Speculation abounds that the six-time world champion New England Patriots could be one of the front-runners for landing Gerald McCoy’s services. After playing all nine seasons of his NFL career with the team that drafted him (the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), McCoy was unceremoniously dumped from the Bucs on Monday after refusing to take a pay cut.
With news breaking that Tampa intends to sign free agent DT Ndamukong Suh as McCoy’s replacement, it appears that the split was only a matter of time after all, even given McCoy’s continued excellence of play and the unexpected offseason injury sustained by Jason Pierre-Paul.