{"id":194859,"date":"2026-03-17T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194859\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:26:10","slug":"real-deal-or-contract-year-bump-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194859\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Deal Or Contract Year Bump? – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tReal Deal Or Contract Year Bump?
\nMarch 17th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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Coach him up, coach.<\/p>\n

Joe supposes these questions will linger until Al-Quadin Muhammad proves it wasn\u2019t about his contract.<\/p>\n

Look, Joe is happy as can be the Bucs signed a guy who had double-digit sacks last year in Muhammad. But Joe doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s an a-hole in wondering how a guy who was 30 broke out for 11 sacks, a career year.<\/p>\n

His previous career-high was 6.<\/p>\n

Nearly doubling your sack total at the same time as being in a contract year \u2014 at 30 \u2014 well, Joe is sorry, but it raises a Derrick Brooks-like eyebrow.<\/p>\n

And despite Muhammad not known for playing the run well (allegedly), he also had a career-high last year in tackles for loss (9) and quarterback hits (20).<\/p>\n

So why would a savvy guy like Dan Campbell let Muhammad walk? BSPN reported that Muhammad\u2019s one-year contract could be worth<\/a> up to $6 million. You mean the Lions are so strangled by the cap they couldn\u2019t find a way to squeeze Muhammad onto the roster?<\/p>\n

Joe doesn\u2019t care if Muhammad has developed into a one-trick pony. If that one trick means he can make quarterbacks eat dirt, Joe welcomes him with open arms.<\/p>\n

And if Bucs coach Todd Bowles has a hangup with Muhammad not being a good run defender (allegedly), then Bowles better find a way to adapt, adjust and overcome.<\/p>\n

If Bowles doesn\u2019t find a way to manufacture more sacks this year, he may find plenty of time to devise a new defense next January on his own time.<\/p>\n

If that means playing a guy who can\u2019t defend the run, well, time to suck it up and \u2014 here\u2019s a novel concept \u2014 maybe coach Muhammad up to play the run better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Deal Or Contract Year Bump? March 17th, 2026 Coach him up, coach. Joe supposes these questions will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10998,10997,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-194859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}