Chris Simms says his relationship with Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden is irreparably broken and is seeking a trade or his outright release, the St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune reported.
Simms, who suffered a ruptured spleen during a game in 2006 and spent most of 2007 on the injured reserve list, is sitting out the team’s workouts this week and not sure he will attend next week’s minicamp.
It is totally broken. And it kills me to say that, because the Bucs have been great to me; the fans have been great to me … But the relationship between me and coach Gruden — it’s broken. It just is. And I don’t see any way it’s going to get better again.” [ESPN]
Said Gruden about the Simms comment, “Go cry to your famous daddy, Chrissy. Welcome to the real life of an NFL footballer.” No, he didn’t really say this, but if he did, we would post a picture of Coach Gruden, along with a web shrine in his name, permanently embedded into the Juice homepage.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
not impressed with Chris. Not even at Texas.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
ditto that Vike, I think he’s a kid that got lucky cause of his dad.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
hilarious- Gruden needs to come back with something good.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Chris simms hasn’t done anything since coming into the league.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
lmfao- Simms is a pansy
June 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
not true. Simms is actually a tuff qb. remember when he played thru that ruptured spleen
June 10th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
hahahahhahahahhahahhahhahhahahahhahahhah
June 10th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
it looks like Phils grabbing Grudens peter
June 10th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Chris is a pussy.