{"id":803915,"date":"2026-03-10T06:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803915\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:35:14","slug":"best-free-agents-available-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803915\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Free Agents Available – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There for the taking.<\/p>\n

The big fish is there for the taking. He\u2019s just swimming around the boat.<\/p>\n

Are the Bucs going to toss some lures at him or are they just going to head back to the dock and call it a day?<\/p>\n

The Bucs need an edge rusher so, so, so bad. But Joe isn\u2019t convinced enough people at One Buc Palace share this conclusion or have the burning ambition to resolve it.<\/p>\n

Trey Hendrickson is still available. Yeah, he\u2019s 31. Yeah, he\u2019s coming off an injury. But when a team cannot develop a rookie edge rusher and (smartly) is hesitant to pay top-dollar for a top-of-the-line sack guy *and* pay the massive freight to get him, you\u2019re either left with prayers (Chris Braswell, Markees Watts) or rolling the dice on an aging edge rusher like Hendrickson.<\/p>\n

The man, from Warren Sapp High School in Apopka, reportedly wants to play for the Bucs. Have you heard any whispers from the Schefters, Schragers, Rapoports or Schultzes that the Bucs are talking to his agent? Or that Hendrickson drove from his First Coast home across the state to see what the Bucs have to say?<\/p>\n

#Crickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Joe simply does not get it. Hendrickson is flat out a better edge rusher than anyone on the Bucs roster right now. With mad respect to YaYa Diaby, Hendrickson is better.<\/p>\n

As the confederate spy Henry Thomas Harrison said in \u201cGettysburg,\u201d \u201cAnd that, by God, is the Lord\u2019s truth!\u201d<\/p>\n

If, for whatever reason, the Bucs have some hang-up about Hendrickson\u2019s knee, then there is mediocre K\u2019Lavon Chaisson. He had 7.5 sacks for the Patriots last year, which matches YaYa\u2019s best season for sacks (rookie year).<\/p>\n

Chaisson is better than nothing and the Bucs have a whole lot of that already.<\/p>\n

And speaking of injuries, there\u2019s good ol\u2019 Joey Bosa. The guy, sadly, cannot stay on the field. But when he can get on the field, he\u2019s still got gas in that tank.<\/p>\n

Bradley Chubb is out there, too. He had six sacks coming off knee surgery. Sometimes, it takes longer to return from knee surgery. Maybe Chubb would be a very good buy-low guy on the rise back?<\/p>\n

If you think Joe is sour this morning, you\u2019re not wrong. Joe is still stinging from yesterday\u2019s news. It\u2019s hard, sometimes, not to be cynical.<\/p>\n

Here is Gregg Rosenthal\u2019s NFL.com list of top free agents available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There for the taking. The big fish is there for the taking. He\u2019s just swimming around the boat.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46370,"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-803915","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\/116203495414582557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803915","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=803915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}