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Derrick Brooks Believes He Still Can Play

Posted Jul 2, 2009 by Anwar S. Richardson

Updated Jul 2, 2009 at 02:51 PM

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers LB Derrick Brooks expressed he still can play football in the NFL today this season during an interview on ESPN Radio St. Louis.

Brooks spoke with former teammate and NFL player D’Marco Farr on Wednesday about his carrer, the former rivalry Tampa Bay had with the Rams, and what his future might be.

Below is a partial transcript of that interview. To hear the full interview, click here Derrick Brooks Interview

On if he’s bitter with how the organization allowed things to transpire considering Brooks had been with the organization since being drafted all the way back in 1995:

“No, it can’t D’Marco because that’s the business again of the NFL. Everybody knows that when you come in and expect anything different, then you’re going to get disappointed. But with me, the news itself, you know I dealt with it for fourteen years. I just wanted it to happen. It could have been handled a little bit better in my opinion and I would have been ok with that I think. But the news itself, no i had no problem with that.”

On what he can still offer a team at this point in his career:

“A lot. Like I said, four years ago we did an extension and I was committed to playing fifteen years. Back then, hopefully all of them would have been in Tampa but like I said, that’s a milestone that me personally, I committed years ago to make. And like I said, there’s enough interest out there from teams to keep the fire burning. So I’ll continue to stay in shape and we’ll see what happens.”

On if he feels that he not have found a job just yet perhaps because teams around the league - the Bucs included - are changing away from the Tampa 2 scheme in recent years:

“No it’s not because if you play defense, you play football. So from that standpoint it’s meaningless. We made that defense what it was honestly with those classic battles against the Rams. And what our primary zone defense did was Cover-2 because of the front that you had to rush the pressure. Right now, you’re not getting as many combination of rushers that can rush like we could in our heyday. You know, four to six coming out. You’re just not seeing that anymore within units. And you know, like anything else in this game, you got to change. The style of offense is more or less not running the wide open offenses that ‘The Greatest Show On Turf’ ran that forced you to play that style of defense. So it’s not necessarily that teams aren’t playing that defense; it’s offenses are changing too, so the defense has got to change with the offense that’s being run by various teams now.”