{"id":6198,"date":"2013-10-21T00:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2013-10-21T00:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:37:48","slug":"greg-schiano-calls-former-buccaneer-dexter-jackson-a-distraction-falcons-disinfect-locker-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/21\/greg-schiano-calls-former-buccaneer-dexter-jackson-a-distraction-falcons-disinfect-locker-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Schiano calls former Buccaneer Dexter Jackson a distraction, Falcons disinfect locker room"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6200\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6200\" alt=\"getty\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dexterjackson.jpg\" width=\"666\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dexterjackson.jpg 666w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dexterjackson-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/dexterjackson-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano allegedly believes that the presence of former Super Bowl MVP Dexter Jackson is a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was named MVP following Tampa Bays 48-21 win over the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m distracting professional players by bringing kids who have succeeded in school, did well, stayed out of trouble, and they\u2019re a distraction?\u201d Jackson told \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/tampa.cbslocal.com\/2013\/10\/20\/tampa-bay-buccaneers-coach-greg-schiano-denies-super-bowl-mvp-dexter-jackson-access-to-practice-kids-told-not-to-come-to-one-buc-place-on-fridays-because-they-are-a-distraction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Game Day Uncensored<\/a>\u201d on 98.7 The Fan in Tampa Bay. \u201cIf they\u2019re a distraction, I\u2019m worried about fans during away games. How can that be a distraction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson also said that \u201cSchiano sent his guy over to run me out of practice one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make matter worse the Buccaneers dropped to 0-6 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h2>Falcons disinfect visitors locker room<\/h2>\n<p>The Atlanta Falcons beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday and then proceeded to disinfect the visitors locker room at the Georgia Dome. While jokes could fly about getting rid of the losing spirit, the Buccaneers have had three players diagnosed with MRSA this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Another picture of MRSA cleanup crew going into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Bucs&amp;src=hash\">#Bucs<\/a> lockerroom at Georgia Dome. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/gV3mVSsRYs\">pic.twitter.com\/gV3mVSsRYs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin ODonnell Fox13 (@ODonnellFox13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ODonnellFox13\/statuses\/392098281368461312\">October 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rookie cornerback Johnthan Banks, guard Carl Nicks and kicker Lawrence Tynes all have come down with MRSA this year. Tampa Bay has twice disinfected its training facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano allegedly believes that the presence of former Super Bowl MVP Dexter Jackson is a distraction. Jackson was named MVP following Tampa Bays 48-21 win over the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII. \u201cI\u2019m distracting professional players by bringing kids who have succeeded in school, did well, stayed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[443,393,188],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dexter-jackson","9":"tag-greg-schiano","10":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}