2024 Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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The 2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers started 6 white athletes in 2024. They stay at the same amount 6 in 2024. All on offense. QB Baker Mayfield replaced The GOAT Tom Brady last season and is back in 2024. The Bucs are 2-0 to start the 2024 season.
Total white players on the 53 man roster has improved from 16 in 2023 to 18 in 2024.
There are 6 white starters. Grade D.

QB- Baker Mayfield, Kyle Trask
TE-Cade Otton, Payne Durham
T- Luke Goedeke, Justin Skule
G-Cody Mauch, Elijah Klein
G-Ben Bredeson-Royce Newman
C-Graham Barton, Robert Hainsey

NT-Greg Gaines
DE-Ben Stille
LB- Anthony Nelson

PK-Chase McLaughlin
PT-Jake Camarda
LS-Evan Deckers

After a stellar 2023 season, Baker Mayfield who led The Bucs to the 2023 NFC South Conference Championship will once again lead Tampa Bay in 2024. Mayfield threw for over 4,000 yards, 28 TD's and only 10 INT's. Kyle Trask will back up Mayfield.
The under used Cade Otton will start again at the TE position. Backing up Otton will be Payne Durham.
Defensively, there are no starters however there are 3 back up players in 2024. An increase by one. In addition to the consistent LB Anthony Nelson and DT Greg Gaines, DE Ben Stille from Arizona by way of Nebraska has been added.
 
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Jared Goff played really poorly in Week 2 in my gay opinion. But it couldn't have happened against a nicer QB story. Both Goff and Mayfield are discarded former #1 picks who after a year of acclimation, seem capable of taking their new teams deep into a playoff run.

I wonder if you polled the Browns parking lot tailgates around 12:45pm what percentage of them would still pick DeShaun over the boring white guy. Some of those who are sick of DeShaun surely now want "Shadeur" (sic) Sanders!
 
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CS, thanks for the info! Bucs are not bad on offense. Just to add, TE Ko Kieft is 3rd string and been on the team for a number of years now. So 19 total is not too shabby. The Braintrust here clearly decided to go White on offensive line at some point. 8 plus a few more on the practice squad is not coincidence.

If I had to gripe, the Bucs had 4 White receivers during the preseason who played well. I thought Cody Thompson might stick and then maybe 2 others would go PS. Well they were all cut and now only Thompson and Ryan Miller (Furman) remain on the PS. Ughh.
 
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Freethinker said:
Well they were all cut and now only Thompson and Ryan Miller (Furman) remain on the PS. Ughh.
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Furman's Ryan Miller was promoted from the PS way back in week 4 or 5. I reported on the weekly thread that he had made his first NFL reception. He seems to have stuck so far. Since then, he's caught 6 more passes for 70 yards and a TD. I remember last year when I watched him play against Clemson at TE, there was talk that he could make an NFL roster as a WR. Hopefully he can build on his success so far.
He ran a 4.5 40 and posted a 6.82 3 cone drill time at his pro day. Not bad. Deebo Samuel's 3 cone was 7.03. His 40 time war 4.48.
 
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Miller clearly has the talent to be a starting receiver in the NFL. Hopefully he continues to gets snaps, though it’s tough on Tampa as their depth chart is pretty deep at the position.
 
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interesting in the the video is how the RB back ignores Mayfield and his contribution to his run.
 
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That runningback was on the Jim Rome show yesterday and spoke very highly of Baker. It is annoying when these players don’t immediately thank their teammates after a play like that.
 
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