{"id":847835,"date":"2026-04-01T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847835\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:18:28","slug":"no-woulda-coulda-shoulda-on-mike-evans-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/847835\/","title":{"rendered":"No “Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda” On Mike Evans – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Raise The Flags documentary star and Bucs co-owner Joel Glazer.<\/p>\n

San Francisco 49ers receiver Mike Evans is a guy the Bucs wanted and somewhat expected to be on their 2026 roster.<\/p>\n

In Phoenix on Monday, Joe talked to Buccaneers co-owner Joel Glazer about the big fish that got away.<\/p>\n

Yeah, Team Glazer already issued a short statement on Evans moving on a few weeks ago but there were questions needed for clarification.<\/p>\n

JoeBucsFan.com:\u00a0Mike Evans, you wanted him [with the Bucs] this year. Everyone has been open about that. And you didn\u2019t get what you wanted. What\u2019s your message to fans on that situation?<\/p>\n

Buccaneers co-owner Joel Glazer:\u00a0I would say we were fortunate to have Mike in our organization; not many organzations and franchises get the pleasure of watching a Hall of Fame player for that long on one team. But at the end of the day, you know, each player gets to make their own choice, and that\u2019s for him and his family. And for Mike, he felt this was what was right for him and we wish him nothing but the best. He\u2019s a great Buccaneer. He will always be a great Buccaneer. We\u2019re obviously sorry to see him go but respect what was best for him.<\/p>\n

JoeBucsFan.com:\u00a0Are there any regrets that maybe instead of a two-year deal his last contract should have been three [years]? Or you could have franchised him or figured it out? It\u2019s a big deal. He\u2019s a franchise legend.<\/p>\n

Joel Glazer: No. You can\u2019t look back and woulda-coulda-shoulda \u2014 this and that. And the end of the day after [12] years, and everything Mike\u2019s done for us, ultimately you want Mike to do what\u2019s best for him because he gave us his all for all these years. And he\u2019s not the first great player to leave a franchise and move on to another franchise. He won\u2019t be the last. That\u2019s the National Football League. He\u2019s entitled to have a new experience in his life. People do it in all walks of life, and for him and his family, we wish him nothing but the best.<\/p>\n

Joe wishes Evans the best, too. But what does \u201cthe best\u201d mean?<\/p>\n

Evans won a Super Bowl and already is a Hall of Fame player with a few iconic stats to his name, so Joe sees no reason to play Evans cheerleader after he sprinted away from Tampa Bay like a dude running out of Publix with unpaid crab legs.<\/p>\n

Stay healthy, Mike, and have fun if\/when the 49ers revert back to the six-win team they were with a healthy Brock Purdy in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raise The Flags documentary star and Bucs co-owner Joel Glazer. San Francisco 49ers receiver Mike Evans is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692143,"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-847835","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\/116331304321527996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847835","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=847835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}