Jurevicius agrees to contract with Buccaneers

[LarryD]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Joe Jurevicius left the New York Giants and agreed to a four-year contract with Tampa Bay, giving the Buccaneers a receiver coming off his best season.
Jurevicius was an unrestricted free agent and New York had hoped to re-sign him. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound receiver also drew interest from New England, St. Louis and Denver.
“To have an opportunity to play for Jon Gruden, one of the pre-eminent offensive coaches in the league, is a dream come true,” the receiver’s agent, Neil Cornrich, said Tuesday. Cornrich declined to discuss financial terms of the contract.
Jurevicius had been the Giants’ No. 3 receiver. He appeared in 58 games and had 102 receptions for 1,442 yards and five touchdowns in four seasons. He started nine games last season and finished with career highs in catches (51), yards (706) and TDs (3).
The 27-year-old Jurevicius was a second-round draft pick of the Giants in 1998.
“Joe is a young, developing receiver that brings great size and toughness to our group of receivers,” Bucs general manager Rich McKay said. “We liked Joe coming out of Penn State and are pleased to add him to our team.”
Since losing Jacquez Green and Reidel Anthony to free agency, the Bucs have been looking for a receiver to play opposite of Keyshawn Johnson in Gruden’s version of the West Coast offense.
The Bucs signed former Broncos receiver Keith Poole last month and most likely will consider receivers who become available June 1, when teams may release players and take a lighter hit against the salary cap.

 

[magnus]

so now we have a bunch of 5'9 CBs and they have a bunch of 6'3 receivers. Good matchup. You know, except for not really.

 

[LarryD]

jammer is 6'-1".

 

[Y2Buddy]

add him to the list

 

[magnus]

Rumph Shaker

Originally posted by LarryD
jammer is 6'-1".

So's Rumph

 

[LarryD]

what if they went 1-2 with those guys? would that be ok? follow it up with some middle beef in round 3 to help keep folks off of morgan?

 

[mramailman]

That doesn't make much sense Larry not with the 672 corners we have on the roster now.


If Fox wants everyone to know who he's going to pick why doesn't he just announce it?

It seems clear to me but he could be putting on a major poker face

 

[magnus]

We could certainly do worse than Jammer/Rumph but we'd be better off with Sheppard if we had Jammer. If we had the ability to get two corners first, I'd probably want to go with an end of soe sort in 3.

 

[meatpile]

If we pick 2 corners first, for about an hour, the Panthers would have 9 corners and 2 DE's.

We could start a new style of defense that would just dare folks to run the ball. The dreaded 2-9 Del Rio package.

 

[magnus]

true.

I guess all we're saying is that we don't have two (or really even one) long term starting corner. If we made a solid left end pick in 3 we'd be allright. Not great, but OK. No matter what way we pick we'll have some spots missing we can't fill.

It's not the way I'd go but if we went that way I wouldn't be upset. Next year has some surprisingly good left ends with William Joseph, Kindal Moorehead, and Jerome McDougal being decent sized, explosive guys.