Jason Licht: “Too Bad He Doesn’t Get The Recognition He Deserves”
November 18th, 2019
General manager Jason Licht is very proud.
No, he’s not proud about the Bucs’ abysmal 3-7 record or the 14-31 tear they are on since the glorious five-game winning streak of 2016.
But Licht is beaming when it comes to his hulking young defensive tackle, Vita Vea.
The second-year manbeast has half a sack this season, plus one tackle for loss, along with seven quarterback hits and 14 solo tackles. While his production is on pace for about what Chris “Swaggy” Baker delivered here, Vea’s athleticism, brute strength, motor and frequent disruption let everyone know he’s no Swaggy 2.0.
And Bucs fans saw Vea deliver on offense two games ago, which garnered national attention for the fun of it all — in addition to Vea’s punishing blocking.
“I’m just happy he got some recognition. It’s too bad he doesn’t get the recognition he deserves as a defensive tackle,” Licht said on the Buccaneers Radio Network yesterday. ” … Too bad it took a run on offense.”
Joe heard that and did a head-shake. It’s one thing for fans to say that, but Licht is a guy with real power to get a guy national recognition. So Licht lamenting public perception of a player is a little odd.
Joe suspects Licht feels other Bucs are underappreciated on the national landscape. Will he do do anything this week to right those wrongs?
November 18th, 2019 at 9:02 am
It’s because he’s on an awful team that was put together by you (Licht). Nobody cares about good players on 3 win teams and they never will.
November 18th, 2019 at 9:04 am
This guy should’ve never been given a new contract
November 18th, 2019 at 9:05 am
“Too bad he doesn’t get any recognition playing around undrafted free agents and overpaid veterans on a team with zero heart and soul. So unfortunate that happened to him” – Licht
November 18th, 2019 at 9:06 am
My bad. By the headline I just assumed he was talking about Jameis.
November 18th, 2019 at 9:06 am
it’s a dumpster fire put it out
November 18th, 2019 at 9:09 am
Ha! Your typo is priceless!! Do Do is absolutely correct, sir!
November 18th, 2019 at 9:12 am
Licht has to draw some attention to one of his good picks to try to draw attention away from his too many bad ones.
Either directly or indirectly this entire dumpster fire is Licht’s responsibility
November 18th, 2019 at 9:13 am
Etzel Says:
November 18th, 2019 at 9:05 am
“Too bad he doesn’t get any recognition playing around undrafted free agents and overpaid veterans on a team with zero heart and soul. So unfortunate that happened to him” – Licht
perfect
November 18th, 2019 at 9:15 am
This team does get national attention – as one of the worst teams in the NFL. Most of that is due to this GM.
November 18th, 2019 at 9:15 am
Who in the hell is listening to licht weight?????? The local media and sheep should be embarrassed for biting hook, line, and sinker for the BS excuses, and all the wrongful blaming that this joke of gm tried to place on others!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The local media and sheep are getting exactly the team they deserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2019 revealed answers to the sheep, that the “real” fans already knew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 18th, 2019 at 9:18 am
@Brian agree. The timing of this seems a bit too close to Hargreaves getting cut…. “How about that Vita Vea, guys! He’s one of the good ones, right??”
November 18th, 2019 at 9:18 am
Licht should take a jump into his pool with some heavy patio stones tied to his feet.
Imagine if Vea had a couple other young studs at DT and DE playing next to him?
Instead we’ve got 19 DBs with question marks all over them.
November 18th, 2019 at 9:18 am
Oh..think he does…he’ll get plenty of props from the OLmen he plays against….he nearly had Brees yesterday ! and he was truck’n full speed right at him
November 18th, 2019 at 9:32 am
We’re a small market team that has sucked for a decade….or more. Lavonte David is by far the most underrated player in possibly the whole league. Maybe Licht should help the guys out by putting actual talent on the field that can produce a winner….with winning comes recognition. That’s how all this works. Unfortunately the spotlight is on our head coaches interviews and our QBs screw ups. That’s the highlight of our Bucs right now…..how we lost and how we react to losing.
November 18th, 2019 at 9:33 am
When will Arians STOP making excuses for Winston??? It use to be that he was to young and didn’t have enough experience. Now the excuse is it’s that “only 10 out of 18 turnovers that were his fault”. Give me a break!! As Forrest Gump famously once said, “Winston is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get. 1 turn over or 4 turn overs, you just know you will get them.” If he gets paid franchise money next year it will be a joke. He is NOT worth 25+ plus million dollars a year!
November 18th, 2019 at 9:37 am
Vita Vea is one of the few decisions Backstabbin’ Jason Licht has gotten right during his reign of terror.
November 18th, 2019 at 9:44 am
Notice how this is what Licht wants to talk about – Vea. He doesn’t want to talk about the numerous mistakes he’s made during his tenure as GM. It’s all about diversion from reality. The press should start hammering this guy over the fact that his drafts have been crap, his coaches are a joke, and his free agent signings have been absolute bombs. This is LICHT’S TEAM. He is responsible for it. The media should hold him responsible.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:02 am
“Joe suspects Licht feels other Bucs are underappreciated on the national landscape.”
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Yeah! He ghost wrote a disjointed 400 page tome blasting fans for not realizing that Jameis is a young hall-of-famer. LOL
November 18th, 2019 at 10:08 am
Licht is happy because one of is many draft finally is playing good.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:23 am
ask licht to talk about all his other 1st round picks….
JW
VHG
OJ
GO BUCS!!!!
November 18th, 2019 at 10:24 am
D-Rome
Where was Vita on Sunday? Was he able to stop the pass?
Keep saying he got this pick right but secondary issues continue to plague this team.
Derwin James> Run Stuffer
November 18th, 2019 at 10:26 am
And Jason Licht steps up to the plate…….pitcher throws a 1st round pick right down the middle annnnnd another swing and a miss by the longtime Buccaneers GM Jason Licht!
November 18th, 2019 at 10:34 am
Sure the dumpster is on fire, but look at how great the concrete pad is holding up.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:40 am
Maybe he’ll open another burner account and call himself Vea 1 of 1
November 18th, 2019 at 10:42 am
Joe, you should use Vitas real name next time……….
Tevita Tuliʻakiʻono Tuipulotu Mosese Vaʻhae Fehoko Faletau Vea
November 18th, 2019 at 10:43 am
Everybody knows that loser Licht sucks. Worst GM the Bucs have ever had. And thats sayin alot.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:55 am
The Buccaneers could not allow the defensive line to get older by drafting yet *another* player in the secondary. Besides, how are the Chargers doing this year with Derwin James? Not very well last time I checked. Derwin James would likely not have made a difference here. He would have been sucked into this “miscommunication” vortex that seems to plague all Bucs players in the secondary.
November 18th, 2019 at 11:08 am
Licht gets the deserved heat because he built this bunch of losers. Some nerve acting like he should be held in high esteem. YOU’RE FIRED!
November 18th, 2019 at 11:15 am
It’s hard for Bucs’ players to get national recognition when Gump is getting all the recognition … for all his faux pas. IF the Bucs were competitive in the NFC South, a number of our players would be getting recognition.
November 18th, 2019 at 11:47 am
Licht is a baffoon! He needs to shut his mouth. Jameis and Byron sandwich are doing their best to get Licht fired. Good on you jAmeis and sand which.
November 18th, 2019 at 11:57 am
Ol’ Licht Weight lamenting under the guise of “my draft pick was/is great”! Vea has indeed come on…too bad he blew the additional 2nd round pick he picked up on secondary garbage.
November 18th, 2019 at 12:18 pm
What exactly could Licht do this week to right those wrongs?
Go back in time and not draft a ton of duds over the last few years?
Go back in time and sign some veteran FAs we so desperately needed on defense?
Go back in time and assemble a better o-line? Maybe not pay D. Smith 10s of millions of dollars to get his QB killed every week?
Hmm, don’t think any of those things are going to happen this week.
November 18th, 2019 at 12:21 pm
Recognition is a two way street. The Bucs get plenty of BAD recognition
November 18th, 2019 at 12:33 pm
jason licked should be fired….. losing 66% of the time under his tenure…..dont change anything……. the glass is half full or empty or something like that ….. Its
all GOOD !!!
November 18th, 2019 at 12:41 pm
Watching the game yesterday the announcer said some linebacker on the Saints is the most underrated LB in the league….. took all of 2 seconds for both me and my son at the same tome to say BS and name LVD.
This week was the first time I heard Evens name on the ESPN NFL morning show. Moss brought him up….. last few weeks I have been watching and nothing said of him and Godwin. Moss gave him some love and even picked the Bucs yesterday, bout fell over. Only reason they got talked about was because they played the Saints!
They didn’t talk about Vea as a monster defender…. they liked how he blocked…. pretty sad to say the least and he’s mad about it. How bout getting a team to 10 wins first. I’ll even take 9 wins and maybe have some hope.
November 18th, 2019 at 12:41 pm
….. its quite embarrassing watching when we play the Saints extemely well coached team ….. The Glazers have been Bamboozeled again ….. I am hoping The GLAZERS WAKE THE F*@%*CK UP ! CLEAN HOUSE TOP TO BOTTOM ……. STARTING WITH JASON LICKED 33%WINNING RECORD UNDER HIS TENURE ………. the sesaon is over we have 1% chance of making the playoffs we cant resign Jaymiss Winsnot….he is worth 8-10 million ayear period as a back up !!! We should bench Jaymiss develope all young talent and play for the draft.
November 18th, 2019 at 1:18 pm
This is too easy….there are three ways to get recognition in the NFL. 1.) Win baby…winning takes care of EVERYTHING
2.) Be in a major market..we are not even in top ten.
3.) Sometimes…sometimes..a player can be so
outstanding that he’s just unavoidable. Shaq Barrett
this year at least the first half. He’s disappearing fast.
November 18th, 2019 at 1:20 pm
Who’s worse?
Dom or Licht?
November 18th, 2019 at 2:06 pm
@1987
That depends, Dom was way worse in the draft, so bad, that even he could not protect and overpay his draft picks the wasy licht weight does, leading to salary cap hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The biggest weakness of both is taking just a good player and building a team around them and then claim they are leaders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The “real” question is who’s worse at player evaluation????
Talk show Dom or Licht weight, or Local media?????????????
November 18th, 2019 at 4:32 pm
When you ask which of the two gm’s is worse –you may as well be asking who is better–Stalin–or Hitler!!!!!!!!!
November 18th, 2019 at 5:29 pm
D-Rome, D James went out for the year in like the second or third game. Chargers d sucks this year, THAT is how good he is. However, Vea is doing just fine and will only get better. Anyone else think Such has checked out since we are so bad? Human nature.
November 18th, 2019 at 5:33 pm
Thet DT ain’t nobody and deserves no attention! The one who does is evens
November 19th, 2019 at 9:36 am
worst gm in football. And that’s saying something