BUCS
Bucs Trade McCardell
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A TBO.com staff, wire report http://media.tbo.com/tbo/images/spacer.gif
Published: Oct 19, 2004 http://media.tbo.com/tbo/images/spacer.gif

TAMPA - The Bucs have traded holdout receiver Keenan McCardell to San Diego for third- and sixth-round draft choices in 2005, The Tampa Tribune has learned.

McCardell, with two years left on a four-year, $10-million contract, has been a holdout since the start of training camp while requesting a renegotiation for more money.

McCardell helped the Bucs to a Super Bowl championship in 2002, catching 61 passes for 670 yards and a team-leading six touchdowns. He became the No. 1 receiver last year, totaling 84 receptions for 1,174 yards and a career-high eight scores. He made his second career Pro Bowl in 2003.

Though the Bucs have been in dire need of healthy wideouts after injuries to Joe Jurevicius and Joey Galloway, they have refused to talk about a contract renegotiation with the 34-year-old veteran of 12 NFL seasons.

The Chargers could also use his services, having lost Reche Caldwell to a knee injury.

McCardell will become another in a long line of former Bucs who will play against Tampa Bay this season. The Bucs already faced Warren Sapp (now with Oakland) and John Lynch (Denver). They will host Thomas Jones (Chicago) on Sunday, and they visit McCardell and the Chargers Dec. 12.

I bet he catches a couple of passes with McLeon covering him.

it should be pretty fugly

No doubt McCardell will now catch a game-winning TD pass against us in AT LEAST one of our games this season...so the dammit Carl's can get another round of play. Probably will be a game that mathematically eliminates us from the playoffs too...

Queen Dickwad first needs to figure out how to get good players with a top 10 pick and then he can move on to finding good players in the sixth round.

A 3rd and a 6th round pick for a 35 year old reciever. Good for them. They must plan on making a super bowl run this year.

They might. Brees is playing very well, and they have Tomlinson. Plus they have a young secondary that is very talented, and a pretty solid LB corp on the defensive side. And, IIRC, they pick up a kicker in the draft who is pretty good.

And if it can't be us out of the West, I would just as soon see the Chargers as the Donx or Faiders.

I read that TJ is a pedophile.

I'm not saying it is a major reason, but one of the factors in the Chargers making the deal was probably the fact that they will have two first round picks in 2005 and signing every draft pick (within the rookie cap) would be difficult. It'll help them sign guys next year.

Strange?? You would have thought Marty would have learned his lesson from last year after the David Boston Fiasco.......The Dangers of picking up disgruntled veteran WR's.....

We have only given up 3 1st round picks since CP was here. One for Joe Montana, One for Trent Green, and One for Junior and Samie. We gave a 2nd up for Dick Vermeil. For Marty we got 2 3rd round picks.

I wish you wouldn't joke about that. It happened to my great-aunt Cindy. She is the last one still alive in her generation of the family and decided to get a tattoo of her siblings' names on her lower back, just inside the upper panty line. Last year she was puttering around in the kitchen, sweeping up the floor as she microwaved some hot water for her aternoon tea. She backed towards the counter to get at the dust bunnies under the fridge and passed in front of the moicrowave for what could only have been about thirty seconds. Apparently the minerals found in some tattoo inks are very sensitive to microwave radiation and her lower back burst into flames. She immediately tried to leap backwards and to her left into the sink but missed and hit the dish drying rack, falling to the floor. Then she rolled into the dining alcove and pulled the sugar bowl onto herself. The sugar melted and carmelised, forming a layer over the wound and putting out the fire. She was able to get herself to the emergency room where they removed some of the extra flesh under her breasts to do a skin graft and were able to save about half of the original tattoo. Now she dosn't know whether to replace the missing part or not. It was a very traumatic experience for her. The doctors said that she's lucky to have such a saggy butt and that she wears such gigantic panties or this could have been a lot worse.

Are we stupid? We should have gave them that.

That's the end of that.