New Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano insists he wasn’t sending a message by trading tight end Kellen Winslow, just improving the football team.

Tampa Bay dealt Winslow to Seattle for a draft pick on Monday night and signed former Colts tight end Dallas Clark.

Winslow did not participate in a voluntary workout with the Buccaneers last week. He said in a radio interview Monday that Schiano had told him the team would likely trade the 28-year-old former first-round pick.

And a few hours later, Winslow was headed West.

Schiano on Tuesday said: “The only message I want to address is we need to be the best football team we can be.”

The 32-year-old Clark has been one of the NFL’s most productive tight ends for nine seasons with Indianapolis.