The NFL trade deadline has come and gone, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers unsurprisingly made no moves.

The outlook for this season is pretty bleak for the Bucs after dropping the last three games, and the rest of the season doesn't seem like it is going to get much better based on what we have seen recently.

Worse than that, the lack of action by the Buccaneers today reveals some major concerns with Tampa's process and how they are approaching this season.

The Buccaneers are currently a bad team in a very bad division. Even the top team in the NFC South doesn't get the moniker of 'good' based on how bad the rest of the division is, and the Bucs aren't even in that spot as is.

There is still enough of a season left for the Bucs to take control of the division, sneak into the playoffs, and then lose in one of the early rounds, but that isn't the accomplishment that some fans and the staff see it as.

The Buccaneers are unwilling to be bad for the purpose of getting good down the road, and that strategy is going to leave this team in a state of mediocrity for as long as they refuse to make a change in that manner of thinking.

The main mouthpieces of the organization would tell you this; the team is just a short way away from the top of the division. There is talent here-enough talent to win the division. Why sell if the division is within grasp? Why buy if this team is good enough to win as it is presently constructed?

This makes sense. It is very easy for the popular accounts on social media to push against any notions of problem with this roster. This is still the coward's way of looking at this roster.

In reality, the Bucs should've been more than willing to sell today due to the fact that this team isn't winning anything of value in the postseason. The sad truth is that even making it to the postseason by itself hurts this team because it just pushes them further from a draft pick that can get this franchise back on track as soon as possible.

The lack of any action today is representative of the overall mentality of this franchise to stay as is, compete, and stay satisficed with being good in a bad division at the expense of mediocrity in the league as a whole.

This is a way of thinking that keeps jobs for people in charge but does little to push the franchise forward. That way of thinking needs to change.

Tampa has plenty of guys on the roster that have value on the market that can't be re-signed in a few months. It sadly seems like we will look bad on today down the road as a missed opportunity to build this roster into even more of a contender for down the road at the benefit of very little right now.

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