A capsule look at reasons for concern among teams in the NFC South: Atlanta Falcons 1. Pass coverage. CB Dunta Robinson, the team's major offseason acquisition, has not played in three exhibition games because of a hamstring injury. He will likely get some action tonight at Jacksonville. If he's not 100 percent, the Falcons' chance of improving the 28th-ranked pass defense diminishes greatly. Robinson is supposed to play on the right side and take away that side of the field.

Rudy Carpenter hopes he showed Tampa Bay's coaches what they needed to see. So did several young receivers hoping to make the team. Carpenter threw two touchdown passes to Arrelious Benn, Corey Lynch returned one of his two interceptions 91 yards for another score and the Buccaneers beat the Houston Texans 24-17 on Thursday night.

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Bucs coach Raheem Morris set the expectations pretty high for his team in 2010. He says it’s a “Race for 10″ wins.

If so, they will run it with young, fresh legs.

Coming off a 3-13 season, the Bucs will be even more inexperienced this season. It begins with quarterback Josh Freeman, who went 3-6 as a starter last season. Freeman could have as many as two rookie receivers to throw passes to.

On defense, the Bucs will rely on two rookie defensive tackles: Gerald McCoy, a first-round pick from Oklahoma and Brian Price, a second-rounder from UCLA.

“(Coaches) told me I needed to make the quarterback uncomfortable and that the quarterback needs to feel us,” McCoy said.

Morris, who took over the defensive play-calling duties the final six games last season,…

The last time a team official got busted for boozing and driving it didn’t go so well.

The last time a team official got busted for boozing and driving it didn’t go so well.

Just when you thoughts things were a bit quiet at good ole One Buccaneer Place, these quick blindsides:

Derrick Ward released. Aqib Talib suspended for the Cleveland opener. Assistant defensive line coach Chris Mosley arrested on a DUI charge.

With that news in the hopper, we need to get down to the business at hand.

In keeping with the theme “Why put off until tomorrow what you can do today” we will save Coach Raheem Morris the time and agony and present our picks for the final 53-man roster and candidates for the practice squad.

First, let’s get this out of the way. Michael Clayton is hereby gone. And here’s our reason. The guy made $7.5 million last year for doing nothing.  If he stays on the roster and rookie Mike Williams looks at the guy and knows what he’s earning for doing virtually nothing in the pass-catching industry and Williams continues to progress and has a great season and earns, oh, in the $450,000 neighborhood, then no doubt Williams would have every right to hold out next year, seeing a franchise that rewards a guy like Clayton with huge money for no output.

So let’s get the good old blocker out of there. With that in mind, let’s skip the Thursday night preseason game in Texas, impose our own blackout and proceed to the final 53.

OFFENSE:

OL: D. Penn, K. Vincent, J. Zuttah, J. Faine, D. Joseph, J. Trueblood, D. Dotson, J. Compas, M. Dile, X. Fulton, J. Lee.  Total: 11

TE: K. Winslow Jr., J. Stevens, R. Purvis.Total: 3

WR: M. Williams, R. Brown, S. Stroughter, A. Benn, M. Spurlock, M. Stovall. Total: 6

QB:  J. Freeman, J. Johnson. Total: 2

RB:  C. Williams, K. Huggins, C. Smith, E. Graham, C. Pressley.  Total: 5

Total offensive players: 27

DEFENSE:

DL: K. Moore, T. Crowder, G. McCoy, R. Miller, B. Price, S. White, M. Bennett, R. Sims: Total: 8.

LB: Q. Black, D. Watson, B. Ruud, A. Hayward, G. Hayes, N. Koutouvides. Total: 6.

DB: A. Talib, R. Barber, S. Piscitelli, T. Jackson, M. Lewis, E.J. Biggers, S. Jones, C. Grimm, C. Lynch. Total: 9

Total defensive players: 23

Special Teams: P: B. Bowden, K: C. Barth; LS: A. Economos.

Total special teams: 3; All Total: 53.

Practice Squad: E. Lorig, R. McCoy, P. Parker, J. Mastrud, R. Carpenter, R. Taylor, C. Brown.

There you’ve got ‘em. Also have the full compliment of seven practice squad players. Notice we’re going with two quarterbacks. Why carry three? Michael Spurlock, who is the wildcat QB, can be the “emergency” third guy. Besides, if both Freeman and Johnson go down in the same game, it doesn’t matter. 

On the practice squad are newcomers Preston Parker, Rendrick Taylor and Eric Lorik.

This should save Raheem some time, he’s got bigger fish to fry, like that Cleveland game plan.

We’ll see how close we are on September 5.

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What SN's NFC South correspondents learned watching training camp and exhibition games: ATLANTA FALCONS 1. The defense will gamble on third down. Last season, opponents converted on third down a league-high 45 percent of the time. You would think coordinator Brian VanGorder had turned into a blitz master during preseason. They are experimenting, trying to figure out a way to get off the field. 2. DE Kroy Biermann is a fine complement to John Abraham.

Derrick Ward's unproductive stint with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is over. The seventh-year running back was released Tuesday when the team trimmed the roster to 75 players. Receiver Terrence Nunn was waived, and linebacker Jon Alston was placed on injured reserve to get down to the limit for the final preseason game.