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A.J. Hawk is now available

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We need a ilb so what about Hawk?

Hear me talk Bucs for half an hour

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I joined the Ron & Keil podcast for half an hour to talk Bucs this past weekend, and the result is up. I'm on from around 54 minutes in. For some reason I kept mispronouncing Jameis. I blame sleep deprivation.

Guard FA Target?

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If cut, could the Bucks target Evans?

Dante Fowler's not a Bucs fan

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Only Mike Evans knows how dominant he was....

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Mike Evans is so good he can't believe himself.

QB Guru explains why Winston is NFL ready.

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Winston's pocket presence is so good that Whitfield calls the Heisman Trophy winner "a savant." During their training together, Whitfield exposed Winston to NFL-type defenses designed to confuse a quarterback and Winston handled it very well. "Florida State had a 400-level NFL curriculum," said Whitfield, "It was very hard for us to confuse him out there."

Jason La Canfora Believes Winston Will Impress After the Combine and Through the Draft

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One of the few national articles I've come across where the author acknowledges what many people have apparently forgotten: Winston has always been loved by nearly everyone he's ever met. His coaches and teammates had his back through everything for the last two years, and he's persevered through it. He was a media darling before the sexual assault accusation, and La Canfora believes owners and coaches will become more and more infatuated with him as the draft process plays out. NFL execs know they're in a business that is ruthless and unforgiving, and they will surely do their homework over and over again to determine if Winston is the bad kid the media (and he at times) have made him out to be, or if he was just that... a kid. I am a firm believer that Winston just needs to get out of the college environment that surrounds Tallahassee, and that putting both that and baseball behind him will bring out the best in Winston. That's a scary thought for someone who, with a target on the back of himself and his entire school, won a national championship, a Heisman, and compiled a 26-1 record. From La Canfora: "Too many people who I know and trust who know him too well -- the real him; the behind-the-scenes him; the meeting-room him and the practice field him and the locker-room him -- have vouched for him for me to believe Winston is not a franchise-wrecker. What he is, I've been told, is a driven leader, a gym rat, a football lover who has been steeped in an NFL-style offense. He reads defenses well and he's asked to run Jimbo Fisher's demanding pro style offense where nothing less than excellence is tolerated. And Fisher will be a tremendous advocate for him, and has already told any NFL type who asks exactly what he thinks of this kid and his ability to win games at the next level." "As coaches put Winston on the board, and make him diagram film and draw up plays and dissect opposing schemes and explain why he threw this ball there or that ball there, he will impress. He will be prepared, mentally and physically, for this challenge. As owners spend time having dinner with him in five-star restaurants and being around him socially, they will find that while he is young and far from fully polished, he is a kid they can relate to, one who has a certain charisma and gravitas to him, one who they are comfortable with. Winston will begin to tell his own tale, create his own narrative as the boundary between amateur and professional becomes increasingly blurred, and he will rise in esteem. His film will show him to be better evolved and more pro-ready than anyone else playing his position in this limited quarterback draft class. He will look, as March turns to April and April turns to May, more and more like the consensus pick for the first-overall pick."

Glazers Comfortable with Winston; Have Him Rated Highly

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"After speaking with sources in Tampa Bay and around the league, we've learned that the Buccaneers' owners, the Glazers, are comfortable with Winston, and they are on board with the Buccaneers drafting him with the first-overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft."

Mike Mayock: Marcus Mariota a project for every team except Eagles

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Still to early for all these mocks. I think the true projections will be at the private workouts