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...season while sacking Johnson 10 times and allowing 64 rushing yards, voluble Pittsburgh safety Lee Flowers snapped, "I'm tired of Tampa [Bay]. They go to the Pro Bowl because they talk so much. But they're paper champions. That's all they are, and that's all they're ever going to be."

The Bucs (11-3), who can clinch the NFC South and a fourth straight playoff berth by exacting revenge, haven't forgotten Flowers' bouquet of thorns.

"Lee Flowers doesn't have any credentials to talk [trash]," Bucs defensive tackle Warren Sapp said. "You would never know the man unless he gets on TV and they put his name under his face."

Replied Flowers: "Here's the same guy that for eight years now has been saying he's going to break the sack record. He's sitting there with six sacks [actually 71/2 though he hasn't had one in six weeks]. I darn near have six sacks myself [actually three]."

Then they insulted each other's alma...

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