Dunn Out To Prove He's Not Back For Part-Time Duty

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Buccaneers' Warrick Dunn: 'I Would Never Consider Myself a Third-Down Back'
Published 5/18/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: Buccaneers, Tampa BayTampa Bay Buccaneers running back Warrick Dunn is one of the real good guys in the NFL, a person who is universally admired for the way he conducts himself and for the charitable deeds he's done off the field. So it always feels a little uncomfortable criticizing him. But I find this awfully hard to believe: "I would never consider myself a third-down back. It's not my mentality. I don't play the game that way," he said. "I don't think Coach Jon Gruden brought me here just to play on ...

DUNN PLANS TO HAVE A BIG ROLE IN TAMPA
Published 5/18/2008 by Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk.com
Running back Warrick Dunn has returned to Tampa after a six-year break.  And he plans to pick up where he left off.“ I would never consider myself a third-down back ,” Dunn said, according to the Tampa Tribune .  “It’s not my mentality.  I don’t play the game that way.  I don’t think Coach Jon Gruden brought me here just to play on third down.  He believes in me, and I just have to go out and prove it.” Gruden agrees.  “I see him as being a front-line guy.  He is going to play a lot.” In Dunn’s first five years, he shared a lot of the load with Mike Alstott.  In 1997, Dunn ...

Juggernaut Index No. 25: Drink up, me hearties! (Hardies? Hardee's? Pardees?)
Published 14 days ago by Andy Behrens at Roto Arcade
... However, Graham still may not have the Tampa rushing workload entirely to himself. The 33-year-old Warrick Dunn will be involved: ...