Jamel Dean May Owe Jacob Parrish A Dinner
September 23rd, 2025
Cornerback Jacob Parrish sacks Jets QB Tyrod Taylor.
Joe has to assume that when Bucs veteran corner Jamel Dean reworked his contract before the season, it somewhere included a bonus for interceptions.
And maybe a bigger bonus for a pick-six.
If that is the case, maybe Dean owes rookie slot corner Jacob Parrish a dinner? Or two?
Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Baldinger was back at it over the weekend, breaking down tape on Twitter. There, he highlighted Dean’s pick-six against the Jets on Sunday.
It seems that play was made by Parrish. The rookie came flying in on a blitz. While he whiffed on the chance to sack Jets quarterback Tyrod Taylor (that play), Parrish did get Taylor to screw up his footwork.
This, Baldinger claimed, forced Taylor to sail a pass to the left sideline late in the first half. It was the same pass Dean housed for six points, his second career pick-six.
That play proved critical, for if that play never happened, the Bucs don’t win. And if Parrish didn’t force Taylor to try to reset his feet, Dean likely doesn’t have a pick, much less a pick-six.
You can see the breakdown in the video below.
.@nyjets @Buccaneers the "weak side overload pressures" kept coming b/c the Jets couldn't stop it. It was a story of the game. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/FVlcph7lh7
— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) September 22, 2025
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:08 am
Gotta tip my hat to the Jets for not even bothering to make adjustments for that pressure, lol.
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:11 am
GG jets!
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:12 am
I mean if that play doesn’t happen it’s an entirely different second half. Can’t say the game plays out the same with a tighter second half.
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:13 am
Hats off to Bowles for being aggressive.
LFG!!!!
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:37 am
But but but… its just pressures and pressures are worthless to Joe just like preseason games and this article!!
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:41 am
Man, I don’t want to discredit Dena here. It’s the first time I’ve seen him make a play like that in almost 2 years.
That’s the type of play I expect from our CB1, if he’s going to get paid the way he is. Our defense is good, top 10 I’d say, and it’s unbelievably frustrating when the pass rush isn’t finishing and the coverage doesn’t either.
My biggest takeaway is that the pass rush gets there, but there’s WAY too many examples of sacks being left on the field. If Dean can keep this up and make our pressures lead to something other than sacks (because we can not seem to get anyone down) the defense can and will be elite.
Turnovers win games. Tweeze strip sack was magical (even though it goes against what I’m saying about not finishing sacks). If we’re able to put them both together for the whole season (on pace for 45 sacks, 5 INTs, 5 Fumbles, not good enough) we will be elite.
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:51 am
Until you stop them or maybe untli Coach decides to go passive again in the 4th Q and go prevent so the other team can come back in the game.
Go Bucs
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:59 am
We get few picks because we historically don’t put pressure on the QB. Getting way ahead helps (rarely do THAT) Forcing them into third and long helps (haven’t done a lot of THAT either)
September 23rd, 2025 at 9:59 am
This is exactly why I’ve preached that it’s consistent pressure that leads to sacks and turnovers. Yes we have left sacks on the field and haven’t finished with a sack when ‘close’. Some of that has been ball coming out quicker by the opposing QB. And sometimes when we miss a sack the QB can take off and run as Baker has for us. The bottom line is that when there is a play to be made, make it. Do it consistently for 60 minutes. Don’t know what happened in the 4th quarter, combination of Jet’s making some plays, maybe our D relaxing a bit, penalties, offense not driving for 7, etc. Keep the pressure up and good things will happen.
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:04 am
Beeej
We get into plenty of third and logs. Then we give up the first down.
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:07 am
More on the wide receiver being stationary and not coming back to the ball and Jamel dean doing so then the pressure i think
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:09 am
Go to Bern’s
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:13 am
Would have been nice if they hadn’t stopped it way too early in the game
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:18 am
Jamel did well on Sunday!
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:24 am
Baker Bowl——
“That’s the type of play I expect from our CB1, if he’s going to get paid the way he is.“
Paid? At a base of 4.25 million Dean is one of the lowest paid starters in the league. Even rookies Parish and Morrison make more.
Granted, his 2025 pay cut was his idea, a compromise to permit him to become a F.A. after this season, but you cannot hold his salary against him when he screws up.
For 2025 at least, Dean is a bargain!
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:27 am
Just watched the Eagles game.
They are very beatable.. Hurts can be sacked , and Chase should try the knuckle ball kickoffs that the Rams were doing. They wreaked havoc on field position.
The tush push was the their only big threat in that game.
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:35 am
Would such a play ever happen in the 4th quarter especially in the last 5 minutes? Magic 8 Ball is very blunt.
“No.”
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:39 am
Ok Joes
So you blame Dean for drops
Then give credit to someone else on the ones he catches
You’ll r biased on Dean
September 23rd, 2025 at 10:39 am
Go Bowles!
September 23rd, 2025 at 11:04 am
Know squat about draft picks so I stay outta the chats. However, I am rooting for both Parrish and Morrison. Izien is a headhunter, too. Like the pick6, and by gawd, no flags. A ref must have screwed up. Yuck, yuck.
September 23rd, 2025 at 11:04 am
This play was for the anti-“soft zone” crowd, because on this play Dean did what so much of you irrationally overreact to, lining up with a cushion to shorten his drop and ready the backfield.
Wilson has to come back for that ball, but the fire we sent with Parrish pretty much shortened the reaction time on the QBs end. Great play, and a key play in winning this game considering it came after our offense punted 3 straight possession in the 2nd qtr.
We needed that score to win, talk to me about the 4th quarter “comeback”
all you want, our offense had to come back from doing nothing for almost 5 straight drives between the 2nd & 3rd quarter.
September 23rd, 2025 at 11:12 am
“Paid? At a base of 4.25 million Dean is one of the lowest paid starters in the league. Even rookies Parish and Morrison make more.”
Yup, you’re right, I fact checked myself and yeah, he’s paid where he should, argument void.
I guess my beef is that he’s been our CB1 for so long and as we do with all of our players, we keep him around (I have no problem with this process, I think continuity can make up for lesser talent).
My problem is, and we’ve began to resolve it by resigning Zyon, is that he is still our CB1, instead of trying to draft/sign a true lockdown. It just seems as if the staff is content.
Dean would be under much less scrutiny if everything were the same but he wasn’t the leader of that room. Or maybe just if he wasn’t playing 15 yards off the reciever every damn play.
September 23rd, 2025 at 11:22 am
Baldy is a fim guru! Love it! Dean still had to catch the ball. Has he been on the Juggs?
Go Bucs!
September 23rd, 2025 at 11:33 am
geez!!!!!
-we’re 3-0 with Dean as a starter
-he took a paycut
-he’s played great in 3games producing a pick6
and yet folks want him gone yesterday lol….
morrison isnt ready imo…tons of talent but still gets too handsy…maybe by week12 he’s ready but Dean is becoming hard to take off the field
GO BUCS!!!
September 23rd, 2025 at 11:44 am
Ok cool, he’s had 3 games to start the season where he’s performed how you want your CB1 to perform. After 5 years, we finally have good CB play through 3 games. Is that really what you want? I get it, he’s alright, he’s definitely not a practice squad guy or a cut candidate, but CB1 on a potential Super Bowl team? I don’t think so.
Yes, probably not rational to just get rid of him. But I would trade him in a heartbeat if the right package came around (100% can’t lose depth at corner so would have to get one back for him)
My beef is that it’s been mediocrity for so long. Sometimes if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, you have to, in my opinion, move on and try something instead of staying stagnant.
Now, rationally, I don’t think we SHOULD trade him unless for the perfect package, but I would not be mad if we let him test the free agent pool and look elsewhere.
September 23rd, 2025 at 12:22 pm
why do folks think he’s CB1?…..
he’s not getting paid CB1 money…Zyon has been CB1 since last year…
last year, when Dean went out we went on a losing streak…Dean came back and we won 6 of our last 7 games to close out the season….
i get the frustration with Dean…often injured and inconsistent….
but he’s serviceable, knows the system, good locker guy and he’s cheap….and for whatever reason, when he plays, our chances of winning are increased…
we won the SB with carlton davis and Dean and neither was a lockdown corner…
id even try to keep him next year but still draft a CB within the first 3rds…i’d love to see Dean as our 3rd or 4th outside CB next year…that’ll mean we have great CB depth and talent
GO BUCS!!!!!
September 23rd, 2025 at 12:34 pm
@813
Honestly, you’ve swung me. Maybe Jamel Dean doesn’t deserve all this from me, I’ve seen the light.
Jamel, you are off the chopping block.
Go Bucs – let’s win a Lombardi
Side note – I want to see Bullock on the field more instead of SirVocea, would like to see some young OL from the practice squad get PT in game or practice, thoughts on these takes?
Sider side note – @Joe, would you ever consider adding a forum section to which we can have our own discourse with each other outside of comment sections? Or would this turn into a Wild West type environment?
September 23rd, 2025 at 12:37 pm
813bucboi The pay cut Dean took was so he could be released in 2026
September 23rd, 2025 at 12:42 pm
baker
lol…glad to hear that!!!!!
and im with you regarding s.dennis….i want to see bullock….or even dion jones…
GO BUCS!!!!
September 23rd, 2025 at 12:45 pm
DonaldG
oh ok…thx for the info…
he’s looking for 1 more big pay day but imo his money days are over…
good chance he test the market and resigns with the bucs
GO BUCS!!!!
September 23rd, 2025 at 1:41 pm
SERIOUSLY HAPPY FOR DEAN
Say what you will … and y’all do. Dean has taken his lumps from the fans, media, coaches. Most players would take our millions and pack our bags for greener pastures.
What did Dean do? Dean put his head down, kept his mouth shut, put in the work, made sacrifices, and stepped up.
That’s perserverance. Belief in self. Mental fortitude. Loyalty. Say what you will but that’s badass.
Harvard Buslness School studied 400 successful CEOs to find their common traits. They found only one: Perserverance.
I hope he has a career year.
September 23rd, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Parrish is awesome! playing better than morrison
September 23rd, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Can’t understand why Bowles continuously takes HIS foot off the pedal and goes into turtle mode. We have seen that no lead is safe in the NFL. We must continue with what works and pressure pressure pressure. I will have to watch the game again to see if it was our defensive play calling or the play but it sure seemed to be the calling. Maybe a mixture of both but the letdown with 7:00 minutes left in the fourth was galling
September 23rd, 2025 at 3:46 pm
WOW
That video was great. Shows the same blitz working over and over and over. I guess if the Jets overcommit then you’ll have LVD or someone else in the middle breaking free.
It’s kinda like pounding the rock. If you can’t stop it, just keep doing it.
September 23rd, 2025 at 3:49 pm
Baker Bowl
Dean is not CB1. Hasn’t been for two years. Zyon is and rightfully so.
Dean is very good went healthy.
In case you did not notice, they did draft two cornerbacks to come in because he is in a contract year.
He’s gone next year. If he performs well, another team will pay him too much. If he gets hurt or it doesn’t perform, they’ll let him go. So either way, he’s gone, and Morrison will be the corner in Parrish will be the slot.
September 23rd, 2025 at 5:31 pm
“What did Dean do? Dean put his head down, kept his mouth shut, put in the work, made sacrifices, and stepped up.“
“It was just more like I’m comfortable here,” Dean said on Thursday, via the Tampa Bay Times. “So it’s just really not about the money anymore. I’m not in the mood to try to figure out a whole new team and city and go through all I went through my rookie year. So just to save me a headache.”
Jamel Dean on his mindset in taking the pay cut to stay or possibly being released, this is the guy fans canabalize. Idk if this has come across Joes’ desk/whatever, but I’ve kind of been waiting to see an article on this because this is an outlier to the average NFL player. Not about the money?
September 23rd, 2025 at 7:52 pm
@David
I saw the light, my opinion of him has changed.
@Warren
I am genuinely now so deep in the light. Didn’t have the full context of his role and honestly those comments completely changed my view.
Those quotes kind of perfectly describe the type of guy Licht aims to bring into Tampa so I’m all in on Jamel
Few extra reps on the jugs wouldn’t hurt anyone though