“Kyle, I blessed your return but know your place.”

One of the great Bucs mysteries of this decade revolves around 2021 draft pick Kyle Trask.

Fans still talk about the guy. Even this month, two Todd Bowles friends talked on SiriusXM NFL Radio about how the Trask-Baker Mayfield quarterback competition in 2023 was a sham.

Joe’s referring to ex-QB Jim Miller and former Bucs scout and Jets personnel man Pat Kirwan. Bowles was a guest on their popular show 15-plus times last year.

Trask was re-signed by the Bucs last offseason, a deal that included some guaranteed cash so he wouldn’t hit free agency. Then Trask was cut before the season.

The former Florida Gator had some tryouts and signed with Atlanta on their practice squad in mid-November. A guy who had a hand in that was Faclons offensive coordinator Zac Robinson.

Robinson acknowledged this week that he’s super close friends with former Bucs playcaller Liam Coen, for whom Trask was the Bucs’ No. 2 QB in 2024. Robinson said he and Coen talk regularly, vacation together and their families are friends, the little kids included.

So it’s no leap to think Coen blessed Trask before Atlanta signed him and handed him off to Robinson.

Trask is now a free agent and Joe asked Robinson about him on Tuesday.

Robinson explained there was unified agreement in the Atlanta organization to sign Trask.

“Kyle had a pretty good preseason, it looked like. So, we all felt and kind of connected on it. [We were] able to get Kyle in there. Great guy. Awesome to work with this past season,” Robinson said.

“We never ended up needing him but he was always prepared. And I know he had a good career here; he just hasn’t got a ton of snaps. But yeah, it was cool to get Kyle in there and he was valuable in the quarterback room in ways off the field, as well, with the rest of the quarterbacks.”

Joe wonders if Trask will be back in Tampa this year competing for a No. 3 quarterback job. Most teams take four quarterbacks to training camp. Not only does Trask know what Robinson wants, he’s got all kind of familarity with what’s been happening in Tampa.

Joe gets that the Trask faithful thinks he deserves better, but the NFL didn’t want Trask for months last fall. He needs to take what he can get.

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