Williams, Petitgout lost for the season

   The Bucs have lost running back Cadillac Williams and left tackle Luke Petitgout for the season.

   Williams is believed to have suffered a torn patellar tendon in his right knee when he was hit by Panthers safety Chris Harris following an 18-yard run in the first quarter.

   He returned to Tampa with the team Sunday night and will fly to Birmingham early this week to undergo surgery from renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews.

   Petitgout is believed to have suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee one series later. He will undergo further examination today in Tampa.

   "I just put my arms around him,'' running back Michael Pittman said of Williams. "I couldn't tell him it would be all right. Obviously he's disappointed his season is over.''

Comments

[DA DR DA]

I wonder how difficult it would be to have the Times bad this guy. What do say DR, or will you just leave?

[DA DR DA]

You guys ignore this guy, maybe he’ll just go away.

[slick willy klinton]

did you see the way "papa" gruden hugged barber and brooks coming off he field?

how fake can you get by gruden "showing love"

both barber and brooks looked as if they were being hugged by a rosie odonnell who had not bathed in a month.

i hate gruden.........he is such a 2-faced fake.

[Tom]

"Keyshawn was the key to the ignition for Gruden." WOW!!! You really are dumb!

[James H.]

Actually DR, I know much about NFL football and I wasn't talking directly about your team history nor mine. I was simply mentioning your rebuilding years in comparison to ours. I.E. How bad has your team been since ('97-'06) compared to the Bucs current rebuilding mode ('04-'07). During these rebuilding years your team was TERRIBLE, an NFL laughingstock. They had double digit wins in only TWO season out of 10! They went 5-11 three years in a row, then 6-10 a year later, then 9-7 the two season's after that. And after finally making it to the playoffs for only the second time in 7 years, your golden boy saviour Romo, muffed the game winning FG's snap. Point is, that it took the Cowboys 7+ seasons to become a legit contender again. And here in Tampa we are in this "rebuilding mode" as we speak, and truelly have been since 2004. BUT unlike you guys, we've won one division title in our "rebuilding" span and are currently 3-1 atop the most competitive division in the NFL since it's allignment in 2002. The facts are there buddy, keep arguing them with your blind kool-aid drinking, ESPN hype believin' self and I'll keep female dog slapping you right back down. Bring it!

[DA DR DA]

Watch it James, DR will come back with most competitive division? Romo didn’t muff the game winning FG's snap. DR’s like a bad wife that just won’t go away, he’ll knit pick one sentience and miss the point of the paragraph. I’ll put money on it, you watch.

[James H.]

He has nothing to argue. I gave him only facts. He can keep looking like an ignorant fool, it's entertaining actually. He just keeps proving that the intelligence of Cowboy fans has either faded over the last 10 losing years or never existed.

[dude]

Why was Gruden Dry-Humping Barber and Brooks when they came off the field?

Is that guy for real? He doesn't have a love-hug bone in his body.

The scene looked just as abhorrent/out of place as that photo of hillary and bill when they were dancing on the beach in swimwear.

[dude]

FYI:

http://www.wgmd.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/clinton2xart280_1.jpg

[Tom]

Hey James H. I was making a point that Gruden has a history of offensive success by saying that the Eagles had the #1 in the NFC in 1996. DR said well the NFC sucked back then. Yeah, this is the same mid nineties that had his beloved Cowboys winning 3 Super Bowls. DR is an idiot and he'll say whatever it takes.

Now he's saying he can bench press 275 lbs. ten times...HAHAHAHA!! Do any of you guys believe that. Keep on telling yourself that macho man!

[KEITH]

good lord! i just followd that photo link Dude. with all that cottage cheese on her legs, no wonder Willy had to get some strange.
LMFAO

[DR]

Your wrong fake DR. I don't have to say it, listen to the Barber Shop and your own boy Ronde will tell you, the NFC South is the worst division in football the last 4 years. The only division where the last place team has won the division the very next year. He said he didn't feel comfortable going into the playoffs because the division was weak and he knew they weren't too good. You're saying that the NFC South is the most competitive, you are an ABSOLUTE joke! Thats a fact!? Look at the stats you idiot. Jesus Christ, thats the worst statement I've ever heard any true soccer fan ever say. You are definitely not a football fan.
The difference between the 'Boys rebuilding years and the Bucs is #1, there were 3 divisions with 5 teams, more competition in division play. Again, the NFC South is a joke. #2 At least they fired their coaches when they didn't progress. If you say 7-9, 5-11, 11-5, 4-12 is progression, than you're an idiot. Our worst year was 5-11, compared to a 4-12 season that had a 60 yd game winning FG kick.
If you're gonna talk smack, talk with logic. You can be happy all you want with being the best out of the worst, but it won't get you anywhere. Look at the stats, they're the facts, and you must not be looking hard enough.

[Tom]

Hey DR, each division has four teams.

[DR]

Tom, you're trying to say I have a 43 inch waist which is fat, but if muscle makes you fat than I guess I'm fat. The Eagles didn't start winning until the late nineties. 'Boys won in 92,93, and 95. I said 96 started their downfall, and they weren't the same. Obviously when a division was as dominant as the NFC East was, it doesn't last forever and the Eagles couldn't win then. When all the teams started to fall, thats when the Eagles became better. But when you become better in a division that is mediocre at best, really, how good are you?
Winning one Super Bowl doesn't make you a great franchise. Gruden is a leach. He's taking advantage of a salary cap that punishes teams for drafting good. If you don't understand that, you have no knowledge of the MLB, NBA, or the NFL. He gets free agents from other teams because his team doesn't develop squat as far offense is concerned. His offense has been horrible the past 4 years and yet you guys are proud of that and rip Dungy for having a "bad" offense. You guys are idiots.

[DR]

Tom, read the statement you idiot.

[Tom]

Check that, you meant back then.

[Tom]

The salary cap prevents big market teams to hog all the players like the Niners in the eighties and the Cowboys in the nineties. Now that you actually have to manage a team, Jerry Jones the Baffoon, started a decade worth of futility.

I used to live in Dallas. That is the worst stadium in America. They play this awful crap on the PA and it is as quiet as tennis match in there. I was there on 9/10/01 when the Bucs smothered the pitiful Cowboys. Kelly made a great stop at the 2 yard line on the overrated Emmitt Smith.

[DR]

their stadium is crap, i've been there a few times. The insulation at the top is falling on the field, sometimes they said it happened during games. Insulation was everywhere duiring the offseason, it was terrible. But, as you know, they got a state of the art stadium coming.

[DR]

What about hogging the draft? If the Colts draft Manning, James, Harrison, Wayne, and more and they become the best players in their positions, why should the Colts be punished for drafting great? Like the NBA, a drafted player can be resigned by their team for the most money and it only counts for a percentage of the cap so other teams really can't match it unless they really want to spend money. They also have caps for draft picks which would have helped this year. It would work in the NFL but the NFL wants parody.

[DR]

The Cowboys didn't hog the free agent market. Most of their players were drafted.

[DR]

What Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson did was amazing Tom and you know it. Compare Aikman, Smith, Irving, Johnston, Williams, Newton, Tunei, Stepnoski, Allen(1) to B.Johnson, T.Jones/Pittman, K.Johnson, McCardell, Joe J., and what do you see? Those impact players for the Cowboys were drafted and the Bucs were all free agents. The Bucs DE however, can compare to the Cowboys as far as drafted players. The Cowboys were hoggong talent, their won drafted talent.

[Tom]

One of the most encouraging things that happened yesterday was when the whole team went over to show support for their young back.

Football is a team sport and that kind of comraderie will win championships. The Bucs looked like champions yesterday.

Hey, DR, how many guys on the Cowboys would walk over to check on TO?

[DR]

Actually, according to the rules, the Bucs should have been flagged for that. How many guys would come over for TO? Probably quite a few. How many players were standing around Everett when he was paralyzed? Not many. I thought it was cool on one hand for the support but also kind of corny. Its a knee injury and we all have seen much worse and those guys with the injuries didn't have nearly as much support.