The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have released Tanard Jackson after the safety failed a physical, the team announced.
"I was a little shocked, but the person I am, I accept how it comes," Jackson told the Tampa Bay Times. "I realize it's a business. It's hard to be too upset with decision because of what I've been through and I have no hard feelings toward the organization and wish them the best. I really don't know, maybe it was because I wasn't doing rehab here in Tampa after surgery but doing it in New Orleans with trainers up there. They just said they were going in a different direction. That's the way it was given to me."
Jackson was also suspended for a year in 2010 for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Last season, he started 10 games and had 35 tackles and two interceptions.
