{"id":944322,"date":"2026-07-13T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/944322\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:57:18","slug":"buccaneers-great-lavonte-david-maybe-i-shouldve-waited-to-retire-to-play-with-rueben-bain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/944322\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers great Lavonte David: &#8216;Maybe I should\u2019ve waited&#8217; to retire to play with Rueben Bain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bain is a ferocious edge with bullish strength who is being looked at to reinvigorate the Buccaneers pass rush. David is a firm believer that Todd Bowles&#8217; defense is in a good place heading into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely, definitely have high hopes for those guys, man,&#8221; David said. &#8220;The roster, I can speak on the roster. The roster is amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many believe Bain will be amazing. His assistant coach Larry Foote is already on the record that the Miami product has <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/buccaneers-larry-foote-rueben-bain-he-s-going-to-be-a-star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">star potential<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Bain&#8217;s NFL journey is underway without the on-field guidance of David.<\/p>\n<p>After a lengthy NFL career, David would seemingly be a candidate to join the coaching ranks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d consider it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Right now he&#8217;s not considering all that much other than enjoying the honeymoon phase of retirement, however.<\/p>\n<p>For as long as he played the game, David knows if he were to get into coaching, he&#8217;d put his all into it, and right now that&#8217;s not on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I get into it, I know I&#8217;m going be locked in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, I may. It&#8217;s something that I may do down the line, but right now I&#8217;m going to enjoy this retirement that I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bain is a ferocious edge with bullish strength who is being looked at to reinvigorate the Buccaneers pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,88,6,609,4267,32194,250],"class_list":["post-944322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-football","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-rueben-bain-jr","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116912078426956564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944322","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=944322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}