Former Bucs QB reacts.
Former Bucs quarterback Chris Simms said he has a tried-and-true method for determining a good team.
He looks at one area of the team’s roster and he can tell right away if that team should be feared or is potentially a poser.
That would be the personnel in the trenches.
And for Simms, who now talks football for NBC, [there is no team](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqXFs4va3aQ) in the league with better overall players in the starting offensive and defensive fronts than the Bucs.
(Of course, Simms doesn’t count outside linebackers as “linemen.”)
> “The first thing you look at, just like you do with any other team is, I look at offensive and defensive lines and just go, ‘The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are under the radar one of the most the best offensive lines in football,’ especially when Tristan works in there, who’s arguably in the conversation for best left tackle in the game,” Simms said.
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> “And then the defensive line is phenomenal. There’s no team in football that’s going to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and go, ‘Oh, we can just, we can manhandle them up front on this side of the ball or that side of the ball.’
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> “No way.”
Simms has a helluva point. The only other team that may claim this honor is Philadelphia. Like the Bucs, the Eagles have excellent defensive tackles.
If Calijah Kancey breaks out like so many people think he will, Joe doesn’t know if the Eagles are any better than the Bucs on the defensive side of the ball.
And when Wirfs is on the field, the Bucs are just as good as the Eagles on offense.