TAMPA — If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had won their Deepwater Horizon settlement program claim, they would have received nearly enough money to cover quarterback Jameis Winston’s 2019 salary of $20 million.
However, in a decision filed on May 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District denied the Bucs’ $19.5 million claim of damages from the 2010 spill of 3.19 million barrels of oil off the coast of Louisiana. And in rendering its decision, the court said the Bucs failed to substantiate an accounting assertion.
The Bucs declined comment on the litigation on Tuesday.