{"id":817841,"date":"2026-03-17T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:29:34","slug":"hey-man-sell-me-on-the-niners-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/817841\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hey, Man, Sell Me On The Niners” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\u201cHey, Man, Sell Me On The Niners\u201d
\nMarch 17th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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Pain alert!<\/p>\n

Yes, former Bucs receiver Mike Evans was hungry to leave Tampa Bay. A pending free agent after the 2025 season, it\u2019s safe to say some of Evans\u2019 friends around the NFL reached out with \u2018come-play-with-me\u2019 texts. But what about Evans doing his own homework on new teams?<\/p>\n

Evans told 49ers media he put the work in to explore new opportunities. But 49ers tight end George Kittle spoke out in the past week and made that reality a little too real for Joe\u2019s aching heart.<\/p>\n

Kittle told Bussin\u2019 With The Boys<\/a> that Evans reached out to him and wanted his best pitch. \u2018\u201dHey, man, sell me on the Niners,’\u201d is how Kittle said he was approached by Evans.<\/p>\n

Kittle said he was eager to tell Evans how great the 49ers organization is to players and how much they invest into their care and comfort. And Kittle also said he explained that Niners culture is simple. \u201cWe hit people really hard in the face and we play really well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Thinking of Evans calling around the league to find a feel-good route out of Tampa is frustrating stuff.<\/p>\n

The 49ers won six games in 2024. Did that not bother Evans? And why did he not think the Bucs could bounce back from their challenging and ugly 8-9 season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHey, Man, Sell Me On The Niners\u201d March 17th, 2026 Pain alert! Yes, former Bucs receiver Mike Evans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817842,"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-817841","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\/116246647972586711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817841","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=817841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}