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<\/a>Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht is the fifth-longest tenured general manager in the National Football League.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s no surprisde that those in that top-5 club have all won Super Bowls and several division titles.<\/p>\n
Licht is not the same guy who was hired in 2014 and presided over the second half of The Lost Decade.<\/p>\n
During a visit to CBS Sports, Licht was asked by former Titans GM Ran Carthon (also a former Gators and NFL running back) how his roster-building has changed since Lovie Smith and Team Glazer brought him to Tampa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all evolve,\u201d Licht said. \u201cAnd when you have the opportunity to stay on \u2014 and I\u2019m grateful that I was, there\u2019s plenty of times I wasn\u2019t sure I was going to make it \u2014 I think you start to realize that you need to mitigate risk a little bit more and more with these players, and make sure that everybody [in the organization] is on the same page and everybody likes [the player].<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t realize, \u2018Just because I like the player as the GM, but everybody else is telling me this guy can\u2019t play but I\u2019m going to prove to them\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s not going to work. I need to rely on everybody. I need to rely on the coaches. I need to rely on the scouts, obviously, who do a fantastic job for us. So, I think just making it more of a collective decision [on players] has worked well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a candid take from a seasoned general manager. Joe is unaware of changes to Licht\u2019s staff after last season, though Joe is aware of many on the coaching side of the building.<\/p>\n
Joe is confident that\u2019s not a coincidence.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Licht Talks \u201cRoster-Building\u201d Changes February 27th, 2026 Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781417,"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-781416","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\/116146494795724872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781416","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=781416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}