The Bucs have signed guard Keydrick Vincent to a two-year contract, giving the Bucs an experienced interior lineman who has started more than two-thirds of his games during a nine-year career.
To make room on the roster, the Bucs released college free agent Sergio Render, also a guard.
Vincent, 32, played the past two seasons with the Panthers, for whom he was a starter.
Stephen Holder
Two quick takes on this.
First I think its a good move to shore up the depth of our offensive line. Vincent is a good player and he has been on some pretty good offensive lines. I know people will reflexively make it all about Jeremey Zuttah and don't get me wrong he may well end up competing with Vincent for his starting job during training camp. But I personally believe this is more about the prospect of not having Donald Penn. When Penn got hurt last year the Bucs had Zuttah line up at tackle. It was some what disasterous but that's what they went with. I'm thinking that if Penn really holds out moving Zuttah out to tackle and having Vincent step in at guard might be seen as preferrable to having a guy like Demar Dotson in there who has never started a game in the NFL and who only recently even took up football.
Second, this pretty much shoots ginormous holes in the Buccaneers' stated game plan of sticking strictly to a youth movement. Remember that the "youth movement" excuse was used at least partially to justify allowing Antonio Bryant to leave and to justify cutting Chris Hovan. Well at 32 Vincent is certainly no spring chicken.
At some point fans are going to wake up and recognize they are being fed BS by the powers at be over at One Buc. The question is what will they do and say then?
*edited because I left out Demar Dotson's name
