Tampa Bay Bucs QB Chris Simms says he still has tremendous respect for the Bucs and their management, but that he doesn’t feel the same way for head coach Jon Gruden. Simms doesn’t like the way Gruden treated him during his recovery from a spleen injury and that he’d just like to go elsewhere.

“And that’s hard for me to say,’’ Simms said. “It kills me to say that because the Bucs have been great to me. The fans there are great. I love being in Tampa; my family loves being in Tampa.

“It’s an awesome sports town, a town that loves football. But the relationship between me and coach Gruden, it’s broken. It just is, and I don’t see any way it’s going to get better again.’’

If the Bucs were to part ways with Simms, they would be down to their final 17 QB’s on the roster.