{"id":777390,"date":"2026-02-26T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/777390\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:14:18","slug":"mike-evans-agent-hint-tampa-weather-may-chase-him-away-from-bucs-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/777390\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans’ Agent Hint Tampa Weather May Chase Him Away From Bucs – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is this man helping run Mike Evans out of town?<\/p>\n

One Joe likes to use the word \u201csilly\u201d when he hears nonsense. \u201cThis Joe\u201d guesses that word is a little more palatable than \u201chorsesh!t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yesterday, heard exclusively on WDAE 95.7 FM<\/a>\/AM 620 (the station\u2019s new FM signal can be heard up in Ocala) Tom Krasniqi interviewed Mike Evans\u2019 agent Deryk Gilmore. Evans, of course, is a pending free agent. Gilmore announced recently his client plans to test the free agent waters in March.<\/p>\n

Gilmore has played people before in past contract negotiations. And let\u2019s be real: Agents are nothing more than paid representatives of their clients. There\u2019s no reasonable expectation for them to be honest and objective and forthright. They do very much have a financial incentive in being subjective on behalf of their client.<\/p>\n

So Gilmore discussed with Krasniqi some subjects that may chase Evans out of Tampa. One, Gilmore said emphatically, was the Tampa weather, in particular training camp weather. Gilmore implied the Tampa weather is why Evans has recurring hamstring issues.<\/p>\n

Joe found this to be high-grade baloney.<\/p>\n

Evans has always had hamstring issues, ever since his rookie season. In fact, the running joke of the Tampa Bay pen and mic club is that a Bucs training camp is not complete without Evans tweaking a hamstring.<\/p>\n

So we are really to believe Evans\u2019 hamstring issues will magically vanish if he played in, say, Buffalo?<\/p>\n

Until last season, the Bucs were able to keep injuries to a low level. This has gone on for years. Joe is pretty confident that even the most devout climate change alarmist would admit the Florida weather hasn\u2019t changed that much since Evans was drafted in 2013.<\/p>\n

And besides, we\u2019re talking about a player who has decided to have a home in Tampa and a home in suburban Houston. The same guy who grew up in Galveston, which has a very similar climate as Tampa.<\/p>\n

In the summer, Evans voluntarily chooses to work in the outdoors with his trainer in Texas. Not sure if any of Joe\u2019s readers travel much to South Texas, but go ahead in May and June and see how long an ice cream cone lasts outdoors there.<\/p>\n

So this is a long-winded way of Joe cautioning fans that not everything coming out of an agent\u2019s mouth is heartfelt sincerity.<\/p>\n

(Hey, Denis Phillips \u2014 who is a regular in Joe\u2019s fantasy football league \u2014 Joe is just having some fun. But your weather forecasts may be too accurate for Deryk Gilmore.)<\/p>\n

Special Guest Todd Bowles! Plus Vibes & Reaction From The NFL Scouting Combine, Rival Coach Gives A Bucs Impression, And More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this man helping run Mike Evans out of town? One Joe likes to use the word \u201csilly\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-777390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116136645995962464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777390","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=777390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}