Godwin isn't so much as trade bait as he is a way to get the Bucs out of salary cap hell.Call me crazy, but I think Godwin is our best player with Wirfs right there with him. This two should be foundational pieces not trade bait.
This is one of those tough decisions. Draft picks can definitely speed up the re-boot.
Draft picks are SO hit or miss. Godwin is a proven commodity. Let's face it, our QB situation probably isn't going to be great more then likely. Whoever our starter is will need all the help he can get.
Godwin isn't better than Evans... so no, he isn't our best player. He's top 5 IF he returns to form which remains the be seen...
Taking into account age and health our best player in order:
Wirfs
Evans (go yell at a wall if you disagree)
Winfield
Vea
Dean
Davis
Godwin
David (would be much higher if not for age)
R White
Mason
Barrett
SMB
Jensen
JTS
Hainsey
D White
Hall/Goedeke
the worst thing this franchise can do is trade Evans and Godwin.
those two made Jamies winston serviceable and are an asset to any young QB we try to develop.
Lets trade away our good young players. Awesome idea!
Godwin isn't so much as trade bait as he is a way to get the Bucs out of salary cap hell.Call me crazy, but I think Godwin is our best player with Wirfs right there with him. This two should be foundational pieces not trade bait.
This is what the BChaves8's don't want to understand. There are hard choices to be made this offseason. That means something's gotta give. We may keep Godwin. I haven't heard anything coming from the or OneBuc about trading him. If we do that, then there are a lot of other hard choices that have to be made. Trading Godwin may make it possible to sign Wirfs and Winfield. It may make it possible to keep Lavonte David. If you can clear enough space due to Godwin's salary being gone, it may make it possible to invest in a good QB in 2024. I don't know, but I do know that Godwin is the most expensive (not overpaid by any means) player still on the team. Godwin has a lot of value for the Bucs, but he has even more value to a contending team. Building a winning team is Priority 1.
But again, I haven't heard any rumblings from anywhere about trading Godwin. So we'll see what they do to get under the cap, which apparently has to happen soon. If they can keep Godwin around that's great. If they keep Godwin and David both I'd be shocked. Then Licht really must have a magic wand hidden away in his office.
Absolutely not.
Do not trade Chris Godwin, ridiculously bad idea.
Trade Evans or Gage.
not Godwin.
@donkey_hunter lol why?
well beyond his prime.
holds equally if not more value then Godwin.
would take a 2nd for him all day.
paying 3 WR 10 mil plus when you’re 55 mil over the cap isn’t feasible
lol why?
For starters, he’s the best receiver on the team.
Secondly, you’d only be saving $2M while creating $21M in dead cap.
you dont trade Evans or Godwin.
to me, the guys you can cut on offense are Donovan Smith, Cam Brate, Russell Gage, and maybe Leonard Fournette - albeit i do think Lenny still provides value.
draft Georgia tackle Broderick Jones in the first round
Anyone that thinks Godwin is better than Evans is insane.
This is an offense that tried to FEATURE an overweight Fournette who saw 80+ targets in the passing game alone while playing second fiddle to White in the 2nd half of the year.
Evans in a down year still managed:
1100+ yards
75+ receptions
6 TDs
50+ first downs
After game 1 where he had that insane 1 handed catch in the endzone vs the Cowboys, I'm struggling to think of many more times where we threw him the fade in our struggling red zone offense.
We were literally running designed plays for Fournette... 1 read type plays.
He went from 14 tds to 6 because we stopped using him inside the 10 which is yet another reason why Lefty can go kick rocks.
Good job! You just got us about $20 mil if that. Bad news though. We still have another $25 mil to go. Obviously, if we could just cut those guys and solve the cap problem I wouldn't have started this thread.you dont trade Evans or Godwin.
to me, the guys you can cut on offense are Donovan Smith, Cam Brate, Russell Gage, and maybe Leonard Fournette - albeit i do think Lenny still provides value.
draft Georgia tackle Broderick Jones in the first round
Good job! You just got us about $20 mil if that. Bad news though. We still have another $25 mil to go. Obviously, if we could just cut those guys and solve the cap problem I wouldn't have started this thread.you dont trade Evans or Godwin.
to me, the guys you can cut on offense are Donovan Smith, Cam Brate, Russell Gage, and maybe Leonard Fournette - albeit i do think Lenny still provides value.
draft Georgia tackle Broderick Jones in the first round
how about re-structure guys like Evans, Vita Vea, and others that we know will be on the team next year. That should get us easily under the cap.
dont get me wrong, we arent going to be big spenders as we went all in for a Superbowl (Kudos Glazers!!!) but still, to give Kyle Trask or anyone else for that matter a fighting chase, you keep Godwin and Evans around.