{"id":589880,"date":"2026-04-17T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589880\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:18:08","slug":"a-bucs-draft-qualifier-may-not-be-so-nuts-after-all-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589880\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bucs Draft Qualifier May Not Be So Nuts After All – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hire this man!<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Joe\u201d has gone on record: If the Bucs are thinking about drafting an edge rusher from Miami in the first round, the move has to come with a catch \u2014 and a coach.<\/p>\n

The Joe typing this here post simply has no faith or expectation that Bucs coach Todd Bowles can or will develop a double-digit edge rusher. When he gets his hands on a veteran edge rusher, Bowles does well.<\/p>\n

The next edge rusher drafted as a rookie with Bowles \u2014 as coordinator or head coach \u2014 who turns into a double-digit sack guy will be Bowles\u2019 first.<\/p>\n

Rookies? They just don\u2019t develop under Bowles. Three or four years later, they\u2019re on the NFL scrap heap.<\/p>\n

Joe doesn\u2019t believe in taking matches to a valuable first-round pick<\/p>\n

But here is the catch: If the Bucs do bring in Reuben Bain or Akheem Mesidor on Thursday night, \u201cthis Joe\u201d demands the Bucs hire their position coach at the University of Miami, Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive Jason Taylor. And then \u00a0give Taylor full and unimpeded autonomy to coach the edge rushers. No interference from Bowles or any other assistants. Taylor only answers to Bucs AC\/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht or someone with the last name \u201cGlazer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe has had it with Bucs drafting edge rushers and the defensive coaches trying to turn them into safeties.<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday, Joe read a combine notes column cobbled together by Jonathan Jones of CBS, and he had a very interesting nugget on Taylor. It seems Taylor is now on NFL teams\u2019 radars<\/a> for the job he is doing with defensive ends in Miami.<\/p>\n

Two sources on different teams brought this up to me unprompted recently. Each one had high praise for Pro Football Hall of Famer Jason Taylor, who has been working at Miami as the defensive ends\/rush coach the past few years.<\/p>\n

Teams have raved about the quality of the pre-draft interviews with Miami rushers Rueben Bain and Akheem Mesidor.<\/p>\n

In short, NFL types Jones spoke to say the Dolphins legend knows what he\u2019s doing with his young pupils.<\/p>\n

Said an AFC scout: \u201cJason Taylor has done a great job with those dudes. They all bring him up a lot and that shows that he cares. They were really buttoned up.\u201d<\/p>\n

And an NFC defensive coach: \u201cJason Taylor is coaching these dudes. They are sharp in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not developing an edge rusher is a hallmark of the Bucs. It isn\u2019t a Licht thing or even a Bowles thing.<\/p>\n

Just like the Bucs have never had a quarterback they\u2019ve drafted get a significant second contract with the team, the Bucs franchise has never developed a double-digit edge rusher since the team drafted Lee Roy Selmon with their very first pick in franchise history back in 1976.<\/p>\n

Team Glazer or Licht needs to call Taylor and ask what he needs to move to Tampa. Then after a check clears, tell him to work his magic and if anyone gets in his way, he has the final say of what to do with defensive ends.<\/p>\n

This not developing edge rushers is way past an annoyance. It\u2019s a franchise epidemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hire this man! \u201cThis Joe\u201d has gone on record: If the Bucs are thinking about drafting an edge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5961,5960,399,398,396,397,99,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-589880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}