Bucs make Faine highest paid C in NFL ... 6yr/$37.5M

[Matt McGuire]

http://pewterreport.com/articles/view/3948

Includes $15M signing bonus. I don't think this is a bad move considering his upside in our system and sometims you have to overpay to get what you want. I personally like this deal if I'm wrong call me a homer lol

[bwest36]

homer! lol nah its a good deal

[Joey_Potter]

Faine is an agressive, smart, agile center that is not yet even in his prime. Great pickup.

[Matt McGuire]

Having Sears and Joseph as his guards is going to make his life so easy too ... if I was any center in the NFL there isn't a team I'd rather be on than the Buccaneers because of the young guard tandem ...

The Bucs OL will very soon become the best in the NFL ... not this year but I predict in 2009 when we draft a LT in the 2009 first round.

[Joey_Potter]

Matt, if you have a great O-Line everything else will quickly fall into place. You draft a good Tackle and you will be on your way to having your Offense match your Defense, that is I might say is scary.

[Matt McGuire]

Yeah it is pretty awesome but we have a ways to go. We still have big needs to fill imo at DT, CB, WR, QB of future (I say develop McCown more but we will see), and maybe upgrade RB depending on how healthy Cadillac really is.

We have a ways to go but a dominating OL will help us out a ton. I expect Gaines to break out like Mario Williams did last year, that will help out a lot.