The Bucs went into the season without their two veteran receivers, Keyshawn Johnson and Keenan McCardell. Instead , a rookie wideout from LSU named Michael Clayton took the Bucs by storm. At first expecting to be Chris Simms’ guy, Clayton became a favorite Target of Brian Griese, and set himself up with a 1,000 yard season and probably would have been rookie of the year if not for Big Ben in Pittsburgh. Well, It’s over now. Tampa Bay has Cut Michael Clayton. For some, its not soon enough; yet as angry as we got with MC, we cheered him when we heard the words “MC is looking good in Camp”… …we Wanted him to succeed. We wanted him to get 80 catches, 1200 yards, etc. 
Some of you may remember some of my first video work on Bucem, the two part video on Clayton. Did he fall out of favor? Did he not get the chances? Its probably a bit of everything all put together. But in the end, MC will ALWAYS be remembered as the guy who had a great rookie year, but never was able to get it together again. Was he a Bust? No…he just was a mystery, wrapped up as a wide receiver in another no. 80 jersey. ROSTER CUTS FOR 2010: The following players were released: CB Brandon Anderson S Vince Anderson RB Carlos Brown WR Michael Clayton OL Marc Dile T Xavier Fulton DE George Johnson TE Jeron Mastrud LB Rico McCoy DT Dre Moore DT Carlton Powell TE Ryan Purvis C Donovan Raiola CB Derrick Roberson LB Lee Robinson DE James Ruffin QB Jevan Snead FB Rendrick Taylor CB Trae Williams The following player was waived/injured: C Jonathan Compas The following player was placed on Injured Reserve: T Demar Dotson In addition, the following player was placed on the Reserve/Suspended list: · CB Aqib Talib
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