Now there’s an absurd amount of cap room. I hope they’re not trying the Rays’ “ball on a budget” approach.

but after the initial shock, i think cutting these guys make sense

This is more than a team cutting 5 starters. Hell, the Broncos did that earlier this year.

The shock is a couple of these guys are LEGENDS in Buccaneers history. Doesn’t Derrick Brooks deserve more than to be part of a press release with Ike Hilliard??

Brooks deserves to be kept in some capacity till the wheels fall off. Or till he decides to retire! Turrible!

Not only are they cutting valuable starters, but the LEADERS of this team! Wow….I too just experienced a heart attack.

Cato June, Derrick Brooks and Ike Hillard don’t make sense. Galloway and Dunn I can understand. This completely changes free agency and the draft. Wow….I am also speechless.

Brooks DOES deserve better. Maybe Raheem will make him part of our staff? NO? Dangit.

oh, man….the country music fans are gonna be pissed off!

But derrick brooks is the type to re-work his contract just to stay a buccaneer !! wow our legend is really gone and if this doesn’t work off with raheems head !!!!!!!!

For all the Bucs fans out there, this is a sad day. I can’t say that I don’t agree with some of them (June, Galloway) but Ike Hilliard has played his role and Warrick Dunn is the kind of guy any team wants and basically carried the run game last year. As for Brooks, what in the hell kind of $#$#$#$@#*&… Sorry, but this is a huge mistake. Are we shunning people for wanting to stay with our team when we treat THE BEST PLAYER THE BUCS HAVE EVER HAD with a pat on the butt and a “don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”.

I’m gonna have to chill out for a while so my head doesn’t explode.

The more I think about this the more I am deathly afraid of next season. Not only are we losing depth, valuable leadership and our community activist prototypes, we could also miserbly FAIL in this offseason.

What is going to say about Dominik if we DON’T get one of these high profile Free Agents? Housh, Boldin, Haynesworth, Peppers (kinda), etc. We have so much cap space, that not signing one of these would be a failure of monumentous proportions. We have room to be aggresive in the draft now, but the draft brings in more unproven talent.

How do we not let go of Griese but let go of Derrick Brooks? Can someone explain that. I would have been more ok with giving the pink slip to Barber than Brooks.

Morris could be a one year deal if we don’t do something BIG this offseason.

…Brooks is still brought back. This has happened in the NFL before. Guy gets released just to be brought back under terms of a different deal during free agency. I can’t fathom having to watch Brooks in another jersey. He needs to be a Buc for life.

anyones opinion on this would help im in disbelief !!

has youth he can work with in Black and Hayes. I really do believe that. However….can’t we let them play and still keept Brooks and Dunn. I think Hillard confuses me the most though. The guy has been solid and one of the best 3rd down options we have had. He made me so angry dropping that pass in the playoffs but has since shown consistency and a great 3rd receiver option. None of these guys are expensive (outside of Brooks and Galloway). Brooks has one more year though and the buyout is going to be costly as well.

What a terrible day. In the long run, if we can make some moves this offseason, I am for it. Short term, Dominik makes me want to throw my laptop out the window.

i hate when legends on one team have to finish there career on another team !

him and antonio bryant would be excelent together

have been so distracted by this news.

Talk about a punch in the gut. I’m fine with cutting Galloway but Hillard was a good possession Receiver, June is still young, Dunn surprised me last year with how good he was, and Brooks has lost a step sure but is still one of the best OLBs in the game still. The Tampa-2 is dead and era is over.

I am so muther effing pissed right now I can’t see straight. I have been watching DB since I was eight years old as I am a huge FSU fan too. I would love to see DB become the Linebackers coach at FSU.

I will still continue to do the chant from the United Way commercial ….

WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE PLAYER …. DERRICK DERRICK.

Does anyone know where I can get a Bucs tatoo removed in a rather inexpensive manner? Derrick didn’t deserve this. The Raheem Morris and Mark Dominic era is off to one helluva start.

Yesterday I would have been satisfied if the Bucs drafted Peria Jerry with the first round pick because DT was definitely out biggest need, now I’m not so sure. Now they just need to go with best player available period, there are too many holes to fill now to go with a need pick. DT isn’t the deepest position in the draft, Jerry is a reach at 19. Go with Wells, Moreno, Maclin, or even Sanchez somebody that could make a big impact. If we go with need trade down because we need alot more picks for that.

i see theyre trying to make us younger and go with a different plan as we can all see we now have right around 60 million under the salary all i know is if this was gruden and allen and they just made all these cuts and they were still borderline for keeping there jobs everybody would want there heads on a red and pewter platter DB dosent deserve that kind of disrespect

the salary we got from the five players we just cut equals out to the price we payed for bryants tag?

I go to work and come home and come home to THIS SHIT? Personally, I can say Bon Voyage to the rest of them, but Derrick Brooks? Warrick Dunn? You can’t be serious. To say you want to put “younger” players on the field is one thing, but these guys are freakin icons! To let them go out on there own terms is the only way it should have been.

I hope you don’t acquire anybody worth a crap, and/or be the "surprise" team of 09. I hope you buc yourself again and get Albert Haynesworth. Then in training camp he murders someone, then steps on their head and you are stuck with nothing. But hey I’m a little biased.

Enjoy kicking us while we are down. We are starting a long (in my opinion) overdue rebuilding process and I think it’s likely to be a bit painful for the next year or two.

Once we are back in a year or two we will look you guys up. You’ll be at that same old place the Saints occupy….. the corner of Over Hyped Street and Failure to Live Up to Expectations Blvd.

I hate seeing Brooks, Galloway Dunn and to a lesser extent Hillard near the end of the line. Parting with these guys, infusing the roster with young talent and (hopefully) finally finding and settling on a young QB is the only way we are going to break the cycle of mediocre seasons.

The next two seasons likely will be painful, but I’ll take a year or two of 10 loss seasons if it means we have a roster that can challenge for a title for five or six years. To me that a much better alternative than going 7-9 to 9-7 every year.
That is what we were looking at had we kept Gruden and continuted to sign free agents that belonged to AARP.

One word….“classless”, Is this how you reward the best player to ever put on a Bucs Jersey? D.Brooks deserves better, its ashamed it went down like that. I came home yesterday from class having a pretty decent day, did my daily routine…grab some lunch and put on Sportcenter. They started saying something about “some team cleaning house and rebuilding”, here I am think it the Seahawks, 49ers or some other team, then she says “Thee Tampa Bay Bucs” drop Derrick Brooks, Cato June, Warrick Dunn, Joey Galloway and Ike Hillard….I almost kicked the cat, I was so pissed. D.Brooks is a Hall of Famers, who got was in Hawaii like 2-3 weeks ago, are you kidding me. I know these coaches have new schemes but you do not just start cutting the face of the organization. I was one of those poeple who expect Derrick Brooks and Ronde Barber to retire Bucs. Junebug was not the best linebacker (sometimes a hothead) but I like the way he played for the short time he was here. Who do we have to play these positions? Why would you just drop a player without any back up? That is like the Packers dropping Favre without having Rodgers ready to go…No-sense or Nonsense. I love the “bicep flex” but Galloway seems to have forgotten the route to the “fountain of youth”, he couldn’t get on the field, so his release was expected (I will miss the old man burning Gamble,McKenzie, etc. Good Luck Joey) Ike Hillard has been all right in his time in Tampa Bay, hope he fines work somewhere else. Warrick Dunn’s release was surpising but kind of expected, one of the best guys in the NFL (If anyone has not read his book it’s amazing, “Running For My Life”) Dunn will definately fine another team, because he has about 2-3 years left. If you go to www.buccaneers.com, 3 out of 6 of those players on the top of the site are gone. I just hope we know what we are doing, with all this space we better get a TJ Houshyourmama or Haynesworth. Go Bucs!!!