Pardon the dramatic title, but it’s just not looking good for Chris Simms, and unless he somehow throws 24 touchdowns tonight, I foresee his run with the Bucs (and shortly thereafter, his NFL career) being over. Could it be that he’s currently fourth on the depth chart behind Jeff Garcia, Luke McCown, and Bruce Gradkowski, or just that he sucks?

Coach Gruden was quoted:

“We’re going to try to keep our best players, so I won’t say we wouldn’t do that,” [Jon] Gruden said. “We’re going to keep our best players, and certainly we’ve got some good quarterbacks.

“There’s a lot that goes into it. Not a lot of teams keep four. Some teams only keep two. We have some tough decisions to make, and we’ll make them.”

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Because the Bucs have a lot invested in the 6-foot-4, 220-pound Simms - they signed him in the offseason to a two-year extension that included $5-million in guarantees - they could keep him around a few weeks to see if they can get leverage on a team that loses a quarterback to injury.

I’ve never been a big fan of quarterbacks who essentially enter the league and have everything fall right into place based solely on the name on the back of their jersey, so this isn’t coming as a shock to me.