It’s been nearly a week since we reported that Bucs rookies Aqib Talib and Cory Boyd interpreted the phrase “rookie symposium” to mean “fight night.”

The Buccaneers have since been silent on the subject. 

The Bucs didn’t respond to requests for comment from our friends at Pewter Report, or from our budding acquaintances at the St. Petersburg Times.

Most recently, the Bucs told the folks at Pro Football Weekly (whom we don’t know but with whom we’re routinely confused), “once we have a comment, we will release a comment.”

The options are fairly narrow on this one.  Either the team will deny that a fight occurred, or the team will admit that a fight occurred.  Or the team will say nothing.

The silence tends to suggest that something indeed occurred (because, well, it did), and that the Bucs are merely hoping that the whole thing will go away before they are forced to acknowledge that the man whom coach Jon Gruden has touted as the future “face of the franchise” could eventually have his face on a mugshot.