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<\/a><\/p>\nNew Bucs inside linebacker Alex Anzalone.<\/p>\n
When fans think of tough-guy NFL coaches demanding aggressive play, most put Lions head coach Dan Campbell in their top-5 or top-10. <\/p>\n
Right or wrong, that\u2019s the perception of how Campbell runs his team and what he demands of players.<\/p>\n
So with that in mind, the Bucs added two Campbell players in March for key roles: edge rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad and inside linebacker Alex Anzalone. However, Campbell said last week his 2025 team wasn\u2019t \u201csalty\u201d enough and he\u2019s focused on adding edgy players so the team can recover the swagger and fire it had a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
That stuck out to Joe because the Bucs believe Muhammad and Anzalone bring an edgy\/fiery\/nasty factor that\u2019s been lacking on the Bucs. So why did the Lions let them leave?<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody wants talent, I\u2019ll always want talent, but it\u2019s always nice to have a little bit of saltiness to you over the talent that lacks saltiness because that\u2019s what we were in \u201922, and a part of \u201923,\u201d Campbell said via ProFootballTalk.com<\/a>. \u201cWe had talent, but we had some salty guys and we were highly competitive. We were willing to make it work, figure it out, so just getting a little bit of that edge back.\u201d<\/p>\n Bucs fans should find out rather quickly whether Muhammad and Anzalone represent an upgrade from the defensive softness they\u2019ve become too used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unsettling Take From Dan Campbell April 9th, 2026 New Bucs inside linebacker Alex Anzalone. When fans think of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2599,2598,7,6,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-862590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116376849944087601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862590","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=862590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}