The NFL Trade Deadline is approaching fast and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have still not made any moves. 

Bucs fans don't need to hold their breath.

While this team still has several obvious areas where it would improve almost immediately via a trade, this team isn't in a position to leverage any part of the future for success now.

While the glass-half-full people would tell you that this team is barely out of first place in the NFC South and the playoffs are still very much on the table, the overall projections for this team in the playoffs, if they make it at all, are not good.

The Bucs have generally lost badly to the playoff teams on their schedule and they aren't a trade deadline move away from fixing that issue.

Trade deadline moves rarely move the needle much for a team like the Bucs that doesn't have a ton of needs. A new head coaching isn't coming to Tampa. There aren't any franchise quarterbacks on the market. A new running back can't fix a bad scheme.

Outside of a few small areas, there isn't much that would change anything about Tampa's current outlook as a bad playoff team.

As hard as it may be to stomach, this is the abject truth about this roster, and that isn't a bad thing. The Bucs are still playing from behind as they deal with the fallout of several years of going all-in head on. Sending picks for the future away now, on a year that is already a bit of a lost cause, doesn't make sense.

If any moves come at all, they are unlikely to be big and include anything beyond a Day Three pick. 

The future is bright in Tampa. Taking any of that shine away to lead to a marginal increase in the ability to compete today is a mistake.

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