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Bucs Not Alone On Free Agency Sidelines

Posted Mar 10, 2010 by Roy Cummings

Updated Mar 10, 2010 at 01:26 PM

By ROY CUMMINGS
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TAMPA – We’re almost a week into the free-agency signing period and the Bucs have yet to sign a free agent from another team. If you’re frustrated by that, move over. You’re probably not alone.

Of the 32 teams in the league, 13 have yet to sign a free agent from another team, and some of the clubs who have decided so far to sit out free agency may surprise you.

Dallas and Oakland are on that list and Washington, which was supposed to be one of the big players in free agency, just took itself off it today when it announced the signing of former Carolina defensive tackle Maake Kemoeatu.

The other teams that have yet to dip into the free agency pool are Arizona, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Green Bay, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Seattle, Tennessee and the Jets.

Nearly as many teams – 10 – have signed just one free agent from another team, but in a lot of those cases, the players changing teams are not the kind expected to make a huge impact.

Buffalo’s only signing, for example, has been that of one-time Bucs tackle and 11-year veteran Cornell Green. And San Francisco’s only signing has been that of backup quarterback David Carr.

  The big wheelers and dealers so far in free agency have been Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh. Each of those clubs has so far signed four players off other team’s rosters.

The lack of activity is no doubt a testament to the lack of elite-level talent in this year’s pool. Outside of a few players, team executives around the league rated this one of the worst talent pools of the free agent era.

Unlike some teams, though, the Bucs have not been completely idle. They did trade a sixth-round draft pick in 2011 to the Eagles for wide receiver Reggie Brown. On the activity scale, that puts them ahead of several teams.