 passes defended.  Patrick Willis is a flashier player, but I think Ruud deserved the spot. 

One guy who I was hoping would make it, but didn’t, was WR Antonio Bryant.  I can’t justifiably argue his stats against the other NFC starting WR’s (Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin, Roddy White & Steve Smith), but just hope that Bryant gets named as an alternate.  He also has a good chance to lock up the NFL Comeback Player of the Year.  He is currently sitting at 74 catches for 1,044 yards and 6 td’s including the years sure fire catch of the year.

]]> http://thepewterplank.com/2008/12/18/snubbed/feed/ 0 First Half Quick Hits http://thepewterplank.com/2007/11/18/first-half-quick-hits/ http://thepewterplank.com/2007/11/18/first-half-quick-hits/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:45:09 +0000 Dustin Staggers http://thepewterplank.com/2007/11/18/first-half-quick-hits/ Byron Leftwich has looked pretty decent so far.  Roddy White and Laurent Robinson are not giving him much help Our offense can move the ball seemingly at will against their defense.  Besides the Michael Pittman drop on 3rd down, and the fumble by Pittman, our offense has looked very effficient. Atlanta’s LB’s and secondary are [...]

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  • Byron Leftwich has looked pretty decent so far.  Roddy White and Laurent Robinson are not giving him much help
  • Our offense can move the ball seemingly at will against their defense.  Besides the Michael Pittman drop on 3rd down, and the fumble by Pittman, our offense has looked very effficient.
  • Atlanta’s LB’s and secondary are biting hard on pump fakes and play action, no discipline from Mike Zimmer’s squad.
  • I love that we still get to play this team another time after today’s game!!!
  • John Abraham has been abusing Jeremy Trueblood and Donald Penn the whole first half.  He looks really good, and logged his 7th sack of the year in the first half.
  • Deangelo Hall gambles too much on defense.  Jeff Garcia and Joey Galloway burned him on the pump fake. 
  • Neither team has ran the ball very effectively as of yet. 
  • Ronde Barber has no INT’s all year, this was a stat that was told by the Fox broadcasters that I was just not aware of.
  • Cato June has been trying to run through everyone he tackles, he looks very good today. 
  • Notice all the empty seats in the Georgia Dome, the fans are abandoning the Falcons. 
  • What in the world was Brian Kelly doing after the fumble recovery, that is something that happens in college, and for amateurs, very Bush…..just a horrible play.
  • The challenge of the aforementioned play, was a terrible call by the refs.  It was obvious that Roddy White tripped Cato June, and he should have been down by contact. 
  • No injuries in the first half for the Bucs.
  • We’ve layed 4 hard licks on Leftwich to this point.  One caused a fumble, the other caused an incompletion, the other both resulted in sacks.  Greg White has had two those 4 sacks. 
  • It’s funny how we use Ike Hilliard to return punts when the punt returner wil be backed up to the end zone, and Phillip Buchanon for punts where we have a chance to make a move. 
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