Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

It seems Mina Kimes is almost as exasperated as Bucs fans.

Year after year, people, including Joe, holler about the edge rush. More to the point: People holler about no edge rush.

The Bucs seem to want to get an edge rush, at least some people (not all). They draft guys and they sign guys and still, no fear of a consistent edge rush.

Whether you want to blame players who just take a Team Glazer paycheck and run, or to blame the front office for not scouting the right guy — or to blame Todd Bowles for not developing the guy oe because edge rushers just might struggle defending a receiver 20 yards downfield, it’s Groundhog Day at One Buc Palace since Jason Pierre-Paul and Shaq Barrett grew old.

Every year, there’s big talk. Every year, there’s crazy, unfounded hype from the team (last year, it was Chris Braswell shocking the football world). Every year, quarterbacks have enough time to drink an overpriced lukewarm Miller Lite.

Kimes sounded like a Bucs fan when she brought up the Bucs’ edge rush.

“Like, edge has been needed for this team now since the Super Bowl run,” Kimes said on her podcast this week. “YaYa Diaby is a good player. They brought in Al-Quadin Muhammad, who was good in Detroit.

“But this is, to me, continues to be something they need more from is that four-man rush has just not been good enough.”

Mike Golic, Jr., who was a guest on her podcast, then chimed in to echo Kimes’ belief the Bucs must somehow, someway develop an edge rush.

“Yeah, [the Bucs were] 20th in pressure rate when not blitzing last year,” Golic added. “So this team desperately needs some juice off the edge that they’re not getting right now.”

Golic added that he “cosigns” what Kimes mentioned about the edge rush.

Joe’s trying to get inside Licht’s head: If he was really sincere when he has stated recently that he believes David Walker will blow up this season (and is not just trying to boost his confidence), and with Muhammad (AQM) and his 11 sacks and 9 tackles for loss off the bench, the Bucs may have something there. If so, yeah, Joe could see Licht not reaching for an edge rusher at No. 15.

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