Six Teams That “Should Call” For Vita Vea
July 28th, 2026
Vita Vea is a commodity, one that asked for a trade out of One Buc Palace yesterday.
It’s a sad state of affairs for Bucs fans. Vea was a fan favorite for eight years. He’s delivered special moments and he’s a unique player in Tampa Bay history.
But do the Bucs really want to try and salvage a relationship with an aging, disgruntled veteran who thought his best move was to demand he be dealt on the eve of training camp? Joe doesn’t think so. When’s the last time that has worked out for a team.
ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky, the former Bucs QB, thinks the Bucs should make another run at keeping vea.
“For Tampa’s sake, I hope they don’t let him out of the locker room. I think Tampa’s a contender,” Orlovsky told The Pat McAfee Show. “I think you do everything you can to try to keep him.”
That said, Orlovsky said there should be a hot market for Vea. He said Buffalo, Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and the Chargers should already have picked up the phone.
If Orlovsky is on point, Joe thinks that means the Bucs could land a second-round pick for Vea, even if they have to send along a fifth-rounder to make that happen.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:15 pm
My question is, Who fills the DT this season when or if Vita leaves?
July 28th, 2026 at 5:15 pm
These last few training camps have been rough
July 28th, 2026 at 5:18 pm
Bucs should trade him, but the Bucs should have extended Baker. Bowles is a below average NFL head coach and is not going to take a team deep into the playoffs so they may as well build up some draft capital for Zach Robinson or whomever ends being the next head coach.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:18 pm
Trade him. Over 30, past his prime, often injured, part-time player. No eay he’s worth 20m to the Bucs, now or in ’27
July 28th, 2026 at 5:24 pm
He’s first rd pick quality easy if we get a 2nd I would consider it a major loss
July 28th, 2026 at 5:27 pm
I would not trade Vea. Much much to valuable to the team especially this year. This may turn out to be an awful year in TB. Defense has enough problems.
Nope not a good idea. Shame on the Organization for creating all this drama early. Not very savvy in my opinion.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:33 pm
Trade him. Don’t let him walk out the door without getting something meaningful in return. Knowing Licht, he’ll mess it up thoroughly.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:37 pm
I’m starting to think these guys are wanting to jump ship because a lot of cash is tied up in performance incentives, like sacks, tackles and wining playoff games. I don’t know the details of his current contract, but his base salary is below current market salary for a player of his caliber but with the incentives he probably does well. However, if your HC has a win/loss percentage worse than Lovie Smith, you are probably thinking I need to get the hell off this team while I can. Remember, the Glazer boys don’t cough up a lot of guaranteed money and they get away with it with JL negotiating performance incentive laden contracts. Tom Brady was the last player to get guaranteed money, because he is Tom Brady and the revenue he brings alone based on his name is totally worth it.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:39 pm
2 3rd round picks and a db off the roster from whoever they can trade him to.
Don’t trust their 2nd round picks at all, 3rd round has been pretty good for Licht.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:42 pm
Sure does smell like the owners are hedging their bets for the future – no deal for Bake & Vea when just two years ago they were re-upping Zyon early?????
They don’t think Todd is going to succeed, they just promised him one last chance…the writing is on the wall…and not on any sizeable long-term contracts!
The new regime will have the chance to pick their own QB and not be tied to long term deals for aging vets…
July 28th, 2026 at 5:45 pm
If someone offers a 2nd rd pick take it. I thought he was worth a third rd pick. He’s disgruntled and wants to leave. He’s been a part time player for some time now. I want to point out he was a Captain last year. Vea was loafing others were taking plays off. When your veteran leadership doesn’t give a damn. Then those guys need to go and honestly. The headcoach should be sat down and have some explaining to.do.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:47 pm
The Bucs don’t have the cap space this season or 2027 to sign both Mayfield and Vea.
July 28th, 2026 at 5:55 pm
They should not trade him within the conference.
July 28th, 2026 at 6:01 pm
I’m guessing he wants to play out west maybe even with Evans. If a player truly wants out (and it’s not a negotiation) you have to let him go. He’ll be Jamaal Dean 2.0
July 28th, 2026 at 6:03 pm
If they can get a 2’nd round pick for him then definitely trade him. There is no sense in keeping him around where he can poison the other players. The last time anything this drastic happened to the Bucs at the start of training camp was the Ryan Jensen injury. We all know that injury completely derailed the Bucs chances that year. The Baker and Vita drama could effectively do the same thing.