Breaking news: Jacksonville (thanks, corrected) cut Byron Leftwich today August 31st after a less than amazing preseason.  Everyone knows Gruden’s particular love of QBs, now here is another one for him to grab if he wants.  Not that Leftwich has ever been fantastic, but he has been solid most of the time.  So the question is, does he deserve a tryout with the Bucs or is this another Gruden folly?

Leftwich has a much better resume than either McCown or Gradkowski

It could be useful to have him replace McCown.

IMO it’s too late to make any more changes barring injuries. Both Back-ups have done reasonably well in preseason and have earned their spots on the final roster anyway.

BREAKING NEWS....This just in.....Carolina did not cut Byron Leftwich.  As a matter of fact, Leftwich wasn’t even on the Panther’s team.  However, Jacksonville Jaguars did cut him.  By all means, let’s add another loser to our list of active QB’s.  Makes as much sense as all of our other moves.

It would’ve been more fair to Leftwich to state at the beginning of pre-season that he was competing for the job rather than Jack Del rio waking up to piss one morning and thinking “ Hmmmm I think we’re gonna go with Girard.” And flushing Byron down the toilet. That being said, at least they let him go look elsewherer (AFTER) roster’s were settled. Who knows, maybe Jack was thinking “ Heck, I know Jon’ll tak’em, shoooot maybe we outta hold onto him as long as we can so Jon won’t steal’em. (shrug)

jvnootz - 05 September 2007 03:35 PM

It would’ve been more fair to Leftwich to state at the beginning of pre-season that he was competing for the job rather than Jack Del rio waking up to piss one morning and thinking “ Hmmmm I think we’re gonna go with Girard.” And flushing Byron down the toilet. That being said, at least they let him go look elsewherer (AFTER) roster’s were settled. Who knows, maybe Jack was thinking “ Heck, I know Jon’ll tak’em, shoooot maybe we outta hold onto him as long as we can so Jon won’t steal’em. (shrug)

According to wire reports, he was cut because Del Rio thought he was not really trying in camp or the preseason - that since he was told he was the starter that he was essentially “dogging it.” What is surprising is that there was no warning, he was just cut.  Makes you wonder if something else was going on.  As far as I know, no one has picked him up so far…