Who Will Step Up in Place of Alex Cappa? | Bucs Insider

Next man up!!!

The O-line has been really good since the bye week. Might need a little bit of help on plays that take longer to develop keep Gronk in and Fournette to help give Tom a little extra time in the pocket. Brady has been much better at moving with the pocket – and even in a few cases rolling out of the pocket to avoid the rush….that helps the O-line out a lot. Let’s go Bucs!!

Come on sign Godwin we need you

It is hard to tell what a guy is really thinking inside…or what he’s being pushed into by his agent. FA’s signing with a team can be relative to a financial outcome or a competitive outcome. If these guys want to be in a competitive environment knowing they’ll be playing for a chance to go to the SB hopefully that comes into play when it comes to signing the contract. You can’t sign everyone to top dollars – there is a CAP after all. Hopefully the numbers can be met for all of the FA’s to keep the team together. Imagine with a full offseason and pre-season….and them staying healthy for the entire season – the sky is the limit. Evans could put up 6+ more seasons to start a career at over 1000 and set a record that could never be broken. Godwin missed 4 games and still put up great numbers, AB is getting back to the level he expects of himself, Miller, Johnson, Mickens….not sure what happened to JWat – but man that’s a list of receiving threats that would make any team jealous!! Then you have OJ, Brate, Gronk…RoJo, Fournette – it could be the most ridiculous offense ever assembled.

@Chris Gilligan Yeah. It is awesome to see the talent. I agree that it is hard to tell what the players are thinking. Plus, there are factors like some of them came here because of Tom. There are factors like whether they get a ring and conversely whether they get blown out by the Saints again. I feel like if they get blown out by The Saints, Gronk could lean toward retiring. That is my thought. He said that he would decide about 4 weeks after the end of the season. Making it past The Saints is so important because of how they were humiliated last time and they haven’t beat any of the top teams. I fully feel like they have the capacity to win the whole thing but shoot, I hate that they lost Cappa.

@Wishing B I think they all see what’s in front of them – even if they do lose on Sunday. All of the guys say the right things in the press conferences. And on the field they seem to be genuinely having a good time. But behind the scenes – maybe Godwin wants to go and be “the guy” somewhere and make his own records and a bigger payday. Maybe Fournette really wants to find a spot where he can be the lead back again. And maybe Gronk will retire – it’s gotta be a grind to play as many snaps as he has this season – and not be the top receiving TE. Next season if they all stick around he could easily be 3rd in that group and play mostly a blocking role. Hope they can keep the gang together – sure would be fun to watch them a couple more seasons all together with TB12 at the helm!! I can’t see Brady lasting beyond 2 more years after this one – but hey…he’s defying the odds every day.

@Chris Gilligan So many of these guys could be “the guy” somewhere else and make their own records and a bigger payday. Many of them are used to be “the guy”

Lol, I hear you but I honestly think Stinnie is better than anyone they’d be able to pick up off the street right now.

that would be too easy and make too much sense

@Anodyne Hipster Influencer yeah i was jk. I just think it’s ridiculous they’re allowing the packers to add a tackle that just played a playoff game for the colts. And the bills got to add a pro bowl rb after their guy got injured. Rosters should be set in the playoffs. Instead teams are allowed to exploit the covid rules

@nunchucks don’t wish an injury on anyone but I’ll take any advantage we can get up front. I respect your opinion though 👍🏼

@Anthony Josh we played joe have in the saints game he’ll no he’s trash

@Anthony Josh He allowed two sacks on one play? That is really bad.

It’s not the same guy tho

@inttruders two sacks the entire game

Very hard to replace Cappa. Ronald Jones, though, in some ways he was the part of the line versus teams like the Saints where the line broke and Brady got sacked. He is so fast that you love him but he was the weakest blocker. Brady has been sacked a lot less since he has been out. Still want him back but he makes me a little nervous that way. Tom has never lost even one game in 20 years when he wasn’t sacked. That statistic is the one that I look at.

Poor Scott has to shill for them.

it would be great and as a result arians would have to retire and the bucs could get a solid HC like Josh McDaniels

Yea we did a good job using two TE sets to help on edge rushers vs Washington

Well we beat a better defense with a better pass rush last week and Heineke played out of his mind. If Gronk and D.Smith continue what they did last week along Wirfs I think they will do amazing. Larsen allowed 2 sacks lets hope he improves