Pewter Pulse: Why Isn’t Jason Licht Helping The Bucs With Trades?

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1. I believe that despite the fans input Todd and Jason have full confidence in the personnel they have drafted and trained!

2. Joe Tryon has 1 sack

3. I wouldn't mind if the Bucs pick up a linebacker and a corner through trade or an unsigned free agent. I can imagine there is a team or two who are looking to dump salary and accumulate picks for the next draft. How about a player like Ahmad Gardner for a 2nd round pick? We are likely to spend a 2nd round pick on a corner for next year, anyways. Jets are not going anywhere and might be willing to trade.

4. That young lb yall lost Dennis ? When is he coming back? He a better cover lb than britt and was playing good until he got hurt

5. Yea I’m starting to come around to the idea of not doing anything. Next year might be our year. Let’s do our best with what we have and draft very well! When Mike gets back let’s just try and het him 1k yards and play for next year.

6. Any young receivers / ilb out there on practice squads that have high potential that we might be able to steal ?

7. We are not a Myles Garret away from a Superbowl. Let's keep going with what we have and see how far we go. Next year we reload and go all out

8. The defense has to improve, I think they're at the bottom and Bakers 5 interceptions in the last two games hurts the Defense by staying longer in the field.

9. I think Licht getting burned by the Julio signing is the big reason he’s hesitant to pull the trigger this time arouns

10. So……..does it matter how outstanding or spectacular the defensive
    player is if we keep playing Todd's stubborn defensive skiils…I've
    seen this same predictable defense since leftwich…the only time I
    didn't see it is SB 55 which they won because: I'm a Buc fan now,I came here
    with Brady…so 20 yrs I heard no whinning, just results ,6 championships….
    We now have an excellent OC… but our HC,DC is exposed by our OC…Bowles
    better tighten up or we ain't going far…

11. Is the soft zone coverage a result of him not trusting his corners?

12. What we truly need is a new Defense Coach and have Bowels just be the Head Coach. In my opinion. Let’s Go Bucs!!!🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

13. Another excellent Pewter Pulse SR. Looks like you need to remind some fans you are not a Bucs fan you just do a damn good job of covering them

14. Beginning to question our training staff now that Bucky isn’t practicing either

15. Yaya is not a very good pass rusher. Almost getting sacks doesn’t make you good. That’s like saying, “I almost hit a home run or I almost made that jump shot. All sports are results based. He’s not getting it done.

16. Baker”Winston” Mayfield. Pick after pick, after pick!!!!!

17. Inside backers (both of them) and edge rushers are the problem SC. That’s very obvious.

18. Thanks Scott for clarifying this I'm tired of hearing all the ramble bamble. We don't need a washed up wide receiver. Like you said we can use our picks and build a strong foundation for the future.

19. I agree with building through the draft and its great, but the only pushback I have is a Tom Brady caliber player isn't walking through that door to send us to the super bowl through free agency anymore. Sometimes exceptions need to be made. Granted that's if Jason truly believes in this team before Mike and Lavonte's play drops or they retire.

20. So what we’re saying is keep our guys and take defensive coordinator role away from Bowles

21. Exactly. Rice and Moss aren’t going to win us anything with that atrocious defense being played. No point in risking the future for an 8-9 year.

22. I’ve been so bummed out all week for our injuries but this right here was a great video.

23. How about someone call AB to see if he would like to play less than one season for some good money??

24. I have to agree, really no point in renting a WR when our defense is so bad. No way we make a deep push into the playoffs giving teams wide open catches all day long. Besides this gives some big time reps to Mcmillan, Palmer, Jarret, Miller. This should really push them to develop for next year. its super annoying, I get bowles lacks the personnel for the system he wants to run but dude change the system for the players you have… umm sounds just like what Liam has to do.

25. The reason why Jason Licht is not making trades now is because Jason Licht never try to fill holes in the roster using free agents.
    Instead , Jason Licht loves to overreach using first round and 2nd round picks to draft mediocre players.
    Why does he keep doing this?
    Jason Licht keeps doing this because we don’t have a critical media that holds him accountable for all the bad picks and lack of action during free agency and praises him when mediocre players that he drafted make the roster.
    Making the roster doesn’t mean anything. How many buccaneers are consistently making pro bowl or are selected as Allpro?
    We only won the Super Bowl in 2020 because Tom Brady made all the free agency shots.
    In 2021 he wasted pick 1 and pick 2 on JTS and Kyle Trash. 2022 Logan Hall as pick 1 Goedeke pick 2 ( he picked him as a potential guard just like he did when he drafted Hainsey)
    In 2024 he used a first round pick on a Center while Connor Williams was available in free agency in a very cheap contract.
    He overreached again using pick 2 to draft mediocre Brasswell who will be a rotational player at very best.
    So the notion that Licht is not going to pursue trades now or ever is because he doesn’t want to waste premium capital draft picks can be easily disproven when we see how he constantly wasted premium picks in very mediocre players.
    We ended last season with a huge hole at CB1/CB2, MLB, EDGE, SS and lack of depth on DL and FS.
    We are in a very tight Super Bowl window and Licht did not set this team to be a Super Bowl contender.
    Where would this team be if by the offseason we had signed Connor Williams , Chase Young, Gilmore and Justin Simmons ?
    I wouldn’t push hard now to get a high caliber WR because the time to push and make the trades was 5 months ago.
    But if Licht wasn’t so timid and trade shy and stubborn about drafting only players that are not problematic he would see that there are options right now that would be a great trade not only for now but also for the the future years.
    We would not win 2020 Superbowl if Tom Brady didn’t pound on the table and demanded Antonio Brown to be signed. Jason Licht would never have done it.
    The best move we could possibly do right now is to offer the Bengals either 4th round or a 5th round for Jermaine Burton. I would go as high as giving a 3rd round pick for Jermaine Burton .
    Another move that would help an offense that lost WR1 and WR2 is by trading for a ball catching Tight end.
    Michael Mayer from the Raiders is someone who might be looking for a change and we might be able to get him for a late rounder now that they have Brock Bowers and Harrison Bryant getting solid snaps.
    The problem is that we will not see anything happening because our front office is timid and think too small.

26. Todd bowles has no clue what hes doing. Lmao. This pass defense has been between 25-32 for like 3 or 4 years now. But i thought bowles was this mastermind??? Lmao

27. Myles Garrett is an all-world pass rusher. But I hear you, Bowles defense will make even Garrett's skills irrelevant. I hope you guys are fully on the bandwagon of firing Bowles if nothing changes.

28. None of this matters as long as we have Trash Todd coaching!!!!!…

29. We can barely run the ball with Mike and Chris. TE’s are trash… without our best weapons. How do yall think our offense will look now!

30. I remember at one point we would have won almost every game if we scored atleast 30 with Bowles defense. What is going on?

31. Why isn't he looking for a decent MLB who can cover the middle of the field?

32. Some very good/fair points here but Kupp could literally plug and play immediately, no? Played in Cohen’s offense, was featured in similar role to Godwin

33. I was kind of interested to see if they'd go after someone like Hunter Renfrow who is currently a free agent so would require trading nothing, and also seems like a good fit for Godwin's spot in the slot for the time being until someone else emerges, gets drafted, or perhaps Godwin comes back. Thoughts on making any moves in free agency currently?

34. how many kickers is this guy gonna draft and cut ??? He has a kicker fetish

35. Because the D and head coach stinks imo and this isn’t a Super Bowl team. Bowlzos soft zone sucks. CB’s all stink except McCollum. Secondary always seems lost no matter who is on Theodore year after year. To me Bowlzo’s system and coaching isnt good. He also still can’t manage a clock.

36. If Bucs win on Sunday and rams lose tonight cooper kupp makes the most sense it’s rly unfortunate Godwin got injured he was having probably his best season ever and it was easily avoidable but kupp fits his position in the scheme and worked with coen but regardless Bowles needs to go his defense sucks can’t let coen walk if he continues his success make him head coach

37. No need to panic. No need to give away the farm. We have lots of talent. (much of it not proven yet) I trust Licht. He is being dealt a bad hand, but it may be better than we think. Let's see how the reserves do in the upcoming game.

38. Regardless Bucs need to replace Godwin with someone at least semi close to his level if they want to make a run this year still tho Bucs defense cost them 2 wins this year so this teams going no where until we make Liam coen head coach and get a new defense

39. He just cut a 4th rounder. He used a 2nd on a guy who has held a clipboard his entire career. One of his 1st rounders will likely walk after this year. And that's just in the last 4 drafts. I don't think he should make a move but let's not act like he's hoarding gold either.

40. I still think kupp would be a great move, we find undrafted talent routinely so giving picks doesn't really hurt, kupp knows this scheme. He gets injured but so does godwin, the main draw is security, unless we re-sign godwin before the deadline or if we can franchise tag we close the window of making sure we have a good wr next to evans next season. and if we win the FA bid war and can get Godwin to a new contract, we would have a few different outs baked into kupps current deal already.

41. Bowles would rather throw the season away than bench Britt. So it’s on Licht that he’s still on the roster. Playable level Inside off ball LBs are a dime a dozen. Find one and/or cut Britt to force Bowles into trusting better players.

42. None of those guys are as good as Antonio brown if he could’ve keep his head right

43. ints 21 points kill a defense

44. Jason is betting on his self and his ability to build and develop through the draft. He’s very confident in his abilities in drafting I mean be honest how many GMs have taken 2 special teamers as he early as he has and lived to tell the tale.