Chip Carter's Newsroom

The Bucs have a ticket to the playoffs, but not one of them has a ticket to Hawaii, for the first time in 12 seasons, not one Buccaneer is going to the Pro Bowl.

Do they have players who should be going. Absolutely, the two that come to mind quickly are Jermaine Phillips and Ronde Barber.......

Earnest Graham is piling up the numbers, he didn't start early enough in the season, but he is having a Pro Bowl year.

But Here's the Deal, the way this team is put together, the way players have stepped up, when 12 players have been put on injured reserve, there really shouldn't be a pro bowl player, because this team is doing it every week with different players in key roles.

Their best defensive lineman was playing arena football...they're best running back has been invisible on special teams for four seasons, they're quarterback is closing is 37 years old. So is the absence of Pro Bowl players a snub?? Absolutely, but it also shows you how this team has come together on the field and in the locker room. It shows you the coaching job that Jon Gruden has done this season and it shows you the job that Bruce Allen has done to put this team together......