Buccaneers traded up to draft a guy who specializes in situations they’re never in
By Josh Hill
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have a bloodlust for the hearts and souls of their fans.
The NFL Draft is always an interesting event, as dreams are made and hearts are broken. There are positions that often times aren’t taken — like kicker or fullback — because you don’t value those positions over more impact positions on the roster.
That doesn’t mean these positions aren’t important, but they’re kind of like the sprinkles on donuts, you don’t need them until you realize you do. But to remedy this, you walk to the cabinet and get some sprinkles to put on your donut, you do not trade up into the second round to draft some sprinkles you can buy at the dollar store.
Of course, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers being the franchise they are, tried to buck this anti-kicker agenda and went hard to fill a position (I guess) of need.
It’s not that the Buccaneers selected a kicker in the draft, it’s how they did it. The team traded back into the second round at a time when some serious impact players were still on the board that might have further helped the rebuilding of their roster. Instead, the Buccaneers went above and beyond in letting me –and all six other Buccaneers fans in the world — down when they picked a kicker with the pick they traded for.
The second round.
Second.
Round.
Look, for all of you out there trolling the Bucs for this — first of all, thanks for noticing. It’s nice to be noticed every once in a while. I promise we’re an NFL franchise even if we do our best to challenge this.
Roberto Aguayo is the kicker of the draft, and probably of the last few draft. Let’s look beyond the fact that this is like being the skinniest kid at fat camp and acknowledge that this guys apparently is incapable of missing a field goal. Of course, now that he’s in Tampa he won’t be able to hit the broadside of a barn, but let’s pretend he’s the next Janakowski.
In fact, let’s go real world simulation with this and say Aguayo is stepping onto the field for 57-yard game-winning field goal. You know why I’m not stressing in this moment? It’s because it will never happen. The Bucs traded into the second round to take a guy who specializes in situations they’re never in.
It’s been real. See you in 2017, folks.
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