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October 13, 2009 at 09:07am by Scott   •  4 Comments »

You know it’s getting bad when Raheem Morris is bringing in Matt Jones to try and help solve their problem with dropped passes.

With almost a half-dozen teams expressing interest in Matt Jones in recent weeks, the former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver will work out Tuesday morning with the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers, according to league sources.

After three years of playing exactly like what he was, a quarterback converted to a wide receiver, Jones finally came on in 2008 with 65 catches for 761 yards. That’s a decent number, assuming that he didn’t have another 65 thrown in his direction that bounced off his hands or chest or that he was shaking too badly to catch.

After Jones served his cocaine suspension at the end of 2008, he was put into a treatment program that stipulated that, in addition to not doing all the fun drugs, he couldn’t drink alcohol either. Then he drank alcohol.

Jones told the court he had “two beers” during a golf outing, a violation of the conditions placed upon him.

The league fined him $50,000 for the violation, but decided not to suspend him, so he’s free and clear in terms of when he can start playing. So, you could either have a tall white drug addict who started playing wide receiver four years ago and has underachieved for three of those years, or Michael Clayton. Tough one, eh?