Todd Bowles dropped the mic on Randy Gregory situation with a brutally honest one-liner

Randy Gregory signed a free agent deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers back in April and proceeded to ghost the team over the next five months. The bizarre saga is set to come to an end this week, as the Bucs are releasing Gregory at the first chance they get following Saturday's preseason game.

The news was announced live on the broadcast, which seems fitting for how strange this whole thing has been. Gregory skipped OTAs earlier this summer and then failed to report to training camp at the end of July. Perhaps there's a good reason for all of this drama, but the Bucs wouldn't know because Gregory hasn't talked to the team since negotiating his free agent deal.

Even this latest twist is coming through back channels, as Rick Stroud reported that the Bucs reached an agreement with Gregory's agent over his release.

All that matters now is that the situation is over, and it's pretty clear that there's no love lost on Tampa Bay's side after all that happened.

Todd Bowles perfectly summed up how the Bucs feel about Randy Gregory with brutally honest quote

Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles talked with the media on Sunday following the team's preseason loss to Jacksonville and addressed Gregory one final time. He'd grown noticeably tired of getting asked about him thus far in training camp and dropped the mic in a way that perfectly summed up how the Bucs feel.

If a Randy Gregory never shows up, did his time with the team actually exist?

That's the only remaining question lingering from his brief and unmemorable stint in Tampa Bay, and it's one the team doesn't really care about enough to answer. He never showed up, and his release won't have a negative impact on the roster; in fact, it'll be quite the opposite.

As news of Gregory's eventual release spread, Jose Ramirez and Markees Watts -- two players who actually showed up for the Bucs -- started to shine. Watts had some nice pressures while Ramirez finished the game with three sacks.

It would have been nice for the Bucs to work a potentially resurgent Gregory into the pass rush mix, but his release isn't by any means some sort of devastating loss. There's still work that needs to be done with players earning their keep, but it's clear Gregory was uninterested in being one of them which means the door is open for players still here to make an impact.

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