Doesn’t sound like Mike.
Thanks to intel from Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, we recently learned of the demands that Bucs free agent wide receiver Mike Evans has for his new prospective team next week when the free agency dinner bell rings on Wednesday.
Or, are those really Evans’ demands?
(Yes, legal tampering begins on Monday. That’s when the fun begins, but that’s not the start of the league year, which is Wednesday. You don’t go to New Year’s Eve parties and blow off fireworks and try to tongue strange, drunken women on Dec. 29, do you?)
Just a couple of days before ESPN published Fowler’s story, Evans’ agent, Deryk Gilmore, a known fearmonger, took to the airwaves of WDAE-AM 620/WDAE-FM 95.7, and spread all sorts of bullsh!t about why Evans may bolt the Bucs.
Included in his dubious claims was that Evans, born and raised in Galveston and who lives in the Houston suburbs, who also chooses to work out with his trainer outside in the brutal South Texas sun, may just bolt the Bucs because of the weather.
Also, Gilmore said that he was opening up Evans’ potential search for a new NFL home to all 32 teams.
Then, Fowler released Evans’ (?) demands which included a prerequisite to play with a top-shelf quarterback and that the team has a legitimate shot to win the Super Bowl.
That wouldn’t exactly include 32 teams, would it?
Well, WDAE-AM 620/WDAE-FM 95.7 program director and on-air host Nick Wize took to his station’s airwaves and smells a rat. The list of demands Evans allegedly issued, Wize stated, doesn’t sound remotely like Evans’ words.
In the list of demands, Evans allegedly wants a high number of targets guaranteed. Wize simply does not believe that comes straight from Evans.
“There is just no way in the world I can see Mike Evans saying this,” Wize said. “Throughout Mike’s career, has he ever sounded like a guy that would demand [this]?
“He is the anomaly when it comes to wide receivers. And that’s what’s so great about Tampa Bay. Chris Godwin’s the same way. They’re all selfless, not selfish, like a lot of the wide receivers in this league.
“Now, if you told me [one of] the top 10 wide receivers in the NFL had said this, [demanding a] high volume of touches — if Justin Jefferson or Ja’Marr Chase, you know, those guys had said this, or George Pickens or A.J. Brown? I would be like, ‘Yeah, that was probably [their] demand.”
In other words, Wize believes just what Joe typed up before: It’s nothing more than Gilmore trying to squeeze Team Glazer to cough up more loot.
Shoot, Joe wouldn’t be surprised if Evans didn’t even know Gilmore demanded a number of touches per game in order for Evans to agree to a contract.
(“The Nick Wize Show” can be heard weekdays from noon-2 p.m. on WDAE-AM 620/WDAE-FM 95.7.)
I just can’t imagine Mike Evans making this demand
“Mike’s just not that kind of guy. He’s the anomaly when it comes to wide receivers – selfless, not selfish”
Sounds like agent noise to maximize his contract. pic.twitter.com/Rx64upkLYa
— Nick Wize (@iAmNickWize) March 3, 2026