What the Future Holds for the Buccaneers

With the Buccaneers two oldest players leaving this month, It may be time to think about how this team may change moving forward.

Jason Licit and Todd Bowels contracts are up after the 2028 season.

If they stay until then?

The Buccaneers may take on a much more aggressive way of team building after those two leave, possibly though doubtful even before then.

Team Building Has Changed:

This is no longer an era of wait and build slowly.

Ten-plus-year veterans on the same team that drafted them is a rarity in the NFL today.

Players like Lavonte David and Mike Evans who spend the bulk of their career with one team is going the way of the dinosaurs.

Sticking with a teams draft picks and “not” building them through trade in this era is just stubborness.

Teams that don’t make aggressive offseason moves get left behind in the talent pool.

If a team relies on draft picks to build their team, then it needs to make the deals to insure they can have enough draft capital to achieve their goal,

If a team would rather rely on players previously developed, then it needs to become aggressive in making the deals to make sure they can fill the team needs while doing so.

In either scenario you will have a revolving door of players.

Vita Vea:

A good way to estimate which way the Buccaneers are going to lean in the next couple of years is to keep an eye on how they deal with Vita.

Vea is going into his ninth season as a Buccaneer, if any trade rumors occur that have merit during Jason and Todds next two years then you can begin to assume the Buccaneers are attempting a more aggressive approach, if not then he may possibly be the last of the Buccaneers for quite some time to begin and end his career as a Buc.

And considering how a lot of fans reacted to Evans leaving and going to the Niners, im pretty sure this article won’t be pleasant to some to hear.

So, i will take this time to remind you, Doug Williams won his SB with Washington, John Lynch finished his playing career in a Patriot uniform, Warren Sapp Raiders,

Retiring with the team that drafted you has been rare since free agency began.

There really is no excuse for a team to stagnate, The offseason is there to improve the team, and if the Buccaneers don’t learn this lessen then it may just be another 20 years before the fans can begin to look forward to the actual season coming and less the offseason saying every bad team has,

Maybe Next Year

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