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Pewter Report’s Josh Queipo solutions your questions from the @PewterReport Twitter account this week within the Bucs Mailbag. Submit your query to the Bucs Mailbag every week through Twitter utilizing the hashtag #PRMailbag. Listed below are the Bucs questions we selected to reply for this week’s version.
QUESTION: Hello Josh, is it ” Baker Mayfield or Bust?” Are there another reliable choices at QB for the Buccaneers that would preserve them because the NFC South champions?
Effectively … Jason Licht and the workforce answered that query, didn’t they?
Baker Mayfield set profession highs in completions (364), passing yards (4,045) and touchdowns (28) whereas main the Bucs to their third consecutive division title and a Wild Card spherical win. He additionally made his first Professional Bowl the place he was named the Offensive MVP.
Mayfield is ready to earn base salaries of $30 million in 2024 and 2025. The primary 12 months of the contract is totally assured and $20 million of Mayfield’s $30 million within the second 12 months is assured. He stands to earn $40 million in base wage in 12 months three of the contract, which isn’t assured.
With the Bucs very luke heat on Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, who turns 36 this 12 months and is coming off a torn Achilles, Mayfield was the best choice in free company for Tampa Bay. And there’s a feeling that Mayfield may need been the very best quarterback in free company had he hit the market.
QUESTION: I do know we would like the large names again first, however one I don’t hear anybody speaking about is Chase McLaughlin. Ought to we be anxious about him hitting free company?
ANSWER: Chase McLaughlin had one of many biggest seasons by a kicker in Bucs historical past final 12 months. Hitting 29-of-31 area objective makes an attempt for a 93.5% success charge, McLaughlin ranked tied for seventh within the NFL in make charge. Much more impressively he was 7-of-8 from past 50 yards. That potential to hit from downtown was a trait his predecessor Ryan Succop simply didn’t have in his bag.
Houston kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn simply re-signed for three-years and $15.9 million at a mean of $5.3 million per 12 months. That makes him the fourth-highest paid kicker by APY. Fairbairn’s 2023 was a bit higher than McLaughlin’s as he hit on 27-of-28 makes an attempt (96.4%), whereas changing 5-of-6 from past 50. Fairbairn additionally has an extended monitor document of success than McLaughlin as his profession conversion charge is 87.1% to McLaughlin’s 82.8%.
McLaughlin is coming off of a one-year, prove-it deal and can doubtless be on the lookout for the soundness of a multi-year pact. The Bucs went an identical route with Succop in 2021, signing him to a three-year, $12 million deal. Accounting for wage cap inflation that very same deal would eclipse Fairbairn’s deal by $600,000. I doubt this occurs however honest market worth for McLaughlin is probably going someplace round $13.5 to $15 million over three years.
Bucs common supervisor Jason Licht spoke about McLaughlin in Indianapolis through the 2024 NFL Scouting Mix, saying that the workforce was going to achieve out to McLaughlin. Licht and firm have a protracted monitor document of permitting gamers to check free company whereas nonetheless finally securing their companies. They did so with each cornerbacks Carlton Davis III and Jamel Dean in addition to linebacker Lavonte David.
The workforce almost certainly has a good supply on the desk with an settlement that McLaughlin can discover if the market has a special quantity for him. However the Bucs have proven at this level they’ve an excellent deal with available on the market worth of their gamers.
QUESTION: our draft place I believe the sting rushers obtainable in free company can be higher than any edge rusher that might doubtless fall to us at No. 26. Are you listening to something concerning the Bucs doubtlessly spending any cash on that place in free company?
The highest of the sting rusher class was severely depleted as soon as the franchise tag interval handed. Josh Allen of the Jaguars and Brian Burns of the Panthers each bought the tag. The following tier of edge rushers contains Danielle Hunter of the Vikings, Jonathan Greenard of the Texans, Bryce Huff of the Jets and Za’Darius Smith of the Browns.
Hunter might be the one one which group that can command a price ticket north of $20 million per 12 months, whereas the opposite three ought to are available in between $15 and $19 million.
The Bucs have a obtrusive want for an alpha outdoors linebacker. They just lately launched Shaq Barrett after a profitable five-year run that included a sack title in 2019 (19.5) and a Tremendous Bowl in 2020. Rookie Yaya Diaby had a promising rookie marketing campaign, however remains to be a terrific deal away from being a dominant presence who can tackle double groups and elevate these round him.
Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, Anthony Nelson, Markees Watts and Jose Ramirez signify strong depth with some upside, however none are prone to ascend into that function.
This 12 months’s draft class has proficient edge rushers, however they require quite a lot of projection and improvement for them to be that man that the Bucs really want. It could make sense that the Bucs would possibly wish to pursue somebody like Huff or Greenard.
However the fact is Jason Licht hardly ever wades into these waters. Sure, he signed Barrett to a giant deal in 2021. However that wasn’t till after he bought Barrett initially on a budget for simply $5 million in 2019 after which had him play beneath the franchise tag in 2020.
Licht has doled out simply two enormous offers to road free brokers within the final a number of years. One was for Tom Brady who was the undisputed GOAT of all quarterbacks. The second was to Ryan Jensen in 2019. Jensen was thought of the most effective facilities within the sport at the moment.
Licht additionally stated in Indianapolis that the workforce was targeted on re-signing its personal free brokers. Particularly, he talked about Baker Mayfield and Mike Evans. The Bucs have adopted by with these having re-signed each.
Different priorities Licht listed have been Antoine Winfield Jr. (franchise tagged), Lavonte David and Chase McLaughlin. Including all of these contracts up will create a giant dent within the Bucs wage cap house. Whereas they will create extra room and would be capable to afford a few of these free brokers, the probabilities are low that they are going to.
The extra doubtless situation is that the Bucs attempt to re-create the Barrett magic of 2019. Be looking out for extra worth choices like Josh Uche or Andrew Van Ginkel. Uche had simply three sacks final 12 months, however 11 in 2022. Over that two-year span he maintained an 18.2% strain charge. He’ll almost certainly command a one-year, $8.5 million contract.
Van Ginkel, who had 91.9 Professional Soccer Focus grade final 12 months, which ranked seventh within the league, is a situational go rusher who had a career-high six sacks final 12 months. He has developed right into a linebacker/edge ruhser hybrid who might web a two-year deal for $15 million.
QUESTION: Will the Bucs be fiscally accountable in free company or might be shelling out silly cash as an alternative?
The “silly” cash the Bucs have and might be shelling out will go to acquainted faces. They’ve already re-upped with prolific receiver Mike Evans for 2 years and $41 million. And on Sunday it was introduced that they had come to phrases with quarterback Baker Mayfield for 3 years and $100 million.
Add within the $17,123,000 franchise tag for Antoine Winfield Jr. and the doubtless $7-$7.5 million for Lavonte David and you may see the {dollars} are actually including up (roughly $165 million).
As a consequence of all the investments the workforce has to make to “run it again” there might be a tighter leash on exterior spending. Search for the workforce to make fiscally accountable selections on exterior free brokers on the security, linebacker, operating again and inside offensive line. The excellent news for the workforce is that each one of those positions look to be very deep which ought to permit the Bucs to seek out good worth on a short-term deal for a number of gamers.
There have been a couple of different questions, however they have been additionally associated to the potential of the Bucs not retaining Mayfield and they also have been rendered moot with Sunday’s breaking information.