Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2009 Preview

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Published: July 6, 2009

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2008 Summary:
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers entered the 2008 season as the defending NFC South Champions, but they brought this title with them into the season with a quarterback controversy swirling around the franchise.

Up in Green Bay, a once retired then un-retired quarterback by the name of Brett Favre was itching to return to the league and that immediately drew the interest of Bucs head coach Jon Gruden, who had long been a fan of the future Hall-of-Fame quarterback.

The Bucs would fail to offer the Packers enough to land Favre, and he would ultimately wind up a New York Jet, but what came about from Gruden's interest in the grizzled vet was a rift with his incumbent starting quarterback, Jeff Garcia.

That rift would extend all the way into the regular season, when Gruden suddenly benched Garcia for the re-acquired veteran quarterba...

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