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Based on how much Joe has been bombarded with e-mails and Twitter messages, Joe knows Bucs fans are in an uproar over what has transpired last week with their beloved team.

While Bucs fans universally stood and applauded Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik’s prowess landing free agent safety Dashon Goldson, there are still so many holes in the Bucs defense, Norv Turner’s acne springs to mind.

Gone is starting left defensive end Michael Bennett.

Gone is starting nose tackle Roy Miller.

Gone is starting strongside linebacker Quincy Black.

And don’t get Joe started on the cornerbacks. It’s a frightening thought.

Now one main reason Bucs fans are up in arms with their team is, in their perception, the lack of movement in acquiring Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis. So unnerved are Bucs fans, one actually asked Joe if Team Glazer would sack Dominik if he cannot get Revis.

Joe’s answer? Not just no, but hell no!

Look, this is the NFL we are discussing here, not fantasy football where you can just click on a button to accept a trade. Joe was mocked when he (correctly) surmised that when Jets general manager John Idzik was in Tuscaloosa for Alabama’s Pro Day, that there would be no trade movement. There is just no way Idzik was going to move his best player and Jets owner Woody Johnson’s pet player while Idzik was up to his elbows in barbecue at Dreamland sitting in some backroom booth.

For the Bucs to make a deal on Revis, a contract extension will have to be worked out. Not even Vinny Cerrato is stupid enough to trade potentially a first round pick to have a guy for five months and watch him bolt for free agency.

To date, the Jets have stonewalled Dominik. They have not granted Dominik permission to talk to Revis’ agents. You can’t negotiate a contract if you can’t talk to the agent(s).

Then, there is this little nugget from Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. If the Jets trade Revis before June 1, the team gets hammered with an ugly salary cap hit.

If the Jets trade Revis before June 1, they’ll be hit with a $13 million cap charge, but he’ll be off the books next season.

Right there is why you see the Jets strong-arming Dominik. That’s a major penalty on a team that is looking for cap room as it is.

For that reason alone, Joe doesn’t expect any transaction on Revis being completed for a couple of months.

Now Dominik, who is at the NFL owners meetings this week in Arizona, as is Idzik, may work out the parameters of a trade this week, which would enable both teams to pull the trigger after June 1. That could very well happen.

But for Bucs fans who are cursing at their bartenders and kicking their dogs because Dominik hasn’t landed Revis yet, brace yourselves. If it happens, it may not be for a while.

And no, Dominik will not lose his job over where Revis plays this fall.

UPDATE: Per @NFLosophy, who is a former NFL front office type, “If [Revis is] traded before June 1, Jets eat $12 million in dead money for 2013. If after [June 1], it’s a $3 million charge for 2014.

Those ugly contract holdouts by Darrelle Revis with the Jets in 2007 and 2010? They very well may have been driven by his agent’s distaste for Gang Green management, so penned New York Daily News columnist Gary Myers.

On Friday, Myers dove into a list of reasons/factors why he believes Revis surely will land with the Buccaneers. One of them stuck out to Joe most.

Revis’ agent, Neil Schwartz, has a contentious relationship with the Jets that  goes beyond Revis holding out in 2007 and 2010. But last year, Schwartz client  Vincent Jackson signed a five-year, $55.5 million free agent deal with the Bucs  that included $26 million in guaranteed money. Since no team is going to give up  significant draft choices for a one-year rental, it’s crucial that Schwartz and  the Bucs already have a good relationship.

Various reports claim Revis wants a contract extension to the tune of $14 million to $16 million annually starting in 2014. Joe finds that figure to be insane, given the depressed salaries doled out to cornerbacks this season. Consider the roughly $15 million Eric Wright was scheduled to earn over 2012 and 2013 — before he pill-popped his way to less — and compare that to what corners are scoring on the open market this season. It’s not close; and Wright wasn’t that great before he got to Tampa.

Perhaps Schwartz will see that reality. He’ll surely hear it from Dominik. The Bucs can’t fork over a big compensation for a one-season player. But they also can’t serve up almost double market value to a guy coming off major knee surgery.

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Last week, former Bucs defensive end Michael Bennett said, in so many words, the Bucs didn’t show him any love and that was a main reason he bolted for Seattle and left Tampa Bay.

It seems the same thing happened to new Bucs tight end Tom Crabtree. Pete Dougherty, of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, noted Crabtree, who is vacationing with his family in Tennessee, is expected to make it to Tampa today to sign his contract.

Crabtree said it soon became clear “we just weren’t on the same page,” and the Bucs’ two-year offer was better for him, his wife and two young children than the one-year deal worth $630,000 — the NFL minimum for a player entering his fourth season — and small signing bonus extended by the Packers.

“It was hard for me to justify almost being back where I started this whole thing off, when I feel like I worked so hard and contributed so much,” Crabtree said. “I guess I would have liked to have been rewarded for my efforts a little more. … I saw more of a commitment from (the Buccaneers) end, which kind of was a little bit of a shock at first. I expected it to be the other way around — maybe some teams interested but wouldn’t come close to what the Packers wanted to do or offer.

“But at the same time, it’s part of the business. No hard feelings or grudges on my end, and I’m sure on their end, too. We both have to make the best of the situation and go on from here.”

Crabtree, who Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel described as the Packers’ “best blocking tight end,” apparently has developed into something of a passing weapon. Dunne, after speaking to Crabtree, noted the Bucs offered Crabtree more of an opportunity to be a pass-catching threat.

Crabtree faced a major road block with the Packers playing behind tight end Jermichael Finley.

Joe kind of had a hunch the Bucs would draft a tight end in the second round, but now with Crabtree on board, the possibility of re-signing Dallas Clark and Luke Stocker on the roster, Joe doubts a tight end will be drafted high by Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik.

Besides, there are too many holes on defense. The Bucs lost a starting defensive end, starting defensive tackle and a starting outside linebacker all in a matter of hours last week.

That’s not even factoring in the porous unit of cornerbacks that sorely needs upgrading.

So Joe breathed a sigh of relief to learn this afternoon that helmet-wielding, cabbie-slugging, pill-popping, granny-hassling Aqib Talib did the Bucs, and indirectly Bucs fans, a favor by signing a one-year pact with Bill Belicheat.

Joe actually turned on local radio airwaves yesterday afternoon — and quickly returned to SiriusXM NFL Radio — upon hearing people actually pining for the return of Talib! Can you imagine?

Why?! That’s like asking for another case of the mumps.

Joe literally has no idea where this fallacy came from that Talib is one of the game’s better corners. Even people who should know better peddle this absurd notion.

@RapSheet: On Talib: Smart of an elite CB to sign a 1-year deal in soft market, rather than a multi-year offer he got. He had 3 other options, stayed.

ELITE??? Good grief, have we, as Americans, lost our standards this badly? Just what exactly makes anyone think Talib is “elite?” Anyone that calls Talib “elite” is admitting they have never watched him play or have a far different definition of “elite.”

Simply playing for Belicheat does not make one “elite.”

Elite pain in the neck? Maybe. Elite talent? That’s debatable. Elite player? Don’t insult Joe.

Do elite corners allow Hakeem Nicks, not exactly to be confused with Jerry Rice, to charbroil them for 199 yards?

Just because one has talent does not make him elite. Reggie Bush has talent, for example. He’s not even close to being elite.

Then there’s Talib’s dependability, which is just slightly above depending on the weather in Chicago in March. When he’s not injured or suspended or incarcerated, yeah, Talib may be dependable. It’s hard to be dependable much less elite while caged in a county jail.

Joe would rather have Brandon McDonald than Talib. At least you can pretty much depend on McDonald to suit up and take the field.

Thank goodness this nonsense of Talib’s return to the Bucs is dead. At least for a year (sigh).

Joe’s unsure the truth will ever come out regarding why the Bucs thought it was a smart idea to let their best defensive end walk away in free agency when it wasn’t going to cost much to retain him.

For those returning from a Mars getaway, Michael Bennett signed with the Seahawks on Thursday.

Yesterday, veteran Tampa Tribune beat scribe Woody Cummings caught up with Bennett, and the versatile, young stud DE said he didn’t feel like the Bucs wanted him to return.

“They acted like they didn’t want me, so no, I didn’t go back to them,” Bennett told The Tribune on Friday. … …

“I just didn’t feel any love from them at all,” Bennett said. “And that’s kind of disappointing, because for a team that you put everything you had into for four years to do that, you’re just kind of, ‘OK, whatever.’

“You do everything you can to grow as a player and get better as a player and you prove yourself over and over again for them, but I guess that’s just who they are.”

The Bucs declined to comment.

Joe’s not going to rehash all the reasons why retaining Bennett — a guy who proved he was a strong fit in Greg Schiano’s defense — was a wise move. You can read many of those here.

As Greg Schiano and rockstar general manager Mark Dominik always say, every organizational move is about making the Bucs a better football team. Joe looks forward to seeing how losing Bennett fits into that paradigm.

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Joe is confused. He hasn’t been this confused since he covered Bill Bidwill’s flock.

For months the Bucs raved about Roy Miller’s play. They credited him with the reason why Gerald McCoy and Lavonte David had breakout seasons. Yet they let Miller leave for the price of an NFL bag of popcorn.

The Bucs admitted they needed more quarterback pressures from their defensive line, yet they turn a cold shoulder to a dedicated soldier who led the team in sacks and led the defensive line in tackles for loss and let him leave for the price of a six-pack of beers at the Stadium on Dale Mabry.

Manatee High School has a better roster of cornerbacks than the Bucs, yet the Bucs back up a Brinks truck for a safety (Yes, Joe loves Dashon Goldson if you must know).

Speaking of corners, right now, not counting the draft, your Bucs starting corners could be Eric Wright and Danny Gorrer. Surely, Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik and Greg Schiano can see this. Ray Charles could see this.

Cornerbacks and the Bucs were a subject brought up in a recent BSPN NFC South chat.

GurS (Edgware, UK)

We all know the Bucs need at least two new corners. If they’re adamant on pursuing Revis, why aren’t we trying to sign a second (much-needed) corner? At best, gives us upgrades at both starting spots, at worst, becomes insurance if the Jets’ FO decide to keep Revis

Pat Yasinskas

CB market isn’t great, as the CBs are finding out. Think you’ll see them add a CB as market continues to cool.

Now Joe knows the Bucs have turned their noses up at the available cornerbacks believing they are not that good, especially for the price they are asking. That’s understandable.

Thing is, beggars can’t be picky. This just in: The Bucs were a handful of yards away from a the worst NFL pass defense. The only thing that has been addressed at cornerback is the Bucs’ ability to wash their hands of Eric Wright, if they are so inclined.

Pick the top four free agent corners that were out there looking for a new team. Can anyone say with a sober mind that those four — you pick the four — are worse than Danny Gorrer?

Now Joe has written before that he wouldn’t be opposed to Dominik pulling a Bill Walsh and drafting three corners in the first five picks. But that option is out the window right now because of the voids left by Bennett and Miller’s exit.

So last year the Bucs had the best rush defense in the league and by mid-March three of the starting seven — almost half — are gone. That is not a comforting thought.

But this is not an accident. It was the Bucs that willingly waved goodbye to Bennett and Miller. Quincy Black can’t come back because of nerve damage. The moves (non-moves?) thus far make so little sense. Joe must believe the Bucs have had some plan all along that will be revealed soon.

Time will tell, but Joe just cannot fathom the Bucs are prepared to start Wright and Gorrer at corner this fall.

Joe knows the New Schiano Order wants to run the ball like the NFL hasn’t seen in decades. The return of Carl Nicks and Davin Joseph surely has Greg Schiano salivating, and now there’s a new punishing blocker in the mix.

The Bucs have signed Packers free agent tight end Tom Crabtree, per ESPNMilwaukee.com.

Here’s how the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel described him recently:

Though he won’t break the bank, there is a league-wide need for block-first, versatile players like the 6-foot-4, 235-pound Crabtree. Through his three years with the team, Crabtree became a core special teams player, reliable blocker and, in 2012, a deceptive playmaker on offense.

Crabtree caught just 18 balls in his three seasons with Green Bay. The Packers did not offer him a restricted free agent tender. But he will be missed in cheesehead land.

Here’s how Aaron Rodgers expressed his sadness on losing Crabtree, via BSPN.

 Quarterback Aaron Rodgers expressed on Twitter his disappointment in losing his friend to Tampa Bay, posting, “Had a lot of teammates in 8 yrs in GB. Few that I enjoyed as much as @TCrabtree83. Your tats, mustache n poor taste in music will be missed.”

The Bucs still need a tight end who can catch the ball and be dangerous up the gut of a defense. Joe hasn’t heard a peep on free agent Dallas Clark.

The man Greg Schiano called the “custom-built” nose tackle for his defensive line is now playing for Jacksonville. Roy Miller has inked a two-year deal with the Jaguars, per Woody Cummings of TBO.com.

This was Schiano’s assessment of Miller in Week 17.

“He is a heck of a run stopper and plays the position, you know we call the tilt nose in our defense, he plays it very well. And he’s really custom-built to play it,” Schiano said yesterday. “I mean his traits really fit the position.”

What the hell are the Bucs are doing allowing key, young cogs in their defensive line walk away for miniscule cash?

The Miller move further fuels Joe’s take that Greg Schiano is driving the bus on some maneuvers.

Miller is replaceable, and he didn’t play most passing downs, but the guy was at least a solid defensive tackle last season. And, much like Michael Bennett, Miller was successful in Schiano’s system and had no off-field baggage. His loss is puzzling.

One must now put defensive tackle on the list of positions the Bucs could attack early on draft day.

The Benn’d around play is no more. Arrelious Benn is headed north. The Bucs have traded their coveted second-round pick in the 2010 draft, arguably the deepest draft in NFL history, to the Eagles.

The Bucs barely got a cheesesteak back for the underachieving wide receiver, per the Eagles’ website.

Continuing a busy week of roster moves, the Eagles made a trade Friday, acquiring 24-year-old wide receiver Arrelious Benn from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In the deal, the Eagles acquire Benn and a 2013 seventh-round pick from the Bucs in exchange for a 2013 sixth-round pick and a conditional pick in 2014.

Joe will go on the record now and say Chip Kelly will never run the Benn’d around play, which covered the Raheem Morris and Greg Schiano regimes and was an insult to thinking Bucs fans.

Benn’s got talent, but it’s clear the New Schiano Order gave up on him — hard to believe with such a young player.

Joe has suspected Benn never had the mental makeup to a be the guy the Bucs thought they drafted.

Joe wishes Benn well. Obsessed with fashion, Benn can now conveniently shop in Manhattan boutiques on his off days.

Joe has studied the moves of rockstar general manager Mark Dominik for years, and Joe must say that allowing Michael Bennett to walk away to Seattle for relative peanuts doesn’t smell like the call of the GM.

1) Dominik has said repeatedly over the years that his priorities, outside of a franchise quarterback, are protecting the passer and rushing the opposing passer.
2) Dominik also has spoken of the value of a deep defensive line roster in the Tampa heat.
3) Dominik has referenced a core belief that claims the Bucs will re-sign and reward their home-developed talent.
4) Bennett was a Dominik signing in 2009. A hand-picked steal off the scrap heap.
5) Dominik has been around the NFL long enough to know productive, versatile, young defensive ends don’t grow on trees.

It’s all speculation on Joe’s part, but Joe thinks the Bennett loss/debacle wreaks of Greg Schiano’s foot coming down in the bowels of One Buc Palace.

Schiano and Butch Davis and the defensive staff have a right to evaluate and assess players however they wish. Their livelihoods lie in their roster, and they should have a big say in who’s on it. Joe doesn’t quibble with that. That written, Joe doesn’t like the move and Dominik’s history suggests he wasn’t in favor of it, either.

Bennett was successful in Schiano’s system, not on another team — right here in the New Schiano Order defense. That’s gotten lost in a lot of the reporting, and it’s one reason Joe doesn’t think Dominik is behind the Bennett move.

Bennett did what they asked him to do. He stuffed the run like a beast and finished at the top of the league in tackles for loss. He recorded nine sacks, despite heinous cornerbacks behind him. And he rushed inside quite a bit later in the season on passing downs, as DaQuan Bowers got more playing time.

Joe can’t imagine a GM, let alone Dominik, letting Bennett walk given the state of the Bucs’ defensive ends.

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Well, Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik has had a rollercoaster week.

First, he gets stonewalled by the Jets trying to trade for cornerback Darrelle Revis, then he lands stud safety Dashon Goldson, then he sees his subpar pass rush grow weaker when Michael Bennett bolts for Seattle and now the week is ending on a high note for Dominik.

Cornerback Eric Wright’s grievance against the Bucs has been denied by the NFL. The NFL alerted the Bucs this afternoon that Wright’s contract can be voided.

@RCummingsTBO: NFL has indeed informed the Bucs they have won their grievance with Wright. Wright’s 2013 salary no longer guaranteed. As expected.

Wright, a free agent pickup last year by Dominik, had a clause in his contract that it could be voided if he was suspended. Last season, the NFL nailed Wright for popping Adderall and he served a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s banned substance policy, thus kicking in the option for Dominik to cut him.

But Wright isn’t cut, yet. Given how miserable the Bucs cornerbacks are, given how Dominik has yet to land Revis after much heavy petting with Jets general manager John Ikzik, given how Dominik has either struck out on every free agent cornerback, or has decided to sit in the dugout and watch all the decent corners go elsewhere, the Bucs, as the roster currently stands, do not have the luxury of cutting Wright, even though Bucs fans have been drooling for Wright to get kicked to the curb since the end of the 2012 season.

Wright is a backup plan for Dominik now. If the Bucs cannot upgrade the corner position (God forbid), Dominik, Joe believes, will rework Wright’s contract for a much more team-friendly deal.

He’s still with us, folks.

Joe finds it troubling that the Bucs just let their formerly beastly run-stuffing defensive end, Michael Bennett, leave town for the NFL equivalent of a good lunch at a nice restaurant. And ironically, that all went down while the rival Falcons jacked up their rushing attack signing Steven Jackson.

Michael Turner had fallen off last season and Joe believes Jackson is a massive upgrade. He’s a tougher runner and far more dangerous in the passing game.

Obviously, with Tony Gonzalez in what’s sure to be his final season, the Falcons are going all in to win now.

If the Bucs are pushing to trade for Darrelle Revis, one has to think the Bucs regime believes it can win  right now. Joe wonders whether this Falcons upgrade will put more pressure on the Bucs to get that deal done and, potentially, move to sign Brent Grimes and keep him from returning to the Falcons.