{"id":678165,"date":"2026-01-15T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:02:15","slug":"rachaad-white-lets-just-be-a-man-of-our-word-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/678165\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachaad White: “Let’s Just Be A Man Of Our Word” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rachaad White was not the happiest Bucs camper in his final weeks of this season.<\/p>\n

He was not a bitter worker; he was just eager to move on from Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Too much floating around<\/a> by teammates? It was more than that.<\/p>\n

White joined the Loose Cannons podcast<\/a> this week and wanted fans to know he is not bitter about sharing a backfield after being the Bucs\u2019 go-to running back in 2023.<\/p>\n

This year, however, White didn\u2019t think quality play was always rewarded. White averaged 4.3 yards per carry while starter Bucky Irving (when healthy) averaged 3.4 yards.<\/p>\n

White sounded like a guy longing for the Bucs playcaller days of Dave Canales and Liam Coen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to clear the air on that. It\u2019s not about being a bellcow. It\u2019s not about that,\u201d White said. \u201cI think for me \u2026 and I always said this, even early in my career, even when I chose my college \u2026 it\u2019s about understanding who can put me in position to be successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously in the league it\u2019s the best on best. I mean, 20, 30 touches [per game], it sounds amazing. Whatever people want to say, I had my best year my second year with over 1500 scrimmage [yards] and the 10 touchdowns or so \u2026 Like I really didn\u2019t even want the ball that many times that year; I had the ball like 300-something times. But obviously, I\u2019ve always been the guy who\u2019s gonna do what he\u2019s asked to do<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 And I ain\u2019t never been the guy who cause a problem. I always wanted someone else playing the backfield with me. But if we gonna say we gonna do the hot hand thing, and a guy got the hot hand, you know, then let\u2019s just be a man of our word and be real about it. But if that\u2019s not what we\u2019re doing, then I\u2019m professional, I\u2019m man enough to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201chot hand\u201d reference, Joe believes, is to head coach Todd Bowles saying repeatedly he would use the hot hand at running back. Playcaller Josh Grizzard said that, too.\u00a0However, sometimes White\u2019s hot hand was kept on the bench in multiple games.<\/p>\n

It was obvious the Bucs preferred Irving over White, but apparently that reality sent a mixed message White has no interest hearing again in 2026. He\u2019s moving on in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachaad White was not the happiest Bucs camper in his final weeks of this season. He was not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[2599,2598,7,6,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-678165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115896894034405847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}