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2019 NFL sack leader Shaquil Barrett is due to become a free agent. And if the Buccaneers don’t apply the franchise tag to Barrett (they probably will, absent a new contract), he’ll have a decision to make about his future.
He’s already decided that he’ll give the Buccaneers every opportunity to keep him — even if others offer more.
“If [other teams] offer me more than Tampa, I’m going to look at the places, if they offer me more than Tampa, I’m going to look at what their taxes is compared to
Vipers' Ricky Walker Becomes 1st Ejection
Shaquil Barrett Is Willing To Take Less To Stay In Tampa
SHAQUIL BARRETT Tampa’s,” Barrett said dur-
ing Super Bowl week in Miami.
“Because I ain’t going to live in L.A. and get taxed crazy.”
Tampa Bay Vipers defen- sive tackle Ricky Walker made XFL history Sunday...just maybe not the sort of history he would have preferred.
Walker became the first XFL player to get ejected in the rebooted league after punching New York Guardians center Ian Sil- berman in the facemask. That made it a pretty easy de- cision for the officials, who promptly booted him from the game.
DT Ricky Walker was ejected for throwing a mean right hook.
The infraction occurred in the second quarter with the Vipers already trailing 14-0.
In Florida, Barrett pays no state income tax. In Cali- fornia, he’d pay 13.3 percent.
“I’m not going to take drastically less but I am open to doing what I think is best for my career, and I think that would be staying in Tampa,” Barrett added.
He also explained that he doesn’t like moving. He re- ally doesn’t like moving. He doesn’t like moving so much that he took less than a full scholarship in college to stay close to home and he took less than he could have got- ten elsewhere as an un- drafted free agent to stay close to Denver.
In XFL History After Throwing Punch
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