No Deals
November 3rd, 2015
Joe can safely assume no NFL team was willing to trade a ham sandwich for Tim Jennings today at the NFL trading deadline.
No club was willing to deal a solid backup cornerback for Evan Smith.
No NFL club was willing to cough up a quality second-day draft pick for Mike Glennon.
No general manager looked at overrated Demar Dotson and said, “I’ve got to have that guy.”
The Bucs didn’t make one trade today, after making two at the deadline last year (Mark Barron and Jonathan Casillas).
And no, the Bucs didn’t need to deal for busted up/washed out defensive ends. Joe was aching for live-body cornerbacks, even fourth or fifth cornerbacks on somebody’s roster that might have a future. You know, a guy that might make Lovie forget about the horrific Mike Jenkins experience. And Joe was yearning to ditch current Bucs who won’t be here for the team’s next heyday.
But those dreams are dashed, as they were for fans in most NFL cities, where the trading deadline is just another day.
November 3rd, 2015 at 9:22 pm
So when a player is moved from an active roster to the practice squad with can claim him right???? Maybe we can snatch another teams Adam Humphries???
If not I hope L&L are will to give our back ups a chance for some live bullets down the stretch!!! However if we are making a run at a wild card or something… Perhaps that means a couple goats turned back the clock to when they where kids…..
Its what I call a win win…. Next years draft excites me with the way we have grabbed some cornerstones the last two years… Let’s hope they can finish the foundation and start the building of the the Super Bowl team!!!!
November 3rd, 2015 at 9:55 pm
Looks like the only way joe will get rid of Glennon is to run him over with his car!
November 3rd, 2015 at 9:56 pm
Geez, we sure do have a s-ton of money riding on the bench. Anybody wanna ad that up- cuz none of them are back next year as Joe says…
November 3rd, 2015 at 10:28 pm
Since Glennon is staying…..does it make any sense for us to keep a 3rd QB on the active roster….I can see one on the practice squad….but not on the 53….
November 3rd, 2015 at 10:35 pm
@tbbf,
No, it does not.
Only reason I can image that we keep the 3rd on active roster is if Lovie/Licht are all-in on trading Glennon in the offseason, and so infatuated with Griffin they’re afraid to let him hit the practice squad.
November 3rd, 2015 at 10:58 pm
Famous business saying…”Sometimes the best deal you make is the one you don’t make.”
November 3rd, 2015 at 11:25 pm
St Pete has a point and Joe could add Brandon Meyers to the list.
November 4th, 2015 at 1:08 am
We started the season, with a desperate need for a DE.
As the season has gone on- i think thats changed
I think CB has become a bigger need. Our CBs are killing our defense.
Banks being back helped a bit- but he has struggled badly too.
May be spending our first draft pick on CB- not DE
November 4th, 2015 at 2:27 am
Dotson struggles a little at LT (NOT his position BTW) after dominating at RT and suddenly he’s “overrated”.
roflmao smh
Ever occur to you with how thin our depth at the o-line is the Bucs weren’t planning on parting with what little depth they have?
No, of course not. My bad.
Dotson never dominated anything. And Kevin Pamphile’s success earlier this year proved the depth was better than we thought. Bucs could have comfortably dealt Dotson or Smith, preferably Smith. –Joe
November 4th, 2015 at 3:36 am
Because you said he didn’t?
That’s just just not how the cookie crumbles lol. His play is what determines that sir. Now whether you agree with it or not doesn’t matter, he was the third best pass blocking tackle in the NFL in 2014. And without playing the final three games a LT he was actually the number 1 pass-blocking tackle. That in fact is dominant.
That first tidbit was actually on the Buccaneers page.
As far as Kevin Pamphile being your reason for the Bucs not being thin at the o-line position… o.O
November 4th, 2015 at 3:38 am
*Right Tackle*
November 4th, 2015 at 7:05 am
Why do you continue to call Evan Dietrich Smith a cornerback. He plays CENTER.
November 4th, 2015 at 8:34 am
Bucs have the 4th most dead money in the league this year, so let’s just have Licht do as little as possible…
November 4th, 2015 at 11:17 am
@James Walker Says – Joe didn’t say he played cornerback. No club was willing to deal a solid backup cornerback/for Evan Smith.
According to underthecap.com the Buccaneers have 8.3M under the cap with 23.1M in dead money. In 2016 we have 47M under the cap. Doesn’t the team lose the 8.3M under the cap if we do not spend it?
Players currently not starting –
Alterraun Verner 4.25M
Bruce Carter 4.25M
Evan Smith 3.75M
Tony McDaniel 1.5M
George Johnson 2.75M
Major Wright 1.25M
Sterling Moore – 1.5M
Total = $19.25M +47M = 66.25M under the cap in 2016