Talkin’ Bucs needs.
As noted yesterday, it is weird for Joe to hear folks discuss how the Bucs need a left guard.
That’s about as dumb as saying the Bucs need a running back.
Maybe folks are watching a different game and a different team, but Joe saw the Bucs have one of the best offensive lines in the game, blocking for the No. 3 passing team in the league and opening holes for the No. 4 rushing attack.
Teams don’t do that with a hole on the offensive line.
A former high priest of the PFF tribe, Sam Monson, tried to suggest on Mina Kimes’ podcast that left guard could be a target for the Bucs in the draft. Kimes, ever so softly and gently, detailed why that is nonsense.
In Kimes’ mind, Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht’s draft targets should be defense, defense, defense and more defense.
As for the Bucs’ offense, she summed it up in four words. “Good team, good offense.”
Kimes praised Licht for building an offense in what she views as the right way — by loading up in the trenches.
“I was just like, damn this offense as it turns out, when you draft and develop you’re offensive line, you’re pretty much in good shape there,” Kimes said.
This is mostly true. If you have a good offensive line, it gives your playmakers a chance.
So, where on the defense would Kimes try improve? She’d go edge rusher then corner. Joe could see an argument for either.
Despite the Bucs drafting YaYa Diaby and Chris Braswell with second-day picks the past two years, YaYa looks to be OK and Braswell, well, he is a big question mark despite a “shock” forecast.
Don’t get Joe started on the two practice squad warriors who can’t seem to climb out of hibernation on Sundays.
So yeah, given that Haason Reddick is on a one-year prove-it deal, who knows if he will be around next year? Joe could easily make a case for an edge rusher at No. 19 for the Bucs next month. Corner, too, at No. 19 is logical, so long as you think he can finish a playoff game.
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