Bucs sacks king Shaq Barrett, now playing for the Dolphins, continues to talk big after the Bucs kicked him out of One Buc Palace and his fat contract a few weeks ago.
That’s sounds harsh, but it’s NFL reality. Shaq talked about it recently, and he went bold again talking to The Zach Gelb Show on CBS Sports Radio yesterday.
“I think I can still be top-10, top-5, top-2, top-1 edge rusher in the league,” Shaq said, “as long as I’m healthy, and I got like a full offseason now to train and get right — and make sure to get into this playbook so I won’t have so second guess anything — just read and react.”
Shaq said the Bucs firing him didn’t make him mad — “no animosity” — but Shaq said it did light a new fire in him.
“They obviously don’t think I can play up to the capabilities of what they were paying me to play up to,” he said of the Bucs, adding “I’m settin’ my bar really high.”
Joe is rooting for Shaq, but man, it will get ugly around Tampa if Shaq has a big year and Bucs fans are throwing ashtrays at windows because Joe Tryon-Shoyinka struggles to shed block after block.
Shaq acknowledged that he fell way short of his goals last season, but he still feels he played well, felt healthy and the stats didn’t tell the full story of his game.
