Who will be the Buccaneers quarterback following Tom Brady’s retirement? | You Pod to Win the Game

Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson and Frank Schwab discuss Tampa Bay’s options at quarterback. Charles says there is a lot of buzz surrounding the Bucs acquiring a veteran from the AFC. While he also thinks they could be in line to draft a quarterback with the 19th pick in the first round. Hear the full conversation on the You Pod to Win the Game podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.

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CHARLES ROBINSON: The Bucs, they're going to take a cap hit in this $35.1 million. Now they can designate a post-June 1 retirement and basically split apart the cap hit, so they can spread it out over a couple years. Buzz here at the Senior Bowl, in Mobile, Alabama by the way, the buzz is connecting like Derek Carr. Like that's probably the Derek Carr destination.

I only believe that if the Bucs are like, let's not reboot completely now. Let's not just nuke it right now and start all over again. Let's see if we can maybe put this back together again, you know, with some health. Yeah, we're going to lose some older guys. Maybe there's going to be some cap casualties of some of the older guys.

I don't know. I feel like now is the right time to do it. And what's really interesting, too, is you have the Bucs sitting there at 19. Anthony Richardson, this quarterback out of Florida whose super high ceiling guy, tools like crazy, but people seem to be equating him not as a player, but in terms of development as like a Jordan Love situation. Hey, if he didn't have all the develop in front of him, he'd be like a top 5 pick.

But as you get closer to the draft, teams are going to say, well, a lot of raw skills here. It's going to take time to develop this guy and that he could potentially be a back half of the first round kind of guy. I know some draft analysts who say he's not even a first round pick, whatever. I'm not a draft analyst, so I'm not going to get into that argument.

But I do think it's intriguing that Tampa's sitting there at 19. Kyle Trask is the only quarterback on the roster right now. And it'll be interesting to see what Tampa ultimately decides to do not only with maybe just doing the entire roster rebuild, one big meteor strike in 2023 and whether or not they want to take a quarterback in the first round.

FRANK SCHWAB: And I honestly think you take-- if Richardson falls to you and you like him in a draft process, and I think they would well enough, no matter whether you signed Derek Carr or not, you draft that guy. And if it ends up the Derek Carr starts all five years of Richardson's rookie deal, fine. That means he's probably played pretty well.

They do have to look at this roster and say, man, we're really not far off if we can get this guy out. They're going to talk themselves into it. And they're going to want a veteran. And obviously Derek Carr is the top veteran out there.

CHARLES ROBINSON: Look, I think if you're Todd Bowles, you're sitting there going, I don't know if I survive a reboot. Like he's probably like, I got, well--

FRANK SCHWAB: Like straight up.

CHARLES ROBINSON: Any coach in that position is sitting there going, no, I got to-- I got to keep trying to win now. I don't want to do a reboot because I won't make it. And you know, that potentially be my last job in the NFL.

Here's the thing about Carr. Remember, you're dealing with some salary cap issues here even if you split post June 1.

FRANK SCHWAB: Yeah.

CHARLES ROBINSON: What's Carr going to command? What kind of contract is he be looking for? He's probably a guy who can manage to get a deal that's not a one-year show me. I mean, he doesn't-- people know what he, sort of, is. So it's not like a one-year show me to me.

It's more like somebody's going to look at them and say, OK, we've got a three-year window here and then just go, well, either he's our bridge or he ends up being our starter, you know, or he's our bridge and then two years in, we're like, oh, no, he's fine. We're great. We just got another three or four years and let's--

FRANK SCHWAB: Extend him like Kirk Cousins.

CHARLES ROBINSON: Right. Right, exactly. Yeah, perfect example, Kirk Cousins.

FRANK SCHWAB: And it's tough. It's going to be tough for them. They're not drafting high enough to get one of the top guys, don't have the cap space. They just go spend whoever they want to spend on. It could be a few years for them. You know, we'll see where they go with it.