Bucs GM: Team Needs Not Tied To 2025 Record
March 1st, 2026
Interesting and telling take from Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht.
When Licht wasn’t busy hosting news conferences with local and national media last week at the NFL Scouting Combine — and sitting down for TV spots and 20-plus minutes on the Ira Kaufman Podcast — he joined SiriusXM NFL Radio and answered a question about filling the Bucs’ holes and avoiding knee-jerk reactions in free agency and the draft.
That was an easy answer for Licht, who said the Bucs’ plan is unaffected by last year’s late-season collapse.
“I think even if we had made the playoffs and made some noise in the playoffs, no matter how far we went, I think we’d still be in the same position that we are right now,” Licht said.
Now that’s a GM confident in his process!
“We know where we need to make improvements. We know where we’re lacking. We own it. We all own it. I’ve gotta do a better job on my end as well. We didn’t play as well at certain positions as we could have. So, right now we have plans. I feel confident in what we’re gonna do here. We’ve got free agency, we’ve got the draft, we’ve got different avenues that we can add some more players. We’ve had some really good luck in the past finding some, you know, not necessarily the flashy player: Ben Bredeson, Chase McLaughlin, you know, Shaq Barrett. Every team has these, but we’ve done a pretty good job with those. So it’s not necessarily the flashy [player], it’s also some of the doubles that you hit that help get you over the top.”
Licht’s message was clear across his various stops last week. Don’t expect the Bucs to deviate from their roster-building path of the past few years. Sure, it could happen, but that’s highly unlikely.
March 1st, 2026 at 5:17 pm
Dead man walking. JL is a career loser that was saved by Tom Brady. He sucks without Tom as proven by his .449% record over 12 years.
losers are just gonna lose. And he is the definition of loser as a GM.
March 1st, 2026 at 5:52 pm
He’s lucked out with a few players here and there and hopes to luck out with some cheap signings this year. 5-12
March 1st, 2026 at 5:59 pm
Licht is the GM and he can build the team in the fashion to which he sees fit and in the way that the Glazers will allow – Licht does not desire “flashy” players such as Brady, Gronkowski, or Antonio Brown – he will construct the team in a steady methodical fashion that will result in predictable results over several seasons – middle-of-the-pack is the Bucs comfort zone – not bad enough to clean house but good enough to say after every year of mediocrity “you’ll see, wait til next year” – however the idea that the Bucs are anywhere near Super Bowl-ready is laughable
March 1st, 2026 at 6:00 pm
These are going to be some ugly comments, lol
March 1st, 2026 at 6:08 pm
I have full faith in Jason however, I have zero faith in our head coach. The guy is probably in the bottom third of the league at best. He has run his team into the ground the past couple years and the regression of the defense has been startling and 100% his fault. It is a joke, an absolute joke that he was retained.
March 1st, 2026 at 6:11 pm
HC, definitely a team need that was directly tied to the 2025 record…
March 1st, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Said it before, offensive picks decent to real good. Defensive picks not so good. Defensive coaching? Doesn’t take a”genius” to figure that out.
March 1st, 2026 at 6:25 pm
Bottom line Jason. Your record is garbage. Your defensive picks are garbage. Your intelligence for understanding what we need and how that looks is garbage.
Bain Rodriguez messidor styles. These are the guys we want here. Will you do what it takes to even get one????? You royally screwed ys by not going after verse in the draft. I told everyone he was the best in that draft. If he can get messidor and Rodriguez wed be set
March 1st, 2026 at 6:28 pm
If Licht can’t see Todd B. is the biggest part pf the problem, then we have 2 big problems.
March 1st, 2026 at 6:31 pm
2025 Bucs roster
$184 mill on offense
$102 mill on defense
The roster structure sucks and so does Jason Licht.
Wake up people. Todd is awful but Licht sucks too
March 1st, 2026 at 6:54 pm
I think we should look at the 49ers back up QB