Then, in '03 and '04, the other Tampa Bay picks must be flowering to a reasonable extent, producing two or three starters, if this weekend's pickings are to become a Grade A group. Even I hope so. Even if the imposing academician is not to become the next Lynch at safety, maybe Than Merrill can help the guys with their syntax. I do hear some needs there. Ten years ago, when the Bucs were subdreadful, many of my Tampa Bay neighbors would've traded a month of sunshine and two lanes of the Gandy Bridge for something as NFL palatable as an 8-8 season.
Hamburgers turn into pork chops, so the appetite naturally advances to yearning for chateaubriand.
Expectations are tasty. In 2001, to not make the playoffs would be unthinkable. Losing in the first round, especially in ways so putrid as in Philadelphia in January, will now be classified as a calamity. Flying in a faster lane. St. Petersburg Times.