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Mike Greenberg enters his 16th season with the Buccaneers and third as Assistant General Manager. Prior to his promotion, Greenberg spent two seasons as the vice president of football administration after eight seasons as director of football administration and two seasons as the coordinator of football administration. He originally joined the club as player personnel assistant in 2010. Greenberg works directly with General Manager Jason Licht on all aspects of the salary cap, contract negotiations, compliance with the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement, as well as the club's financial and strategic planning. He also oversees budgeting for all football operations, including the coaching, scouting, video, athletic training, equipment, groundskeeping, strength and conditioning and player development departments. During the 2025 offseason, the Buccaneers once again placed an emphasis on retaining their own. Greenberg took the lead in the contract negotiations that led to new deals with guard Ben Bredeson and linebacker Lavonte David, while also aiding in the re-signing of wide receiver Chris Godwin, as well as the additions of free agent outside linebacker Haason Reddick and free agent punter Riley Dixon. David's contract was the sixth he has signed with Tampa Bay, all with Greenberg, as David enters his 14th season with the Buccaneers. In 2025, David will tie Derrick Brooks for the second-most seasons played in franchise history (15), trailing only Rondé Barber. Working in tandem with Vice President of Football Research Jacqueline Davidson, Greenberg and his staff pieced together yet another noteworthy free agency haul in 2024, re-signing four of the NFL's top free agents in linebacker Lavonte David, wide receiver Mike Evans, quarterback Baker Mayfield and safety Antoine Winfield Jr., in addition to bringing back safety Jordan Whitehead, who was formerly a starter on the team's Super Bowl LV championship team. After managing to keep the team's core in place following its run to the NFC Divisional Round in 2023, Greenberg also helped add a number of value free agents including cornerback Bryce Hall, offensive lineman Ben Bredeson and wide receiver Sterling Shepard. Greenberg received critical acclaim for his work this offseason, helping the Buccaneers navigate a challenging salary cap situation while re-signing key members of the team and retooling the club's roster through a series of value signings. Despite financial restraints, Greenberg orchestrated the extension of outside linebacker Anthony Nelson, plus the re-signing of cornerback Jamel Dean and linebacker Lavonte David, two of the NFL's top available free agents heading into the 2023 offseason. In addition, Greenberg advised on negotiations in the signings of free agent quarterback Baker Mayfield, defensive lineman Greg Gaines and kicker Chase McLaughlin. In the 2022 offseason, Greenberg worked to sign several free agents, including wide receiver Russell Gage and defensive lineman Akiem Hicks. Greenberg also played a key role in negotiating contracts to re-sign cornerback Carlton Davis III, Pro Bowl receiver Chris Godwin, and Pro Bowl center Ryan Jensen. The 2021 offseason resulted in the Buccaneers becoming the first team in the Super Bowl era to return all 22 starters after winning the Super Bowl. Greenberg played a crucial part in re-signing outside linebacker Shaquil Barrett, linebacker Lavonte David, tight end Rob Gronkowski, defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, running back Leonard Fournette, while also extending Super Bowl LV MVP Tom Brady. Offensive lineman Donovan Smith also signed his second contract extension with the team in March. In addition, Greenberg was able to negotiate a contract extension with nose tackle Vita Vea in Week 18 of the 2021 season. During the 2020 offseason, Greenberg was vital in negotiating quarterback Tom Brady's two-year contract. He also oversaw the re-signings of former Pro Bowlers Jason Pierre-Paul and Ndamukong Suh, two key veteran presences on the Buccaneers defense. Greenberg was named a 2020 Tampa Bay Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree, in addition to also being listed on The Athletic's "NFL 40 Under 40: The rising stars shaping the direction of the NFL." Fug it. Im sold...bring him in.

The book is out on how to defend him. It's not the offense because the throws are there. It's literally BY. If you defend the boundary numbers out, instruct your pass rushers to stay disciplined to impact throwing lanes, drop LB into shallow zones with two deep all that's left is bait throws over the middle that lead to turnovers, throws out to the flat, outs and comebacks. If you're defending the boundary correctly all of those throws will be contested heavily and lead to little yac and big plays. All the other team has to do is survive the scripted part of the early game and sit back and let Bryce inevitably panic.

For anyone questioning why The NY Times is posting this, The NY Times owns The Athletic which is their attempt to be espn.

Local papers have to care about Tepper and what he thinks because access to the Panthers has changed since Tepper bought the team. The NY Times... Well they don't give a fug what Tepper thinks. Lmao

They were supposedly looking for football players and looking at production. As opposed to athletes. Looking for dawgs I really think Tepper meddled hard in the top of the 2024 draft and so that throws the value system out the window. This year I feel pretty good about the players we brought in, and the guys we picked on day three in 2024 yielded some dividends. Viewed through the lens of Tepper meddled round 1/2 and the later picks are pretty decent, and the 2025 yield looks strong, the narrative about shitty drafting may be dated. If you choose to separate the Tepper and the GM/HC picks it looks much better I don’t know if that scenario is accurate but I think it is reasonable to game it that way This with the misfit players drafted is timely. That is where continuity comes in. When you are changing coaches ever couple of years you get an abundance of players that can be ill suited. Plus it is hard on the players having to learn things and they have to think too much. I think we have seen that. I can’t say what we’d better do, not trying to turn it into that. But if we do not make the right decision on coaching and GM we will be doing it again in two years. At some point you know, you have to maybe stick with some people. I am not here to argue if those people are Dan and Dave just the concept. We have to have that.

do yourself a favor and do not look at the DJ johnson trade, nor who we drafted him over

You know I didn't want Tmac because I felt he didn't fit with Bryce. That said, most of what people are calling drops here and on twitter are not drops. It's him jumping and stretching out his arms and getting to a ball most receivers wouldn't even sniff. Makes it look like a drop because he's getting his hands on them but they are in no way a drop, they are terribly off target throws made to look better than they actually are because Tmac had a ridiculous catching radius

I'm saying it just takes time. With this game in particular, even though it was turnover clean, it somehow made the inability to do anything decent that more obvious. It was just straight up inefficiency and misses. Daffy duck'd

T-Mac gonna be fine for us.

Yea but this is year 3. That’s been happening for a while. Just interesting that this particular game flipped a lot of folks.

The dude saw Josh Freeman at QB

Years into everyone’s tenure after 4 wins 5 wins 7 wins 4 wins etc lol Im in you’re boat now with things believe it or not but also realize this isn’t a quick fix.

Well there's a second Lombardi trophy over there in the midst of it all.

Yeah there's a pretty substantial switch this week. The more tape there is, more evident the reality becomes. The footwork, shallow jittery drops that give him no sight lanes, frenetic pacing, slow pocket speed, inability to outrun IDLs, poor placement, and really, he can't move the ball unless he's running empty sets or has an easy dump off. He'll have 2-3 good intermediates per game (if that).

I think Drai gets 19m if he wants it if Kaprizov is getting 17m. McDavid is getting 22+ on his next contract unless he takes less.

Him and Licht saw some shitty times in Tampa on their resume. That is what causes me to pause on any GM change/firing.

https://www.buccaneers.com/team/front-office-roster/mike-greenberg

Ravens defense also playing awful too (which is more of a surprise)

I do feel like Canales wants to run but we can’t right now. and if you say Coen had a better run offense I’ll point to you he had Bucky Irving and Canales did not.

Problem with Evero is he has a mixed bag of a resume from us and the broncos so this will be the final straw in the panthers saga.

As bad a look as it is to cut him, it would’ve been worse to keep starting him.

The old show ‘Name That Tune’ I can name that song in 5 notes. I can fix the Panthers with two. Kidnap Tepper, get a real NFL QB. Arrow pointing up. Really, Tepper being gone would be a one note deal.

Diaby was one of many guys plenty of people around here were excited about. Byron Young and Tuli were two in particular that completely presented themselves to us. It's rough to look back on.

Honestly, as a collective, the huddle wouldve made better decisions than those in charge for over the past decade and a half.