{"id":787984,"date":"2026-03-03T01:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T01:41:15","slug":"bruce-arians-will-be-very-very-shocked-if-mike-evans-wants-to-leave-tampa-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787984\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Arians Will Be &#8220;Very, Very Shocked&#8221; If Mike Evans Wants To Leave Tampa &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBruce Arians Will Be \u201cVery, Very Shocked\u201d If Mike Evans Wants To Leave Tampa<br \/>\nMarch 2nd, 2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/arians-1011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-279025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/arians-1011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Joe has long believed it\u2019s highly likely Mike Evans re-signs with Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But Bucs officials attending the NFL Scouting Combine last week would not go there publicly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Todd Bowles and Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht did several interviews and expressed no confidence that Evans would be re-signed. Their steady company line was that Evans earned the right to test free agency, the Bucs have clear lines of communication with Evans\u2019 agent, and everyone knows the Bucs want Evans to return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, Licht was adamant on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/02\/jason-licht-says-he-and-mike-evans-see-eye-to-eye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ira Kaufman Podcast<\/a> that Evans truly loves his teammates, and he said Evans deeply understands the Bucs\u2019 strong talent pool and the team\u2019s plan to return Tampa Bay to postseason glory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Saturday, Licht\u2019s \u201csenior advisor,\u201d Bruce Arians, was less guarded about the Bucs\u2019 likelihood of re-signing Evans. Arians is not sweating it and he wasn\u2019t shy about saying it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Arians joined Outspoken\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsgrid.com\/where-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SportsGrid TV<\/a>\u00a0and was asked by host Dan Sileo about the challenge the Bucs might have re-signing Evans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s very tough [to re-sign Evans.] I mean, it\u2019s just a matter of just meeting somewhere in the middle,\u201d Arians said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYou know, Mike loves Tampa; Tampa loves Mike. Chris Godwin went through this last year and was actually rehabbing more so than Mike is. I think [Evans] earned the right to check the market and then bring the market back. I\u2019d be very, very shocked if he wanted to leave. All the parties just got to come to a good agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Arians\u2019 take on Evans\u2019 situation is how Joe steadily has understood it since Baker Mayfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/01\/baker-mayfield-is-confident-mike-evans-will-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">expressed confidence Evans<\/a> would return five weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The free agency dinner bell rings next Monday at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Arians Will Be \u201cVery, Very Shocked\u201d If Mike Evans Wants To Leave Tampa March 2nd, 2026 Joe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787985,"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-787984","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\/116162704278444869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787984","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=787984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}