Bucs Beat  Rick Stroud, Joe Smith and Greg Auman  Ryan Sims
restructures?  We can't yet put this one in the beyond-the-
shadow-of-a-doubt category, but it appears new defensive tackle
Ryan Sims has restructured his contract.  According to the
players' union database of salaries, Sims contract reflects a
base salary of $595,000 for 2007 and nothing for '08 nor '09.
When Sims was traded to the Bucs last week from Kansas City for
an undisclosed draft pick, he had $5.7-million in base salary
remaining over the next three seasons.  We reached out to Sims'
agent to determine what exactly was done to the contract because
the database does not reflect bonuses, guaranteed salary nor
incentives, making it tricky to determine a contract's actual
value. His agent, Peter Schaffer, didn't exactly answer the
question, which leads us to believe seeing is believing in this
case. That means the final two years of the deal were likely
voided, too.  What Schaffer did say in our email exchange was
the following: "Ryan's goal right