Cowboys trading Solomon Thomas to Titans with 7th round pick swaps.
I'm not happy about the lack of signings, but teams are overpaying for the free agents and I don't think they'll live up to it. I'm speaking about the Hendrickson contract. The Bucs were waiting for the price to come down on him. It didn't. Instead another team came up to meet the demands. I think it could be fools gold for the Ravens.
I just never had a big hope that the Bucs would spend big in the free agent market, and they didn't. I think we all knew deep down inside that the Bucs wouldn't land any of the high priced guys. Now we are disappointed because we hoped to be surprised. But there was no surprise.
chubb to Buffalo for what $15m a year is a deal Bucs should have been all over
and why we didn’t expect anything is because of shit ownership I guess?
Or has Licht forgotten how to GM with fools gold post Brady?
reddick was the biggest splash post Brady and it’s the 4th offseason
Cowboys trading Solomon Thomas to Titans with 7th round pick swaps.
Would have been solid depth but we gotta keep those 7th rounders. Huge
Bucs are signing DL A'Shawn Robinson who was recently cut by the Panthers for $10 MM guaranteed.
I see lots of people mad that the Buccaneers have not signed players. The fact is, the players can decide who they are going to sign with. The Buccaneers, IMHO, are not an attractive landing spot for players. Bowles and staff need to go. Then, maybe, we can land some more free agents. Bowles going and the new staff pulling a Coen and turning the franchise around would make it more attractive.
No the Bucs are signing players but they are acting like their team is set and signing a lot of role players. Robinson could be starting but he may be used to rotate with Vea on the inside. Anzalone right now is the lone signing that is a sure fire pencil in starter at the money backer spot.
I'm thrilled we aren't signing anyone, the last thing I want is for this regime to saddle the next with contracts and players that don't fit their system. If we were a serious franchise we'd be major sellers, trading anyone with value to stockpile as many picks as possible, and freeing up a lot of cap space. Let the new regime, which is inevitably going to come, have a solid start to their tenure with a bunch of assets at their disposal.
We're going to suck anyways, lets just call it what it is and have a fresh start as a franchise. Go through 3-4 crappy seasons (they're coming regardless), and hopefully use our new trove of assets to land a franchise QB and additional impact players. The Glazers refusal to go this route shows they care nothing about winning, their obvious goal is to keep this team in the realm of mediocrity as long as they can to then market meaningless division championships as actual success. They've been doing it for years.
As I've said before, the Bucs are a condemned building. You don't put a new coat of paint on a condemned building, you level it and build something new. We just need to accept that a full rebuild is necessary and start the process.
Mayfield is going to prevent any tank happening in all honesty and the offense has enough fire power to win 7 to 9 games. The bottom line is people hoping for a rebuild to happen in 2027 are sniffing the glue too much.
Even if Mayfield plays bad all a new coach (offensive minded) most likely will do is draft/sign a new QB and hire a new DC. If people expect a rebuilding like what happened post Gruden it isn't happening under the Glazers watch as they have been vocal about what they learned through that process. And if Licht is still around he definitely isn't going to allow that to happen either as his job would be on the line.
I'm thrilled we aren't signing anyone, the last thing I want is for this regime to saddle the next with contracts and players that don't fit their system.
Agreed.
If people expect a rebuilding like what happened post Gruden it isn't happening under the Glazers watch as they have been vocal about what they learned through that process.
What have they learned?
Keeping a dogshit coach, and letting the locker room crumble to the point, that multiple players called out Bowles and the face of the franchise left for San Fran?
Mayfield is going to prevent any tank happening in all honesty and the offense has enough fire power to win 7 to 9 games. The bottom line is people hoping for a rebuild to happen in 2027 are sniffing the glue too much.
Even if Mayfield plays bad all a new coach (offensive minded) most likely will do is draft/sign a new QB and hire a new DC. If people expect a rebuilding like what happened post Gruden it isn't happening under the Glazers watch as they have been vocal about what they learned through that process. And if Licht is still around he definitely isn't going to allow that to happen either as his job would be on the line.
I don't know where your optimism, concerning the offense, is coming from. We just lost our best offensive player, Godwin isn't the same player, and our three young WR's are far from proven. Irving was also not the same RB last season. Baker isn't getting Coen back, and outside of that season he hasn't looked like a guy who can carry an offense with inexperienced, unproven talent. Everyone is also learning a new offense, again, which only adds another limiting factor to an offense that already has question marks.
The Glazers need to go and so does Licht, a rebuild is absolutely what's needed. We're lying to ourselves if we think this team is just a couple of pieces away. We have far more question marks than sure things, it's not even close.
If people expect a rebuilding like what happened post Gruden it isn't happening under the Glazers watch as they have been vocal about what they learned through that process.
What have they learned?
Keeping a dogshit coach, and letting the locker room crumble to the point, that multiple players called out Bowles and the face of the franchise left for San Fran?
The Glazers are gun shy after firing Gruden and going through Morris, Schiano, Lovie and then Koetter. They are definitely holding onto Bowles like a baby blanket and are afraid of pulling the trigger. Sure a new coach could bottom out but you have to take the risk if this team is to be better than .500 ball Bowles. The problem is the Glazers only view it from a business point of view and not from a championship point of view.
Mayfield is going to prevent any tank happening in all honesty and the offense has enough fire power to win 7 to 9 games. The bottom line is people hoping for a rebuild to happen in 2027 are sniffing the glue too much.
Even if Mayfield plays bad all a new coach (offensive minded) most likely will do is draft/sign a new QB and hire a new DC. If people expect a rebuilding like what happened post Gruden it isn't happening under the Glazers watch as they have been vocal about what they learned through that process. And if Licht is still around he definitely isn't going to allow that to happen either as his job would be on the line.
I don't know where your optimism, concerning the offense, is coming from. We just lost our best offensive player, Godwin isn't the same player, and our three young WR's are far from proven. Irving was also not the same RB last season. Baker isn't getting Coen back, and outside of that season he hasn't looked like a guy who can carry an offense with inexperienced, unproven talent. Everyone is also learning a new offense, again, which only adds another limiting factor to an offense that already has question marks.
The Glazers need to go and so does Licht, a rebuild is absolutely what's needed. We're lying to ourselves if we think this team is just a couple of pieces away. We have far more question marks than sure things, it's not even close.
As long as Mayfield is healthy and he has his five starting hogs in front of him this group can compete on offense with any team in the league including Seattle. The problem is the defense....Mayfield and the OL have to be injured for the tank commander aka Browning to take the Bucs to the glory land of #1 pick in 2027. But how likely is that scenario?