I kind of understand what the OP means. I’ve said it in another thread: take away Brady (and the Super Bowl win we wouldn’t have achieved without him) and I’m not sure we’d feel as warm & fuzzy about the BA era.
But, Licht (and the Glazer pocketbook) was absolutely critical in building that team surrounding Brady.
Makes me wonder why we didn’t do much in FA and before the trade deadline this season. I’m sure there was/were reasons, maybe we’ll get some insights into that by the end of the week?
Licht is not a great GM. But...many of us are just saying, he should get to hire his next coach and see how that goes. The thought of him partnering with a guy like Harbaugh makes me think we could have a decade of success together. He didnt have much of a choice with Bowles back in 2022 so really, he gets 1 more crack at it.
as we saw with previous Buc GMs, we can do alot worse than Licht.
and yeah we had the GOAT.....how many SBs would New England have had without Brady? probably zero.
Ok to discount Licht's success there, just saying, it was his drafting in 2018 and 2019 with Godwin and Evans weapons that brought Brady to Tampa. Without Wirfs and Winfield, we likely dont win the SB either. So give credit where credit is due
yes, its a team sport
And in this case if the argument AGAINST Licht is "he doesn't win a SB without Brady" then, to paraphrase Fire/Hire, that is an "if his aunt had wheels" argument because Licht is responsible for bringing in Brady, directly and indirectly, and Arians . . and for drafting countless players who contributed.
Who says "we should fire our GM because . . . if you peel back some of his success . . . he's not that good?" Maybe people on the Red Board, but I seriously doubt the owners look at it that way.
They may soon, depending on where the Bucs go from here but they are not likely to put Red Board Asterisks all over every thing:
* he had Brady
*he had Arians
*its a weak division
*400 million in contracts
*who cares about playoffs?
I kind of understand what the OP means. I’ve said it in another thread: take away Brady (and the Super Bowl win we wouldn’t have achieved without him) and I’m not sure we’d feel as warm & fuzzy about the BA era.
But, Licht (and the Glazer pocketbook) was absolutely critical in building that team surrounding Brady.
Makes me wonder why we didn’t do much in FA and before the trade deadline this season. I’m sure there was/were reasons, maybe we’ll get some insights into that by the end of the week?
I think a big part of that had to do with coming out of cap hell that we have been dealing with the past few years since Brady retired. We had 43 Million and change in dead cap hits in 2025. Alot of that fell off, and while we'll only have 36ish Million in cap space to start the season more can be added through extensions and restructures. We only have about 255k in dead cap hits for 2026. I think Licht wanted to see where things stood, and how they played out so that we could evaluate what we had for younger players going into a cap reset. I don't think the team is in any rush to get back to that dead cap purgatory, but I could see the team being a bit more active this year after resigning our own. Of our own FA I really only see Evans,Tucker,Izien resigned. I think Hall might get offered a team friendly deal, and he'll ultimately end up testing the FA waters.
