The Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans was spoken about the day of the NFL trade deadline.
Buccaneers general manager Todd Licht discussed the team’s new coaching academy on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football programme as the trade deadline for the NFL was drawing near. However, the GMFB team managed to slip Licht a question about Mike Evans that was pertinent to the day’s events.
I.e., would the Bucs think about dealing Evans? Licht, as was to be expected, withheld anything from the public save to say that the organisation is still dedicated to Evans despite their inability to reach a new contract extension at the beginning of the season.
“I’m really excited for Mike to carry on with his fantastic career in Tampa and to extend his run of 1000-yard seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,” the statement said.
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Moving Mike Evans would be a seismic shift in the direction of the team, and the Bucs have remained silent on NFL trade rumours on this particular day. However, there is some sense to a trade for a team that has lost three straight and might lose Evans in the winter now that the opportunity for a new deal has expired (at Evans’ demand).
The Bucs are still holding out hope that Evans can make it through the season and that the club with the smallest salary cap can find a way to sign him again. Having spent all ten of his professional seasons in Tampa Bay, he is without a doubt the team’s all-time top receiver.
Evans leads current teammate Chris Godwin, who is ranked No. 2 on the record with 10,932 career yards (6,118). In the team’s history, no other receiver has even half as many yards as Evans. In terms of catches (716) and touchdowns (86), he also leads.
Nevertheless, Evans was the first guy Bucs beat reporter Jenna Laine mentioned when asked to name a player who may be dealt before the deadline last week:
Is it likely to occur? Nope. But if I didn’t bring it up, I would be negligent. Deryk Gilmore, Evans’ agent, and Evans, who will be a free agency after this season, expressed their disappointment that an extension could not be reached before the start of the game. Evans even stated that if Tampa Bay had no future plans for him, he will leave the team.
Bucs are still attempting to pass the ball to Mike Evans.
Getting more passes to Evans is a problem for the Buccaneers as the NFL trade deadline approaches. This season, he has accumulated 507 yards on 33 receptions; however, those totals are somewhat distorted due to his 171 yards and six receptions in Week 2 against the Bears.
The Bucs played faster in that game, but in the last several weeks, they have significantly slowed down. Three of the last four games have seen Evans limited to receiving yards of less than fifty. Dave Canales, the offensive coordinator, was asked if the team could play quicker to include Evans more.
The issue has been penalties.
“Increasing the tempo is always the intention, but when we increased the speed during the pass, many more penalties happened. They’re happening without any beat. We’ll investigate resuming it,” he remarked.
Veteran sports writer Sean Deveney works for Heavy.com, covering the NBA and NFL. With over 20 years of NBA coverage experience, including 17 years as the main NBA correspondent for Sporting News, he has been writing for Heavy since 2019. A writer of seven nonfiction books, Deveney is the author of “Fun City,” “Before Wrigley became Wrigley,” and “Facing Michael Jordan.” Additional details on Sean Deveney
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