NFC starting quarterbacks appear set for 2014. How the Buccaneers stack up — for now and the future — is the question that keeps Joe awake at night and will keep Joe hoping the Bucs upgrade their potential at the position in the coming hours.
Here’s the NFC list, in no particular order:
Aaron Rodgers
Jay Cutler
Teddy Bridgewater/Matt Cassel
Matthew Stafford
Colin Kaepernick
Carson Palmer
Russell Wilson
Sam Bradford
Drew Brees
Matt Ryan
Cam Newton
Josh McCown/Mike Glennon
Eli Manning
Tony Romo
Nick Foles
RGIII [read more]
It seems the Bucs will be throwing long passes mostly this season, based on Bucs GM Jason Licht’s words.
Last night, for a brief moment, Joe thought uber wide receiver Sammie Watkins would be falling to the Bucs. That would have been a chance Joe never would have predicted.
But it didn’t happen. Buffalo traded up and snagged him. And the Bucs got their target, Texas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans.
Bucs general manager Jason Licht explained the difference between Watkins and Evans. [read more]
Joe realizes Lovie Smith said last night that he’s never been a head coach around a quarterbacks group better than Josh McCown, Mike Glennon and Mike Kafka. (Take that, Jay Cutler!)
However, as special as these Bucs quarterbacks might be, they still need an offensive line that doesn’t resemble swiss cheese and 1-ply toilet paper. [read more]
No. 99 is in a mambo mood over the newest Buccaneer
Sitting side by side and smiling on the NFL Network studio set last night was a funny sight. Warren Sapp, the man who threw more public daggers at Greg Schiano than Joe lobbed at Sabby The Goat, was alongside Schiano talking about the Bucs drafting of manbeast receiver Mike Evans. [read more]
“Just talking about our quarterback position: our quarterback position is as strong as, to me, any quarterback position I’ve had when I’ve been a head coach. You know how much I like Josh McCown as our starter here, but I love Mike Glennon. Mike Glennon is our quarterback of the future here. Why would we want to add a third quarterback to the mix? We needed other positions and forget just a quarterback position — yeah, we like it, but we thought this was the best available player for us [in Mike Evans]. It was an easy decision for us.” — Bucs head coach Lovie Smith, Thursday night. [read more]
Will new Bucs WR Mike Evans make people forget what could have been?
No, Joe’s not going to write daily Johnny Football stories. He’s gone. He’s in Cleveland now, where quarterbacks go to die.
That said, imagine what could have been. Imagine how the buzz around the Bucs would have exploded like a cannon at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway.
Veteran scribe Gary Shelton of the Tampa Bay Times believes the Bucs got their man, and possibly their best pick at No. 7. Still, Shelton couldn’t help but wonder what could have been. [read more]
If new Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans is half the receiver he is in the NFL as he was in college, then he will be a very nice complement during Vincent Jackson’s remaining years as a Buccaneer.
Last year, Evans became a record-holder for the Texas A&M Aggies, which is saying something given the rich history of the school’s football program, notes Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle. [read more]
A relaxed and slightly nervous Mike Evans, the new Bucs manbeast wide receiver from Texas A&M, just talked to the local pen and mic club at One Buc Palace. [read more]
Take a peek inside the Bucs war room with Bucs coach Lovie Smith and general manager Jason Licht in the early minutes of tonight’s first round of the NFL draft. There is no audio to the video. (Video courtesy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)
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Bucs general manager Jason Licht was flashing an ear-to-ear grin at One Buc Palace tonight. The Bucs “got their guy” in wide receiver Mike Evans, Licht told Joe and assembled media.
The Bucs now have two gargantuan No. 1 wide receivers, Vincent Jackson and Evans. Licht dropped a nickname on them, “The Twin Towers.” [read more]
If the Bucs want big-strike ability, then they should be able to do just that when the 2014 season kicks off. YAC, however, will be another matter.
First round draft pick Vincent Jackson Mike Evans put up crazy numbers last year. Of course, it helped that he may have had the greatest college quarterback since Roger Staubach to buy him time to get open. [read more]
With a quarterback for the ages ready to be selected while you have a quarterback that Peter King stated the team called a “one-year band-aid,” the Bucs decided to draft Vincent Jackson. [read more]
Roughly an hour after Peter King of theMMQB.com claimed the Bucs want Johnny Football but aren’t willing to burn a No. 7 pick to get him, the “Custodian of Canton,” eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune, took to the same airwaves to emphatically state any talk of Johnny Football coming to the Bucs is hogwash.
NFC starting quarterbacks appear set for 2014. How the Buccaneers stack up — for now and the future — is the question that keeps Joe awake at night and will keep Joe hoping the Bucs upgrade their potential at the position in the coming hours.
