Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign WR Tiquan Underwood - NFL News
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach, Greg Schiano was handed responsibility by the franchise owners to turn around the fate of the team when they brought him into the National Football League (NFL) from Rutgers University.
Schiano has been making waves right from the start as he took over the franchise bringing in his own coaches and splashed some big amounts on big name players in free agency.
However, another trend has started to appear as we head closer and closer to the start of the preseason with many of the coach’s former players from Rutgers joining him at the Buccaneers.
Another one arrived on Monday, as the Buccaneers announced the signing of former Rutgers wide receiver, Tiquan Underwood.
Underwood made his name after being cut by the New England Patriots on the eve of their appearance in Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants last season.
The Patriots went on to lose the game by a 24-17 margin and re-signed Underwood.
However, it did not take long for the Patriots to once again release the player who had delivered just 11 receptions for 141-yards and scored no touchdowns during two seasons with the Patriots.
With that record in the NFL most teams would not even move for Underwood but it seems Schiano sees something in his former player.
Schiano coached Underwood for four seasons at Rutgers where he became one of the best players on the team though he has failed to replicate that form in the NFL.
Hopefully for Schiano his experiment with his former players will work out but he should not expect a lot of leeway from fans if his signings do not produce on the field in the upcoming season.
The Bucs fans had to sit through one of the worst seasons in their franchise history as their team lost all of their last 10 games in 2011-12 to end up with a horrific 4-12 record after a season which had begun with much optimism.
Poor performances in the final games by players led coach, Raheem Morris to be sacked from the head coaching role and he has now been replaced by Schiano.
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