{"id":813448,"date":"2026-03-15T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/813448\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:42:46","slug":"al-quadin-muhammad-had-intel-on-bucs-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/813448\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Quadin Muhammad Had Intel On Bucs – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Bucs edge rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad was turned on to the Bucs by a Todd Bowles friend and former Bucs assistant.<\/p>\n

Regarding edge rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad coming to the Bucs, Joe speculated Bucs coach Todd Bowles got strong intel from two of his close friends who currently work for the Lions.<\/p>\n

That would be head coach Dan Campbell and defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers.<\/p>\n

Actually, it was the other way around.<\/p>\n

Rodgers likely knew the Lions couldn\u2019t keep the free agent. Muhammad was interested in the Bucs and he spoke to Rodgers, since Rodgers was with Tampa Bay for six seasons, 2019-2024.<\/p>\n

It was Rodgers, Muhammad said, who sold him on coming to the Bucs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, my last d-line coach, Kacy Rodgers, he was coaching in Tampa, so you know me, we spoke and he said it would be a great fit and stuff like that,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cI really like [Tampa and the Bucs] and stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I knew there was some familiarity there. I felt really confident. I felt happy about it, excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad pulled off a rare feat last year. All of Muhammad\u2019s 11 sacks came with him coming off the bench. Muhammad never started a game. Not one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was getting back to being myself and feeling really extremely healthy,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cAnd building my body up, changing things during the offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the offseason, I just locked in and worked on different things, pass-rush-wise. And, I got the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad didn\u2019t even try to deny that having Aiden Hutchinson getting after quarterbacks was a big help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had some unique guys around me,\u201d Muhammad smiled. \u201cAnd if you have a little bit of success, you get more confident and you get more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad also has a weird relationship with new Bucs linebacker Alex Anzalone. Each was drafted by the slimy Saints, made their way to Detroit and at the same time found themselves as teammates again with the Bucs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a great, instinctive, smart football player,\u201d Muhammad said. \u201cMe and him are really close, really good friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m super excited to be able to be on a new team and still play with him. I\u2019m excited about it just to have somebody that you\u2019ve been out there in games with, in live action. I just know what he\u2019s about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muhammad comes across as very intelligent. It\u2019s still weird to Joe that a guy who never had more than six sacks in his career blows up and has 11 at 30-years old without starting one game.<\/p>\n

Whatever Muhammad used to get to this level, let\u2019s hope \u2014 uh, oh \u2014 he doesn\u2019t try to fix something that, as of last year, isn\u2019t broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bucs edge rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad was turned on to the Bucs by a Todd Bowles friend and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-813448","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\/116232311612391504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813448","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=813448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}