Jason Licht Talks “Roster-Building” Changes
February 27th, 2026
Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht is the fifth-longest tenured general manager in the National Football League.
It’s no surprisde that those in that top-5 club have all won Super Bowls and several division titles.
Licht is not the same guy who was hired in 2014 and presided over the second half of The Lost Decade.
During a visit to CBS Sports, Licht was asked by former Titans GM Ran Carthon (also a former Gators and NFL running back) how his roster-building has changed since Lovie Smith and Team Glazer brought him to Tampa.
“We all evolve,” Licht said. “And when you have the opportunity to stay on — and I’m grateful that I was, there’s plenty of times I wasn’t sure I was going to make it — I think you start to realize that you need to mitigate risk a little bit more and more with these players, and make sure that everybody [in the organization] is on the same page and everybody likes [the player].
“You don’t realize, ‘Just because I like the player as the GM, but everybody else is telling me this guy can’t play but I’m going to prove to them’ — it’s not going to work. I need to rely on everybody. I need to rely on the coaches. I need to rely on the scouts, obviously, who do a fantastic job for us. So, I think just making it more of a collective decision [on players] has worked well for us.”
That’s a candid take from a seasoned general manager. Joe is unaware of changes to Licht’s staff after last season, though Joe is aware of many on the coaching side of the building.
Joe is confident that’s not a coincidence.
February 27th, 2026 at 10:23 pm
Licht’s Losers.
Subtract Brady and that guy has not done a single thing but suck.
February 27th, 2026 at 10:32 pm
Stick to the trenches in round 1
February 27th, 2026 at 10:40 pm
Even he knows he probably should have been jettisoned with Bowles. Neither of them have done much without Arians around.
Thankfully…the AI glasses he know rocks will make him a drafting demon. Sack monsters and arse kickers forthcoming!
February 27th, 2026 at 10:43 pm
Quarterback #1 need! Mayfield be ok back up
February 27th, 2026 at 10:52 pm
Licht was 34-62 before Brady took over as GM in 2020 – he’s been 27-24 since Brady gave him his job back – overall 61-86 – great picks like Jameis, Aguayo, OJ Howard, JTS, Trask, among others – great coaches like Lovie Smith, Koetter, Bowles, and Arians who was 7-9 before Brady banished him to his golf cart – not sure what Arians is still doing around One Buc, other than politicking for Bowles and doing shots of high-quality bourbon with Licht – Licht is going to bring in more stellar FAs like Reddick and more great drafts like SirVocea –
I really don’t see any future for the Bucs until both Bowles and Licht are gone
February 27th, 2026 at 10:56 pm
This comment section should go root for the Eagles. Bunch of dumb above this line. Let’s get right below this come on, I have faith!
Except for you Colin, can’t go wrong in the trenches.
Line of less dumb here:
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