{"id":873332,"date":"2026-04-24T06:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:07:34","slug":"good-football-player-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873332\/","title":{"rendered":"“Good Football Player” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miami edge Rueben Bain.<\/p>\n

*IF* new Bucs edge rusher Rueben Bain can overcome the obstacles he will face his rookie season with the Bucs, it will be obvious he is a good football player.<\/p>\n

But for Joe, without any preconceived evidence, wondered if a pick is solid, all he needs to hear is an NFL scout call a football player \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what veteran NFL scribe Bob McGinn found when he did his research on Bain, the Miami Mauler, when McGinn did his position rankings for GoLongTD.com.<\/p>\n

McGinn ranked Bain as the second-best edge rusher<\/a> in the draft.<\/p>\n

2. RUEBEN BAIN, Miami (6-2, 264, no 40, 1): Third-year junior started all three years. \u201cGood football player,\u201d one scout said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a power player. He runs through people. Uses his hands pretty well. Can collapse the pocket. Has short arms. Not the rangiest body type. Doesn\u2019t have a ton of speed. He\u2019s not your historical top-5, top-10 D-lineman.\u201d Arms were merely 30 7\/8. Hands were small, too (9 1\/8). \u201cI think he\u2019ll be the first defensive lineman or edge guy taken since \u201999 or something with under 31-inch arms,\u201d a second scout said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be a major outlier. He\u2019s super physical and aggressive but Bain is a tweener. He\u2019s got no position. He\u2019s not tall or lanky enough to be a defensive end. He\u2019s not really athletic or fast enough to be an outside backer. And he\u2019s too small to be a defensive tackle. Does he have a motor? Yes. Does he have physical hands? Yes. Is he active with his hands? Yes. As a technician, he\u2019s going to wear a lot of bad college linemen out with his hands and effort. He did that. But, wow, do I think he\u2019s going to get blocked in the NFL? I do.\u201d Finished with 121 tackles (33 \u00bd for loss), 20 \u00bd sacks, four forced fumbles and two batted passes. \u201cHis quickness and power are just outstanding,\u201d said a third scout. \u201cHe\u2019s violent in how he plays. He\u2019s always around the quarterback. He\u2019s going to be the exception to the rule because I don\u2019t think he\u2019s very fast. He\u2019s probably smart he didn\u2019t run because I think he\u2019d run around 4.8. I like edge rushers that have speed but he\u2019s an anomaly for me. There are a lot of other parts of his game that he will compensate with.\u201d Compared by one scout to Kwity Paye. \u201cThose short arms and that size will be a concern,\u201d a fourth scout said. \u201cMore of an overachiever-type athlete than a natural, fluid, silky kind of dude. But you love the way he plays. He\u2019s tough as hell. Best thing about his pass rush is he\u2019s relentless. Gives effort against the run. Kills the tight ends. He gets smothered up a little bit by those big (tackles). They\u2019ll get him. He\u2019s like a Brandon Graham.\u201d Four-star recruit from Miami, where he led Central High to four straight state titles and amassed 77 sacks. \u201cHe\u2019s a really, really good college player,\u201d a fifth scout said. \u201cWhen I watch him against some of the better tackles he struggled a little bit. His best shot\u2019s going to be as a 4-3 D-end. To me, if I\u2019m going to take him top 15, I\u2019m hoping to get somebody that\u2019s going to come in and give me eight sacks and build up to like double digits in the next year or two. I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s what he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe just hopes for Team Glazer\u2019s checkbook and Bain\u2019s skillset, that someone comes to their senses on the coaching staff and knocks off this \u201cwe ask [edge rushers] to do other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you ask your dentist to remove cancer cysts? Do you have your plumber change your transmission? Do you have your landscaper repair your air conditioner?<\/p>\n

Let Bain eat! Joe swears if he sees Bain trying to cover new slimy Saints receiver Jordyn Tyson, Joe may just jump off the upper deck at the Licht House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami edge Rueben Bain. *IF* new Bucs edge rusher Rueben Bain can overcome the obstacles he will face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2599,2598,7,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-873332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116458190259991180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873332","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=873332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}