Lavonte David announced his retirement in March, but a move the Bucs made the next month gave their longtime linebacker cause to wonder if he should have stuck around for a 15th season. <\/p>\n
The Bucs used their first-round pick to select edge rusher Rueben Bain and David recounted a conversation that he had with the rookie during an appearance on This is Football with Kevin Clark of ESPN. David said that he thinks Bain is part of an \u201camazing\u201d roster in Tampa and that he briefly wondered if he made a mistake by retiring before having a chance to share the field with the University of Miami star. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey are going to be some animals,\u201d David said. \u201cI knew Bain already. I reached out to him after he got drafted, he told me, man, like, \u2018Man, I wish you just waited one more year.\u2019 And, I was like in my mind like, \u2018Maybe I should have<\/a>, but, you know, the deal is done already. I\u2019m out, my guy.\u2019 But, I told him I\u2019m definitely going to be there to be supporting him and stuff like that. I definitely have high hopes for those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t sound like David is still giving any thought to playing, but he said he has thought about moving into coaching at some point in the future. If that should happen in Tampa, David will have a chance to help make sure Bain lives up to his potential. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lavonte David announced his retirement in March, but a move the Bucs made the next month gave their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-760502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760502","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=760502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}