NFL Rumors: Bruce Arians set ’Collapse for Caleb’ into motion with QB statement
The Buccaneers went from a Super Bowl contender with a Hall of Fame quarterback to a franchise with the worst cap concerns in the league and a laughably bad quarterback situation seemingly overnight.
Former Bucs head coach Bruce Arians, who is still acting as a senior advisor for the team, exposed the dire state of their QB plan with one statement on Thursday.
“I think we’re in good hands with Kyle Trask,” Arians told Rich Eisen on his radio show.
"I think we're in good hands with Kyle Trask."@BruceArians told us where he thinks #GoBucs will turn in 2023 now that @TomBrady has retired for good:#NFL #NFLCombine #NFLFreeAgency #NFLDraft @ktrask9 pic.twitter.com/y5TRkTucuf
— Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) February 23, 2023
Kyle Trask is Tampa Bay’s solution to losing Tom Brady to retirement? And fans are supposed to feel confident? Yeah, no.
Basically, the Bucs are admitting that they don’t have the money to go out and get a quarterback to keep them on the right side of .500. Going with Trask is all but signaling that the 2023 season will be a tank job with the ultimate goal of landing the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, a road that leads in all likelihood to USC’s Caleb Williams.
It’s not a bad strategy either. Spend a year working on the cap issues, then land a generational quarterback in the draft. The hard part will be saying things like “we’re in good hands with Kyle Trask” with a straight face for a whole year.