{"id":804672,"date":"2026-03-10T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804672\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:21:15","slug":"radically-underpaid-joebucsfan-com-tampa-bay-bucs-blog-buccaneers-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/804672\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Radically Underpaid&#8221; &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com &#8211; Tampa Bay Bucs Blog, Buccaneers News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gainwell.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395095\" class=\"size-full wp-image-395095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gainwell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-395095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Bucs running back Kenneth Gainwell, known in Pittsburgh as \u201cKenny G.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe loves hearing quality whining on out-of-town sports radio about a player lost to the Bucs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe really likes the Bucs signing of running back Kenneth Gainwell, aka Kenny G, the guy who won the Steelers\u2019 in-house vote for 2025 team MVP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gainwell covers kicks, returns kicks, runs well and caught 73 balls last season, including some at slot receiver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Consider what Aaron Rodgers said about Gainwell early last season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI thought Kenny G, obviously, Kenny Gainwell, if you\u2019re a football fan, you know who he is and you\u2019ve followed his career,\u201d Rodgers said. \u201cIt seemed like every time he went into the game, for me, as a football fan, with Philly, it was like, \u2018Man, this guy\u2019s really good. He should get more touches.\u2019 So, when I came here, I knew what kind of player he was. I tell him all the time, he is an absolute baller, any opportunity he gets man, Kenny\u2019s been great all year. He\u2019s making himself a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rodgers\u2019 words proved prophetic. Gainwell got a fat raise in the form of a two-year, $14 million contract from the Bucs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe listened to The Pomp And Joe Show\u00a0on Pittsburgh sports radio yesterday where the hosts were calling Gainwell \u201cradically underpaid\u201d with the Steelers and agreeing that they would have paid him more than the Bucs did to stay in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Steelers \u201cTeam MVP\u201d vote is taken very seriously. The tradition dates back to 1969 and the list of winners reads like an NFL history book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">T.J. Watt is a five-time winner. Here\u2019s what he told the team website about Gainwell winning last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a vote that any of us take lightly,\u201d said linebacker T.J. Watt, a five-time team MVP. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge honor. Kenny G, he\u2019s made so many plays in the run and pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat teammate as well. He works hard. Can\u2019t say enough great things about him as a player and as a teammate. So, I\u2019m just excited for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rodgers also has talked about Gainwell\u2019s tremendous football intelligence and versatility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Did the Bucs get an upgrade from Rachaad White? Considering all that Gainwell can do well, and his 10 games of postseason experience, Joe thinks that\u2019s very likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bucs running back Kenneth Gainwell, known in Pittsburgh as \u201cKenny G.\u201d Joe loves hearing quality whining on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804673,"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-804672","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\/116205328881311686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804672","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=804672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}