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New Bucs OLB Al-Quadin Muhammad
Look, Joe is happy the Bucs signed a dude who had double-digit sacks last year. A little stunned this happened, actually.
But peeling away the onion skins, there are all sorts of reasons to wonder if Al-Quadin Muhammad is that guy, or if last year was a total fluke.
Muhammad racked up 11 sacks. He never started one game last year. Pretty impressive, yes. But if he turned into this sack monster, why did Lions coach Dan Campbell and Muhammad’s defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers not start him?
And how many of those sacks were indirectly due to teams shifting so much coverage to Aiden Hutchinson, who by the way, had more than double the sacks last year (14.5) than YaYa Diaby (7).
Muhammad, drafted in 2017, never had more than six sacks until last year, a contract year. So at the age of 30, Muhammad finally got it all figured out? Weird that it would happen when a guy turns 30.
Look, if this Muhammad can get six sacks, that’s six times more than what Chris Braswell had last year.
Would Joe love for Muhammad to duplicate what he did last year with the Bucs this year? You damn right.
And Joe figures that Bucs coach got good intel on Muhammad not just from new inside linebacker Alex Anzalone, who played in Detroit last year, but Bowles also got good intel from two of his closest friends, Campbell and Rodgers.
Of course, one could also ask if Muhammad really was this good, why did the Lions let Muhammad escape from Detroit?