Big brother advice.

Was there a better team for Emeka Egbuka to end up with more than the Bucs?

From the second he touched down in Tampa, the Washington state native was made to feel right at home, as part of the Bucs family.

Baker Mayfield set up a reception lunch at a waterside eatery with the entire offensive the day Egbuka and his family made it to Tampa.

Egbuka found himself with a popular veteran quarterback with two egoless star receivers, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin who were more than willing to help the rookie.

No pressure on Egbuka at all. No leaning on him to turn around a garbage team. The Bucs were a veteran, winning team with a Super Bowl pedigree. Egbuka, at worst a No. 4 receiver, could take his time getting settled in.

Egbuka recently sat down with Casey Phillips of Buccaneers.com and told him how fortunate he was to end up with Evans and Godwin as teammates.

“You know, kind of having both of them is a cheat code, too,” Egbuka said. “Because they’re, they’re very different in the way that they think.”

Egbuka described Godwin as much more analytical and deliberate in how he approaches the game.

“I think Chris is very methodical and planned out and everything,” Egbuka said. “He’s a little more wired my way.”

Evans, Egbuka said, is much more direct.

“And Mike, whenever I asked Mike for advice sometimes he’ll give me a genuine answer, but other times he’ll just be like, ‘Dude, like, you’re Emeka Egbuka. Just go out there and ball.’

“Yeah, okay, like, [Evans] just gives me so much confidence. Like, he believes in me and just fills me with so much like, ‘OK man, I’m gonna go do this.’

“So kind of having both [types of insight], it’s just a cheat code. They’ve taught me so much, even within this short amount of time I’ve only been here for, I don’t even know how many months, but it feels like I’ve known them for forever.”

That’s way cool to hear and Joe is confident intel like that makes folks at One Buc Palace proud from Team Glazer to Jason Licht to his staff to Todd Bowles and his staff.

That’s the type of culture and attitude the Bucs’ hierarchy strives for: Really, really good players who have their egos checked enough that they all want to bring out the best in each other.

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