Morrison? Yeah this guy needs a come to Jesus moment if he wants to play in the NFL. Right now rookie K. Scott is cross training at boundary CB and it looks like Parrish has a starting spot opposite of McCollum on lock down. Parrish and Scott also look like they have NCB on lockdown and will be determined if they split time there too.
Bowles is once again saying he wants another CB. Is Licht listening? Bucs sign a veteran CB and that solves a lot of problems in the secondary. Safety in comparison is in better shape because you have Winfield Jr and T. Smith as sure fire starters. Then behind them Killebrew and Melifonwu. Long time backups Widsom and Banks and promising young player in JJ Roberts. 7 deep at safety and if you include that McCollum, K. Scott and Hayes can moonlight at safety too that is 8 guys that can play safety in an emergency if Smith or Winfield Jr. go down.
Bain!
Bain is not only a sack master but a disruptor. He is basically a better version of Clowney but he plays with more power. Licht is going to look like a genius if Bain and Scott are home runs as rookies. The NFCS tackles outside of the Bucs are overrated and Bain is going to make them pay.
WR Corps is going to be hard to stop for any team including the Seahawks with a deep DB group. Tez Johnson deep game down the middle of the field is hard to stop even for super athletic DBs as his feel for routes is uncanny. McMillan downfield on the perimeter plays bigger than his size indicates. Egbuka and Godwin in the short and intermdiate area are wizards with their hands and route running. Even K. Johnson is making plays and then there is Hurst. Hurst could make an impact even as a rookie with so much talent in front of him which is hard to believe.
Tucker has been written off but I think Tucker along with Irving will make a comeback. KG is going to protect Mayfield from being a punching bag though and will be a special teams dynamo
Big question marks remain with OL and DL.
What will this OL look like with zone blocking? Skeptical this will work given these guys like to go man to man.
Defensively is the DL being bigger going to help that much? Is Kancey going to show some grit and play a full season?
ILBers will have to earn their keep as the pads come on and fly to the ball. May the best starting duo win regardless of draft status. No way Trotter is guaranteed to start because if his draft status.
Browning looks like he can make some magic happen with this deep WR group if need be. Baker needs to be okay with sitting if he is injured. Baker will win more games if he sits a game to heal and also make more money in the end. Sometime you have to take one step back to take three step forward. Baker has an aggressive competitive mindset but sometimes you have to pull up to go full throttle when ready. Once Baker accept this he will ascend as a top tier NFL QB.Â
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
This OL has to prove they can come back for this WR group to take off. All Mayfield has to do is be the point guard of this offense and Robinson to not screw it up. There are now more ifs on offense than the defense.
Defensively Bain and Scott will help off set most issues on defense. I would say my bold prediction is that the defense carries thie offense this year if the offense is adjusting to the zone blocking scheme.
Morrison? Yeah this guy needs a come to Jesus moment if he wants to play in the NFL.
practicing today but yes fair point
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
the best WR room in the league! LMAO!
Are you an agent for the mediocre WR room?
just so you know, there are fans on other teams message boards that are stoked about their teams 3rd round WRs as well over the last couple years. Â
I'm sure theres a 49ers fan thinking Deebo Samuel will get back to 2021 levels like you are with Chris Godwin!Â
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
the best WR room in the league! LMAO!
Are you an agent for the mediocre WR room?
just so you know, there are fans on other teams message boards that are stoked about their teams 3rd round WRs as well over the last couple years. Â
I'm sure theres a 49ers fan thinking Deebo Samuel will get back to 2021 levels like you are with Chris Godwin!Â
So there's a better room in the league? 1-5?? Ok Skippy, please name them...
Hurst and Tez hot from the start.Â
Apparently, Bain was abusing Goedeke.Â
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
the best WR room in the league! LMAO!
Are you an agent for the mediocre WR room?
just so you know, there are fans on other teams message boards that are stoked about their teams 3rd round WRs as well over the last couple years. Â
I'm sure theres a 49ers fan thinking Deebo Samuel will get back to 2021 levels like you are with Chris Godwin!Â
So there's a better room in the league? 1-5?? Ok Skippy, please name them...
list me the last time any of their WRs hit 1,000 yards.Â
and yes we been over this before so not going through the motions of listing Bengals, Cowboys, Lions, etc. Any team with a clear #1 is a better room than Bucs. Seahawks as an example with a top 10 passing attack last year.Â
you are listing depth. Bucs are maybe top 15 to enter the year. Do they have potential? Absolutely.Â
and yes Mike Evans made QBs look good...i.e. Manziel, Winston, Glennon, Mayfield, etc.
but....he is no more.Â
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
Dude stop with this. I like our room a lot but we don't have a top 15 wr so how could we have the best room?
Make it make senseÂ
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
the best WR room in the league! LMAO!
Are you an agent for the mediocre WR room?
just so you know, there are fans on other teams message boards that are stoked about their teams 3rd round WRs as well over the last couple years. Â
I'm sure theres a 49ers fan thinking Deebo Samuel will get back to 2021 levels like you are with Chris Godwin!Â
On the other end of the spectrum calling them mediocre is also insane.
I know in the world of polarizing everything has to become an extreme to get attention but cmon.
Heading into the 2026 season, Tampa has the best WR room in the league. Â
Baker needs Tampa more than Tampa needs Baker. This room will make many a QB look good.Â
Dude stop with this. I like our room a lot but we don't have a top 15 wr so how could we have the best room?
Make it make senseÂ
Because one top 15 receiver < 5 receivers who can all start and contribute. Â Simple.Â
This WR room is a very good group but there are too many Ifs with them along with the OL and new zone blocking scheme and then Robinson...
What it comes down to is Godwin has to stay healthy. This allows McMillan and Egbuka to be the boundary WRs. Tez and Hurst bring the rear as backup boundary WRs.Â
Mayfield will be the field point guard of this offense. No doubt in my mind. That OL though scares me with how they played down the stretch.Â
This WR room is a very good group but there are too many Ifs with them along with the OL and new zone blocking scheme and then Robinson...
What it comes down to is Godwin has to stay healthy. This allows McMillan and Egbuka to be the boundary WRs. Tez and Hurst bring the rear as backup boundary WRs.Â
Mayfield will be the field point guard of this offense. No doubt in my mind. That OL though scares me with how they played down the stretch.Â
almost exactly my take
To me it all comes down to the run game. Can they establish it consistently as a foundation of the offense. Thats why the talk of wide zone is a little worrisome when the O-line has already shown that they can be totally dominant in another scheme.
Canales and Coen both changed things form their own preferred offensive game plan, so will see how Robinson does.
I was not as high on Keionte Scott as some have been but I think he is a very important piece to the defensive secondary. The rest of that CB crew are mid-level talents to me until I see otherwise. As far as Bain goes, I think he will perform as advertised. What gives me concern about him is not him or his abilities. Its that Bowles has gone on the record (I think) and said he was going to be dropping back into pass coverage at times.......which Bain has never (or hardly ever) done. As long as they are using him as the disruptor, then they are using him correctly. Anything other than that is a mistake.
Given in the modern NFL you need a boundary CB that can step in a start it seems fishy to me the Bucs haven't signed one yet while they invested signing veteran safety Melifonwu.
If Morrison goes down you are down to McCollum and Parrish on the boundary so having Scott is a blessing. The rest of the boundary DBs have potential but if they are not 100% better than Hayes then they are all about the same level of 5th/6th string DBs.
Bain according to Joe Bucs Fan has been used to drop in coverage so Bowles isn't going to change that. Just have to hope the frequency isn't enough to disrupt the OLB ability to create constant pressure. Giving an OL a free vacation or rest on a play is not creating pressure or wearing out an OL with constant fire zone drops of OLB. Quickest way to wear out an OL is if they have to pass block every play a rush defender.Â
