In 2013, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded a first and fourth round pick for Darrelle Revis; it turned into a huge disaster.
Coming off of an ACL injury with the New York Jets, Revis was dealt to the Buccaneers for the 13th overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft and a future fourth rounder. At the time it looked like a steal for the Buccaneers who had just landed a premier lockdown cornerback, however Revis’s time in Tampa Bay was every bit of a disaster.
After just one season with the Buccaneers, Revis was released after no other team was willing to take on his $16 million salary and a corner with a bad knee. A good way to lose your job, as former Buccaneers’ general manager Mark Dominik did, is to trade a first round pick and more for a one-year rental.
“The Jets used that No. 13 pick to draft Defensive Rookie of the Year Sheldon Richardson, and Revis went on to win the Super Bowl with the Patriots in 2014.
Maybe drafting a kicker in the second round?
I can think of only two kickers worth a second round pick, Janikowski and Tucker. And one of them was a first rounder, the other an UDFA.
trading up to draft a kicker!Maybe drafting a kicker in the second round?
No no no no no. There is only one obvious answer.
2015. Chip Kelly wanted Mariota bad. They offered the Bucs a huge package. Bucs rejected and took Winston #1 overall. Just going off the trade chart, not including the players to be rumored involved (Fletcher Cox or Lane Johnson) it could have looked something like this...
Eagles get #1 overall
Bucs get...
Pick #20, 2016 1st round (turned out to be #2 overall), 2017 1st round (turned out to be #14) 2015 #2, 2016 #2
Drafting Bo Jackson when he said he wouldn't play for Bucs
Trading for Revis
Trading up to draft Aguayo
Refusing to trade back, and drafting Winston with all his known flaws
Drafting VH3
How we handled Derrick Brooks late career
Drafting Gaines Adams (RIP)
Signing Lovie Smith
Making Bowles head coach
Extending Fournette
Not trading up 2 spots to get all pro Creed, instead drafting a 3rd string qb to run it back.
Oh I didn't catch the "last decade" part.
Whoops
Drafting Bo Jackson when he said he wouldn't play for Bucs
Trading for Revis
Trading up to draft Aguayo
Refusing to trade back, and drafting Winston with all his known flaws
Drafting VH3
How we handled Derrick Brooks late career
Drafting Gaines Adams (RIP)
Signing Lovie Smith
Making Bowles head coach
Extending Fournette
Not trading up 2 spots to get all pro Creed, instead drafting a 3rd string qb to run it back.
what were the options with head coach last year?
whether you are in the Arians step aside to pave the way for one of his guys camp or Brady fired his ass camp, Arians retired after head coach searches were complete
to me it was either Bowles or leftwich unfortunately
in last ten years?
miserable head coaches, every single head coach after gruden was complete desaster, apart from bruce arians of course!
Definitely that Revis move. Utter disaster because Lovie thought getting Anthony Collins, Chris Baker and Verner were better ways to use the cap space. And all three were bums here, and Revis was still an elite CB at the time. Definitely set this franchise back several years with that. I was fine with acquiring Revis but dumping him for trash led to the demise of peoples jobs. HOF CB > C+ LT, DT and CB but hey
All those years we watched Julio Jones terrorize our CB's year after year when we had a guy would could've neutralized him completely.
hmm, work Bucs draft picks in the last ten, we could go back last 27.
only looking at 1st round, maybe some notable 2nds, or this post could go on forever....
2012 - Mark Baron at #!, when we could have had LB Luke Kuekly, Stephon Gilmore CB or traded back for more picks and got a Melvin Ingrahm. Did get Ring of Honor LB David
2013 - trading away our 1st and 4th for a washed up Darelle Revis who did nothing. Could have had Eric Reid SF, or Rhodes Indy....LOL took another winner DB 2nd Johnathan Banks CB....oh and in 3rd QB Mike Glennon in 2nd whoohoo but nabbed Will Gholston in 4th, hope we re-sign him for 1 more ride
2014 - way to go Bucs with Mike Evans future HOF, ring of honor(a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while).......oh but 2nd round big bust Austin Jaferious Jenkins TE, that worked out well with his background.
2015 - gotta be Jameis, had to pick him I guess but bad draft for QB's and turnover machine not eating a lot of W's lately. Hey we did have a scout somewhere that deserves a bonus for pulling divison 3 Ali Marpet out of the abyss Hobart College. Too bad he retired early.
2016 - awesome draft that year with VH3 & Noah spence defining bust. too bad. Glad we traded our 3 and 4th pick to nab Spence
2017 - looked like Tarzan, played like Jane, OJ Howard in 1st and could have had TJ Watt, Peppers, or pro bowl TE Evan Engrahm. Nabbe future ring of honor Godwin in 3rd.
2018 - *not a bad year for Bucs for once, Vea, Cappa, Ronald Jones, Carlton Davis, Jordan Whitehead
2019 - *Licht on a roll with getting Devon White, SMB, Dean, Mike Edwards, Anthony Nelson and even Scotty Miller(one of greatest plays in bucs history-thanks TomB )
2020 - *another couple of players by Licht help win SB, win The Goat, Tristan Wirfs, Winfield,
2021 - starts ugly again, picking at end of rounds, JTS a big bust so far, Trask who knows but did get Hainsey who is serviceable so far
2022 - it has only been a year, but seems like Logan Hall has long way to go, So does OL Luke Goedeke - but we did pluck RB White, Punter Camarda, and TE Otten who all could be pretty good. Camarda has a long career ahead and we should use him for long FG's. he has the leg.
2023 ?? 19 not a great position really, but hey I would rather have low round picks because that means we are in the playoffs and winning. Need a QB since I do not have
confidence in Trask's athletic ability and mental ability reading defenses. Not excited about Mayfield at all, I hope Lightning(lol) strikes with him but not holding my breath.
We probably will go with OL and Edge with Barretts injury and age and lack of JTS development. I do believe buts will go OL 1st and pick up a QB in mid or late rounds or
wait until teams cut loose some QB's to bring in. Hendon Hooker or Levis might tempt Licht in the 1st or 2nd.
**If someone has a nice wholesome, smart, pretty sister that likes Tom Brady, maybe he will change his mind again in Tampa Bay ???
**Keeping Bowles was a mistake- he had his shot(s). That zero blitz will loom in Buc history as I believe it cost us 2 SBowls in a row.
2023 will be unique.
Not firing Mark Dominik and hiring the Red Board GM as Tampa Bay Buccaneer GM. We would have the best managed cap, at least seven Lombardi’s, and the record-breaking combo of Luke McCown & Maurice Stovall would be in the Hall of Fame.
Aguayo's n°1, moving up in the 2nd round for a freaking Kicker... so bad that he was waived a year later and out of the league after his second season.
Everything was wrong in this pick!
the Revis trade was bad because of the option in his contract and the system we used. A new contract should have been included in the trade, then in the right system for Revis island...
Aguayo is arguably the worst pick in nfl history.
At least with busts like JaMarcus Russell or Winston they were consensus top picks.
Licht traded up to draft a kicker nobody wanted that early, that regressed every year in college, who couldn't kick beyond 50... when he could have had him rd 5-7.
If he gets drafted there nobody cares... but trading up in the 2nd was just classic Licht at the time.
Hargreaves. He was the 11th pick of the draft. Aguayo was the 59th pick. So Aguayo was the most stunning and puzzling, but the Hargreaves pick was the most costly. Barron was 11 years ago, and he had success elsewhere proving that he was just a bad fit or poorly utilized.
Hargreaves filled a position of need and was projected to be a first round pick.
Still a God awful pick but at least you can rationalize the decision.
The Aguayo pick makes no sense and it was compounded by reaching AND trading up.
It would be the equivalent of trading up to the top 3 to take VH3
