Chris Simms Dares Anyone To Name A Team With Better Linemen Than The Bucs
September 1st, 2025
Former Bucs QB reacts.
Former Bucs quarterback Chris Simms said he has a tried-and-true method for determining a good team.
He looks at one area of the team’s roster and he can tell right away if that team should be feared or is potentially a poser.
That would be the personnel in the trenches.
And for Simms, who now talks football for NBC, there is no team in the league with better overall players in the starting offensive and defensive fronts than the Bucs.
(Of course, Simms doesn’t count outside linebackers as “linemen.”)
“The first thing you look at, just like you do with any other team is, I look at offensive and defensive lines and just go, ‘The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are under the radar one of the most the best offensive lines in football,’ especially when Tristan works in there, who’s arguably in the conversation for best left tackle in the game,” Simms said.
“And then the defensive line is phenomenal. There’s no team in football that’s going to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and go, ‘Oh, we can just, we can manhandle them up front on this side of the ball or that side of the ball.’
“No way.”
Simms has a helluva point. The only other team that may claim this honor is Philadelphia. Like the Bucs, the Eagles have excellent defensive tackles.
If Calijah Kancey breaks out like so many people think he will, Joe doesn’t know if the Eagles are any better than the Bucs on the defensive side of the ball.
And when Wirfs is on the field, the Bucs are just as good as the Eagles on offense.
September 1st, 2025 at 10:05 am
The only team that has seemed to manhandle the Bucs the past few years is the Ravens. The Bucs can go toe-to-toe with the Lions and Eagles.
September 1st, 2025 at 10:06 am
Calijah Kancey calf watch, T – 6 days and counting.
Fingers, toes and anything else I can cross.
September 1st, 2025 at 10:29 am
It’s good to have a gm that really believes in investing in the lines.
I enjoyed Simms as a player and now as a “host”.
September 1st, 2025 at 10:29 am
Game week and the trolls crawl out from under the bridge….
September 1st, 2025 at 11:56 am
What Kenton just said! JM that is an incredibly weak post!
September 1st, 2025 at 12:13 pm
So for what it’s worth, I asked Grok when is the last time a Bucs starting qb missed a start due to injury. I couldn’t remember the last time.
The answer? Chris Simms spleen game 19 years ago.
September 1st, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Bolwes, Todd.
September 1st, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Great take by Simms and very true.
If you can buck up in the trenches and control the line you can withstand a lot of deficiencies elsewhere.
The eagles are a prime example of that. The only reason Hurts has been to two superbowls is because of the roster around him.