Bring him home, Bucs. Make it happen.
Dang, Joe is starting to wonder about the reach of “Pardon My Take” now that the video feed is behind a Netflix paywall.
Look, Joe loves Big Cat and PFT Commenter. They’ve got a great show. And they’re making millions. Major props to them!
So on Tuesday, a JoeBucsFan.com reader (Joe can’t remember the handle of the reader and Joe apologizes for not giving you a shoutout) typed in the comments of a story that Adam Schefter was on “Pardon My Take” talking about the Bucs and beastly free agent edge rusher Trey Hendrickson.
So late Tuesday night Joe listened to the audio feed from iTunes and typed up Schefter’s Bucs chatter on Hendrickson in response to Barstool Sports staffer and Bucs fan Steven Cheah’s inquiry.
Joe sort of wondered since Schefter was on such a major podcast why no one picked up on his take on Hendrickson.
So Joe published the Schefter/Hendrickson intel early Wednesday morning. By 1 p.m., everyone and their brother on social media and the blogosphere was buzzing about how Hendrickson wants to play for the Bucs.
What’s going on here? Barstool Sports and “Pardon My Take” have many, many, many more viewers than Joe. So it’s starting to feel like since “Pardon My Take” moved its video behind a Netflix paywall, their reach has been neutered.
Anyway, among the many that picked up on Joe’s story was Walter Cherepinsky, the guy behind the curtain of WalterFootball.com. And Cherepinsky, who skinned Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht last spring for drafting Emeka Egbuka, even going so far as to mock Licht calling him “Millen,” thinks if Licht does actually land Hendrickson, that would turn the Bucs from a non-playoff team into serious Super Bowl contenders overnight.
There were two primary reasons why the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl five years ago. The first was obviously Tom Brady. The second was the defense was suffocating with a great ability to pressure the quarterback. The Buccaneers have lacked the ability to generate pressure, but obtaining Trey Hendrickson would change that and would allow the Buccaneers to become a legitimate threat in the NFC.
Joe completely and totally agrees with Cherepinsky on this. And you only need to look at the history of the Bucs to see what a ferocious edge rusher means for this team.
Only three times in Bucs history has the team had an edge rusher(s) that a quarterback had to worry about. That was Lee Roy Selmon, Simeon Rice and the duo of Jason Pierre-Paul and Bucs sack king Shaq Barrett.
The Bucs went to the NFC title game with Selmon (1979), won a Super Bowl with Rice (2002) and won a Super Bowl with JPP/Shaq (2020).
That is not just a coincidence, boys and girls.