Buccaneers don't need to get involved in national NFL drama
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have experienced an interesting offseason at the quarterback position, but at least it has been better in Tampa than it has been in San Francisco. What the 49ers have done with Trey Lance has been nothing short of astounding, and the NFL as a whole has struggled to accurately comprehend […]
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have experienced an interesting offseason at the quarterback position, but at least it has been better in Tampa than it has been in San Francisco.
What the 49ers have done with Trey Lance has been nothing short of astounding, and the NFL as a whole has struggled to accurately comprehend exactly what is going on over there.
With Trey Lance apparently on the market, some Bucs fans have proposed the team pursuing the controversial signal-caller. Tampa needs to stay away.
Trey Lance is not a bad quarterback. That hasn't been proven at this point. On the other hand, Lance also hasn't been proven as a good quarterback either.
Lance's handful of healthy games in the NFL have made it next to impossible to adequately identify what the former first-round pick brings to the table, and that is why anyone making a definitive statement on him is silly.
The team that will acquire Lance is rolling the dice on a guy that could be a face of a franchise or a complete waste of capital and money. The Bucs don't need to roll that dice.
Not that it wouldn't be worth it for Tampa to go after a guy like that during a normal year, but Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask are already dice rolls in their own right. Bringing in a third guy could leave the Bucs with even more money and picks invested in a quarterback room that may not have a single starting-caliber player.
If Tom Brady stayed for another year or the team signed a veteran stopgap with a limited chance at a top quarterback in the next draft, Lance would make sense to a degree, but that just isn't the case.
The Bucs would be far better off letting it ride with Baker and Trask in 2023, likely struggling, earning a top pick, and then finding a guy with a much higher chance of becoming an NFL starter in the next draft with a higher-percentage pick.
Taking chances isn't a bad idea for a team like the Bucs that lacks a lot of positive prospects in the short term, but this just isn't a helpful gamble during such a rough period of transition.
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