“C’mon Todd, you gotta start embracing an edge rush. I have no friggin’ idea if Maxx Crosby can cover his mouth when he coughs, forget covering receivers. But the man destroys quarterbacks!”

For those who follow Chucky on social media, you know the following.

Chucky considers an elite edge rusher as a Mariano Rivera, Kenley Jansen or Bruce Sutter of good defenses. A closer. A guy who slams the door shut on offensive comebacks late in games.

Appearing with Tom Krasniqi on WDAE-AM 620 last week, Chucky hasn’t moved from his core belief that without a ferocious edge rush, a team can only go so far.

“I think that’s a winning edge that a great defense has, it’s a fourth quarter pass rush,” Chucky said. “You know, when we got Simeon Rice, things changed for us.”

Chucky isn’t wrong. The Bucs defense was already arguably the league’s best in 2001. When Richie McKay got Simeon Rice, he took that defense from very good to historic.

Joe saw how Green Bay went out in August and made a splash by acquiring Micah Parsons. Chucky thinks it would be smart of Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht to identify a guy who gives quarterbacks the shivers at night, and go get him.

“I think the Buccaneers need to take a page out of the Green Bay Packers,” Chucky said. “They went out and got Parsons. Perhaps Jason Licht can swing a deal to get a great rusher?

“And I’m sure he’s looking at the guys that are available in this draft as well, but that’s an area that the Buccaneers, I think we all realize they got to improve upon.”

As far as a great edge rusher, Krasniqi asked Chucky about a guy he used to coach, Raiders edge rusher Maxx Crosby. Of course, Chucky was all for the Bucs trying to trade for Crosby but he didn’t seem to think that it was possible.

“Yeah, I mean, if you’re anybody, you make a big play for Maxx,” Chucky said. “If you’re the Raiders, you’re one of the dumbest franchises in America if you let him out of there.”

Look out, Tom Brady!

But here’s what Joe keeps in mind when discussing whether the Bucs should trade for an edge rusher, any edge rusher:

Under the current coaching regime, it’s not about if the guy can put a quarterback on his ass. No, no, no. That’s not the key. What we must know is, can the guy cover receivers 15-20 yards downfield?