Big Round 1 For Jamel Dean
April 24th, 2025
Jamel Dean
Starting cornerback Jamel Dean’s job security just improved a whole hell of a lot.
With quality cornerbacks on their draft board, Tampa Bay just grabbed a wide receiver in Round 1, presumably not to fix their ailing pass defense.
Joe wrote earlier today about the unknown impact on the draft of the Dean/Todd Bowles relationship.
Dean said last year that he’s closer to Bowles than any player on the team. Bowles has treated Dean like a son and publicly acknowledged their bond. Bowles also said three weeks ago that Dean has been surpassed at cornerback by Zyon McCollum and is now the Bucs’ “1b” corner. Bowles also said he wants competition in that unit.
Well, that competition isn’t coming in the form of a first-round pick.
It’s a reasonably good bet it comes in Round 2 tomorrow night. If Bowles really wants ballhawks this offseason, like he said with passion in February, the Bucs might not have another option to get one.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:31 pm
Barely
April 24th, 2025 at 10:33 pm
I’m not nearly as down on Jamel as this site. We literally have zero pass rush.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:33 pm
too funny, we pick a small wr and ignore the defense. Dean will probably play 4 games next year and take the rest of the season off. lol. sad.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:33 pm
No, go to draft the best defensive coordinator available! Oh…wait?!
April 24th, 2025 at 10:35 pm
I don’t want to hear any excuses from Bowles about his Defense, Will Johnson and Barron were sitting there and we took WR. And Bonds with players and coaches don’t account to production on the field. If Bowles Defense doesn’t have an identity by week 8 him and Dean can walk the plank with their son father bond .
April 24th, 2025 at 10:35 pm
Now, go draft…
April 24th, 2025 at 10:37 pm
2nd round CB can start
April 24th, 2025 at 10:38 pm
3rd round CB can start
April 24th, 2025 at 10:38 pm
4th round CB can start
April 24th, 2025 at 10:39 pm
You don’t need to waste a 1st round pick on a corner who Bowles is going to have just stand around in zone.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:39 pm
Another year of watching repeatedly watching Dean grab his hamstring after getting burned on a route.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:39 pm
I’ve been pleading to take a D player. Our D can’t get opponents off the field on 3rd and 4th downs. How is a WR going to help fix that?
April 24th, 2025 at 10:43 pm
Bowles wouldn’t know what to do with a talented CB who can lockdown in Man to Man
April 24th, 2025 at 10:44 pm
and Sivorcea Denis, Bucs has a choice, LVD replacement or ME replacement
April 24th, 2025 at 10:44 pm
Shavon Revel
April 24th, 2025 at 10:45 pm
There is more to a draft than one pick. That said, it seems as if the Bucs have already forgotten what happened LAST YEAR with the CB sh!tshow. If they get a good CB in this draft, all is good.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:46 pm
JReel Buc Says:
April 24th, 2025 at 10:43 pm
Bowles wouldn’t know what to do with a talented CB who can lockdown in Man to Man
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What’s amazing is that Bowles had Dean and Davis as aggressive man-to-man corners and rode them to a SB win – then went completely away from that dominating defense to run this God awful super-soft zone trash. In this defense, good corners are completely wasted. Lots of idiots have no idea what they’re watching and think the Bucs got bad corner play – the play is fine – the issue is the scheme that has them just stand around and wait for something to happen. You don’t need a top pick to play this trash defense.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
Licht probably still has ptsd from the Hargreaves pick a few years ago.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
I’m starting to believe Todd Bowles has absolutely no influence in the draft room. As bad as that defense was at the end of the season to not draft that side of the ball is criminal. They had their choice of defensive players and Licht drafted wide receiver 4. Hubris.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
Why or why! Dean is the worst.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:48 pm
Todd Bowwes said it all, it’s a scoring league. They can out run you and make it difficult to double team receivers.
They fooled everyone. I love it
April 24th, 2025 at 10:49 pm
5th round cb can start Didn’t say he’ll be good!
April 24th, 2025 at 10:54 pm
Jason Anthony Sturgess Says:
April 24th, 2025 at 10:49 pm
5th round cb can start Didn’t say he’ll be good!
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Zyon McCollum was a 5th round pick.
He sucked as a rookie, like most rookie corners suck.
The Bucs have 2 starting corners, and a starting nickel. Plus the safeties, so far, are sliding and the Bucs might get a very good in the 2nd or 3rd, and same with ILB.
The Bucs need corner depth – and that’s where a 5th rounder can help you, in the future.
April 24th, 2025 at 10:56 pm
4 wr set
Evans
Godwin
McMillan
Egbuka
Who covers Bucky？
April 24th, 2025 at 11:19 pm
I wouldn’t get too comfortable. We could still draft a starting caliber CB in round 2, and I expect we will.
April 24th, 2025 at 11:36 pm
we need to spend 2 picks on corners and bench Jamel Dean
April 24th, 2025 at 11:40 pm
Eagles… man.
Let’s go up if we have to in round 2 for EZ or Green. I’d like to see that. Then take DBs in 3-4. ILB or DT in 5
April 24th, 2025 at 11:50 pm
The bucs again pass on corner .never addressed it , get burned every season because of it ! Dean ? Play 10 feet off all game ? Wtf ? Edge rusher ? Do the bucs Have amnesia from last year ? That defence was pitiful
Pass d . Was awful . Needed a corner bad !
April 24th, 2025 at 11:56 pm
Les Says:
April 24th, 2025 at 11:50 pm
The bucs again pass on corner .never addressed it , get burned every season because of it ! Dean ? Play 10 feet off all game ?
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See, this is the clueless idiot I’m talking about. This dope thinks Dean is the one choosing to play 10 yards off the ball, and the coaches are yelling at him to get up and be aggressive, and he just refuses to do it, and the coaches are helpless to make him comply, I guess.
Wow, what a dumb low IQ take.
Here, I’ll help you out… Dean is being told to play off the ball, it’s by design. Just like it’s by design when the players are standing around flat footed waiting for something to happen. That’s not the players being lazy or just refusing to do their job, that is what Todd Bowles thinks a zone defense looks like in 2024 – and Bowles literally played more zone defense than anyone in the NFL last year.
Dean was drafted as a man-to-man corner, as was Davis. When Davis last offseason called out Bowles for his trash zone defense, Bowles ran him out of town. Bowles is telling these guys where to line up, and what to do, if they refused to do what he asked, they’d be benched. If you don’t realize that, you’re just not a very intelligent individual.
April 24th, 2025 at 11:58 pm
We needed a S, CB, Edge, ILB, DL, and all backup center.
Instead we drafted a WR.
WOW!
You always want your first round pick to come in and start.
April 25th, 2025 at 12:31 am
@buc4evr He’s not small he’s damn near 6’1″ and 210 lbs. He’s a technician when it comes to running routes and he makes plays. So glad your the GM, I bet you’d have reached for someone we can get in round 2 haha.
April 25th, 2025 at 1:43 am
We are in perfect range in Rd 2 to take one of the best CBs that fit our D. Thomas or Porter will take care of things there.
3rd is the better spot for ILB.
Simeon Rice got our Defense 2morrow night, let’s Be Eazy. And we got EE.
Barron is small. Johnson is injury prone. Winfield the real deal.
CB 2morrow night Bucs fans. A good Corner
April 25th, 2025 at 3:24 am
PSL Bob Says:
April 24th, 2025 at 10:39 pm
I’ve been pleading to take a D player. Our D can’t get opponents off the field on 3rd and 4th downs. How is a WR going to help fix that?
I am with you on this. I’m waiting to see how the rest of the draft plays out but was disappointed with our 1st round pick to say the least.
April 25th, 2025 at 3:49 am
For his price it’s not bad for a #1CB. If he doesn’t play it doesn’t matter though. Regardless he is healthy and very tradable right now. So I would look into that in the morning. Try and also trade white to an AFC team or to a rebuilding team for a high 2nd rounder. That would be cool. Looking to get more defensive help (2) guys minimum rd 2.
ILB Demetrius Knight
CB Trey Amos.
That’s cool with me.
April 25th, 2025 at 6:08 am
Zyon was a 5th rd pick Joe so competition can come from any rounds this weekend. One thing I’m not concerned about is this staff developing DBs the proof is in the pudding but that takes time. Not sure we have that luxury to wait for one to develop we need help this season. Maybe hall and is that guy to sub for Dean when he misses a game.
April 25th, 2025 at 6:35 am
Todd is his own worst enemy with this inability to part with some of his guys. This is a business and we have hung on to some players too long. I hope Dean is not one of those.
Go Bucs!
April 25th, 2025 at 11:43 am
6’1” 200 pounds ain’t a small receiver. He’s not Mike Evans but I’d say for a receiver that’s pretty average.