Could Spurlock Be The Third-String QB?

Anwar Richardson poses the possibility of the Bucs keeping only two quarterbacks on the 53-man roster and using Micheal Spurlock as the emergency quarterback. If Tampa Bay elects to keep Josh Freeman and Josh Johnson on its active roster, while placing Rudy Carpenter on the practice squad, Spurlock could be the Bucs’ emergency quarterback on game day. Watching Carpenter’s performance against the Jags gave me angina, but he’s still an actual quarterback and the starter has a broken thumb, so I don’t think they part with Carpenter just yet. Not for week one. If Freeman plays against Cleveland and everything goes well, they may elect to shuffle the roster around and possibly only keep two quarterbacks, but not right out of the gate. “Depending on what we do at our quarterback situation, if you’re a team that only carries two quarterbacks, he’d be a guy that would have to learn how to take some snaps and finish out a game for us. I’m no...